Available Extensions

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This is the place to come to get the latest available Pivot extensions. Discussion about these extensions is to be done in the Extension Discussion & Development message forum. Additions to this list shall be done as shown below in the demo extension.

Extensions

Name1)	Version2)	Brief Description
Demo Extension	1.0	If this were a real extension a short description of what it does would be located here. It should be kept as brief as possible with a more detailed description and all other information available on the extension's dedicated page.
backlog	1.3	This snippet reverses the built in [[subweblog]] by printing the oldest entry first and the newest last. Useful for anything which is to be told in narrative form, like a journey
cat	1.0	A snippet intended to be used in your entries, to provide a link to all entries of a given category.
comments_by	2.0	This snippet shows a drop down list of all all commenters, and when the user selects one, it shows a list of all entries to which he has commented, as URLs.
count_down	1.2	This snippet counts down the number of days until a given date this year (Christmas, your birthday, etc). It can also count up from a given date (“Christmas was X days ago”).
dart	1.3	A simple snippet to Display A Random Text from an array declared within the snippet, or from a text file in the template directory.
fortune	1.2	A Pivotization of the classic Un*x fortune cookie program a heavy duty version of [ [dart] ], it selects some random text from a user provided file.
fuzzy_date	1.2	Returns the 'fuzzy_date' (or time) corresponding to a given date/time. Useful to show the 'fuzzy' posting date of each entry in your blog.
google_rank	1.0	Returns the 'Google Rank' for a given URL, which is a value between 0 and 10.
get_posts	2.0	This snippet outputs HTML for a list of posts by the given author/in the given blog/in the given category (where all of these can be wildcarded), one per line, as URLs with the post title as the URL text and the post's permalink as its destination. optionally, the number of comments for entry can be shown too
get_posts_for_month	2.0	This snippet outputs HTML for a list of posts in the given month, one per line, as URLs with the post title as the URL text and the post's permalink as its destination. It may be primarilly of use to snippet authors, who can use it as a building block for other snippets.
get_posts_for_category	1.3	DEPRECATED - use the get_posts snippet and use its category parameter in stead. This snippet allows you to put a 'quicklist' of the previous X entries in each category in which an entry was posted. Note that it currently only works on the entry page, not yet on the frontpage.
hovertext	1.0	Given some text, generates a link which will show another text as an explanatory tooltip when the cursor hoevers over ir. Just as it does here when you hover your cursor over PHP.
Lightbox	0.92	Allows easy insertion of 'lightboxed' popups in your Pivot weblog.
last_update	1.0	This snippet returns the date that you last editted the entry.
lorem_ipsum	1.0	A Lorem Ipsum generator. Of questionable use, except, perhaps, by template designers.
nasa	1.0	A snippet to display NASA's “image of the day”.
on_this_day	1.4	Returns HTML code with text = title and a hyperlink (permaLink) to the entry for entries posted 'on this day', up to a user specified maximum number of years ago.
pooh	1.0	This snippet inserts an invisible link to your Project Honeypot page. Place a call to it in each of your templates
previous_in_category	1.4	Returns a 'quick list' of titles of previous entries, in the same category as the entry currently showing on the entry page, as specified by the parameters, as URLs with the text being the title of the entry and the link being the permalink of the entry.
random_entry	2.1	Generates either a link to one or more random entries, or the full entries (Title/Sub-title/Introduction/Body). Filterable on weblog, author and category, with wildcards.
recent_months	1.6	This snipprt could well be placed at the top of the frontpage. It outputs three links, labelled “this month”, “last month” and “2 months ago” (user definable text) and when the user clicks one of the links it will list the titles of all posts made in that month as URLs to the PermaLink of the entry.
recent_years	1.3	recent_months' big brother, this one is similar, but shows years at a time, instead of months. It outputs links for a user definable number of year and when the user clicks one of the links it will list the titles of all posts made in that year as URLs to the PermaLink of the entry.
searcher	1.1	Given a search term, generates a link which, if a reader clicks it will act as if he had entered the search term in the searh box and clicked “Go”.
show_ccount	1.0	A snippet which will read your data file, if you use PHPJunkYard's CCount to count your downloads, and will output the X most popular, where you give a value for X.
slink	2.1	A snippet to make it easy to insert frequently used URLs into your posts (or even into templates), allows for a shortcut, a long text and a tooltip).
snippet Flash	1.0	An easy way to post the flash movies into the body of an entry or as in a popup window.
toc	1.3	Show an alphabetical Table Of Contents for your blog.
top_searches	1.1	Display the search terms most commonly used at your blog.
top_commenters	1.1	A snippet to show those who comment most often on your blog, with a link to their website if they gave it when commenting.
word_cloud	1.0	Display the words most commonly used in your blog, with font size indicating how often you use them.

1) listed in alphabetical order after the demo extension

2) this is the version of the extension, not Pivot