eHive Object Tags widget

Description

This plugin is part of a suite of plugins created by Vernon Systems Ltd., which give users the power to embed eHive functionality into their WordPress website.

This is a widget plugin that is designed to enhance an Object detail page. You can add this widget to your site and when your users are viewing an Object detail page this widget will display its tags. Most eHive account owners allow others to add and remove tags on their Object Records. For Objects that allow tagging you have the option to allow visitors to your site to add and remove tags on eHive Objects.

Because this is a widget plugin it can be added to sidebars, footers or any other page areas that allows widgets. This also means the widget’s functionality can be made available on every page of your site.

Before you install this plugin you will need to install the eHive Access and the eHive Object Details plugins.

Get more from the eHive plugin suite

To enhance the page you embed this plugin on you can also install the eHive Search plugin to allow your users to click the tags and see other Object Records that same tag.

Other plugins in the suite include:

• eHive Account Details – A plugin for displaying eHive account information.
• eHive Object Comments – Enables users to add comments to Object Records from your site.
• eHive Object Details – A plugin for displaying Object Record detail pages.
• eHive Objects Image Grid – Displays a grid of images from eHive filtered by certain criteria.
• eHive Objects Tag Cloud – Displays a tag cloud from eHive.
• eHive Search – Allows you to search eHive.
• eHive Objects Gallery widget – Provides a gallery of Object Records that can be placed in your sites widget areas.
• eHive Objects Tag Cloud widget – Allows you to display a tag cloud in a widget area on your site.
• eHive Search widget – A widget plugin that provides access to eHive Search from a widget.

Installation

Dependencies:

• eHive Access plugin
• eHive Object Details plugin

This plugin requires the eHive Access and eHive Object Details plugins to be installed first. Please ensure you have installed and configured these plugins correctly first before installing this plugin.

There are three ways to install a plugin:

Method 1

1. Navigate to the plugins page by clicking the link in the WordPress admin menu.
2. Click the “Add New” link
3. Type the name of the plugin you want to install (i.e. “eHive Access plugin”) into the search box
4. Click the “Search plugins” button
5. Locate the plugin you want to install from the search results
6. Click the “Install Now” link and click “OK” on the popup confirmation window
7. Click the “Activate plugin” link when the plugin installation has completed

Method 2

1. Download the plugin’s .ZIP file.
2. Navigate to the plugins page by clicking the link in the WordPress admin menu.
3. Click the “Add New” link
4. Click the “Upload” link
5. Click the “Choose File” button and locate the .ZIP file you downloaded in step 1
6. Click the “Install Now” button
7. Click the “Activate plugin” link when the plugin installation has completed

Method 3

1. Download the plugin’s .ZIP file.
2. Unzip the contents into your WordPress sites plugin directory (/wordpress/wp-contents/plugins)
3. Navigate to the plugins page by clicking the link in the WordPress admin menu.
4. Click the “Activate plugin” link below the plugin’s name

FAQ

Q. What is eHive?

A. eHive is an online collections management software package. See more at What is eHive?

Q. What do these plugins do?

A. The eHive plugin suite gives you the ability to provide eHive functionality to your site’s visitors. This means that you can search and display eHive records, leave comments that are visible also in ehive and add and remove tags to records where the record owner has given permission to do so. You can filter the search results by account or community if you want to display only records from a particular source. We also provide plugins to do other nice things like display grids of interesting, popular or recent images added to eHive; display galleries of other objects by the same account as a record you are viewing etc.

Q. How do I get an API Key?

A. To get an API Key you will first need an active eHive account. If you don’t have one you can sign up for an account for free. Once you have an account you can navigate to the “Edit My Profile > Api Keys” page and create a new Key.

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Changelog

2.4.0

• ehive\api namespaces needed to use ObjectRecordTag.
• Fixed warnings for undefined array key.
• Tested with WordPress 6.0
• Requires minimum PHP version 5.3

2.3.4

• Populate $post correctly to get the Post ID for the Widgets page.

2.3.3

• Tag search link escaped and changed to a phrased search using the clean tag.

2.3.2

• Fixed option to enable searching by tag.

2.3.1

• Fixed notices and undefined warnings.
• Tested up to 5.0.1

2.3.0

• Tested up to 4.9.4

2.1.2

• Removed the dependency on the ehive-access plugin functions.php file.
• Bumped Tested up to to 4.9.2

2.1.1

• First stable release of the eHive Access plugin.