Phoenix Folding@Home Stats

This plugin retrieves stats from the Folding@Home API and displays them on your WordPress Website. You can display stats for your donor account or for a Folding team. You can show the stats in your sidebar as a widget or in your content area as a shortcode. The following stats are shown:

• Work units.
• Total credit in points.
• Ranking.
• Date you completed the last work unit.
• Teams you are a member of/Donors who contribute to your team.

It takes less than a minute to setup. All you need is your donor/team ID or name. The stats are displayed as an HTML table. What is Folding@Home? Folding@home is a project run by Stanford University which allows anyone to assist with disease research by donating their unused computer processing power. Your processing power is used to simulate protein folding, a process whereby proteins assemble themselves into tools which your body can use. Joining in is a doddle; simply download the F@H software to get started. Find out more at the Folding@Home website. You can see an example at https://phoenixweb.com.au/display-folding-at-home-stats-wordpress-plugin/ which is also our announcement post.

Install

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/plugin-name directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. More detailed instructions for this step at https://phoenixweb.com.au/display-folding-at-home-stats-wordpress-plugin/
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress.
3. • To display the stats as a widget go to the Appearance->Widgets screen and add the widget 'Folding at Home' to a widget area.
4. • To display the stats within a post or page, enter the post/page editing screen and add the shortcode.

Get Donor name or Team ID Learn how to get your id here. Uninstall If you uninstall this plugin, any stats the plugin recorded to your database will be deleted. No muck left behind.

2.0.0 21/5/2021

• improved: Rewrote most of the plugin code.
• improved: You can now use your team name in the id field, along with numerical id.
• improved: Now storing data in a transient instead of a raw option. Transient has a default lifetime of 1 year.
• improved: More robust code for refreshing stats. The plugin will make an API call no less than 3 hours after the last one to avoid getting blocked by the F@H servers. If an API call fails, the stale stats from the database transient will be used. Plugin attempts to refresh stats on post update and widget update to try and avoid expensive API calls during visitor's page load.
• improved: Transients are updated on WordPress shutdown hook to avoid slowing down page from visitor's point of view.
• improved: More robust error reporting using WP_Error, errors only visible to site admins.
• improved: Table compacted if stats are missing.
• fixed: Updated API URLs from dead links to current
• removed: Can no longer display last work unit completed for team as this data is no longer available via F@H API. Still available for individual donors.

1.0.2 02/12/2016

• fixed: enqueues style when widget and no shortcode present
• fixed: version numbers in base plugin file added to cooperate with wordpress.org madness

1.0.1 01/12/2016

• fixed: (top x of y) message was showing incorrectly
• fixed: empty table row for donor table with single team
• fixed: 'team ranking' to 'donor ranking' on donor table
• improved: readme.txt

1.0 28/11/2016

• Initial Release