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WordPress plugin information shortcode

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Description:

Using WP Plugin Information Shortcode you can simply add information and statistics about your plugin to any page or post on your WordPress powered website.

Simply find the slug to your plugin on wordpress.org, which will be the last section of the URL, usually formatted as my-plugin-name, then add the shortcode [wpplugin slug=”my-plugin-name”] to the desired location of your blog.

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• api
• information
• shortcode
• WordPress

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Introduction

Have you created your own WordPress plugin? Do you want to showcase it on your WordPress powered blog? Do you want the showcase on your website to show up-to-date information?

If you answered yes to the above then ‘WordPress Plugin Information Shortcode’ may be for you. This plugin utilises the WordPress API to retrieve information about a plugin and display a showcase of it on your website.

Features

Easily display a showcase of your WordPress plugin on your WordPress powered website. Each showcase includes the following:

• Plugin banner, as shown on WordPress.org, if the plugin does not have a banner then a generic one is used
• Plugin name
• 5 star rating of the plugin, including a visual representation of the 5 star rating
• Description of the plugin
• Number of times the plugin has been downloaded
• Tags that the plugin is listed with on WordPress.org
• A download button, which links directly to the latest version on WordPress.org
• A more information button, which links to the plugins page on WordPress.org

All the above is formatted in a similar way to the plugin page, as it would display on WordPress.org. Information is also formatted in a responsive way; giving a good appearance on mobile devices as well as desktop web browsers.

Installation

1. Upload the plugin files to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name’ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
3. Add the shortcode [wpplugin slug=”my-plugin-name”] to the desired location on your blog.

Usage

Once ‘WordPress Plugin Information Shortcode’ has been installed on your WordPress powered website and the plugin has been activated:

1. Find the slug of your plugin by viewing the plugin on WordPress.org. The slug is the final part of the URL, which is usually formatted: ‘my-plugin-name’.
2. On the page or blog post where you wish to showcase your plugin add the following shortcode: [wpplugin slug=”my-plugin-name”]
3. Save the page or blog post, your plugin showcase should now be displayed on your page or blog post.

Code

Plugin code:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: WordPress plugin information shortcode
Plugin URI: http://f13dev.com
Description: This plugin enables you to enter shortcode on any page or post in your blog to show information about a WP plugin you have written.
Version: 1.0
Author: Jim Valentine - f13dev
Author URI: http://f13dev.com
Text Domain: wp-plugin-information-shortcode
License: GPLv3
*/

/*
Copyright 2016 James Valentine - f13dev (jv@f13dev.com)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/

// How to handle the shortcode
function f13_plugin_information( $atts, $content = null )
{
    // Get the attributes
    extract( shortcode_atts ( array (
        'slug' => 'none' // Default slug won't show a plugin
    ), $atts ));

    $results = f13_getWPPluginResults($slug);

    $string = '
        <div class="f13-wp-container">
            <div class="f13-wp-header" style="background-image: url(' . f13_getBannerURL($results['slug']) . ');">
                <p class="f13-wp-name">' . $results['name'] . '</p>
            </div>
            <div class="f13-wp-information">
                <div class="f13-wp-description">
                    <div class="f13-wp-rating">' .
                        f13_getRatingStars($results['rating'] / 20) . ' ' .
                        $results['rating'] . ' from ' .
                        $results['num_ratings'] . ' ratings
                    </div>
                    <br/>
                    <p class="f13-wp-short-description">
                        <strong>Description: </strong>' . $results['short_description'] . '
                    </p>
                    <div class="f13-wp-downloads">
                        <strong>Downloads</strong>: ' . $results['downloaded'] . '
                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="f13-wp-links">
                    <a class="f13-wp-button f13-wp-download" href="' .  $results['download_link'] . '">Download Version ' .  $results['version'] . '</a>
                    <a class="f13-wp-button f13-wp-moreinfo" href="' .  f13_getPluginURL($slug) . '">More information</a>
                </div>
                <br style="clear: both" />
                <div class="f13-wp-tags">Tags: ' . f13_getTagsList($results['tags']) . '</div>
            </div>
        </div>';
    return $string;

}

// Add the stylesheet
function f13_plugin_information_stylesheet()
{
    wp_register_style( 'f13information-style', plugins_url('css/wp-api.css', __FILE__));
    wp_enqueue_style( 'f13information-style' );
}

// Register the shortcode
add_shortcode( 'wpplugin', 'f13_plugin_information');
// Register the css
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'f13_plugin_information_stylesheet');

/**
 * Functions used to create the plugin information
 */

 function f13_getRatingStars($aRating)
 {
     $string = '';
     for ($x = 1; $x < $aRating; $x++ )
     {
         $string .= '<img src="' . plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'img/star-full.png" />';
     }
     if (strpos($aRating, '.'))
     {
         $string .= '<img src="' . plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) . 'img/star-half.png" />';
         $x++;
     }
     while ($x <= 5)
     {
         $string .= '<img src="' . plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) . 'img/star-empty.png" />';
         $x++;
     }

     return $string;
 }

 function f13_getWPPluginResults($aSlug)
 {
     // start curl
     $curl = curl_init();

     // set the curl URL
     $url = 'https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/' . $aSlug . '.json';

     // Set curl options
     curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
     curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true);

     // Set the user agent
     curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13');
     // Set curl to return the response, rather than print it
     curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

     // Get the results and store the XML to results
     $results = json_decode(curl_exec($curl), true);

     // Close the curl session
     curl_close($curl);

     return $results;
 }

 function f13_getBannerURL($aSlug)
 {
     $baseURL = 'https://ps.w.org/' . $aSlug . '/assets/banner-772x250';
     if (f13_remoteFileExists($baseURL . '.jpg'))
     {
         return $baseURL . '.jpg';
     }
     else if (f13_remoteFileExists($baseURL . '.png'))
     {
         return $baseURL . '.png';
     }
     else
     {
         return plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) . 'img/default_banner.png';
     }
 }

 function f13_remoteFileExists($url)
 {
     $curl = curl_init($url);
     curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
     $result = curl_exec($curl);
     if ($result != false)
     {
         if (curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE) == 200)
         {
             return true;
         }
     }
     else
     {
         return false;
     }
 }

 function f13_getPluginURL($aSlug)
 {
     return 'https://wordpress.org/plugins/' . $aSlug . '/';
 }

 function f13_getTagsList($tagList)
 {
     $string = '<ul>';
     foreach ($tagList as $key => $value)
     {
         $string .= '<li>' . $value . '</li>';
     }
     $string .= '</ul>';
     return $string;
 }

CSS:

.f13-wp-container
{
    width: 100%;
    max-width: 775px;
    position: inherit;
}

.f13-wp-header
{
    width: 100%;
    padding-top: 32.38%;
    box-shadow: inset 0 0 50px 4px rgba( 0, 0, 0, 0.2 ), inset 0 -1px 0 rgba( 0, 0, 0, 0.1 );
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-size: 100%;
    display: block;
    position: relative;
    border-radius: 10px 10px 0 0;
}

.f13-wp-header > .f13-wp-name
{
    font-size: 20px;
    line-height: 1em;
    bottom: 4%;
    left: 3%;
    position: absolute;
    /*max-width: 682px;*/
    padding: 8px 15px;
    margin-bottom: 4px;
    color: #fff;
    background: rgba( 30, 30, 30, 0.9);
    text-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba( 0, 0, 0, 0.4);
    border-radius: 8px;
    font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;
    font-weight: bold;
}

.f13-wp-information
{
    padding: 30px 15px 10px 30px;
    font-size: 16px;
    line-height: 24px;
    margin: 0;
    background: #eee;
    text-shadow: 0 1px 1px #fff;
    box-shadow: inset 0 0px 42px -px rgba (100, 100, 100, 0.1);
    border-radius: 0 0 10px 10px;
}

.f13-wp-links
{
    width: 100%;
    position: relative;
    float: left;
}

.f13-wp-description
{
    width: 100%;
    position: relative;
    float: left;
}

.f13-wp-button
{
    font-size: 15px;
    color: #fff;
    display: inline-block;
    text-shadow: rgba( 0, 0, 0, 0.5) 0 1px 0;
    border: none;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-weight: normal;
    text-align: center;
    background: #d54e21;
    line-height: 44px;
    margin-bottom: 1em;
    width: 47%;
}

.f13-wp-button:hover
{
    color: #fff;
}
.f13-wp-moreinfo
{
    right: 0;
    position: absolute;
}

.f13-wp-tags > ul
{
    display: inline-block;
}

.f13-wp-tags > ul > li
{
    display: inline-block;
    background: #fff;
    padding: 5px 10px;
    margin-right: 1em;
    margin-bottom: 0.5em;
    border-radius: 7px;
    border: 1px solid black;
}

.f13-wp-rating
{
    display: inline-block;
    position: inherit;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    min-width: 350px;
    line-height: 20px;
    margin-bottom: 0.6em;
}

.f13-wp-downloads
{
    padding-top: 0;
    margin-bottom: 0.6em;
}

Screenshots

The example output from adding the shortcode [wpplugin slug=”akismet”].