Hello fellow Plurker! Plurkolate is a plugin for Wordpress blog platform (not yet for Wordpress.com). It will output your plurks and any responses people have made to you… with support for English, Brazilian, French, and German.

It requires a minute to install and configure.

Installation and configuration instructions

1. Download Plurkolate-1-0-6a.zip
2. Extract plurkolate.php from zip file
3. FTP or upload plurkolate.php to the plugin directory on your server ex: ericnakagawa.com/wp-content/plugins
4. Go to your WP Admin, Plugin section and Activate the plugin.
5. Next go to WP Admin, Settings and choose “Plurkolate”
6. Configure Plurkolate
   Add your Plurk username: ex. ericnakagawa
   Add your first name or a short name: ex. eric
   Always show your nickname: ex. No (for plurkers who don’t use verbs)
   Choose how many Plurks you want to output: ex. All
   Choose if you want to show other peoples comments: ex. Yes
   Choose a highlight Hex color to differentiate your plurk replies from others.
   Choose your language: ex. English
   Choose the even odd coloring of plurk replies using Hex colors ex. #f0f0f0
7. Edit your theme and place “<?php plurkolate(); ?>” somewhere in your theme files or custome template file.
8. Add me as a friend or fan here on plurk!

Advanced customization

You can use the following CSS classes to modify

• ul.plurk & ul.plurkcomments
• li.plurklist & ul.plurkcommentslist
• Just your plurks here: li.myplurklist & li.myplurkcommentslist
• CSS for the verbs (likes, thinks, says, etc.) are provided from Plurk and copied into the header of your blog. You can change the colors if you want… but newer versions of plurkolate may over write these.
• Language support currently exists for English, Brazilian, French, and German.

Examples

Example of how to put Plurkolate in your theme — ericnakagawa.com uses the following placed in index.php:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class=”mainbody” style=”float:left;overflow:scroll;background-image: url(http://www.plurk.com/static/theme/image/marine-bg.png);margin:100px; width:600px; “>
<div style=”background-color:white;margin:20px;padding:20px;”>
<style>
body {font-family: Georgia,”Times New Roman”,Times,serif; font-size: 1em;}
ul.plurklist {padding-bottom: 10px; margin-bottom:5px; }
li.myplurklist, li.myplurkcommentslist {border-right: 1px solid #e6db55; border-bottom:1px solid #e6db55; }
</style>
<h3>ericnakagawa…</h3>
<?php plurkolate(); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Acknowledgements

7/5/2008 - Thank you to Daniel Santos of http://danielsantos.org for adding Brazilian Portugese and the main code for internationalization support.

7/8/2008 - Small typo found in link at bottom of html. thanks Tamar at http://www.techipedia.com

7/8/2008 - Added highlight feature, and feature to show nickname for users who don’t use verbs.

7/9/2008 - Fixed a bug that didn’t let you show less than ALL plurks. Can now show ALL, 15, 10, 5. Thank you Manda.

7/9/2008 - Added Patrick Andriessens Dutch support. Thank you Patrick.

7/20/2008 - 1.0.4b - Plurk disables Plurk Nested Replies/Comments from being viewed by XML. At present I have added code to check if this is true and disable nesting for the page load.

8/2/2008 - Added 1,5,10,15,ALL to amount of plurks that can be shown. Also, added feature to give designers more control over specifically how many plurks show up, and if comments are available. This feature will skip the configuration for # shown, and if comments are visisble. “<?php plurkolate(1, false); ?> Will show JUST the latest Plurk. Thanks to toxidlotus for the inspiration.

Does it suck? Rock? Got an improvement idea? Let me know: plurkolate@ericnakagawa.com

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