=== Plugin Name === Contributors: cdevroe Donate link: Tags: video, viddler, flash Requires at least: 2.5 Tested up to: 2.7.1 Stable tag: trunk Quick access to Viddler videos and video comments. == Description == 1. Enriches your site's commenting experience by enabling video comments by either recording from a web cam, or choosing a video already uploaded to Viddler.com. 2. Makes it quick and easy to post a video to your site from within the Wordpress admin. == Installation == = i. Requirements = * Wordpress 2.x | http://wordpress.org/ * cURL (Client URL Library) for PHP | http://us.php.net/curl = ii. Install or Update the plugin = -- FROM Wordpress plugin directory -- 1. Just click install! (for updating, just click Update!) Note: If updating from 1.2.x to 1.3 you must now manually renaming the /viddlercomments/ directory to /the-viddler-wordpress-plugin/ -- FROM .zip -- 1. Unzip the attached viddlerwpcomments.zip file 2. Upload the /the-viddler-wordpress-plugin/ directory into your WordPress plugins directory. 3. Activate the plugin in the Wordpress admin. 4. (optional) Change preferences in the Comments > Video comments preference panel. = iii. Uninstalling = WARNING: Uninstalling this plugin will cause any posts, and/or comments that have the Viddler shortcode in them to display the shortcode as text, rather than as comments or videos. 1. Deactive the plugin from within Wordpress admin. 2. Remove the /the-viddler-wordpress-plugin/ directory from your Wordpress plugins directory. == Frequently Asked Questions == = Do you have to have a Viddler.com account? = No! But we recommend you do. :) = Can I use PHP5? = Yes. Simply change all references to phpviddler to phpviddler5. == Preferences == There is now a built-in preference panel that you can access by logging into your Wordpress admin, clicking on Plugins, and then click on Viddler preferences. Help for these preferences can be found within the admin page. = i. Custom button placement = You can add the button anywhere within the Wordpress THE_LOOP. Typically this would within comments.php of a template. Step 1. Set the "auto-create" preference to No. Step 2. Add viddler_recordlink(); to your template. Optional: viddler_recordlink('Some text here'); will override the default text preference. == Support == If you require any help installing this plugin, you may contact [Colin Devroe](http://cdevroe.com/), Community Evangelist for Viddler, at cdevroe@viddler.com == Version History == 1.3 | March 20, 2009 -- Fix: Fixed file location problem /viddlercomments/ replaced with /the-viddler-wordpress-plugin/ Note: If you still have this error, you need to rename the plugin folder to /the-viddler-wordpress-plugin/ -- New: Sorting by tag when viewing "Your videos"! 1.2.3 | February 9, 2009 -- Fix: Turned off Dashboard widget by default - This should address WPMU errors. -- Fix: Searching by tag. -- Update: Using the latest version of phpViddler. -- Update: Includes php5 version of phpViddler. -- Update: No longer relies on dynamic CDN URLs for thumbnails. -- Misc: Improved performance, small bug fixes, slightly less code. 1.2.2 | January 20, 2009 -- Fix for CDN URLs. 1.2.1 | December 30, 2008 -- Fix: Fixed plugin navigation. Credit: Rob Santoro. -- Fix: Search results for users with 1 video. -- Fix: Height dimensions on embed being only 1 number. 1.2 | December 15, 2008 -- New: Added more options and settings. -- Fix: PHP errors. -- Fix: Wordpress 2.7 compatible. 1.1 Beta 3 | May 9, 2008 -- Fix: Supports usernames with no video, or 1 video, better. -- Fix: Play button height on Dashboard widget. -- Fix: 1.1 Beta 2 | April 14, 2008 -- Fix: Dashboard, Wordpress News Height problem. Thanks, Alex Hillman & Jason Waldrip -- Fix: Improved Search -- Fix: Added paging to search -- Fix: Better paging navigation (search, your videos) -- Fix: PHP 5 Errors removed Thanks to Lee Adkins. -- New: Switched short code from [viddler_video=key,width,height] to [viddler id-key h- w-] (All old short codes will still work.) Thanks to Matt Mullenweg. -- Fix: Video thumbnails now sized to the same size as the video. Thanks to John W. -- New: Play button added to latest featured video in Dashboard widget. 1.1 Beta 1 | April 10, 2008 -- Dashboard widget -- Watch daily featured videos and embed them -- Preference to turn it off -- Add Viddler Video in Wordpress 2.5 Add Media pop-up -- Featured videos -- Embed featured videos -- Your videos -- Embed your Viddler videos -- Page through all videos -- Search! -- Search by tag -- Search by username -- Embed any public Viddler video -- Record -- Record a new video with your webcam -- Embeds when video is saved -- Fixed Wordpress 2.5 jQuery conflict -- Several bugs fixes and enhancements 1.0 | February 26, 2008 -- Full 1.0 version release. 1.0 Beta 6c | Feb 21, 2008 -- Fixed admin error on manage posts and manage pages areas. Thanks to Alex Hillman and Bart Mroz. 1.0 Beta 6b | Feb 20, 2008 -- Some blogs could not save custom tags. -- Custom tags didn't work if you used a custom button. -- Extended the amount of timeout for record with webcam. 1.0 Beta 6 | Feb 20, 2008 -- Added custom tags for video comments. See FAQ in admin. -- Moved admin panel from Plugins to Options area. Thanks to Daniel Nicolas and Alex Hillman. -- Fixed empty viddler_recordlink(); Thanks to David Martorana. -- Fixed conflicts with Wordpress' built-in widgets system for the sidebar. Thanks to Rob Sandie. -- Added ALT attribute to thumbnails for valid XHTML. Thanks to Matt Brett. -- Fixed video titles with record with webcam where the blog post title has an apostrophe. -- Several copy fixes. -- Misc. bug fixes (5). 1.0 Beta 5 | Feb 12, 2008 -- Added a Readme.txt -- Changed the name from 'Video commmenting plugin' to 'Video companion plugin'. -- Added button text preference. Now you can choose what the button says on your site. -- Added administrative panel to the plugins area of the Wordpress admin. You may now change all preferences there, you no longer need to edit the config file. -- Added custom button placement preference. Instead of the button appearing automatically, now you can place it anywhere in your template (within The_Loop) by using viddler_recordlink('text'); -- Fix for overlaying the plugin on playing flash video. The plugin would appear behind any flash videos that were saved. Fixed. Thanks to Andrew Smith. -- Multiple fixes for people that only have 1 video on Viddler. -- Added "version" to the TITLE attribute on the "Powered by Viddler." logo. This is simply to help me with support, and to see the adoption rates of each version. -- Fixed height problems for the default player being used in comments -- Fixed Simple Player embed to allow autoplaying of comments when the user clicking on "click to play video" -- Player background now transparent to match site's background color. 1.0 Beta 4b | Feb 12, 2008 -- Added hooks to determine where Wordpress is installed. This means the plugin will work even if the Wordpress installation is NOT in the root directory of your website. (eg. /journal/). Thanks to Daniel Nicolas for finding this. -- Fixed a few javascript errors with $v not being changed properly. Complete oversight on my part. 1.0 Beta 4 | Feb 12, 2008 -- Fixed tiny video comments -- Fixed a bug where if you clicked on the text link in a post it would ignore the width and height preferences -- Fixed links from RSS for both comments and posts. -- Inserting the video into a post now happens at the cursor -- Increased recorder saving timeout (should cut down on errors) -- Lowered the session expiration. You'll need to log in more, but the API won't error as much -- Changed jQuery namespace to remove conflicts with other versions of jQuery, Prototype, and other JavaScript libraries. (From $ to $v) 1.0 Beta 3 | Feb. 12, 2008 -- Admin panel: You can now add videos to your posts. -- Player preference: Choose Simple or Normal player for both posts and comments. -- Width and Height in posts: Choose the width and height of the player in posts. -- Video comments now autoplay (removes one click) (to be updated behind-the-scenes on 2/13/08) -- Larger thumbnail in posts -- Handles comment box IDs being different than Wordpress default -- Over 55 bug fixes. -- Smaller footprint. -- Cowbell++ 1.0 Beta 2 | Never released, tested locally. 1.0 Beta 1 | Feb. 11, 2008 Initial private release. == Acknowledgements == Thanks to all of our BETA testers who took the risk of breaking their sites to test out this plugin. Quality assurance: Jason Waldrip In use: Viddler API: http://wiki.developers.viddler.com/index.php/Viddler_API phpviddler Viddler API wrapper: http://wiki.developers.viddler.com/index.php/Phpviddler jQuery JavaScript library: http://jquery.com/ Facebox: http://famspam.com/facebox