=== DandyID Services ===
Contributors: Neil Simon, Sara Czyzewicz, Arron Kallenberg
Tags: Blogger, Brightkite, claimID, community, DandyID, Delicious, Digg, Disqus, Dopplr, Facebook, Finetune, Flickr, FriendFeed, Goodreads, Graph, Hulu, identity, Jaiku, Lijit, LinkedIn, manage, MyBlogLog, Myspace, OAuth, OpenID, Pandora, Plaxo, Plurk, profile, Reddit, Seesmic, services, sidebar, social, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube, Upcoming, widget
Requires at least: 2.0
Tested up to: 2.7
Stable tag: trunk

Accesses all of your DandyID online identities (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, more) and displays them as clickable links in your sidebar.

== Description ==

= What is DandyID ? =

[DandyID](http://www.dandyid.org/) is a free service that enables you to connect all of your online identities and make them globally accessible.

Your e-mail address serves as a SINGLE ACCESS POINT to connect all of your online identities, such as:
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Flickr
- LinkedIn
- Delicious
- YouTube
- Brightkite
- FriendFeed
- Digg
- last.fm
- MySpace
- and MANY more

It's easy, too.  Just:
1. Setup a free account on DandyID.
2. Fill-in your online identities for each service you are a member of.
3. Install this plugin to display your online identities in your sidebar.

Please visit [DandyID](http://www.dandyid.org/) to learn more, and try it out!

[Follow DandyID on Twitter](http://twitter.com/dandyid). 


= What is the DandyID Services Plugin ? =

The plugin accesses your DandyID online identities and displays them in a sidebar widget, making all of your online identities accessible to your blog readers!

**When you update your services on DandyID, they are updated in your sidebar widget automatically!**

*Note: The plugin uses a caching mechanism, reducing page-load times, by only retrieving your DandyID online identity list ONCE per day (at most). This occurs the first time your blog is accessed on any given day.*

== Installation ==

= Installation =


*If you are upgrading from a previous version:
   - Deactivate the DandyID Services plugin.
   - Delete the DandyID Services plugin folder from your server.*


1. Upload the DandyID Services plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/ 


2. Login to your WP admin web page.


3. Activate the DandyID Services plugin:
   - Click on the "Plugins" tab.
   - Find DandyID Services in the list of Inactive Plugins (or Recently Active Plugins).
   - Click on "Activate" to activate the DandyID Services plugin.


4. Configure the DandyID Services plugin:
   - Click on the "Settings" tab.
   - Click on the "DandyID Services" subtab.
   - Enter your DandyID Service Options -- all fields are required.
   - Press the "Save" button to save your DandyID Service Options.


5. Setup the DandyID Services plugin to appear on your sidebar:
   - Click on the "Design" tab.
   - Click on the "Widgets" subtab.
   - On the left side, next to DandyID Services, click on "Add" to make it appear in the list of "Current Widgets".
   - Click on "Save Changes".


6. The plugin is now ready, and your DandyID Services should appear in your sidebar.

== Screenshots ==

1. An example of the sidebar widget.

2. The Wordpress admin settings page.