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NOTICE: I am no longer developing this plugin. You are free to use it or utilize the source code for your own projects. You can find the source code here: http://code.google.com/p/wow-armory-wp-plugin/.
I am no longer able to support this plugin, either. If you have questions, you can contact me, but I can’t promise I’ll be able to answer.
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Description
The World of Warcraft Armory Wordpress Plugin is designed to show any number of World of Warcraft Characters on your Wordpress site. You can show Characters in your sidebars, or in pages and posts.
Features
- You can have as many Widgets as you like – each one showing a different character!
- Widgets can be shown in your sidebars, or your pages and posts
- Each Widget can be configured to show or hide different content.
- Each Widget can have a language defined for the Wowhead Tooltips. You can choose from any of the available Languages available on Wowhead: English, German, Spanish, French, or Russian.
- Data is grabbed directly from the World of Warcraft Armory, and cached to prevent too much server load. You can clear the cache for all or any character from the Admin Panel.
- Each instance of the plugin can be customized to show as much or as little of the character that you want. You can show any or all of the following:
- Top Section: The character’s name, level, class, race, current title, and a small icon based on the Class, race, gender, and level.
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- Talents: You can choose to show or hide your current talent build.
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- 3D Model: You can choose to show or hide a 3D model of the character. The model is displayed using Wowhead’s Model Viewer. The Model’s appearance can by modified to look like your character.
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Note: The 3D Model is still Beta right now, it should work for 99% of the characters out there, but Wowhead seems to have some minor issues with it still. - Gear: You can show a list of the character’s gear. Each icon will link to Wowhead’s page for that item, and show a tooltip when moused over, complete with enchantments, gems, etc.
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- Professions: Show the character’s learned professions and their current Skill. You can choose to show professions as Text only, or show progress bars.
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- Achievement Points: Show the character’s current Achievement Points. You can show either Text or Progress bars.
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- Achievements: Show the character’s last 5 Achievements earned.
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- New in 8.0: Image Cache: The wow-armory plugin now features an Image Cache to store offsite-images locally. This cuts down on the amount of requests from your site to other sites like Wowhead, which, in turn, can help with your bandwidth as well as keep your site from getting blocked. If you notice any problems after updating – such as errors about permissions writing to cache, you’ll want to make sure that Wordpress can write and read from the new cache directory which is in “wordpress_install/wp-content/plugins/wow-armory/includes/cache”.
- Top Section: The character’s name, level, class, race, current title, and a small icon based on the Class, race, gender, and level.
Usage
You can use this plugin in 2 ways: you can add widgets to your sidebars, or use ’shortcodes’ to display them in your pages and posts.
If you want to add a widget to your sidebar, simply pull up your widget menu and add as many instances of the wow-armory widget you any of your sidebars. Each instance can be customized to show a different character, or show different parts of a character. The character’s name and realm are the only 2 fields that are required, but you may want to change the other options to fit your needs.
If you want to show a character in a page or post, simply use the shortcode: [wowarmory]
The shortcode accepts the following parameters:
- char* – the character’s name.
- realm* – the realm of the character
- realmtype – either US or EU, defaults to US
- top – either 1 or 0, defaults to 1
- talents – either 1 or 0, defaults to 1
- gear – either 1 or 0, defaults to 1
- profs – either 1 (progress bars), 2 (Text only) or 0, defaults to 1
- apoints – either 1 (progress bars), 2 (Text only) or 0, defaults to 1
- achievs – either 1 or 0, defaults to 1
- linkback – either 1 or 0, defaults to 0
- lang – can be en, de, es, fr, ru, defaults to en
- model – either 1 or 0, defaults to 0
- hair, hairColor, face, skinColor, facialHair, facialHairC – any number from 0 to 29, defaults to 0 – the actual valid values differ based on race and gender, your best bet is to play with it in the widget screen and then just copy the numbers that you like.
Here are some randomizes examples:
[wowarmory char="Gossy" realm="Khaz Modan" talents="1" profs="1" linkback="0" top="0" gear="1" achievs="0" apoints="1" model="0"]Character could not be found.
Troubleshooting
As with all software, there is always the chance that things will not quite work right away – but there are some things you can try to see if you can get it working:
- First, try clearing your cache from your Wordpress Admin Panel.
- If that doesn’t work, you could have a problem with the installation. Try removing the plugin completely, and then reupload all the files.
- Try turning off some of your other plugins to see if there is some kind of conflict.
- If all else fails, Leave a comment and I’ll try to get back to you as soon as possible.
Support
If you like this Plugin, you can help me keep it, or my other plugins updated and bug-free:
- I’m poor, so a PayPal donation would help me keep my hosting costs manageable.
- Spread the word about the Plugin by linking here from your site or Tweeting.
- Leave comments or suggestions here so that I can make improvements.
- Visit me on the Khaz Modan-US realm and give me a /hug (or, you know, some gold would be useful to help me buy some things… ;) )
- Give this plugin a good rating on Wordpress.
- …or anything else you can think of to show your support!
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trying in vain to get this plugin to work – eventually got it to install and added all my info but for the love of me I cant get it to display my armory details.
It constantly shows “Armory data is unavailable at this time” – Am I doing something wrong? I have refreshed and still nothing =(
Twitter: SeiferTim
says:
Well, there are a couple of things you can do at this point – first, is there a link to your character on the plugin that you can click to make sure the link is valid? If you click the link and it takes you to a 404 page or some kind of error, then you know something’s wrong… if it works, or if there is no link, you can try clearing your cache (in the Dashboard, under Settings “wow-armory cache”, you can clear all of your caches to see if that works). Make sure you can pull up your character in the armory (not < level 10, and Armory is not down), and let me know what you find out. Good luck!
i had some problem with the pictures didnt show. a firend of mine figoured it out. needed to change something in functions.php
function imgCache($image_url,$prefix = “”)
{
umask(0022);
$image_path = ‘wp-content/plugins/’.str_replace(basename( __FILE__),”",plugin_basename(__FILE__)).’cache/’
just added the umask(0022); then the files have corect read axxess to the site.
Twitter: SeiferTim
says:
Thanks, I’m having a ton of problems with my host and setting CHMOD on files, so I left it out… I think it might be a solution that works on a case-by-case basis, and not globally…. I wish I knew a good solution.
Seems I have a pretty serious issue at http://kestrelsaerie.us/wow/. I’ve removed WoW Armory, reinstalled, cleared the cache, disabled ALL other plugins, and still get that string of errors. Here’s part of what the cache says:
Warning: fopen(/home/ucla74/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wow-armory/includes/cache/0-1-5.gif) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ucla74/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wow-armory/includes/functions.php on line 25
error
Warning: fopen(/home/ucla74/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wow-armory/includes/cache/5-2.gif) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ucla74/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wow-armory/includes/functions.php on line 25
error
Warning: fopen(/home/ucla74/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wow-armory/includes/cache/5-3.gif) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ucla74/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wow-armory/includes/functions.php on line 25
error
There is also a blank character “name” at the bottom of the cache that appeared after I reinstalled and added one character to WoW Armory (that blank character entry is why I removed and reinstalled, and cleared the cache).
Any other ideas?
Twitter: SeiferTim
says:
Can you try making sure that the cache folder is writable by your webserver? Try CHMODing to 0777 and make sure the ownership is right, then clear your cache and try again… This has been the #1 issue with the new Image Cache, and I may remove it in a later release…
I’ve gotten this plugin to work, however the plugin never seemed to pull the achievements properly. It would always show some older achievements.
I don’t know how the plugin is structured, but I ended up removing a few lines in the getArmory function, which I believe removed the caching feature.
I don’t know where to go to see if this is a known issue, or not, however I wanted to go ahead and let someone know. I’m currently hosted on dreamhost, if that makes a difference.
Hi, great plugin, very helpful.
One bug (I think) I’ve noticed that the “profs” variable shows the bars whether you put ‘1′ or ‘2′ as the value – it never shows just text. See your example above for an, er, example – it says “profs=2″, which should be just text, but it’s showing bars.
Thanks again.
after new patch i got problems with icons again.
so when i get a new stuff or achivment the icons dont work
Hi!!
very nice plugin..
im got a one only problem..
im put the mouse over my gear and no display the wowhead description.. only a number (i think is the number of the gear) but the achivement display correctly..
is the only problem.. all other is correct..
Twitter: chrishanel
says:
I’ve uploaded the plugin and followed all of your steps for troubleshooting, but it remains that I get an error message when attempting to activate the plugin:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/chrishanel/chrishanel.com/wp-content/plugins/wow-armory/wow-armory.php on line 13
Twitter: redkitedesign
says:
I love your plugin. However, today when I was posting in my blog I noticed that the achievements have not been updated in quite a while. Is there a way to do that manually, or some armory setting I need to know about?
Mine are the same for 4 months now. Already wrote it here, never got a reply :(
@Nederob then check this out, http://timsworld.nfshost.com/wow-armory-wp-plugin/
Do have this available for a website instead of just wordpress? I am very interested in this. Please contact me.
wordpress plug-in from the indispensable, thank you
I’ve uploaded the plugin and followed all of your steps for troubleshooting, but it remains that I get an error message when attempting to activate the plugin:
Cool WP plugin! Just what I needed! http://timsworld.nfshost.com/wow-armory-wp-plugin/