WP-Profilactic

Plugin Summary:

The WP-Profilactic Plugin publishes your LifeStream or informs readers where to find you online by parseing your aggregated online activity feed from Profilactic.

Latest Version:

Demo Links:

  • Anish H. Patel’s LifeStream
  • (To add your lifestream here, email me at prof…@opindian.com)

Installation Instructions:

  1. Download and unzip the most recent version of Profilactic
  2. Upload the entire profilactic folder to /wp-content/plugins/
  3. Login to your WP Admin panel, click Plugins, and activate Profilactic
  4. Go to Options and then click the Profilactic link. Enter your Profilactic username and customize your settings (colors, # of posts, etc.). (Sign Up for a Profilactic account)
  5. To show your lifestream on a page:
    • Copy <?php profilactic(); ?> or <?php prof_wtfmo(); ?> into a template file (sample file, profilactic.tpl.php, included in the plugin directory)
    • Save the template file to /wp-content/themes/your theme/
    • Create a new page and use the profilactic template (under the Page Options, scroll down to Page Template and select Profilactic.
  6. To show your lifestream or wtfmo in the sidebar, add the appropriate Profilactic widget from Design -> Widgets.
  7. That’s it!

Changelog:

May 13th - v 1.2
- Added sample Template file
- Added cURL fallback option for hosts that disable file_get_contents($url).  (fixed by <a href=”www.sellaro.eti.br”>Alisson Pelucio</a>)
- All color related CSS code and list items moved to profilactic.php` (Hover in IE, FF & Opera really works now and plugin updates won’t mess us your style)
- Fixed Footer show/hide option
- Minor: Support Link, Icons, Documentation updated

April 23th - v1.1.1
- Fixed the Fatal Error on line 304!! (it was due to timezone function differences b/w php4 and php5.1)
- Corrected Regex for title simplification
- Corrected CSS code order so that hover works in IE, FF & Opera

April 19th - v1.0.1
- Initial Public Release
- Code Optimization & Cosmetic Updates
- Removed the FriendFeed items because they don’t parse correctly and it’s generally redundant content if you’re already parsing the services it aggregates.

April 5th - v.85
- Added widget and template options for badges
- Corrected Widget Formatting per WP 2.5 Codex guidelines

April 1st - v.79
- Initial Beta release
- Corrected the dynamic cache directory detection code
- Included Count Option to control number of entries displayed
- Added option to include/remove Service name from title (i.e., “Digg: story” vs just “story”)
- Added Error Checking for plugin requirements, php version, & caching solution.

March 30st - v .59
- Initial Alpha release
- Added option to fallback to SimpleXML (useful if SimplePie Core is not installed)

ToDo:

  • Need to validate that the code is able to Determine Service from URL so that appropriate favicon will be pulled from Profilactic for all services they support.

Issues: