PHP and GD. Little testing has been done with different versions of PHP. If you have PHP 5 with GD enabled you shouldn’t have any problems. PHP 4 currently has some issues but should be resolved in the next release of Facelift. A newer version of ImageMagick (6.3.7+) is required for the FancyFonts and QuickEffects plugins.

If GD is not installed on your server you will have to recompile PHP to include GD. If you are comfortable in WHM for cPanel, you can do that under the “Update Apache” tab (check the “GD” box). Check your settings carefully (especially the PHP version – cPanel may try to change it) before you hit build. Plesk and ISPConfig should have GD enabled by default. If you are not comfortable doing it yourself, ask your hosting company to do it for you. (Thanks Steve!)

Delete your existing version before installing this version

1. Extract to your wp-content/plugins directory.
2. Look in wp-content/plugins/facelift-image-replacement/facelift
3. Set the wp-content/plugins/facelift-image-replacement/facelift/config-flir.php to be writable (chmod a+w config-flir.php).
4. Set the wp-content/plugins/facelift-image-replacement/facelift/cache to be writable (chmod a+w /cache).
5. Add fonts of your choice to wp-content/plugins/facelift-image-replacement/facelift/fonts folder.
6. Make sure you have the `wp_footer()` call in the footer of your template See `/wp-content/theme/default/footer.php` for example.
7. Activate plugin in WordPress admin panel
8. Set FLIR configuration in the admin panel – config-flir.php must be writable for changes to take effect.
9. Customize tags for FLIR on FLIR submenu under the Design menu

Notes

• QuickEffect Plugin is not implemented yet
• SuperCache Plugin is not implemented yet
• If using a version older than 0.7 completely delete any old verions before upgrading as this plugin is under rapid development
• You cannot auto-upgrade from versions older 0.7.0
• Text remains intact in source so search engines see your page as text!

Lightbox Plus

Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images from the current page and display simple slide shows, all in an overlay.

Lightbox Plus implements ColorBox as a lightbox image overlay tool for WordPress. ColorBox was created by Jack Moore of Color Powered and is licensed under the MIT License. Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images without having to leave the current page, and is also able to display simple slide shows. The use of the dark or light background, which dims the page over which the image has been overlaid, also serves to highlight the image being viewed. Lightbox Plus captures the image title for display in the overlay.

Actionable

Actionable is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to create a check list of action items that users can check off and track.

Actionable allows the creation of a categroized list of action items for users to check off and track. It was originally developed for Share 350.0 – a plan for regional sustainability to help people track their actions and efforts to create a sustainable community. You can view a demo of Actionable.

Facelift Image Replacement

Facelift Image Replacement (FLIR) is a WordPress plugin that generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that visitors would not be able to see.

FLIR for WordPress implements Facelift Image Replacement (FLIR) by Cory Mawhorter. It is in rapid development and almost completely configurable from the admin panel. Several freeware fonts are provided with FLIR for WordPress.  FLIR for WordPress is SEO friendly and only renders the image in the browser if JavaScript is enabled. You HTML/XHTML code remains unchanged leaving your head tags readable by search engines and the page readable by those without JavaScript.

Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via Javascript and visible to all modern browsers. Any element with text can be replaced: from headers (h1, h2, etc.) to span elements and everything in between!

You can see examples of what it does here: http://facelift.mawhorter.net/examples/

“Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well not exist.”
–Vitaly Friedman, 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design

We wholeheartedly agree with the above quote. If a user can’t use your site it’s not an effective communication tool. We want you to have a site that allows you to communicate clearly with your users so that you can convey the message you want in a manner that is clear and concise.

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