Written by Stuart on Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 in News

One of the features that has been requested here at WPscoop since the site first went live was the option for users to display our vote buttons on their own website. Today we are pleased to release a External Dynamic Vote Button Plugin for Wordpress Bloggers that will display our vote button for your submitted article directly on you blog post.

You can see the plugin working on this very post at the top right.

When activated the plugin will automatically detect your blog post url and if that url has been submitted to WPscoop it will display our vote button with corresponding vote count of the article. Readers that are logged into wpscoop can vote on the article dynamically from your site without the need to be redirect to WPscoop, cool huh! :D . Non logged in users to WPscoop will be redirected to the WPscoop login page where they can login or choose to register before voting.

If your blogs article has not previously been submitted to WPscoop some text saying “Scoop it!” will be displayed in place of the vote button. Your readers can then click this link and easily submit your article/post to WPscoop. We plan on changin the Scoop it! tect to a lightweight image soon but that procedure will not affect this plugin.

The WPscoop Vote Button can also be inserted into only the posts of your choice that are Wordpress related, this means bloggers who cover more than wordpress news dont need to show our vvote button on unrelated articles and across their whole site which would be pointless.

INSTALL

  1. Unzip wpscoop-plugin.zip
  2. Upload the file named “wpscoop-plugin.php” to your Wordpress plugin folder (/wp-content/plugins/)
  3. Go to your Wordpress admin panel and Activate this plugin.

HOW TO USE

  1. Write this code < ! – - wpscoop – - > to your post, remove the spaces as these are only so the code shows up for example purposes.
  2. Or click on wpscoop button on post menu (non rich text editor)

You can change the button to display on the left or right by opening the “wpscoop-plugin.php”,
then find and edit the line below.

//Default Button float to left (left, right)
$defaultfloat = “right”;

Download: WPscoop Wordpress External Dynamic Vote Button Plugin

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7 Comments

  1. PJ says:
    January 14, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    Great stuff, Stuart! I also love that your news listings now link directly to the appropriate site rather than the individual submission details page.

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  2. Stuart says:
    January 16, 2009 at 7:34 pm

    Hi Pj,

    Yeah we had been working to improve the site’s features and performance with the feedback we were receiving and direct link access was one of the issues that arose from a few users.

    Good to see you here and love wp-premiums.com and check it out almost daily, keep up the good work.

    Reply
  3. Jayden says:
    February 23, 2009 at 7:37 pm

    Hi there. Great idea, but is it actually working? It loads for me (in FF3 and IE7), but then the + – buttons are greyed out.

    IE7 throws a JS error too… not sure if that’s related.

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  4. Stuart says:
    March 5, 2009 at 10:38 am

    Hi jayden,

    The butons are greyd out on articles that have been submitted to WPscoop for over 30days, or if the user is not logged in. ;)

    I will look ingto the IE7 JS error ASAP, thanks for the heads up.

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