Day: March 21, 2019

azurecurve ClassicPress Plugins: Floating Featured Image

Ian Grieve2 minute read0 comment

ClassicPress PluginsThis is part of the azurecurve ClassicPress Plugins which introduces the plugins I have available for ClassicPress.

The plugin I am going to cover in this post, is a brand new one; Floating Featured Image.

Functionality

The Floating Featured Image plugin provides the following functionality:

  • Allow defaults for the featured0image shortcode to be set via the plugin Settings page; includes default image, taxonomy and alt text.
  • Allows a set of predefined featured image to be setup which can be applied to the shortcode using the key parameter.
  • Add the shortcode to a post or page to display either the default, a keyed featured image or one-off using the available parameters.

Demo

Take a look at any post on this site and you’ll see a floating featured image in the top right of every post. The Microsoft Dynamics GP icon is the default and all others, such as the ClassicPress logo on this post, are applied using shortcode parameters.

Download

The plugin can be downloaded via my Development site.

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azurecurve ClassicPress Plugins
Add Twitter Cards
Avatars
BBCode
Breadcrumbs
Call-out Boxes
Code
Comment Validator
Conditional Links
Display After Post Content
Filtered Categories
Flags
Floating Featured Image
Icons
Images
Insult Generator
Loop Injection
Mobile Detection
Multisite Favicon
Page Index
Post Archive
RSS Feed
RSS Suffix
Series Index
Shortcodes in Comments
Shortcodes in Widgets
Sidebar Login
Tag Cloud
Taxonomy Index
Theme Switcher
Timelines
Toggle Show/Hide
URL Shortener
Add Open Graph Tags
Markdown
To Twitter
Nearby
Gallery From Folder
Taxonomy Order
Snippets
Widget Announcements
Events
From Twitter
Update Admin Menu
Maintenance Mode
SMTP
Check Plugin Status
Estimated Read Time
Username Protection
Remove Revisions
Disable FLoC
Redirect
Contact Forms
Strong Password Generator
Load Admin CSS
Support for Plugins
Translating Plugins
All plugins now auto-update

Create SmartConnect Journal – Standard Map: Prerequisites

Ian Grieve1 minute read0 comment

eOne SolutionsThis post is part of a series on creating a Journal – Standard integration using SmartConnect from eOne Solutions; I recently posted a series on Implementing SmartConnect.

The prerequisites for creating a new integration map are quite straight forward:

    Decide on the type of integration to be created.
  • Decide how the integration should work.
  • Create the source data template.

The integration I am creating as part of this series is one of the easiest which can be created; it is a standard General journal integration. I always create this map after implementing SmartConnect (and before starting to use SmartConnect, Integration Manager) as it is a quick and easy one to create and which will be useful to all clients.

The most useful way of creating this integration for clients, is to create an integration which polls a folder every few minutes on a schedule and which reads data from an Excel spreadsheet. This approach allows one integration to be set up and usuable by all users; as it is a folder being polled, the files dropped into the folder can have any name and, as long as the format matches the template, SmartConnect will attempt to integrate the data.

In the past when using Integration Manager, the source file would be a CSV or TXT file as Integration Manager couldn’t easily handle Excel spreadsheets; SmartConnect has no such limitation, so I am going to use the Excel version of the Integration Manager template:

Excel spreadsheet source with BatchID, TrxDate, Reference, Account, Debit, Credit and DistRef columns

With the above decided and in place, the next post, in this series, will start to cover the creation of the integration map in SmartConnect.