Welcome to the Addictions plugin documentation page. I’ll try to make this as fun as possible (read: not boring like all other docs are), so if you spot some dry humor or something that is just blatantly not funny, well… skim over it.
Addictions is a simple plugin, with simple intentions. If you’ve ever been to Jason Santa Maria’s site or Jon Hicks’ blog, you may have noticed their “Current Leisures” and “Playlist” sections (respectively ordered). Those sections on Jason’s and Jon’s blogs cover their current favorites in the areas of music, movies, books, and what-have-you, and that’s something I wanted to stick in my own blog. I saw no other plugin that easily did this, so Addictions was born out of that want.
The current version of Addictions is version 1.0 (Updated 09 Aug 2005 as 1.0-RC2; Boosted to 1.0 on 26 Sept 2005). Feel free to download, use, play with, and hug it. If you find any bugs, please let me know.
Downloads are available in zip format, as well as rar and txt.
- Its own Options panel under “Options,” to ease setup and changing of settings
- Movie, Music, and Book support
- Ability to link to Amazon product pages
- Ability to fetch images from your Theme’s images directory from the filename that the user defines
- Ability to define book title and author, music album/song and artist, movie title and maker, and game title and maker (duh, the point of the plugin ;P )
- Adding titles above the movie, book, game, and/or music selection (such as “Current Book” or “Current Music”)
- Customizable CSS classes for the images, blurbs, and titles
- And more, that I’m sure I’ve forgotten
We’ll do this step-by-step since I seem to be in an ordered and unordered list kind of mood:
- Get the plugin
- Drop it in your plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins)
- In your Wordpress admin panel, click Plugins, and click ‘activate’ for Addictions
- Now, open your theme’s sidebar.php for editing (in something like Notepad or Programmer’s Notepad or Wordpress’ theme/file editor, but not Microsoft Word or Works or Appleworks), and add any or all of the following:
<?php get_addictions_book(); ?><?php get_addictions_music(); ?><?php get_addictions_movie(); ?><?php get_addictions_game(); ?>
depending on whether you want book information, movie information, game, and/or music information to be displayed, and where you want the information to be displayed. Then, save and/or re-upload your sidebar.php.
- Fill out the relevant information in the Addictions Option Panel (accessed by going to the Wordpress Admin Panel, Clicking Options, then Clicking Addictions), and Presto!
As stated in the features section, most of the plugin is covered in classes so you can style them with CSS. Those classes are as follows:
- For images: .addictiveimgbook, .addictiveimgmusic, .addictiveimgmovie, .addictiveimggame
- For the blurbs: .addictive
- For the titles: .addictivesub
Addictions also has support for images. If you would like to include images to be placed with the book/music/movie/game information, then upload the images you would like to be displayed in your theme’s images directory (usually at yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/images).
If you couldn’t find what you were looking for above, and thing you need more help, get in touch with me or try leaving a comment on the original post.
