pb2-alfons

This is a preview version. The software might break your weblog, disturb the server it’s installed on, destroy data or even kill your cat!

Introduction

Pagebar “Codename Alfons” is a branch of pagebar v2 that implements a certain design which you can’t do using the standard plugin:



Features

  • Automatic insertion of pagebar on all pages (posts, search, tags, …)
  • Works with nearly all plugins (Simple Tagging, UTW, …)
  • Compatible with WP 2.1, WP 2.2, and WP nightly

Installation

Unpack the archive and copy the files into a directory called pb2alfons in your plugin directory (normally …/wp-content/plugins/). Copy the file “pagebar.css” into your theme’s directory. That’s it!
Of course you may want to configure pagebar to your needs using the option page and by editing the pagebar.css style file (See “The CSS File”).

The option page

The option page allows you to tweak the pagebar to your needs. There are a number of predefined layouts which you can import.

Display

Current Page Text to be displayed for the current page.
First page Text to be displayed for the first page. If left empty, the page number is displayed.
Last page Text to be displayed for the last page. If left empty, the page number is displayed.
Previous Text to be displayed for the link to the previous page. If left empty, “<" is displayed.
Next Text to be displayed for the link to the previous page. If left empty, “<" is displayed.

Tooltips

Tooltips Text to display in tooltips. You can use the tokens.
Display Actually display tooltips?

Integration

You can remove the standard wordpress navigation manually or by setting the “remove old navigation”
checkbox.

Remove standard navigation Remove the standard navigation text of Wordpress (”« Previous entry”, “Next entry »”).
This only works if the author of your currently used theme hasn’t changed the CSS class of the
standard navigation (.navigation that is).

Positioning

Here you can define the place where to display it. Multiple places are possible.

Front of postings Front of first posting
Behind postings After the last posting
Footer In the footer (footer.php)

Stylesheet

You can define the necessary CSS definitions in two places:

  • in the style.css file of the current theme
  • in a seperate file in the current theme’s directory. The name of the file
    can be defined here, too.

Tokens

Tokens can be used in any display area of pagebar. If it makes sense where you want to use it, you have to decide by yourself.

{page} Page number
{total} Total number of pages
{current} Current page number

The CSS File

Soon…

Examples

Soon…

History

19 NOV 2007  -  v0.22  -  Fixed: Embarrassing error -> packed wrong source files into archives :-( (Thanks again to Ufuk)
13 NOV 2007  -  v0.21  -  Fixed: custom stylesheet wasn’t found in theme directory (thanks to Ufuk of www.ufukeskici.com)

Fixed: removed debugging output from single post pages
24 OCT 2007  -  v0.2  -  Inital release.

Credits

  • Alfons B. for his initial idea for this plugin.
  • Ufuk Eskici for lot’s of bug reports.