=== Plugin Name ===
Contributors: bastb
Donate link: http://www.tenberge-ict.nl/tools/wordpress/lips/
Tags: LinkedIn, API, OAuth, profile, zzp, freelance, cv, experience, resume, template, Smarty, templating, business, job, hiring, professional
Requires at least: 3.3.1
Tested up to: 3.4.1
Stable tag: 0.8.1
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

This tool downloads your LinkedIn® profile and maintains a selectable page on your WordPress installation.

== Description ==
LiPS creates a local copy of your LinkedIn® Profile, using the LinkedIn® REST API to get the data. Due to the API, there's no page-parsing or screen-scraping, it's just your data, structured in a way it allows for automatic processing.
The REST API uses OAuth and does not need to know your LinkedIn® username and password. It uses a token which is granted access to your data. Revoking access is easy too, in fact, it's done automatically. 
There's a drawback. A LinkedIn Developer account is required for this thing to work.

The tool processes the profile data and creates a page, using the Smarty templating engine. Smarty is included in the distribution, as are two minimal templates. You can choose which page to use and which template to use. In fact, you can create your own template. Learn how from the lips Donate link above.
  
This tool is more than a LinkedIn® Profile copying tool. It can also create posts for each position in your profile, allowing you to add more detail, such as (ex) coworkers that can add their experience in working with you. These posts are filtered from your "normal" blog stream, but you can link to them from your profile page.  

You're using this tool at your own risk. I'm not responsible for anything caused by this tool in any way. 

== Installation ==

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

1. Upload `lips` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
1. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
1. Open the WordPress Dashboard, click Tools and LinkedIn® Profile Sync.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= What's with these pop-ups? =
These are due to my understanding of the LinkedIn® terms of service. LinkedIn wants the user to have some way of verifying where the data is from. 

= Why do I need a LinkedIn Developer account? =
This is due to my understanding of the LinkedIn® terms of service.   

== Screenshots ==

1. This screen shot description corresponds to screenshot-1.(png|jpg|jpeg|gif). Note that the screenshot is taken from
the directory of the stable readme.txt, so in this case, `/tags/4.3/screenshot-1.png` (or jpg, jpeg, gif)
2. This is the second screen shot

== Changelog ==

= 0.8.1 =
* Initial release. 0.8.0 was under active development 

== Upgrade Notice ==

= 0.8.0 = 
This plugin uses metadata stored in the WordPress database. This metadata gets regenerated each time the plugin is activated. The template metadata has changed in 0.8.1, so you'll need to deactivate and activate the
plugin right after installation.

== Arbitrary section ==
= Things to do =
 * it's probably a good idea to encrypt the OAuth authenticated tokens with
  some form of a password, because anybody with access to the MySQL database
  will have access to port of the authentication details. 
 * verify whatever a template generates -> the page template must start with a >h1> or
  >div>, same for a post.
 * use the other OAuth library, so the limiting PECL extension is not needed anymore.
 * allow a user to remove languages, thus shortening the language list.
 * optimize the jQuery code. It's a bit bloated and contains different styles at once.