WordPress PadFile Plugin

Last days I wrote my first! WordPress Plugin. It’s a plugin that you can use to show Pad File content in a more nicer way than posting the Raw XML data …

All in all it’s very easy to use. Extract the ZIP File into your “plugins” directory of wordpress.
The directory structure should look like: \wp-content\plugins\padfile

Now activate the plugin and you’ll have have two different possibilities to show your Pad Files in your wordpress blog.

1. You can show it in your blog entry by typing [padfile:URL] within your posting. E.g. [padfile:http://www.timepunch.de/download/TimePunch.xml]




2. Or you can add a sidebar widget. When opening the sidebar widget with “Edit” Button in WordPress, you can select three different Pad Xml File URLs that will be shown in your sidebar.

Furthermore the complete plugin is template based. That means, you can change the content and the design in an easy manner.

For changing the design of the [padfile] tag, you’ll have to modify the “download.html” template.

For changing the design of the sidebar widget, you can modify the files “sidebar_before.html“, “sidebar_content.html” and “sidebar_after.html“.

I hope that you enjoy the plugin.
Cheers

- Gerhard

Download link: http://wordpress.ad-factum.de/padfile.zip