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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210 Comments
Insights works within my admin posts just fine. But how to show insights within my custom post types ???
Thanks in advance
Really great plugin!
Thanks so much for providing it to us.
I'm having lots of fun going through my old posts and setting up deep links throughout my blog.
You just made my blogging a TON times easier!
Susan
Hello vladimir, I'm using this plugin from few days and I feel that this is a nice plugin from your side.
Feature Need:
Can please add one more feature to this plugin, that is the link what we insert using this plugin need to open in new window and not in the same window.
Waiting for reply.
Hi Vladimir,
Thanks for making such a great plugin. I was wondering if there is any way to add a class id to the links inserted by the insights plugin?
Super!! I love this plugin!
Thanks Vladimir, I'm using some of your plugins on my blog. :D
I can announce that version that works with Google, Yahoo and Bing image searches is a work in progress!
Hi Thanks for the wonderful plugin. I love the search image feature, but I don't use flickr for images. I take my own photos and place them in a folder on my server (sometimes inside my WordPress directory, sometimes outside). I'd like to be able to browse these folders and place a thumbnail of the image with a link to a larger image.
I've seen a few people have already asked. But, do you think you will be adding the ability to search images from directors on my own blog?
I'm not a coder, even though I'd love to learn. But let me know if there is any other way I can help... donations, tester or whatever.
Thanks, mikemike
Like all your plugins this one is very usefull. Thank you!
I have suggestion. Maybe someone already said about it...
You make search only for Flickr, but it would be very good to add Google Image Search option. On Flickr very often I can't find pic I need. Using Google I find them in 10 seconds. Adding Google Image Search feature will make this even faster and easier.
I love this plug-in but it inserts images that are licensed for use only with attribution and it does not provide an attribution. Any way to fix that?
Ir provides an attribution by linking to the original source which is fine with flickr. You can add more manually.
Hey Vladimir,
Thanks for the cool plugin. I am wondering if this works for bloggers who have not even added any meta data to their posts? I am working SEO'ing on a blog with bloggers who are very new to SEO and have no meta data, so the plugin seems to not be pulling in anything.
Please advise.
Thank you, Vladimir.
Dali
Amazing plugin, thank you!! I actually looked it up after reading you book and am thrilled. I would love it if I could use Insights to search the media library, as well.
Thanks again!
hello,
is it support for image cache?
Great plugin! Thanks for maintaining this.
I have three suggestions:
The ability to specify the alignment for an image
The ability to have images uploaded into the user's own media library, in case the original image is removed
The ability to include the title and/or description from the image's Flickr page
Hi, it is a VERY good plugin! But i'm having one problem... when inserting the Google or News items, it is inserting the without the text between tags... so the link doesn't appear. It should look like this right... title. It's inserting without the title right now. Thx!
This is very nice and helpful plugin.Thank you for your great work.
Hey man.. Absolutly great plugin..
One suggestion maybe.. the links made by the google searchpart.. can they link in a new window? that would be another huge time saver.. altough it is a very small detail..
Much Love from the Netherlands
Arend
Vladimir, I am using this plugin on my site, and really enjoy the features. I am, however, curious if you have considered making it so that the insert map feature inserts a dynamic google map which can be zoomed in and out? Also, it would be useful if there were some way of labeling markers, as I have some maps with several markers on them. I would love to hear if you have any plans regarding these features.
Thanks, Mark.
Vladmir:
Fantastic! So simple.Thanks for pointing me to the obvious solution. I guess I'm just not expecting Insights to be as easy and complete as it is. Can't tell you how much I'm enjoying it. (And I have your Blue Grace theme, too.)
A fan,
Vera Marie Badertscher
Whoops, didn't notice that was Mark that answered my last question. Thanks, Mark.
Vera
Thanks for the reply about the alignment of pictures, but my point is that in WordPress, when you click on insert images, you get choices, including left, right and center. Do I have to insert code to get the pictures to align where I want them with Images? If so, where can I find out how to do that?
Vera Marie Badertscher (too many letters for the name field above)
Hi Vera Marie. Once you have inserted a picture, or a map for that matter (since maps created by insights are also converted to images), go to your post where the image has been inserted and left click on the image. After left clicking on the image, two icons should appear and one will be for editing the image, and the other will be for deleting the image. If you click on edit image, then you will be presented with the options to align left, right, center, etc. that you are looking for. I hope this helps.
Mark
I think Insights is fantastic, and I'm telling everybody what a wonderful plug in it is. I just have one question. Is there a way that I can wrap the words around a picture? With Word, you have the choice of placing picture left, right or center, but with Insights, I have not found any way to control its location in the post.
Thanks so much for this great tool.
Vera Marie
Hi the inserted image is just like any other WP uploaded iamge so you should be able to align it left or right.
A Demo side Online on the Net?
Thanks....
Thanks Vladimir a lot, this is a great plugin. This is a true time saver.!!!!!
Hi,
first of all: Great Plugin, its awsome!, but I have a suggestion, why not include Google Images search?
regards
I coded a version that works with google, yahoo and bing image search but haven't released it yet.
Just loaded and activated your plugin did a post but can't locate the tool bar. The only page I get say's "Insight" Enter the number of search results you would like to see for your searches and\or Turn on Google Maps module?
Did the plugin fully upload or am I missing something with the instalation?
Thanks Vladimir!! It is a very good plugin. Well done