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jQuery Slideshow Lite Plugin Updated (Major Rewrite)

The jQuery Slideshow Lite plugin is updated with new features!

This is a major rewrite which fixed the known issue of not being able to change slides instantly via pagination clicks.

The new version also adds automatic photo caption display.

Enjoy! :)

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Release: [jQuery Plugin] Slideshow Lite

Latest release: v0.5.3

A few days ago I was asked to make a simple slideshow. My initial thought was, there must be a ton of solutions available for jQuery. I could easily draw inspiration from them.

I was wrong. Whilst there are a few nicely done slideshow plugins for jQuery, the majority of them are either poorly written or far too complicated.

So, I decided to code my own plugin from the ground up. Meet Slideshow Lite!

The plugin is only tested with jQuery 1.3, but it should also work on jQuery 1.2.

Features

  • Unobtrusive JavaScript, simply load it and that’s it
  • Clean, semantic HTML structure
  • Easy to use
  • Customisable
  • Free to use or to modify (GPL/MIT dual license)!

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Release: [jQuery Plugin] Endless Scroll

Latest release: v1.4.1

If you don’t already know, endless scroll (or infinite scrolling) is a popular technique among web 2.0 sites such as Google Reader and Live Image Search, where instead of paging through items using the traditional pagination technique, the page just keeps loading with new items attached to the end.

I have developed a jQuery plugin to easily achieve this.

Requirement: jQuery 1.2+

The plugin is tested with jQuery 1.2.6, 1.3 and 1.4.

There are a few options to customise the behaviour of this plugin:

  • bottomPixels (integer) – the number of pixels from the bottom of the page that triggers the event
  • fireOnce (boolean) – only fire once until the execution of the current event is completed
  • fireDelay (integer) – delay the subsequent firing, in milliseconds. 0 or false to disable delay.
  • loader (string) – HTML loader
  • data (string) – plain HTML data
  • insertAfter (string) – jQuery selector syntax: where to put the loader as well as the plain HTML data
  • callback (function) – callback function, accepets one argument: fire sequence (the number of times the event triggered during the current page session)
  • resetCounter (function) – resets the fire sequence counter if the function returns true, this function could also perform hook actions since it is applied at the start of the event

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WordPress Plugins Recommendation List

I always wanted to write about WordPress plugins, it’s like Firefox: it works well out-of-box, but the goodies are all in the plugins (Firefox call them extensions). Some day in the future I’ll probably write about my 40 odd Firefox extensions, but today, let me talk about what plugins I have installed on my current blog. :)

Before I go on talking about the plugins, you should know that this by no means is a complete list of useful plugins even though I have tried much more than what is in the list.

Here it begins, the list is in alphabetic order.

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Release: [WordPress Plugin] SyntaxHighlighter Plus

This plugin is no longer being maintained, please check out Viper007Bond’s SyntaxHighlighter Evolved instead.

Latest version: v1.0b2 [2009-03-02]

As part of the ‘house-warming party’ (for the (re)launching of the website) gift, I now announce the immediate availability of SyntaxHighlighter Plus. :-)

The official WordPress plugin page is located here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter-plus/

What is SyntaxHighlighter Plus?

SyntaxHighlighter Plus is a WordPress plugin for code syntax highlighting. It is an enhanced version of the original SyntaxHighlighter by Matt, Viper007Bond and mdawaffe. Please give them a big applause for making such a great plugin!

Features of SyntaxHighlighter

SyntaxHighlighter allows you to easily post syntax highlighted code all without loosing it’s formatting or making an manual changes.

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Oh, where did my theme go?

Ever since the word ‘blog’ has been invented (or discovered) I have played many different solutions, WordPress has always been my favourite. My old sites run on it, and my new site (what you are currently seeing) run on it.

I had a very tiring day, actually it’s a two-day roll. I’ve been completely sucked into making the theme working, and as a result of that I did not sleep at all last night. Fortunately the website is now up and running, all the basic stuff are done so in the upcoming few days I will be doing more adjustments and tweaks.

A few moments ago I took a quick nap, and I woke up seeing my theme was gone: WordPress reverted back the system to its default theme (K2). I never encountered such problem before so I googled it. Sadly no satisfactory results had been found. Right now I’m just going to rename the theme to ‘default’, seems to be working fine. :)

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