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How to add a new (FTW.ro) button to SexyBookmarks Plugin 2.6.1

Last week a good old friend of mine asked me if there’s a way to add another (?!?!) button/site to the SexyBookmarks site. I was a bit shocked: SexyBookmarks can “share”/”bookmark” your post to almost 54 sites/social networks/web applications. So why another one?! The answer came quick: because it’s not in that list, you moron! Okie, okie. Got it! It is about FTW site, which is some kind of article aggregator, dedicated to romanian bloggers. Okie! Now that makes sense, and it seems that my friend really needs that kind of feedback.

So, what do you need to start:

1. latest version of WordPress, mine is 2.8.6
2. latest version of SexyBookmarks, mine is 2.6.0.1 2.6.1
3. latest version of One Half Hour Available

Lets begin:

1. We’ll have to modify a few files that are in the plugin’s folder …/wp-plugin/plugins/sexybookmarks/, declared as {root} in the following lines:
   • {root}/includes/public.php
   • {root}/includes/bookmarks-data.php
   • {root}/css/admin-style.css
   • {root}/css/style.css
   • {root}/images/sexy-sprite.png
2. In {root}/includes/public.php add the following block of elseif code at line 457:

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   elseif ($name=='sexy-ftw') {             $socials.=bookmark_list_item($name, array(                 'post_summary'=>$post_summary,                 'permalink'=>$perms,                 'title'=>$title,             ));         }

3. In {root}/includes/bookmarks-data.php add the following array element at line 359:

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   'sexy-ftw'=>array(         'check'=>__('Check this box to include ', 'sexybookmarks').__('FTW', 'sexybookmarks').__(' in your bookmarking menu', 'sexybookmarks'),         'share'=>__('Share this on ', 'sexybookmarks').__('FTW', 'sexybookmarks'),         'baseUrl'=>'http://www.ftw.ro/node/add/drigg/?url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE',     ),

4. In {root}/css/admin-style.css add the following code at line 186:

   186	label.sexy-ftw{ background-position:-5120px top !important; }

5. In {root}/css/style.css at line 84 35, there’s a very long-lined list of CSS selectors. Add the following two, just before the curly opening brace:

   35	..., li.sexy-ftw,  li.sexy-ftw:hover {

   and

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   li.sexy-ftw { background-position:-5120px bottom !important; } li.sexy-ftw:hover { background-position:-5120px top !important; }

6. Add this image into the images folder and override the current {root}/images/sexy-sprite.png

Now that everything went well (hoping so), do your settings into the plugin preferences page and bring the FTW icon into the bar! Be happy and wait for feedback from FTW!

MooTools(more, core, mocha).bestFrameworkEver()

I insist.

I’ve been working for more than 5 years with all kind of javascript codes, libraries, frameworks, a.s.o. but, there wasn’t one to satisfy my needs as Mootools does (and don’t go dirty-thinking ). Why?

1. because all world-wide-known JS libraries are trying to be modular and well structured, but MooTools beat’em all
2. because all libraries implement “chainability” but no one does it better than MooTools
3. because Core & More can offer you 99.9% of what you need to implement in a website/application UI
4. because MochaUI is a tool that has a lot more to show than any other UI wrapped around JS library
5. and last but not least… it just ROCKS!

Ok now. Google all what you need and let me know if I’m right or wrong! Have fun!

Leaving the ship

At last, I can make this official.

Starting 30th of October I’ll leave Waterford Research Institute Romania. It was a pleasure to work and collaborate with Waterford Romania, but it is time to move forward to new challenges and new responsibilities.

So, the following steps will be to reboot (for the 3rd time) this blog, even there aren’t so much posts as expected, and redesign/rethink my whole online presence.

Thank you all!