IM Online Widget

Martin Fitzpatrick has a IM Online Widget.

IM Online Widget is a neat little Wordpress plugin to show your current online status on your blog, with Widget support for those that use them.

The plugin is powered via onlinestatus.org and supports most IM services including AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber (inc. Google Talk), Skype and ICQ. Different servers and icon-sets are available so it should be possible to find something to match your own blog.

You can show as many or as few IM network icons as you like and all options are configurable through the control panel. The onlinestatus.org servers do most of the hard work here & are worth as visit if you’re looking for a status indicator for a non-Wordpress site.

Please note that in the latest release, account options for IM Online are now always shown under Options >> IM Online, rather than through the Widget options.

Widget Installation

  1. Unzip the downloaded package and drop the IM-Online folder in your Wordpress plugins folder
  2. Log into your WordPress admin panel
  3. Go to Plugins and “Activate” the plugin
  4. Go to Presentation, Widgets
  5. Drag the IM Online widget onto your sidebar panel
  6. Click the Widget-Options button (small blue-topped square)
  7. Enter the title for your Widget
  8. Return to the Widget panel and click “Save changes »”
  9. Go to Options, then IM Online
  10. Enter your account details for each service you use
  11. Click “Save changes »”
  12. Check your blog to see if it’s working!

Plugin Installation

  1. Unzip the downloaded package and drop the IM-Online folder in your Wordpress plugins folder
  2. Log into your WordPress admin panel
  3. Go to Plugins and “Activate” the plugin
  4. Go to Options, then IM Online
  5. Enter your account details for each service you use
  6. Click “Save changes »”
  7. Add to your Wordpress theme source where you want the IM status icons to appear on your blog (sidebar.php is recommended).
  8. Check your blog to make sure it’s working!

Written by admin on October 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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