This plugin creates several new TemplateTags allowing users to add personalized Blern content on their blog.
The first TemplateTag, blern_users_also_liked, allows users to put a widget on their blog that displays a listing of
other news articles and blog posts. That list of articles is created by
Blern.com using information about users
who indicated that they liked the article currently being displayed and contains other articles those users liked.
For example, Blern will look over the history of users who indicated they liked the article currently being viewed.
It will then look at the history of
other articles those users also liked. It then compiles that information
to display a list of articles that were most commonly liked by the users who liked the current article.
Another available TemplateTag, blern_buzzworthy, displays a list of articles that are unique and buzzworthy as
determined by Blern's unique algorithms for finding new articles that have unique and interesting content.
The blern_popular TemplateTag displays a list of the most popular articles on Blern.
The blern_mostrecommended TemplateTag displays a list of the most recommended articles on Blern.
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
To use either the blern_users_also_liked or blern_buzzworthy TemplateTags, follow these instructions. The example
shows the use of blern_users_also_liked, but you can easily change the title in step 3, replacing "Users Also Liked"
with "Buzzworthy" and replacing blern_users_also_liked with blern_buzzworthy.
- Upload
blern-alsoliked.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Place the following code in your templates where you want to display the list of articles others liked:
Blern Users Also Liked
The function blern_users_also_liked takes two parameters. The first is either 'li', 'p' or 'br'. This in indicates
how the list should be delimited (either enclosed in 'li' or 'p' tags, or follwed with a 'br' tag). The default is
'br'.
The second parameter is a number indicating how many articles that should be returned (default is 5).
Note that these functions makes use of the file_get_contents function to get data from the
blern.com website. If
this function is unavailable or you are prevented from making outgoing HTTP connections this will not work.