http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ Weblogtoolscollection News Topic: [New Plugin] Jellyfish Counter Widget en Sun, 26 May 2013 07:44:01 +0000 http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/new-plugin-jellyfish-counter-widget#post-15484 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:03:06 +0000 toxicToad 15484@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>=== Jellyfish Counter Widget ===<br /> Contributors: toxicToad<br /> Author URI: <a href="http://strawberryjellyfish.com/" rel="nofollow">http://strawberryjellyfish.com/</a><br /> Donate link: <a href="http://strawberryjellyfish.com/donate/" rel="nofollow">http://strawberryjellyfish.com/donate/</a><br /> Plugin URI: <a href="http://strawberryjellyfish.com/wordpress-plugin-jellyfish-counter-widget/" rel="nofollow">http://strawberryjellyfish.com/wordpress-plugin-jellyfish-counter-widget/</a><br /> Tags: counter, odometer, milometer, animated, widget, totaliser<br /> Requires at least: 3.0<br /> Tested up to: 3.5<br /> Stable tag: 0.6<br /> License: GPLv2 or later<br /> License URI: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html</a></p> <p>An odometer style counter widget to display either a static value or animates to a set total. Great for tracking totals, not for counting jellyfish.</p> <p>== Description ==</p> <p>This plugin adds a widget to your WordPress web site that displays a static or<br /> animated odometer style counter that can display a set value or can animate<br /> between a starting and ending value.</p> <p>A great visual effect for travel blogs or any website that wants to display a<br /> running total of anything. </p> <p>You can have as many counters as you wish, all can have individual settings for<br /> totals and appearance.</p> <p>The counters are created via css and require no external graphics files.</p> <p>Demo</p> <p>You can see a counter in action at <a href="http://sharkaroo.net/map" rel="nofollow">http://sharkaroo.net/map</a><br /> Using an animated counter adds visual and narrative impact to an otherwise<br /> static value.</p> <p>Another demo and further information can be found at the plugin website<br /> <a href="http://strawberryjellyfish.com/wordpress-plugin-jellyfish-counter-widget/" rel="nofollow">http://strawberryjellyfish.com/wordpress-plugin-jellyfish-counter-widget/</a></p> <p>This plugin uses a modified version of a javascript odometer class written by<br /> Gavin Brock <a href="http://gavcode.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/cssjavascript-animated-odometer/" rel="nofollow">http://gavcode.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/cssjavascript-animated-odometer/</a></p> <p>==Usage==</p> <p>Add a counter widget to your sidebar and adjust the settings to suit your<br /> requirements. If you specify different start and end values the counter will<br /> count upwards when the page loads until it reaches the ending value.</p> <p>If you just want a static counter make the start and end the same value or make<br /> the end value lower than the starting value.</p> <p>You can configure the digit height, width and font as well as animation<br /> speed and "bustedness" (misalignment of the digits).</p> <p>In the "Digit Style" setting you can specify a font or font style, this must be<br /> valid css values as it it added to the digits css. Note you cannot adjust the size<br /> of the font here, that is automatically set from the height/width and padding settings. </p> <p>== Installation ==</p> <p>Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/<br /> directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from<br /> Plugins page. Go to the widgets admin page to add a counter widget, each widget<br /> has it's own settings. </p>