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The Gadu-Gadu Widget Plugin

Version alpha 0.5
Installation instructions
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I was searching for a plug-in that provided my Gadu-Gadu IM status.

Gadu-Gadu (Polish for “chit-chat”) is a Polish IM client.

There’s tons of great IM plugins and widgets out there, but I couldn’t find any that handled Gadu-Gadu. There was one plug-in out there at one time, GGOnline, but I found that the site run by someone named Pawlik at http://pawlik.fanfatal.pl/ as noted in the WordPress Plugins Database was gone. I couldn’t locate the plug-in anywhere else.

I did a little searching and found the php calls needed to obtain a person’s Gadu-Gadu status. The best example was at the Mirage Project.

I built a widget out of those calls, allowing a person to input their Gadu-Gadu user ID (’konta’). There’s a couple of cool graphics, also from the Mirage Project, and I added a line that allows people to add you as a contact (kontakt).

The script is UTF-8 compliant for handling Polish diacritics.

I have updated the release to an alpha 0.5 version. The revisions corrected issues with a few calls I messed up. It works for me ‘as expected’ but there are no guarantees…

It is being released as-is. If it breaks your stuff, delete the plug-in and move on.

Installation:

To install:

1. Download
2. Unpack
3. FTP the gadu-gadu directory to your WordPress plug-ins directory
4. Activate the plug-in
5. Drag the Gadu widget to the preferred locale on your sidebar (your theme must have widget support and Automattic’s Widgets must be installed.
6. Set the parameter for your Gadu-Gadu ID. You can also adjust the widget title if you wish.

Download:

Here’s the download: gadu-gadu.zip 0.5 alpha (zip file)