WPhotocaster
This plugin generates a Photofeed (aka PhotoCast, or an RSS-based image stream), from your WordPress posts. If you have a category which contains images or pictures, you can use this plugin to turn that category on your blog into a screensaver or other eye-candy.
To use it: Install the plugin, then access the feed URL for the category you want as a Photocast, appending ?feed=wphotocast. Eg, for Paul's site, I take the feed address for his illustrations category, and end up with
http://lupavision.net/lupa/category/illustrations/feed?feed=wphotocast
I'd love some feedback, bug reports, links to other sites using it. Hit me in the comments below.
Changelog:
- v1.0 - 5 January 2008 - Initial release - "What was once forgotten, then remembered". Only shows the first image from each post, using the <img> tag.
- v1.1 - 6 January 2008 - Does a better job of identifying a higher resolution copy of the image when linked to, and presents multiple images per post.
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Funny story: I wrote this,
Funny story:
I wrote this, because I was working on a friend's site in mid 2007 and thought his artwork was stunning. I wanted to have a screensaver which showed me his latest images, and this did the trick.
It worked. It scratched my itch. For the next year and a half people would ask me about the great images on my screensaver, and I would enjoy telling them about Paul's great artwork and where to see more, not about this cool plugin (which I'd immediately forgotten even existed).
The illustrations are at http://lupavision.net if you'd like a look - and the RSS feed that's still my screensaver today.)
In early 2009, I found myself wondering how I managed to get a photocast out of WordPress. Of course, I knew it was possible, because it was on my screen every day. I checked out Paul's site, and another WordPress site too. It took me a few minutes to realise that this only worked on Paul's site, so I had a sniff to see where the extra goodness was coming from. Found the forgotten plugin which was doing the magic.
I googled the plugin by name - "wphotocaster" - nothing.
That's odd ...
I took a look at the plugin's source code.
Hey - I wrote this! And I forgot to share the damn thing.
Until now!
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