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Wikipedia Widget

Description

The Wikipedia Widget shows a Wikipedia search-formular and its search results for the current post or page on your sidebar. On other sites (like category or front-page) it can defined any default search-keywords or other input-field.

The search results were Ajax-based fetched from the Wikipedia-API.

Main Features:

  • Define a default search string or get the current post title
  • Show or hide the search form or define an alternative search form within the page
  • Use cache for the search results for better speed
  • Results are clear formatted, with links and pictures

Be free for testing and suggest improvements.

Tickets

  • Check given Wikipedia-URL at backend
  • plugin page at a-simeon.de
  • improve faq

Screenshots

  • Back-end configuration
  • Front-end display search results and input

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory, activate and use as a sidebar-widget.
  2. Set the Wikipedia URL to your country.

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Contributors & Developers

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Changelog

0.13.12

  • remove bug with loading values of alternative input-fields
  • WordPress 3.8 compatibilty
  • pack widget into one file
  • several small code changes
  • new loader

0.13.07

  • fixed too long transient-names

0.13.05

  • add cache for every search result
  • remove search trim

0.13.04

  • Fixed ajaxurl
  • add alternativ search form feature
  • add cache for the default search term if used
  • test if value changed before search
  • several code changes/improvements