deviantART widgets plugin for WordPress

This is the end of the sad “text-only” sidebars ! This plugin allows to display deviantART feeds into your WordPress blog.

What’s this ?

After some infructuous searches, I started to develop this plugin for myself to help me share my interest on graphism and art in general.

So here it is ! You can now promote your favorites artists, your art or simply your journal into your blog.

Built-in Features

  • Supports Favourites, Galleries and Journal Feeds
  • Cache management to preserve performance and bandwidth consumption
  • Thumbnail generation
  • Unlimited number of widgets
  • And more to come …

Prerequisites, Downloads

Requirements

  • WordPress 2.8 or greater.
  • PHP 5 with curl

Downloads

You call go to WordPress hosted site at : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/deviantart-widgets/ to download stables versions. You can also use the builtin plugin installer provided with WordPress or use github/downloads to get pre-releases (advanced users only).

Source

Source code is managed on github/source, feel free to check it out !

Updates

Version 0.1.5

  • Issue #1: Fixed
  • Added an option to enable debugging in global options
  • Added the possibility to customize CSS styles for the widget in global options
  • Fixing locale calls to allow string translation in differents languages (help granted !)

Version 0.1.4

  • Issue #1 : Adding an “Empty cache” button to clean the plugin cache
  • Issue #1 : Adding more tests to check if the plugin is usable
  • Issue #1 : Updating thumbnail generation for Gallery mode

Version 0.1.3

  • Issue #1: Safe Mode problem
  • Prevents “litteratures” to show in Favourites and Galleries

Version 0.1.2

  • Changing readme.txt tags
  • Fixing cache issues when wp-content/cache is not writeable.

Version 0.1.1

  • Removes useless settings
  • Fix url to thumbnails to uses WordPress url instead of absolute one

Version 0.1

  • Initial release
  • Cache support (default: wp-content/cache)
  • Thumbnails generation support (default: 80×80/png)
  • Supports deviantArt Journals, Galleries and Favourites

Support

Found an issue ? Please report it on github/issues

About the Author

I am developer / web-designer interested in community development, web technologies, sharing ideas and create powerfull application.