v0.2 Upgrade makes plugin work with titles containing ampersands and works better for people who are not using mod_rewrite for their urls. Also fixes IE ActiveX lawsuit problems with embed.
Heres the sIFR plugin I promised… It shouldnt be too confusing to install… the only potentially tricky parts are if people really wanna change the flash file…
Ive included the source FLA to make editing it really easy… Please read the comments in the FLA though… there a few really important points.
Anyway… for those of you who dont know what sIFR is… check out the original post I made: Flash Titles Like This One
For those of you who want the plugin and source files…
Downloads:
- v0.1
Is available HERE - v0.2 is now available. I reccomend you upgrade. Download HERE
Please comment if you like… post a link to where you are using it so I can check it out… and if you have any problems that you think may be a bug… post a comment about it.
Read on for install/upgrade instructions:
Installation:
- Insert style code into your css. Customize it for your theme… mind just
aligns left. (see CSS: below) - Edit title.fla to look the way you want… its set to display as transparent windowless so the way it is by default there will be no background or anything. skip this step and step #3 if you want to use the default flash file.
- Publish title.swf (NOTE: Must be published as Flash 8 now because of the str_replace to filter ampersands)
- Upload (new if you published your own) title.swf to the folder your theme is in.
- Upload swfobject.js to your theme directory.
- Add include for swfobject.js to your themes <head> content. (see
code JS: code below) - Open sIFR-titles.php and edit lines 11-13 if you made changes to the size of the flash file. $bgc if for the background color in case the users browser doesnt support transparent windowless flash rendering.
- Upload sIFR-titles.php to your plugins folder
- activate plugin through admin panel
- Add the PHP code to your theme file (see PHP: code below)
CSS:
JS:
PHP:
Upgrade:
- Do steps 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 (in order)
- you dont need to do steps 1, 9 or 10
ChangeLog:
- v0.1 - Made the plugin… seems to work.
- v0.2 - Added functions to filter out ampersands so this will work on sites not using mod_rewrite. Also implemented a script to embed the flash in a way so that the new IE problems with activeX dont cause problems.
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May 5th, 2006 at 1:53 am
I think this will only work if you use mod rewrite for your URLs
Ill check that out and update in v0.2
also gonna make it check for flash and insert text title if no flash player…
May 5th, 2006 at 11:00 am
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May 8th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
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June 8th, 2006 at 3:38 am
Any help or links on how to modify the text color and background in the basic test.fla.
thx
June 8th, 2006 at 6:56 am
Hey Bharath,
Yeah, the background color could be changed by either changinf the code tomake the window mode opaque rather than transparent… and chaning the background color to what you want it to be…
or an easier way would be by editing the FLA and adding a solid background object…
The text color currently has to be edited in the FLA…
Ill make a new version ASAP where some of this can be modified through the config file…
hadnt thought of adding that to the code… figured everyone would just change the FLA and export a new SWF for any cusomized color stuff…
Ill see what I can do in the next version.
June 8th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Is there any way to make sIFR_Titles list categories (all of them … like the sidebar) instead? And how should the syntax look like?
July 2nd, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Hi - thanks for sharing this great plug. I am happy to belive my next website will be “nicer”.
But I have severals issues :
1/Safari crash everytime I want to access my test site (but not on yours), running fine with firefox. I am on OSX 10.4.6, i have the Flash9 player installed.
2/Every title/link send the user to an annoying wp-tracback adress (with a message like “Ok, the page you want is here).
3/I don’t know how to apply sIFR on the blog name, menu titles, categories names and sidebar components and I looking for some tutorials to tweek my template.
Again, thanks fr the good (and hard) work.
Aldo.
July 27th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
i’m sorry to say that after i downloaded the file and trying to unrar the thing the only thing i will see is that the .rar file seems to be corrupt. i cant extract it with Stuffit for mac.
July 31st, 2006 at 11:13 am
thats odd…
perhaps its a mac thing… no one else seems to have this issue… Im checking the rar on my end to see if I can do anything to make that better.
July 31st, 2006 at 3:42 pm
found also the same extract problem with my mac .
August 31st, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Thank you for your site. I have found here much useful information…
September 6th, 2006 at 7:37 am
Cool!.. Nice work…
October 24th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
could you provide something other than .rar file? .zip? thanks…
October 26th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
Is there any documentation with how this is handled by Internet Explorer browsers? I can get it to work just fine in Firefox, but it goes missing in IE6. Help appreciated!
October 26th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
just FYI… your page titles (sIFR) aren’t working in IE6, either.
December 9th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
dosent work for me…
i have the script in my page source but the swf dosent appear… altought when i call it with a direct link like : “http://site/wp-content/themes/thm/title.swf?itemtitle=xxx it appears) what could be the couse ?
Here is all the script in the page source.
var so = new SWFObject(”http://site/wp-content/themes/thm/title.swf?itemtitle=Zânele de pe Maur Vega&storylink=http://site/wp-trackback.php?p=4″, “post-4″, “523″, “31″, “8″, “#000000″);
so.addParam(”allowScriptAccess”, “sameDomain”);
so.addParam(”quality”, “high”);
so.addParam(”wmode”, “transparent”);
so.addParam(”scale”, “noscale”);
so.addParam(”loop”, “false”);
so.write(”post-4″);
tnx in advance
December 12th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
What I want to do on my blog, is every few hours take the oldest post and move it to the
front of the queue, all automatically. Anyone know if there is a plugin that can do this or
a simple way to set up another plugin to do this (use my own feed perhaps)?
Thanks.
February 4th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Is there any way to make this plugin validate?
February 18th, 2007 at 2:11 am
The .fla file that was in the .rar doesn’t have a font in the library. I’m not really swift on swf, but when I added a font to the library, it didn’t change it on my site.
Could you explain how you embedded the font. I don’t see it in the sample .fla.
It works otherwise.
Thanks.
February 18th, 2007 at 2:26 am
Found it. Fantastic.
Thanks for a cool addition to WP
February 18th, 2007 at 2:41 am
I tested it in IE7, and while yours works, my page gives some kind of weird error.
http://comicbytes.com
Weird.
February 18th, 2007 at 2:50 am
I’m neurotic. Well not really. Found the issue. It was a conflict in the theme style.
Thanks again.
Ron
February 27th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Hi all…
Sorry I missed responding to so many posts. Have been extremely busy with new work, freelance, learning new stuff and generally living outside my text editor
More updates will be coming I think. ass I have more free time anyway…
Been doing a lot of development in Second Life… prolly gonna start a sub section of this blog just to go over all the LSL stuff Ive been doing and XML/RPC stuff as it applies to Second Life and integrating in-world objects with the Real World websites.
hmm… I imagine I should be writing this as an actual post rather than just a comment…
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:52 am
I’ve noticed on your site that after I scroll a page, links that are SIFR-enabled need to be clicked on twice.
My guess is the SWF files are not automatically receiving focus on mouseover so the first click sets focus and the second click activates the link.
This is using Firefox 1.5.0.10 on WinXP with SP2.
March 14th, 2007 at 8:15 am
not even close to working, and I’m no JS/PHP slouch either!
“9. activate plugin through admin panel”?? — Obviously some kinda Flash plugin technicality that I’ve never encountered before.
It sure looked promising, but even before blog loops, there’s gotta be a simpler way to enable flash titles.
April 17th, 2007 at 11:36 am
@Scrawl:
Hey, that is kinda odd… I hadnt noticed it before but you’re right… after scrolling some seem to react properly and some need a first click to activate… hmmm… Ill see if I can play with this and figure it out. thanks for the catch.
@uhhhh:
The admin panel is the wordpress plugin administration panel. You have to activate the plugin to make it work in wordpress… has nothing whatsoever to do with the flash app itself. This is pretty standard for many wordpress plugins.
Im sure there is an easier way… this is the one I came up with… fell free to take it where I or someone else started and make it better.
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:45 pm
So does anyone know of a way t o make the title wrap into two lines if the title is a little long? I found an agency that seems to be doing this somehow. Also, it looks like their flash title doesn’t grow in height unless the title needs to wrap down, so the spacing on the rest of the page is always even. Here is the web address: http://blog.markerstudio.com/
Any thoughts?!?!??
June 17th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Hello. Thanks for your plugin, it’s very nice. But the non-english charaters can’t use this. If you see my screencapture, you will see this. http://www.mafiarose.com/lesimages/sifr.png Do you have a workaround? (sorry for my english!)
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July 31st, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Yannick: Im pretty sure if you open up the fla and make sure that all the special characters you want are embeded in the file it will produce the results you desire… I think I only embeded the “standard” set of characters.
Chris Wilson : Im working slowly on one that will detect the length of a title and resize appropriately… having a really hard time making it as easy to use as this one… well… its just as easy to implement but I wat people to be able to customize and thats whee it gets tricky.
August 7th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Cant download the file.
I got an error when trying to download
August 9th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Hi, i got an error when try to download the file
August 17th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Is the download not working for anyone else?
Thanks
October 13th, 2007 at 2:06 am
Hi, I can’t wait to try your plugin, but the download links isn’t working. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jonathan
December 9th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Sorry about the download issues from before. Its all fixed now… fixed it a while back but forgot to reply and let people know.
January 8th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
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January 12th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Hello,
I would like to include the germans “umlaute” (ü,ä,ö,).
How I do this?
tboggi
January 14th, 2008 at 6:58 am
How to make it if I have two fonts that I want to use for the titles?
January 18th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Hi there!
Ik tried to use your plugin. Did what it said in the read me file. But when i’m gone, wordpress doesn’t show any tittles at all! tough i can click to open the page :S:S
How is this possible?
Thanks
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January 29th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Hey,
I installed it on our blog: http://blog.gsdh.de
and it works only in Firefox. Do have any ideas how to actiate it also for the IE?
Thanks,
Alex
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