Entries Tagged as “Mango”

Konami Code Plugin

Posted By: Mark Aplet 1 Comment February 19, 2010

Just in time for April Fools Day, I am releasing my next totally useless Mango Blog plugin for adding easter eggs to your Mango Blog. It uses the SnapTortoise Konami-JS script to handle the pattern matching, url loading and alert notifications.

I couldn't just stop there, so I added easy setups for Rick Rolling, and some of the more popular Konami Code services like Cornify, Ninjafy, Sharkify, and Nippleit. I have plans to add more services and features in the near future. If you have a favorite service not listed here please leave a comment below with a link to the service.

Whats Currently Supported

Go ahead and try it! up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a

Download the Konami Code Plugin

Plugin version:
0.1
Last Updated:
2010-02-19
Requires:
Mango Blog 1.3+
Auto-install URL:
http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/konami.zip

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Project Honey Pot

Posted By: Mark Aplet No Comments November 11, 2009

Project Honey Pot

I think it's safe to say that we all hate spam. Whether it's email spam or comment spam, something needs to be done about it. That's where Project Honey Pot comes in. By installing a small script on your website you can help, and be apart of a massive movement to catch and eradicate spammers and email harvesters.

Project Honey Pot is a sophisticated system designed to trap spam bots and report them to various blacklisting services like SpamHaus, OpenRBL, SpamCop, Google and several others.

There are several options for webmeisters to contribute to Project Honey Pot. You can install a honey pot on your site someplace. This is a single file that can be placed anywhere on your site, and called anything you want it to be. Then you can link to it with hidden links embedded into your website that your visitors do not see but spam bots do. I built a Mango Blog plugin to help with this part. More on that below.  The second option is to install a quick link to another site that does have a honeypot installed. and lastly you can help out by donating an MX record to the project. This gives the project a trackable email address, to help identify spammers. If your interested in donating an MX record, or obtaining a quick link please go to the Project Honey Pot site and read more about it there.

In the last year, I have personally helped catch 25+ harvesters from just one honey pot. Imaging how many more can be caught if everyone that used Mango Blog had a honey pot! That's exactly why I created the Honey Pot plugin for Mango Blog. It makes it that much easier to run a honey pot on your site. You need only to snag a honey pot script from the Project Honey Pot site, upload it to your server and activate it. Then using the plugin provided here, specify the location of your honey pot and that's it. The plugin will randomly install the hidden honey pot links on all of your sites pages.  Viola!

If your using the CFFormProtect plugin (and I hope you are) By creating your account with Project Honey Pot, you now have the ability to get an API key that you can use with the CFFormProtect plugin. Having your own API key adds comment spam protection and helps to build a list of known spammers. As you can see this is a great relationship to have both plugins working together to fight spam. And that's good for everyone!

Download the Project Honey Pot Plugin

Plugin version:
0.1
Last Updated:
2009-11-10
Requires:
Mango Blog 1.3+
Auto-install URL:
http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/honeypot.zip

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Better Page Anchors with Anchor Slider Plugin

Posted By: Mark Aplet 4 Comments October 20, 2009

Here is another simple Mango Blog plugin that uses jQuery to make clicking internal links less jarring by adding an easing effect to select links. The obvious use is the back to top links found in footers, or at the end of long pages. Normally clicking one of these links jumps the page up or down to the specified section. The problem is that the quick jumping can be jarring and disorientating for some users.

Thankfully Cedric Dugas created a jQuery plugin that slides the page up or down with a nice easing effect so that users realize that they are in fact on the same page and not on a new one.

I really like these small finishing touches to sites. I feel that they make  it a much more pleasurable experience.

The jQuery needed is only a few lines of code so at first it hardly seamed necessary to make a Mango Blog plugin from it. But after adding it to 4 sites in a row, I thought it made more sense to go ahead and make it a standalone plugin.

How to use it

Using the Anchor Slide plugin is easy. Just add a class of 'anchorSlide' to your links. That's It! jQuery does the rest! I recommend adding a new empty class in your themes adminEditor.css file of .anchorSlide {} so that you can use it within the TinyMCE editor.

Download Anchor Slider

Plugin version:
0.1
Last Updated:
2009-10-17
Requires:
Mango Blog 1.3+
Auto-install URL:
http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/anchorslider.zip

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Anchor Fade: Fade Link Colors using JQuery

Posted By: Mark Aplet No Comments October 19, 2009

I was reading the Janko At Warp Speed Blog the other day and he had this jQuery link fading script that he was showing off. I have no idea why this is useful but apparently another site: Retweetradar used it and Mr. Janko felt it was worth recreating. I still have no idea if I could ever see myself using this, but it was so easy to turn it into a Mango Blog plugin, that I did while I had 15 minutes of downtime while a movie finished transcoding. If anyone else can find a good use for then it was worth the 15 minutes I spent on it.

BTW: the video is still not done encoding. Quick, What else can I make into a plugin?

Auto Install URL

http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/anchorfader.zip

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Unit PNG Fix

Posted By: Mark Aplet No Comments October 19, 2009

While creating a new MangoWear theme I needed a transparent png fix so I looked to Unit Interactive's unitpngfix.js. It's the easiest script to use and requires very little work to implement. Rather than manually adding the code to each theme I thought I would create a Mango Blog plugin so others can take advantage of it for your own themes.

If your not familiar with the unit png fix or why you need a png fix, here is a quick breakdown. Internet Explorer 6 does not support png's with an alpha transparency. So the genius minds over at Unit Interactive created a javascript that is really easy to use and fixes that lack of support for transparent png's Now you can create graphics for your page that have fades, drop shadows or anything with an alpha channel. Best of all it's only 1kb!

Unit PNG Fix will, by default, run automatically on all pngs on the page. If you wish, you can force the script to only fix specific elements by adding the class "unitPng" to those elements. This will cause only those specified elements to be fixed, and may help you work around any layout issues that the Unit PNG Fix may cause by default.

The Unit PNG Fix is not perfect. IE6 does not always properly with repeated background images. They talk about this on their website so if your needing this feature, check the Unit Interactive site for technotes and updates.

Download the Unit PNG Fix Plugin

Plugin version:
0.1
Last Updated:
2009-10-17
Requires:
Mango Blog 1.3+
Auto-install URL:
http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/unitpngfix.zip

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