May 28
- Download Bubs’ Button Board 2.2 (WP 2.5+)
- Download Bubs’ Button Board 2.1 (WP 2.5+)
- Download Bubs’ Button Board 2.0 (WP 2.5+)
- Download Bubs’ Button Board 1.1
- Download Bubs’ Button Board 1.0
- Bubs’ Button Board at Wordpress
I’ve decided to release my first WP plugin to the public 
It’s a customizable plugboard for your Wordpress blog. You can see it in action here at BubblesSOC. BBB features button moderation and cache… I wouldn’t want an ugly broken image to mess up your nice layout 
Of course both of these features are optional.
ChangeLog
- February 10, 2009 (Version 2.2) Validated compatibility with WP 2.7. Optional
target="_blank"added to button links. Fixed a problem that occurred when converting characters to HTML entities. - July 23, 2008 (Version 2.1) Validated compatibility with WP 2.6. Added email notification option. Enabled button editing.
- May 5, 2008 (Version 2.0) Plugin now compatible with WP 2.5+. Added widget support.
- July 5, 2007 (Version 1.1) Added support for servers with PHP
allow_url_fopendisabled. This version requires a writable directory and cURL (for error checking)
Installation
- Upload the
button-boardfolder towp-content/plugins. - Activate the Bubs’ Button Board plugin.
- Visit Wp-Admin › Options › Button Board (Wp-Admin › Settings › Button Board in WP 2.5/2.6/2.7) to edit your plugboard options.
- Make the
button-board/cachedirectory writable! (This is optional in version 1.0)
Upgrading from 1.0/1.1/2.0/2.1
- Upload
button-board.phpto the folderwp-content/plugins/button-board, overwriting the original file.
Usage
- Create a Wordpress page for your plugboard (Write › Write Page)
- Paste
[bbb_page_print]in the Page Content textarea. Publish your page. - If you want to include a mini-plugboard on your site, use the following function:
<?php bbb_include(6, "<li>", "</li>"); ?> - The function parameters are:
- The number of buttons you want to display (optional)
- The Before tag (optional)
- The After tag (optional)
- Alternatively, you can use the new mini-plugboard widget (Version 2.0+).
Styling the Board
If you want your buttons to appear side-by-side, use the following CSS:
ul#plugboard {
/* The Plugboard Container */
list-style: none;
float: left;
}
ul#plugboard li {
float: left;
padding-right: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
}
#plugboard-form {
/* The Plugboard Form Container */
clear: both;
}
For specific styling issues, please email me.
Comments, Problems, Suggestions, Etc.
You can comment here or email me 
Plugin User?
If you are using my plugboard plugin on your website, let me know! You’ll get a special link on my plugboard page 
Lena (Quote, )
Wow, That’s so cool of you to make your own plugin. Too bad I don’t use wordpress….
But I know a lot of wordpress-users would totally love it!
Mon May 28th, 2007 3:37 pm
Ben (Quote, )
Its fantastic Bub’s!! And very easy to customise
http://www.solipsus.com/visitor/plug-board/
Well done on your first Wordpress plugin.
Mon May 28th, 2007 5:44 pm
Ashley (Quote, )
Wow! Very nice! I’m definitely going to give this a try on my site! Thanks Bubs!
Mon May 28th, 2007 9:01 pm
Jessica (Quote, )
I was so waiting for this. I will work on making it fit my wp install.
Mon May 28th, 2007 9:08 pm
Ashley (Quote, )
Oh yes! Finally! I can’t wait to install this! I’ll let you know how it goes!
Mon May 28th, 2007 9:50 pm
skye (Quote, )
you must be an angel sent from heaven.. thank you so much for the plugin! i’ve been waiting for this!
Mon May 28th, 2007 9:59 pm
Melissa (Quote, )
YAY!
I’m so excited to use this!! WOOOO! 
Mon May 28th, 2007 10:21 pm
Nikki (Quote, )
That’s awesome! I’m definitely downloading it for future use
Tue May 29th, 2007 6:36 am
Ashley (Quote, )
I have it on my site! Yay! I love it Bubs!
Tue May 29th, 2007 10:53 am
Arien (Quote, )
Bubs, this is so freaking awesome! I’ve been wanting a plug board for a long time but couldn’t find one that worked with WP. I should have known you’d write up something like that! You and Jem kill me everytime!!!
Tue May 29th, 2007 12:26 pm
Simply Precious (Quote, )
Wow! That is sooo nice! I wished I could write WP plugins like that!
Tue May 29th, 2007 2:10 pm
Malin (Quote, )
Cool that you made your own plugin!
Tue May 29th, 2007 3:35 pm
Hannah (Quote, )
Oh, this is really cool. Thanks for sharing it with us, I think I’m going to try it out.
Tue May 29th, 2007 4:45 pm
nadine (Quote, )
congrats on releasing your first plug-in
it looks very very cool!
Tue May 29th, 2007 6:12 pm
Connie (Quote, )
Hi Bubs, I love it too, thank you so much for sharing it with us!
Wed May 30th, 2007 10:50 am
Mari (Quote, )
Oh, thank you for this! This is an awesome plugin, and it works so well.
Sat Jun 2nd, 2007 7:41 pm
Shauna (Quote, )
I installed it just a few momets ago. Works great! Thanks so much
Sun Jun 10th, 2007 10:31 am
ming (Quote, )
hi all, please i need help…i downloaded the plugboard plugin. installed in my wordpress, everything was ok but when i wanted to do a test to upload a graphic, it keep saying Your button is broken. Please help…i hope i can my plugboard up soon. I be very grateful for tat. Thanks!
Tue Jun 12th, 2007 11:15 am
Jowah (Quote, )
This is an awesome plugin. Will DEFINITELY use it in all WP installations I have.
I have a couple of suggestions tho. One may exclude the other one.
1) Since I activated the moderation option, I would like to receive an e-mail for each application. Or/and:
2) Have a reminder in the Dashboard, like when you need to approve comments.
Good job on this awesome plugin
Wed Aug 1st, 2007 4:00 am
Crystal (Quote, )
Love the plugin! How do we style it so the list bullet doesn’t show up?
As seen here
Fri Aug 3rd, 2007 7:28 pm
PiNKSKULL*xai (Quote, )
Heio
I love your site, it’s so pretty!
Sun Aug 5th, 2007 4:19 am
Jenn (Quote, )
WOW! Your site is awesome! I wish you had that plugboard download for non-WP sites!
Sat Aug 11th, 2007 3:27 am
Laura (Quote, )
I love the ease of your button board plugin! Thanks a bunch for making it! I am not sure if there’s a way to put a mini-board in my sidebar since I use widgets, is there? I hope maybe you will consider adding that for your next version.
Mon Aug 20th, 2007 10:56 pm
Mark (Quote, )
I love this plugin. This helps me manage my affiliate links. Is it possible to include reciprocal link field and check if your site URL was linked in the specified reciprocal link? This is also good if there is an option for Paypal payment if there is no reciprocal link.
Wed Sep 26th, 2007 2:29 am
Gemma (Quote, )
Hi Bubs! Not content with just using your plug board at Pink Garden: http://www.pinkgarden.co.uk, I loved it soo much I’m using it on my jewellery blog too! You can find it here: http://www.perlina.co.uk/blog/88-x-31-plug-board
Thanks again for this wonderful plugin!
Mon Nov 19th, 2007 10:36 am
Gemma (Quote, )
Yikes! I just visited Mark’s web site and it tried to release a trojan horse on my computer!!! Thankfully MacAfee saved the day but I think his comment should be removed. I’m going to report his site now.
Mon Nov 19th, 2007 10:38 am
fando91 (Quote, )
btw, how to make it writable? can i ask?
Tue Dec 4th, 2007 3:15 am
Jennifer (Quote, )
Omigosh thanks Bubs! This is the best button board ever, I just had to put it on my site!
Sun Dec 30th, 2007 10:27 pm
Joe (Quote, )
Bubs,
Hi there! We love your button board! But we’re not exactly HTML literati, though we’ve gotten better in the last few days! Got a question if you so can help…we want to put version 1.0 into our sidebar. Where do we place the function <?php bbb_include(6, “”, “”); ?>…that is on what line of the php on our server’s editor or on our wordpress editor? Thanks a million. We have a great project and are trying to give it a nice face. You’ll be proud to see your buttons there once we get it all together.
Thanks,
Joe
Mon Jan 14th, 2008 8:28 am
dave anderson (Quote, )
produces :
”, “
”); ?>
in a widget text box, ( see site lowest right column, I’ll leave for a couple days so you can see it, any help appreciated, 1.1 is installed.
Fri Jan 25th, 2008 10:10 pm
Mike (Quote, )
I wish I knew what your plugin does, could you email me and tell me what it does?
Mike
Mon Apr 14th, 2008 5:06 pm
evanz (Quote, )
Hi bubs, can i ask something? does this plugin compatible with WP 2.5? I used this plugin but it does not work.. can u help me?
Mon Apr 28th, 2008 3:04 am
evanz (Quote, )
hi sis.. I’m still having trouble here http://v-lair.co.cc/plug
erm, how can I enable cUrl on my wp? can u help me sis? it show something like this ‘You must have cURL enabled on your server‘
Fri May 30th, 2008 4:26 am
evanz (Quote, )
so, im currently using 1.0.. LOL
Fri May 30th, 2008 4:40 am
Lady (Quote, )
Oh my, I just ended up here because of your plugin. This site is so freakishly adorable! I wish my theme was this cute!
(Do you ever make themes like this one? I have no skill with design, but I know HTML and basic PHP. I suck!)
Wed Jun 25th, 2008 1:36 pm
mendifae (Quote, )
yay, glad to see your updated this plugin! I loved the older version and was sad when it stopped working when I updated… *runs off to put plugin board back up*
((hugs))!!
Sun Jul 20th, 2008 12:58 pm
autworld (Quote, )
A wonderful idea, i love your blog – your unique, beautiful design!
Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 8:23 am
Philix (Quote, )
This is a great plug in
Thu Jul 24th, 2008 3:58 am
Val (Quote, )
I was so excited to find this and to have it be so EASY! Expect some traffic to come from this. Gonna tell my friends they need to use it instead of the old school plugboards.
http://networkingwahm.com/plug-board/
Mon Aug 18th, 2008 1:53 am
Loretta (Quote, )
I just added your plugin to my blog ~ super easy! thanks for making this plugin public and free! (thumbs up on stumbleupon too!)
Wed Aug 27th, 2008 11:17 pm
mendifae (Quote, )
Hiya Bubs! I recently set my site up so the plugboard is inside an iframe but I don’t know where to put the coding to make the links open in a new window…..help!?
Mon Sep 22nd, 2008 8:33 pm
Ricky Yun (Quote, )
This is awsome! look forward to more thanks!
Thu Oct 2nd, 2008 9:52 am
AMistyCrissy (Quote, )
Hello! I’m Crystal. I am almost 16.
I guess bubblessoc.net – wonderful name for this site!
It is so interestingly here, especially in this category.
I was surfed about 3 hours before found this site. I think i’ll be here for a long time! :-*
Wed Oct 8th, 2008 5:47 pm
evan (Quote, )
tnx for the update sis. used it and it works fine.
Fri Oct 10th, 2008 9:38 pm
Hoarecoaf (Quote, )
How are you ?
)
The interesting name of a site – bubblessoc.net
I recently 7 hours
sat in the Internet So I have found your site
The interesting site but does not suffice several sections!
However this section is very necessary!
Best wishes for you!
Forgive I is drunk
Sun Oct 19th, 2008 4:30 am
iTashaLIL (Quote, )
Hello every body
I try to put my Photo as avatar. But I have some problems when upload photo.
Some times photo does not upload. Or when I upload the photo, the photo has deformation.
What should I do to fix that?
Thanks a lot
Wed Nov 26th, 2008 9:55 pm
Time Synchronisation (Quote, )
This is a great plugin
Wed Dec 10th, 2008 5:08 am
vans (Quote, )
bub, i have this prob : Warning: getimagesize(): Read error! in /home/www/plug.vanz-lair.co.cc/wp-content/plugins/button-board/button-board.php on line 172.
can you help me? whats with that? i have no idea.
Sun Feb 8th, 2009 11:04 pm
Mahala (Quote, )
Oh wow, this is a really great plugin! I’ve tried using it though, but I tried making my folder writable, and it still gives me that warning. So I was just wondering what I’m supposed to be chmodding my folder to? I have tried 777 and 666, and that’s not working.
Anyways, love your site!
Wed Mar 11th, 2009 1:41 pm
JB (Quote, )
works a treat and am very impressed.
is there a way to randomly display a different button on my sidebar instead of the same one?
Tue Mar 24th, 2009 6:11 am
Amy (Quote, )
I downloaded and installed your plugin through Wordpress and it installed it into a folder, which made the /cache not work right. So I wanted to let you know this so you could let others know and/or correct it.
Thu Apr 2nd, 2009 10:11 am
Bubs replied to Amy (Quote)
Thanks for the heads up!
Fri Apr 3rd, 2009 1:48 am
Jenn replied to Amy (Quote)
I had the same problem, when you install plugin through wordpress it installs the bubs-button-board foulder, then the chmod on cache doesn’t work.
Mon May 25th, 2009 10:55 pm
Renu (Quote, )
OMG! i’ve been searching for this for so long…..glad i found it finally..such a gr8 work by u…thankz a lot for dis….:)
Fri Apr 10th, 2009 3:42 pm
Dorine (Quote, )
Hey Bubs!I’ve read all the comments and i see that your plugin is very good and useful.I tried to install it but it gave me this : This plugin does not have a valid header.What should I do?
Fri Nov 6th, 2009 1:17 am
Marina (Quote, )
Hi,
I’m trying to use this for my site, but I don’t want the plugboard to be on a separate page. I tried adding the function you listed in the readme to my sidebar, but all it did was list the buttons, with no submit form. is there any way to get a submit form added without having to go to the page?
Mon Jan 4th, 2010 11:00 am
Junaid (Quote, )
I’ve not used this plugin, but just wanted to note that I quite liked the design of this site, good job.
Wed Jan 6th, 2010 4:00 pm