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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140 Comments
As Gary Taylor noted:
"Also, it would be good if I could highlight text (as if making a hyperlink) and then have Insights make a link when I find something I want to link to (from my site, Wikipedia, Google) instead of just inserting the hyperlinked phrase [object]."
I have installed insights and I have also noticed this bug, but only when testing on internet explorer. The insert link feature works fine for me in FF and Chrome (have not tested Safari). Is there any word on when this might get addressed?
Very nice plugin! However, it would be great if it could run together with the FCKEditor plugin. I'd love to have the functionality and convenience of both tools together.
But what's much more important: it would be great to be able to configure the locations to search in more detail. My postings are for example in German, so I have no use for searching the english Wikipedia, but I'd rather need the German one. Which should just be a matter of slightly tweaking the URL you use to retreive the results. With that, it can surely be implemented the ugly way by simply changing the source code or the database entries of the plugin, but I don't want to have to do this everytime there's an update for the plugin...
I used your plug in for the Google map capability. But the previous version stopped working. I upgraded to the latest version and it interfered with my pages menu: either new pages wouldn't show up in the menu or if I changed the status of the page from published to draft - the page still appeared published. So I'm deleting your plug in for now. Hope you can fix it.
This seems as though it's going to be a useful plugin, but a little more troubleshooting would be helpful. I have uploaded it, activated it, and used it to search..no problem, went to insert a video, toggled visual to html and back, the video shows up in my post, however there's this part of the code that shows above the video 27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="344" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"> I have tried reinserting using html and toggle to visual, tried putting between code/code and even tried deleting that part of the code..(it came back..lol) so any suggestions on how to get that code out besides turning the font white...
Hello there, thank you very much for this wonderful plugin!
Two ideas (you might have thought of already) :
1) When adding a link to the post - to be able to do it in HTML editor, and not just the visual editor.
2) To be able to add more search engines (like wikipedia in other languages and so on)
Thanks again!
Tal
Plugin looks awesome and can't wait to use it, unfortunately when I installed, it doesn't seem to want to work. When I click on the search button, for any item - I get no results - nothing happens. I check the installation instructions to see if I missed something, but seems to be pretty straight forward.
I love this plugin! The only problem I have with it is that it adds hspace=5 in the image tag and it breaks my design! I removed the attribute from the js file and everything works now. I suggest that you remove all the styling from the generated tags so that it doesn't clash with css styles.
Otherwise this plugin is GREAT!
any chance to modify the plugin so it includes links to the "real" image with flickr? right now it points to the page containing the picture :-( so a plugin like thickbox or whatever doesn't pick the link to the picture up as such...
Great work!.. Personaly, i will make this aditions:
1-Image cache options
2-Google images or other resources.
From Uruguay thanks and congratulations Vladimir.
I think i`ve found a bug;
in WP 2.8.1, if i include a My Blog link it inserts a link with title: [object]
And the original selected text is gone
Hi..
Insights is a great plugin..
but unfortunately I am not able to configure it..
I installed WP on awardspace free hosting..
all things seem to go fine but I can access the insights options page..
it returns a 404 error like the page is not there..
I have the WP 3.8 installed..
I can see the insights fields while trying to add comments but I cant get no result for image search and I get an error on videos search " Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/www/amityadav.awardspace.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/insights/insights-ajax.php on line 207
No videos found"
something like that..
please help me out here..
Can you add "Google Images" option?.
Hey Vladimir,
I recently had some trouble with a blogger refusing to attribute my flickr photos that he used on his site.
He cited INSIGHTS as the problem as the your plugin had not told him that the images found/chosen were available under Creative Commons.
I made it known to the individual that he should always check (read the end comments at this post - http://thereallymobileproject.com/2009/06/nokia-n97-the-definitive-verdict-maybe ) and he still 'blamed' INSIGHTS.
More of an FYI I guess.
great plugin. Good job done.
I have tought about adding a cache function to Insights (like the plugin flickrRSS offers) to view also the pictures from Flickr implemented by Insights when the Flickr website is blocked. Could you please give a hint to do this? Or maybe will you add a cache function with one of the next updates of your plugin? Thanks a lot!
Here's a problem I'm having. I use insights to search images, then I copy/paste the image link into my post. I'm using the Thesis Theme, which automatically generates thumbnails for excerpts. But it doesn't seem to be able to generate thumbs from offsite images. Would it be possible for insights to curl the chosen image into my uploads folder and post code for the local copy of the picture?
CCM,
1st highlight some text in your post (Add or Edit Post) and then click on the Insights pencil! The highlighted text now becomes a link. Done.
R
I don't see any last most important instruction about HOW to put the search results INTO the actual post. I have clicked on the pencil icon and nothing happens. I have dragged the pencil icon into my post where I want it to appear but that only generates a dot, I have c&p'd the code from the results form into my post, and it shows up simply as unlinked and essentially code/text within the post. I am simply trying to add a text link at this point, and having no luck. It says to "use it" here in the instruction, and I have used it but there is that one step missing! Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks.
I installed Insights too.Excellent.High level.
When I install Insights, it won't load. It says the stylesheet is missing.I downloaded it from the link on this site which seems to fetch it from the WordPress themes page. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Thanks, this is an awesome plugin!
Would it be too difficult to implement inserting attribution for the flickr images in a caption?
Julian
Vladimir, I installed Insights, mainly for the Google Maps feature. I'm able to search for a map, but when clicking on the "Add Map" button, saving the post and clicking on "Preview," the map does not show up.
I want to test this before using it on an actual post. Should the map show in Preview? If so, do you have any ideas for troubleshooting why the map is not showing up?
This is a wonderful plugin -- I do hope I can get the Google Maps feature to work.
Thank you!
will this work if your using Windows Live Writer as your client?
I have installed insights and it is NOT working at all. What should i do?
Does it work from localhost on local server(With working internet off course)? I only manage to get wikipedia and other text results, but no pictures or video.