Insights brings a powerful new way to write your blog posts. It increases productivity and at the same time the appeal of your posts.
With Insights you can very quickly (in couple of seconds) do the following:
- Search your blog for posts, edit them or insert links to them into the current post
- Insert Flickr Images
- Insert Youtube videos
- Search and link to Wikipedia
- Search Google
- Search News
- Google Blog Search
- Insert a Google Map
Insights allows you to do all this using dynamic AJAX interface which loads the relevant information to your post in just a few seconds.
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Using Insights
Insights increases the speed you access and present information on your site. It makes any information almost instantaneously available.
Let's say I want to link snazzy archives to my exact plugin page.
If I am not sure of the exact link to that page I would need around 1 minute to open a new window, search for this page, copy the link and paste it. With Insights everything is done in couple of seconds.
Adding images
What if I wrote a post about mountains and wanted to insert a generic picture of a mountain:
With Insights it takes few seconds:
What about a Video?
Easy as it can be. Find a relevant video and click Add Video!
Google Maps
With Insights you can add real maps to your posts using Google Maps interface. You can add markers and draw paths too.
When you are satisfied, Insights will add a map image to your post.
Wikipedia and Google
Insights also allows you to search Wikipedia and Google. Insert the links or read the articles with ease:
Installation
1. Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
3. Use the Options page to change your options
4. If you want to use Google Maps module then get your free Google Maps key here.
4. Write a new post. You will notice Insights toolbar. Use it :)
Changelog
0.4 - Added search only non-commercial licensed images option
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196 Comments
I use wordpress 2.5.1 and it`s not working!!!
go to the write post and type a keyword and press….. nothing happens….. nothing erorrs…
have also disactivated all the other plugins and tested out and yet nothing happens
I love Insights.
It would be sweeter if it searched google images for the pictures though.
Great work.
usual fix for plugin not working can be a conflict with other plugins. Try disabling all other plugins and checking it then then if it works turning on other plugins one by one until you find the problem.
Just want to say thanks for developing this awesome plugin, works great!
Keep up the good work...
Hi, thanks for the great plugin. Especially the linking to blog posts is a huge time saver.
The Google maps is easy and nice, but totally inflexible.
- Could you make it insert dynamic maps instead of static maps? (so including arrow keys, zoomin/out, Hybrid vs map etc)
-Is there a way to add labels to markers?
- When selecting an inserted map in order it to link it to a page (with a better map), the image disappears (nothing gets linked and teh image/map is lost); bug or regular WordPress/Googlemaps behaviour?
Thanks in advance,
Cheers, Harry
I use wordpress 2.5.1 and it`s not working!!!
go to the write post and type a keyword and press..... nothing happens..... nothing erorrs... ((((
Hi
Seems very promising, however like some users here, I only get a blank page when going to options. Seems the source code is there but nothing displayed.
Latest WP version installed on a Plesk server, using latest Firefox.
Best regards.
Denis.
Released version 0.4 which ads the option to search only non commercial photos
@Ross - Thanks Ross this will be included in the new released version
If you want to avoid using non-commercial licensed photos, edit the file insights-ajax.php, and edit the search_flickr() function.
In the line that starts:
$params = array('api_key' =>
add the parameter:
'license' => '4,5,6,7',
Here are the license types:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/
Here is the api reference for photo search:
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html
Hope this helps,
Ross
Just wondering about passing link juice. Does it need to edit the wordpress' plugin source and add nofollow?
Hi Vladimir,
I sent you an email some days ago, with a (hard-coded) French version of your Insights plugin attached, but haven't heard of you.
Just wanted to know if you're OK with a French translation. Of course, if you're not, I'll respect that, and I won't distribute the translation.
Was thinking that it would be nice to have a search amazon link there too :) If you ever felt like it.
Sproke :0)
Video does not work! Please fix the "Add video" button. Video fix for 0.3.3 bring along another bug.....
IE7 seems to automatically block YouTube content.
Cookie?
"Cannot retrieve results" error happens because of the hosting server limitation (you may ask your hosting to allow the scripts external access).
Today version 0.3.3 was released - fixed the first video not showing issue.
when I press image or video search, “cannot retrieve results” keep showing up.
any support will be appreciated.
Great idea, but I can't get it to work for my blog, images, or video - it thinks for second, then says, "cannot retrieve results"
Any thoughts?
Thanks Vladimir, we might use it on our site as well. Good for outlining locations we serve.
Cathy
Muchas gracias de veras muy agrdecido por tal aporte a los que nos dedicamos al blog deseo que Dios te bendiga y te de mas y llene de prosperidad tu trabajo
Amigo cuando pueda voy aportar lo mereces
gracias desde mexico
This plugin is just great. You made WordPress even better than it is, thank you so much!
thanks for the plugin, how ever in mysite only the image and video search keep coming up something like this "Can not retrieve results"
anybody got any idea?
Interesting plugin, I'll have to give it a try. sounds a lot like http://www.zemanta.com/ but with more options.
I'd love to see this as a Microsoft live writer plug-in.
I do most of my post from live writer.
Thanks a lot.
jb
Very cool plugin..
One Question
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Where do I edit to allow the Google and Wikipedia links to append:
target="_blank"
by default, when I use the plugin to add the link found to a post
Nothing happens when I click on an image or a video, it does'nt show up in the text-area. =( My WP is 2.6.2 and i use Firefox 3.0.1.