Comments on: APOD Widget

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:10:44 +0000

Got any ideas on this error? I am running WP Version 2.3.3

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare widget_apodwidget_returnimageandlink() (previously declared in apod_widget.php:24) in apod_widget.php on line 22

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:23:31 +0000

Love your widget - well done. I too, have the problem if I specify a time offset. I am in Australia and the time is GMT 11. If I specify this time it says ‘APOD not available’, but if I leave it at zero it works fine. Is there any disadvantage in not setting an offset?

Another handy plugin I use on some sites for displaying anything random which could be ads/photos/quotes/tip of the day etc is the Ad-Rotator one:
(http://kpumuk.info/projects/wordpress-plugins/ad-rotator/).
I’m guessing that this could be used to pull an image from anywhere too (maybe even resize images?) as it can display any html code.

Best of luck and keep making plugins!

Andy

By: Wolf's Heart

Wolf's Heart — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:59:01 +0000

This widget is so cool! The photos are just every day stuff, but every night w/explanation so we know what we’re looking @. I have looked for scientific/space info for research & this is just what I needed. Thanks!

By: plamb

plamb — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:18:31 +0000

@Dhan

I’ve made a minor update to the APOD widget to allow setting an hour offset, so you should be able to adjust it accordingly now.

By: Dhan

Dhan — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:46:26 +0000

My Wordpress installation uses local timezone GMT+07
The problem happens when local time shifts from 23.59 to 00.00, it moves to new date and APOD plugin shows “APOD not available”.
Can I set the timezone in the plugin to stay in GMT+00 instead of being carried by Wordpress timezone?

By: Clement

Clement — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:24:36 +0000

Is there any way to use this plugin without wordpress? I do use the normal version but I would like to be able to use it without wordpress also in a big development project I’m in right now.

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Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:23:30 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:08:05 +0000

Dave,
You can find a copy of the APOD widget modified to use cURL here
http://beyrent.net/?p=36

By: James Curbo’s Weblog » Upgrade time!

James Curbo’s Weblog » Upgrade time! — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:44:00 +0000

[…] Tonight I did a whole bunch of stuff to my weblog. It all started because I wanted to install the Now Reading plugin that I read about on Something Awful, so I could do all sorts of cool book stuff on here. It recommended installing Wordpress Widgets. When I installed that I got a script error, and decided to go ahead and upgrade to Wordpress 2.1. In the process I upgraded the Captcha plugin I’m using and had to modify my custom theme for Widgets. I ended up cleaning up the CSS a lot in the meantime. Now I just need some gradients or something. After I got Now Reading up and running I started poking around the Widgets plugin site and found some nifty widgets like this APOD Widget and a Gallery 2 widget. Wait, what’s that, there’s a way to integrate Gallery and Wordpress? Oh man I have been wondering about this for a while but never really looked for anything like it. So I installed WPG2 and enabled the Random Image widget. […]