While I was refactoring my MarcTV Theme from scratch I realized that many features of my theme are a too heavy to be put into the functions.php. So I removed the code from there and packed them into stand-alone wp plugins. Now I release them to the public for everyone to use.
MarcTV Reply Button
Adds a reply button after every 2nd level thread with jQuery.
- Download MarcTV Reply Button – wordpress.org
MarcTV XBOX 360 Voice Blog
Displays the latest entries of your 360 voice gamerdna blog either as a widget for your sidebar or as a customizable function. The xml data from 360voice is being pulled twice daily with wp_cron.
- Download MarcTV XBOX 360 Voice Blog – wordpress.org
MarcTV Comment Quicktags
Displays a bold, italic, add link and quote button on top of the comment form.
- Download MarcTV Comment Quicktags – wordpress.org
MarcTV jQuery Video Embed
Embed youtube, vimeo and google videos by just adding a css class to a link which points to the url of a video page.
- Download MarcTV jQuery Video Embed – wordpress.org
MarcTV Art Directed Blogging
Adds the ability to add a custom field with a reference to a css file and generates a css namespace with the class ‘.artdirected’. This plugin also adds a jquery switch to the top right corner to deactivate and activate the custom styles.
- Download MarcTV Art Directed Blogging – wordpress.org
MarcTV Achievement Unlocked!
Displays a graphical achievement message at the bottom of an article with a custom field “achievement” set.
- Download MarcTV Achievement Unlocked! – wordpress.org
MarcTV Flickr Bar
Displays a list of images of a flickr account.
- Download MarcTV Flickr Bar – wordpress.org
MarcTV YouTube Bar
Displays a list of videos of a youtube account.
- Download MarcTV YouTube Bar – wordpress.org
MarcTV jQuery Colorbox
Loads the jquery colorbox plugin http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/ and the marctv colorbox skin.
- Download MarcTV jQuery Colorbox – wordpress.org
All my plugins are being used in my blog and thus are compatible with WP Minify and WP Cache. They are developed under GPL2 using NetBeans and MAMP and deployed with svn.wp-plugins.org. You are able to update them from within wordpress itself whenever there will be a new version available.
This procedure makes it quite easy for me to maintain my own blog and keep everything up-to-date. I am able to de-activate these feature if I don’t need them anymore. But the most important reason to degenerate functionality from the theme was that I am now able to change my theme and keep these feature.
Stay tuned for more marctv wp plugins and theme releases to come.
MarcTV WordPress Plugins – wordpress.org
Hi Marc,
danke für Deine WordPress Plugins. Ich nutze nun in meinem Blog die MarcTV Flickr Bar, die MarcTV jQuery Colorbox und die MarcTV Comment Quicktags. Klappt alles prima! 1A.
I’m fairly new to WordPress. I installed and love your MarcTV XBOX 360 Voice Blog plugin!
Dumb question on “MarcTV Flickr Bar” plugin: How do I get it to work on a page? I’ve installed, activated, and edited the init file. I tried adding the following into a template, but nothing shows up:
Sorry for my ignorance. Thanks!
Oooops… I can’t show PHP in a comment. (Regarding above.)
Basically, I tried the following function calls in a template:
marctv_flickr_bar_scripts();
add_action(‘wp_print_styles’, ‘marctv_flickr_bar_scripts’);
But the Flickr Bar images do not display. Do you have suggestions? Thanks,
–Gwen
Hi Gwen,
you only need div with the Id or class which is referenced in the init js file:
div Id=”marctvflickrbar”
(but the < and > and so on. It is described in the reader with the plugin…)
Thanks, Marc. But when you say “as described in the reader”… the only thing I see is the readme.txt file which has the following instructions:
* Install plugin
* Activate it
* edit jquery.marctv-flickr-bar-init according to your needs
* optional: install marctv-jquery-colorbox plugin to open images in a lightbox
Am I missing some additional instructions somewhere?
Thanks again for your reply.
–Gwen
And I got it to work :)
Like you said, just an empty div element (no content between the start and end div tags), with the div id=”marctvflickrbar”
Looks great. Thanks for some great plugins!
–Gwen