qTop – top-pages with qTranslate-support
Multilingual WordPress-blogs are still a challenging task. The highly recommended qTranslate plugin takes a lot of burden of one’s shoulders and works suprisingly well with almost all aspects of WordPress.
With many plugins the situation is a lot less cozy. Some don’t cause trouble, others do. To display a list of top-pages on the sidebar I used to rely on a widget from the GD Simple Widgets-collection. But in conjunction with qTranslate it would just display the page-titles in different languages as one continous string. After taking a close look at it’s code it became clear that this couldn’t be changed without editing the plugin’s core.
A new and clean solution had to be found, and based on the extremly good Popularity Contest plugin by Alex King I just wrote it myself. I proudly present: qTop.
qTopist currently still a very(!) simple plugin to display the top sites in the sidebar with full qTranslate filtering . While it doesn’t differentiate between posts and pages it at least let’s you choose the number of displayed entries. I’ve got a lot of ideas on how to improve it and I think it has a lot of future potential. You can see it in action on the right.
You can download qTop here, or directly from the WordPress plugin-index.
“Maybe I Should Stay” – music video
Last sunday I had a little time and used it to create a relaxed music-video. The song is “Maybe I Should Stay” by dabra.
This was a great opportunity for me to try out some things in After Effects. The things I did with Trapcode Particular & Form and the whole range of post-effects like grain and dirty film had been on my list for quite a while. The whole clip doesn’t use any external footage and consists entirely of digital effects.
If you want to know exactly how I did it you can download the after effects source-file after the jump.
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