=== Plugin Name === Contributors: roohit Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7137089 Tags: highlight, button, viral, widget, social-bookmark, social-network, web-design, design, blog, blogger, addthis, sharethis, addtoany, highlighter, tool, tools, site-builder, bookmarking, social, social bookmarking, bookmark, bookmarks, sharing, share, saving, save, Post, posts, page, pages, images, image, admin, statistics, stats, links, plugin, widgets, im, e-mail, email, seo, buttons, delicious, google, digg, reddit, facebook, myspace, twitter, stumbleupon, technorati, wpmu, mixx, sociable, addtoany, add, any, sidebar, comments, rss Stable tag: 3.2 Enables readers to make colored-highlights on your webpage & EASILY post their highlights directly to Twitter, Facebook..100+ such sites! == Description == Ever used a yellow highlighter? It's the most natural publishing tool that was missing on the Web until now. **To Try it:** 1. Upon clicking the highlighter button (e.g. [on this page itself](http://go.roohit.com 'click this link')), visitor's mouse cursor changes to a pen and s/he can highlight any part of your website *in color*. Mouse over the highlight and **post it to any Social Network** or Social Bookmark site. 1. Enables your users to quickly/easily **share "highlighted pages"** with their friends - **bringing more of them back to your site**. - On Facebook, MySpace, delicious, digg, and many more (all!) - directly **Tweet Your Highlights** 1. All highlights are **automatically saved** and collected. View [your own collection](http://roohit.com/site/view1.php 'including any highlights you just made') EASY SHARE: helps **visitors promote your site**. * Share highlights with anyone - No special software needed - No signup needed - FREE * Makes sharing **very effective** since readers can immediately focus on the highlights while keeping the context and content intact. * Share using: **E-Mail**, **Blogs**, **IM**, **Social Networks**, **Social Bookmarks**, **Forums**, Comments. or any medium! * Puts a Micro-wrapper around the functionality of AddThis, ShareThis, AddToAny etc. so that readers can easily draw attention to what they want to share on your page without having to go through the tedium of copying parts of a page, and pasting them into email with a link. * Automatically does it - all - for the user by **simply using a highlighter pen** that is familiar to everyone regardless of age, sex, race, religion, or geography! * Post to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, delicious, digg, hi5, Technorati, Google, Yahoo, Bebo, BlackPlanet... over a 100+ such websites. MICRO-BOOKMARK: * Automatically & instantly shortens URL (generates a MicroBookmark) * **MicroBookmark goes directly to the highlighted portion** on your page and can have a custom name such as http://rooh.it/warSux VIRAL LINKS TO YOUR SITE: A **very viral way to get into all social networks**. * Automatically & instantly posts a link to your site - on our Home Page, - our **Collection** of user generated Highlights, - that reader's blog and/or Social Networks, and - in a **peer-to-peer** mechanism on ALL Social Networks, and Blogging Platforms using the related "My Highlights" [sidebar widget](http://roohit.com/site/s_lite.php 'Learn about it') * The link to your site is posted with the implicit endorsement of - being selected by "a known person" (friend), and - as being "interesting" (relevant!) * Ensuring maximum visibility and credibility of your website. FEATURES: * **Restores & Remembers Highlights**: Everything a reader highlights is automatically restored & remembered (without asking anyone to signup) * **MicroBookmarks**: automatically makes a short url that goes directly to the highlights on your page * **Email Highlighted Page**: with embedded highlights or just a MicroBookmark url, to anyone! * **Web Based**: Anyone can see shared highlights (no special software needed, no download, no installation) * **Auto Publish to own Blog, Web-Site...**: enables readers to automatically post - anything they highlight on your page - to their blog, and to all Social Networks using a trusted peer-to-peer mechanism. * **Post to Any other website** : Easy Share links to your site, in 1-click, on all community, Social Networks, Social Bookmarks,& Social media sites * **Contact list**: is seamlessly imported, maintained, autoCompleted and autoPopulated. * **My Collection**: See all highlights together . categorize/tag them, rate them, share with others, annotate & much more. * **Combine**: select any subset of highlights and see them as one page with highlights & context intact. * **FREE & No SignUp**: Don't have to 'join' another service, and it's all free! * **Intelligent AJAX**: does all this, without visitors ever leaving your page COOL VALUABLE TOOL NATURAL PUBLISHING TOOL: * Commonly used in the offline world * **Insofar missing in the online world!** BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: * Gets you insights on what your visitors are interested in: tells you inot just which pages but - which parts of each page are of interest to your audience. == Installation == **For your WordPress website:** 1. Upload the `instant-web-highlighter` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 1. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress **For yourself (on your computer):** 1. We recommend you [**get a button**](http://roohit.com/site/1click.php 'Hassle free') so you can **HIGHLIGHT ANY WEBSITE** (No signup, No Download necessary.) - Or just **type `roohit.com/` before any URL** address (e.g. [http://roohit.com/google.com](http://roohit.com/google.com '')) and your mouse cursor instantly changes into a highlighter pen. == Frequently Asked Questions == = What is a MicroBookmark? = Just like a bookmark takes you to a web-page, a MicroBookmark **takes you directly to a part of the page**, and it is already highlighted! (Power users can think of it as reader defined anchor tags) = Why MicroShare? = Because it saves time, and quickly & easily draws attention to **the most important part of your web page** while still maintaining the context and credibility intact. = What do you mean MicroSave? = When someone highlights a part of a page, it is **automatically saved** for the user. = Why use this? = It's all done **automatically**, users don't have to copy-and-paste parts of the page to their email, and/or a link to the page in order to call attention to just a portion of the page. = What platforms are supported other than WordPress? = You can **add a highlighter to any webpage**: on your **blog**, on your **website**, in your **forums** postings, in your **classifieds** listings, on your **Profile** Page, in **comments** you make anywhere on the Internet... [Learn more.](http://roohit.com/site/buttons.php) == Screenshots == 1. **This is what the default highlighter button looks like.** 1. **Example of a WordPress page with highlighter on it.** 1. **This is what a Highlighted page looks like** (visitors can pick the color of the highlighter pen to be any color.) 1. Some of the **many actions users can take upon highlighting** == Changelog == = 3.2 = Better compatibility with tweet-highlights plugin, and made user-setting more intelligent = 3.0 = * Notify new users = 2.8 = * Do not diplay the Highlighter button once the user has clicked the pen embedded on the page. = 2.7 = * Corrected the code that displays the pen as a widget = 2.5 = * Added the option so bloggers can customize the colors for the Hover box * Better quality buttons = 2.0 = * Changed buttons to pen look * Changed settings page to be called `Instant Highlighter` = 1.6.20 = * Changed readme back to an older version alongwith minor changes = 1.6.10 = * Added label before the button, fixed button alignment, 2 more buttons = 1.6.9 = * Added a big button as the default button = 1.6.8 = * Revised the Description section of the ReadMe file = 1.6.7 = * Made it so that Highlighter goes to the specific posting rather than the referring page itself. = 1.4 = * Added logic for hoverBox to be displayed consistently. = 1.3.2 = * FIXED the issue where it seemed like some sites did not finish loading. = 1.3 = * Added the option to display a box when the user mouses over the highlighter button. Admins can go to Settings to turn this feature on/off. = 1.2 = * Added the option to add the Highlighter Button as a sidebar widget as well. = 1.1 = * Given that "Settings" page was added, deemed it worthy of a minor revision, so bumped to revision 1.1 = 1.0.3 = * Added "Settings" so users can pick the style of the button they want. = 1.0.2 = * Changed the default button look and added 8 more button looks = 1.0.1 = * Highlighter is very stable. * Initial version of the WordPress plugin. = 0.5 = * Never publicly released. == My Highlights Ticker (MicroBlog) == Highlight anything publicly on any website, and watch it **instantly & automatically get posted to your blog/site** alongwith a link back to the original highlighted article. Any **comments you make are automatically included** on your MicroBlog. You can also [add the "My Highlights" widget](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/autopublish "Add it to your WordPress") to your WordPress site for FREE. == Automatically Tweet Highlights to Twitter == Also make sure to check out [Tweet Highlights plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-highlights/ "Add it to your WordPress").