Official Documentation: GK Steemit Info

We had recently introduced the wordpress plugin GK Steemit Info, today we present the official documentation for the plugin.
If you missed the introductory article, you can find it here Wordpress Plugin: GK Steemit Info

As a quick recap, the plugin servers as means to allow wordpress solutions to include steemit related data as widgets or shortcodes on the relevant site. This is accomplished via connecting to the steemjs API and pulling the needed info, and could serve as great promotional tool for steemit.

The plugin's code and documentation are all accessible under the official plugin's Github repository

The documentation has been submitted under the readme.md file and is publicly available. Following is a link to the documentation commit

An exact copy of the documentation is also found below for ease of access:

=== Plugin Name ===

Plugin Name: GK Steemit Info
Contributors: mcfarhat
Tags: wordpress, steemit, widget, user count
Requires at least: 4.3
Tested up to: 4.9
Stable tag: trunk
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

=== Short Summary ===

The plugin serves as a means to add, into your current wordpress installation, one or more widgets/shortcodes that allow displaying steemit related info

== Description ==

Steemit.com is a fast growing social network/blogging platform that rewards authors and curators for quality content via the concept of upvotes (likes)

We believe that providing proper means to integrate information from steemit into wordpress will lead the way for further growth to the platform, particularly via widgets/shortcodes as they are easiest to embed for any wordpress site owner, without needed development skills.

Using GK Steemit Info, you now have the capability to create widgets or embed shortcodes to your wordpress solution.

In this initial version, you can now embed a widget that allows displaying the current number of users registered on steemit, at this instant over 500,000 users are signed up on steemit.

The widget allows you to set a proper title for the widget, but also to set the data refresh frequency. The default value is at 5,000 ms (5 seconds), and can be increased in increments of 500 ms (half a second) each depending if you have any other computing intensive functionality on your site.

The widget also includes a link to refer people to steemit.com as a promotional aspect of the widget.

You can alternatively use the shortcode version, through using [steemit_user_count refresh_frequency=5000] whereby refresh_frequency defines how often to refresh fetching the data. You can skip on setting this param and it defaults to 5,000 ms (5 seconds) as well.

If you would like some custom work done, or have an idea for a plugin you're ready to fund, check our site at www.greateck.com or contact us at [email protected]

== Installation ==

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/gk-steemit-info directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress
3. a. Go to the appearance -> widgets screen, and add in the "Steemit Info Widget" widget, and set the title and/or refresh frequency.
4. b. Alternatively use the shortcode steemit_user_count highlighted above on any page or within your code.
5. That's it!

== Screenshots ==

1. Screenshot showing the new "Steemit Info Widget" https://www.dropbox.com/s/macix3vv85gme2b/new_widget.png?dl=0
2. Screenshot showing the options of the widget once added https://www.dropbox.com/s/stgttgdgrvpncx1/widget_options.png?dl=0

== Changelog ==

= 0.1.0 =
Initial Version

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