vi.sualize.us photo stream

9 Dec 2008 Author: admin In: Wordpress

Lately i have been using vi.sualize.us a lot. Since i wanted to add a photostream to vunkyblog, I decided to write a small WordPress plugin for it. This plugin allows you to display vi.sualize.us photos on your website. It supports tags and has a simple caching mechanism. The plugin is relatively easy to setup and configure through an options panel.

What is vis.ualize.us?

vi.sualize.us is a social bookmarking website for visual contents — vi.sualize.us (read visualize us) allows you to remember your favorite images around the web, and share them with everyone.

The power of vi.sualize.us resides in the possibility to share your bookmarks with the rest of the world. That’s where the key of “social bookmarking” is. And at the same time it’s the explanation of the term: bookmarks that you don’t keep privately in your browser, but are shared with everyone.

Installation

Put visualizerss.php in your plugins directory
If you want to cache images, create a directory and make it writable
Activate the plugin
Configure your settings via the panel in Options
Add <?php get_visualizeusRSS(); ?> somewhere in your templates

Download the plugin here

Based on the flickrRSS plugin from D. Kellam and WP-SmugMug from adamtow

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22 Comments on “vi.sualize.us photo stream”

_fm
February 10th, 2009 04:05

Hi Vunky, thank you for your plugin. It’s working just great. Thank you!
Paul Basten
July 9th, 2009 08:47

Great plug-in.

I would like it to show the full images instead of thumbnails. Is there any way to do that?

Greetings Paul
higui
July 23rd, 2009 03:14

Cool … thank you very much. I’m trying a brief customization, i will let you know as soon as i will publish the page on my website.
higui
July 23rd, 2009 03:22

How i possible to have an integration with lightbox?
lydianell
July 25th, 2009 12:13

tyty for this wunnerful plug-in <3
lydianell
July 25th, 2009 12:24

i need to plug this into my site – dunno how :(
Morgaine
July 29th, 2009 03:26

Thank you for making this plug-in. I’ve added the plug-in to my blog, and added it as a widget. Also modified the code, in order to have larger thumbnails, get rid of the hard-coded ‘inspiration’ text,and a different border. As I suppose others would like to have a slightly different lay-out as well, it would be really neat if you could expand the plug-in with e.g. CSS settings, preferred thumbnail sizes etc.
Morgaine
July 29th, 2009 03:40

By the way, caching doesn’t work, not sure if it’s the plug-in, or because I use it as a widget. Anyway, I get nothing but gibberish, like ��JFIF��C� ��C ��”��Ҫɔ0yX�G@%t�F��Ʊ*�[��_�Q�.+�:�b�j�;ݸ�Ͽ.$!P@c�=��seB��I,6�”� &k�ւd��lj��{��[>�;Y��4%�ORi��R��}�y��4��F1U��f��u�A …
Dalton
August 12th, 2009 14:43

Awesome. Do you know if it would it be possible to configure this plugin to link directly back to the original source rather than to visualize.us?
TiagoMazzon
September 24th, 2009 08:01

Hi,

I am also using this plugin to display my favorite vi.sualize.us images, but I found a bug within it. When I put this widget above another widget, it destroys the layout of the widget below. This was caused by a missing statement in the line 99 of the .php file of the plugin:

}?><?

Please put this on the line 99 of the code, and release this corrected version, so nobody else needs to run through this problem again.

Thank you.
admin
October 30th, 2009 14:39

Hello,

Thanks for the remark. The problem lied with a unordered list not being ended correctly. I have uploaded a new version to this post, which also allows you to change the widget’s title and css class.
Jared Aiden Wolf
November 5th, 2009 19:24

Some guidance on how to style the output would be much appreciated. For instance, how can I remove the left margin on the images so that they left align with the title text? Also, how should the “CSS Override (ul tag)” input be formatted? The example/helper text (/home/path/to/cache/) seems like it’s a leftover from an older version of the plugin…
admin
November 11th, 2009 08:33

Hi Jared,

This is the CSS being used in the plugin. You can override the left margin by setting the thmb class in your own stylesheets or by setting a extra CSS class in the components configuration.
Chris
November 26th, 2009 12:03

Hi Jared,

it’s a great plugin, but how can I insert it into a page or posting, instead of using a sidebar widget of it?
Thanks a lot.
admin
November 27th, 2009 04:30

Hi Chris,

At the moment you are limited to placing the PHP code. You can place this in your single page layout. You are just not yet able to ad this into a single article.

What where your thoughts on this? How where you planning on using it?
Chris
November 29th, 2009 13:01

Hi, thanks a lot for your answer. What is please the exact code for using it in a single page?
I have an art blog and would like to show with your plugin the readers weekly “inspirations” for paintings in an article with some text to it.
For the moment I could help myself with adding the code to a page. What have I to add exactly in the page? Thanks. Chris
admin
December 1st, 2009 21:28

The same as for the sidebar <?php get_visualizeusRSS(); ?>
Chris
December 2nd, 2009 00:13

Thanks, but adding this to a page, it shows just 1:1 this code in frontend of WordPress 2.8.6 – but no images.
admin
December 5th, 2009 14:20

Hi, you need to insert the code into the page template file. It cannot be used in the textarea.
Chris
July 22nd, 2010 19:54

Hi,

I try to fit this plugin within WordPress 3.0. I don’t understand what you mean with the text in plugin: “CSS Override (ul tag): … /home/path/to/cache/”.

Could you please explain in an example code, what I have to add there, so that the plugin does not use the ul-class from my theme (because it looks horrible with the plugin)?

Thanks a lot.
admin
July 24th, 2010 08:22

Hi Chris you can set your own css class that overrides the default css styling. (for instance .visualizeus)