Entries Tagged as “Freebies”
Easy Retweet 1.1
Thanks to the great feedback on my initial Easy Retweet plugin I have made a few enhancements to the 1.1 version of the Easy Retweet Plugin. It now supports a new event. It can now attach itself to the end of your blog post automatically. You no longer have to manually add the link to your content.
As I found out, not every theme supports the "beforePostContentEnd" event. If your not seeing the retweet links and you have it enabled you may have to add a line to your template. It's pretty easy and is only one line.
Open your index.cfm look for this line: <mango:PostProperty ifnothasExcerpt body /> Right after it add the following line: <mango:Event name="beforePostContentEnd" />
We will make a similar change to the post.cfm page. Find the line that reads <mango:PostProperty body /> and again add the folloing line after it: <mango:Event name="beforePostContentEnd" /> That's it. Save your templates and upload them to your site.
Get the Easy Retweet Plugin
- Plugin version:
- 1.1
- Last Updated:
- 2009-07-24
- Requires:
- Mango Blog 1.3+
- Auto-install URL:
- http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/EasyRetweet1.1.zip
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Shadowbox Plugin
Hands down, Shadowbox is my favorite javascript lightbox. Not only does it make creating image galleries a snap, but it can also make displaying Flash videos easy, Quicktime, AVI, and WMV files are all done with a simple hyperlink.
David Freerksen created the original Mango Blog plugin, and I do not wish to take credit for his work. The Shadowbox3a plugin is really just a re-skining of the original shadowbox plugin by David. So even though I love the shadowbox plugin, I could not find a place in my heart for it with it's original skin. I felt the original skin is a usability disaster.
Below is a side by side comparison between the original shadowbox and the 3a version. It's a very small difference but it has spared me hours trying to defend it's very existence to my superiors. Because of this one change, I no longer receive phone calls from people saying the don't understand how to get back to the main page where they just came from. Just goes to show that just because it makes sense to you and I It may not make sence to those that are less savvy
Since I already modified the Shadowbox plugin, and because I am releasing a photo gallery plugin later this month. I wanted to post my modified plugin in case any of you also hate the original shadowbox skin.
Download The Plugin
- Plugin version:
- 1.1
- Last Updated:
- 2009-07-21
- Requires:
- Mango Blog 1.3+
- Auto-install URL:
- http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/shadowbox3a.zip
Version History
- Version 1.1 – Updated plugin to fix error where plugin would not save changes made in the admin.
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Fancybox Light
Fancybox is a great lightbox alternative because it is easy to customize and it looks really nice. I used it for the first time in my AutoGallery script and thought it worked out nicely. This past week I have been working on a photo gallery plugin for mango blog called "Memento". I have decided to make the code a little cleaner by separating the fancybox code from the rest of the plugin. It made the most sense as it allowed users to make their own decision about what lightbox script they wanted to use.
I am releasing this plugin as a "light" version because it uses the older 1.0.0 version of fancybox and does not have as many options as the current release of fancybox (currently 1.2.1). Many of the newest features of fancybox appear to be made in an effort to make it work more like Shadowbox by incorporating more media types than just images. For a photo galery this isn't necessary and the light version works just fine. I do plan to release a full version later if people find it useful enough to merit the work. If your a big Fancybox fan let me know in the comments.
- Plugin version:
- 1.0
- Last Updated:
- 2009-07-20
- Requires:
- Mango Blog 1.3+
- Auto-install URL:
- http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/fancybox-light.zip
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sIFR3
A while back I started working on a sIFR text replacement plugin for mango blog. For what ever reason I stopped working on it and there it sat on my hard drive wasting away. So rather then have it waste away I thought I would post it here for you all to take a look at and maybe add to it. The plugin currently works as is. You can test it using the really bad font I included with the download or use the sIFR Generator to test your own.
Known Bugs: Advanced styling not working properly. Better to style with theme css.
- Plugin version:
- 1.0
- Last Updated:
- 2009-07-14
- Requires:
- Mango Blog 1.3+
- Auto-install URL:
- http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/sIFR3.zip
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Free Grayscale Textures
As a designer I understand the value of great free textures. Textured images are a great way to add some pizzaz to a design project. That's why I decided to give back to the design community by offering these textures up for free.
I originally shot these images for use in various video projects I had going. Because I used them as video mattes they are all in grayscale. This made it easy to matte the textures to a background to create the desired effect.
Your free to use these textures for personal or commercial work. The only restriction is that the images cannot be redistributed on any other site or as part of a collection for sale or free. You are NOT required to provide a photo credit, but if you can do so without mucking up your project I would love you long time. Please Enjoy!
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