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WordPress plugin for Thamizmanam toolbar

Update (22/03/2007): Latest version 0.9 has been uploaded. This adds support for Blogdesam aggregator.

This plugin is the outcome of spending three days with WordPress and Thamizmanam toolbar code :-)

This plugin inserts automagically the Pathivu toolbar code (both part1 and part2, as listed out here) at proper places. This supports both Thamizmanam and Blogdesam. The plugin adds the code only to SINGLE post pages. Note that, no template file changes are needed. Just install this plugin and everything should be fine!

How to install the plugin?

  • Download the file (see the bottom of this post)
  • Upload this to your <wordpress_root>/wp-content/plugins folder. NOTE: Replace <wordpress_root> with your WP installation directory.
  • Unzip the file to create tbToolbar sub directory, under plugins folder. Overwrite the old files to upgrade. NOTE: Make sure tbToolbar folder is immediately under /wp-content/plugins folder.
  • Go to Plugins page in your WP control panel and activate the plugin.
  • Now, go to Options > Thamizmanam WP Plugin page. Here you can choose the image for showing in Thamizmanam. You can also leave this blank for the plugin to submit with the default picture.

Thats all!

Screenshots:

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This has been tested with WP 2.1, but should work with 2.x with out any problems. I’d love to know if you get this to work with WP 1.5.x versions.

Downloads:

v0.9: [Supports both Thamizmanam & Blogdesam]

Thamizhmanam plugin (54)

v0.6: [Initial version. Supports Thamizmanam]

Thamizhmanam plugin (27)

Change log:

  • v0.9 – Supports Blogdesam.com. Added an option page to choose the needed service.
  • v0.6a – Alpha release. Allows the user to choose his own picture.

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38 Comments

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  3. kannanmr says:

    ஞானவெட்டியான், இந்த pluginனை wordpress.comல் உபயோகிக்க இயலாது, ஏன்னா, WordPress.com உங்களோட pluginsலாம் install பண்ண விடாது. இந்த plugin self hosted WordPress installationsக்கு மட்டுமே பொருந்தும். ரொம்ப குழப்பறேனா?

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  8. venkat says:

    Kannan,

    I tested it and it does work well. Great work. Thanks! As someone who keeps changing the theme frequently I am glad to have this.

  9. Glad it is of some help Venkat :) I am thinking of adding support for blogdesam.com toolbar to this plugin, since Blogdesam uses the same Pathivu toolbar code. What do you think?

    Also, I am doing 2 more WP related things – a theme and another plugin for showing Chess games online. Lets see which I can finish first.

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    உங்கள் சேவை வளர என் வாழ்த்துக்கள்.

  13. kannanmr says:

    skcsknathan, adadaa.comல் இதை இணைச்சு பார்த்துட்டு ஏதாவது ப்ராப்ளம் இருந்தா சொல்லுங்க, சரி பண்ணிடலாம். உங்களோட கமெண்டுக்கு நன்றி.

  14. venkat says:

    Kannan,

    First bug report :) The plugin automatically points to the image icon (that appears in the Thamizmanam pages along with the posts) to your site. Can you pl. add an option for pointing to the icon in the plugin options page? (alternatively, a word for the users to edit the appropriate place to that effect).

    Blogdesam plugin is a good idea as well.

  15. venkat says:

    Kannan,

    My apologies. It works perfect!

    Or, just be happy that the first bug report turned out to be wrong. :) . Thanks for your work.

  16. kannanmr says:

    Thanks Venkat for the report (?!). Also, let me know if you think adding any other feature would be of any help.

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  21. Very useful plugin. Good work

  22. Thanks Ravishankar/மயூரேசன்.

  23. hi kannan, many wordpress themes don display tamil letters properly and fix for this is mentioned at http://kanimai.blogspot.com/2007/03/wordpress-themes.html

    everytime we change to new themes it is annoying to make this change in the style.css

    is it possible that these two simple changes be made through a plugin compatible for any theme? if so,i kndly request u to get it done for the tamil wordpress users community ..

    thanks

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  27. vinaiooki had a problem with the plugin when he changed the permalinks to /%postname%/ instead of page id. this may be because that the tamil page names are very lengthy in URL. Can u please try a fix for this?

    The line

    $permalink = (get_permalink($post->ID));
    may need a change in the plugin i guess. not sure. thankss

  28. mathimaran says:

    Type your comment here.
    இனியவர்கு,

    இது என்னுடைய வலைபதிவு முகவரி.
    http://www.mathimaran.wordpress.com
    சமயம் கிடைக்கும்போது பார்த்து கருத்து சொல்லவும்.
    அன்புடன்
    வே. மதிமாறன்.

  29. Fixed the download problem. Thanks Tamil Sasi.

  30. Hi kannan,

    Is this plugin compatible with wordpress 2.5?

  31. Arutperungo, I haven’t got a chance to check it with 2.5. Will try to do it next weel, in the mean time, if you could test or get to hear from someone who tested, plz let me know. Thanks.

  32. jaisankarj says:

    i unable to read tamil comments from this page. how can i read this comments(font unicode utf-8)

  33. mayooresan says:

    May be u refer this page to handle this Tamil text problem
    http://ravidreams.net/forum/topic.php?id=10

  34. நன்றி மயூரேசன்.

    ஜெய்சங்கர், இந்த ப்ராப்ளம் ஏன்னா நான் லினக்ஸுக்கு மூவ் ஆன போது, நான் வேர்ட்ப்ரஸ்ஸுக்காக க்ரியேட் பண்ணீன டேபிள்லாம் யுனிகோட், ஆனா என்னோட பழைய டேபிள்ஸ் எல்லாம் latin-swedish. அதுனாலதான் நான் அப்பிடியே விட்டுட்டேன் அதை.

  35. Vassan says:

    Dear Kannan

    Thanks a bunch for the useful plug in. I’ve had the v 06 version working fine for many months. Now that I tried to upload the v 09 in place of the v 06, something isn’t working smoothly!?

    These are the things I did:

    First, tried to upload the v 09 to the same folder where v 06 {/wp-content/plugins/tb/ } resides, hoping it’ll write over & update – didn’t work..did all the necessary activation under my plug in list in wp-admin, but still won’t work.

    2nd
    deleted the whole v06 and installed the v09 & followed all the necessary steps – didn’t work either.

    For now I’m using the v06. Last week I did a posting:

    http://vassan.kollidam.com/?p=131

    The above posting showed up under the classic thamizmanam listing but did not, in the new tamilmanam.net deal !!

    wondering what am I doing wrong..? .

    thanks again.

  36. kannanmr says:

    Vassan, I am not sure why v09 is not working where v06 did.

    If you have any cache scripts enabled (wp-cache…), disable that or clear the cache and then try installing this toolbar script again.

    BTW, this script is not tested with WP v2.5 and above. Others might have done this, I remember TamilManam admins asking me abt the same thing. Prob they have an updated scrpt available for dnld.

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