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Xbox 360 Gamercard WordPress Plug-in: Update

Øyvind Hauge — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:07:12 +0000

A while back I wrote about Oliver Baty’s Xbox 360 gamercard plug-in for WordPress. Since then Microsoft have changed their xbox.com site a bit, something which created some layout problems for the gamecard plugin. It seems that Oliver has updated his plugin to reflect these change but so have I.

I tried to follow the new look Microsoft gave their xbox.com page but after upgrading WordPress I lost all style changes I had done (silly me). However, I have tried to replicate some of it and I think it looks half decent. If you would like to use my modifications to Oliver’s plug-in, please download them here. I updated my version to use fopen instead of curl since some web hosts don’t provide curl.

Remember to put the folder (xbox-gamercard) in your plug-in directory and include the content of the .css file in your current theme’s style sheet (style.css). You may delete the .css file (put_into_your_themes_style.css) afterwards.

To use it you simply put [game_card "your_tag"] e.g. [game_card haugeoy] somewhere in one of your posts. Remember to remove the underscore in game_card (write it gamecard) and keep the brackets as brackets, don’t let them be converted to html code.

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haugeoy

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Gamerscore:

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You may also try gamecardfull to get the following

haugeoy

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Gamerscore:

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WordPress 2.7.1

Øyvind Hauge — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:00:45 +0000

WordPress 2.7.1 was released today and for the first time it was possible to upgrade it automatically. Automatic upgrading has been working for plug-ins for some time and it is such a great feature. Now, as we are able to upgrade WordPress itself it is even better. Everyone should use WordPress

Xbox 360 Gamercard WordPress Plugin

Øyvind Hauge — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:27:19 +0000

I found this nice WordPress plugin by Oliver Baty which allows you to include your Xbox Live game card somewhere into your blog. I made some changes to the plugin which allows me to display my game card anywhere inside any of my entries. Now, I simply write [gamecard haugeoy] (don’t laugh at my score )

haugeoy

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Gamerscore:

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haugeoy

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Gamerscore:

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[gamecardfull haugeoy]
anywhere in my blog entries. Please remember to use HTML mode.

You may want to download the plugin with my modifications but please don’t blame Oliver Baty for the changes I have made and remember that the plugin is provided without any warranties.

Changes to the original plugin (version 1.3 beta)
Unfortunately my webhost does not provide Curl installed so I had to modify the plugin and make it use fopen instead. I replaced some of the code. Edit: the changes were included in this post but the code was removed because it caused some problems with WordPress