The widget itself is essentially a video player. It uses the widget embed code (need to login) provided by 12seconds.tv. The plugin saves you the hassle of copying and pasting embed code and editing templates.

Installation

1. Verify that you have PHP5, which is required for this plugin.
2. Download the whole 12seconds-widget folder into the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Usage

The plugin can be used in two ways:

1. Display the widget in the sidebar
2. Embed the widget on posts and pages.

1, Displaying the widget on a sidebar

After activating the 12seconds-widget plugin, go to the widgets section. Now drag the widget into your chosen sidebar and configure.  You must enter a 12seconds username. You can choose to display a skinny (175×290) or fat (380×440) version of the widget. Make sure you click the ‘Done’ button and the ‘Save Changes’ button after making changes.

If you don’t want a widget title just leave the Title field blank.

2, Displaying the widget on a post or page

Using the shortcodes system in WordPress 2.5 and up, the plugin will allow you to embed the widget into your pages and posts.

Use the “12suser” shortcode to display updates for an individual user

• The username attribute is required and is the login/user name to the 12seconds site.
• The *size* attribute is optional and can be “fat” or “skinny” (default).

Use the “12svideo” shortcode to display a single video

• The id attribute is required.
• The id is the last set of digits of the URL when viewing a video on the 12seconds.tv site. The URLs takes the form http://12seconds.tv/channel/username/123456 . The id in this case would be "123456".

PS: The 12s shortcode introduced in version 0.2 will still work, but it has been deprecated.

Styling Guidelines

The widget embed code tag is assigned CSS class twelve-s-widget.

The caption for individual videos ( when you use the 12svideo shortcode ) is assinged CSS class twelve-s-caption to the tag.

<span class="twelve-s-caption">
 ........... </span>

Examples

The following examples show the status updates and individual videos by the 12seconds team.

Skinny widget showing the updates for username ”12seconds”.

Fat widget showing iJustine’s updates (she’s not a regular 12er, but the few she did are masterpieces).

Single video showing 12seconds co-founder Sol Lipman explaining what its all about.

Download the plugin