WordPress Plugin to Generate Picture from Posts
Imagine you are an active member in many webmaster communities. And of course you are a blogger too. Won’t it be nice if you can some how display your latest blog posts in the signature of your webmaster communities? Well, with Last Posts to Picture plugin for WordPress, you can actually do that.
If you are a Feedburner user, you must have actually seen a similiar feature before. But the issue is when using Feedburner, you have very little control over the output image generated while with this plugin, you can decide even the tiniest aspect, including the X and Y co-ordinates of where you want the text to appear on the image.
You also have a set of visual effects like bevel, drop shadow or even motion blur which can be used in the picture file generated. After the installation of the plugin, you will find the last post picture in the following path:
http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/lastposts2pic/out/lastposts.gif
The last posts picture file for Theme Critic will look like this (sorry I am lazy to sit down and blend colors)
Looks nice isn’t it. Now if the forums you frequent to support images in signatures, you can use a bbCode similiar to the following to display this image in the signature, with a link back to your site.
[URL=”http://linktosite“][IMG]http://linktopicturefile[/IMG][/URL]
You can find the plugin at the developer’s blog. Though the site is in German, installation instructions are given in English too. Go ahead and try out this neat plugin.
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would have been better, if it could wrap long headlines to the second line
That’s a really cool idea. It’s a shame there isn’t a way to display it on forums that don’t allow images in sigs.
Those forums rarely allow things like php or html if they have blocked images in sigs, so you might be out of luck there
Awesome idea. The forums I frequent don’t allow images, but this is still really useful for those sites that do allow images.
this doesn’t require that the forum allows php posts. this requires only that the forum allows an image in the signature