Features

These are the plugin’s features in short:

• Configuration page in the WordPress administration panel. No manual editing of files is needed for basic usage.
• License selction by using the web-based license selection engine from CreativeCommons.org.
• The license information can be reset at any time. This action also removes the options that are stored in the WordPress database.
• Adds license information to:
  • The HTML head area of the every blog page (this is for search engine bots only – Not visible to human visitors).
  • The Atom, RSS 2.0 and RDF (aka RSS 1.0) feeds through the Creative Commons RSS module, which validates properly. This option is compatible only with WordPress 2 or newer due to technical reasons. It will not appear on versions older than 2.0.
  • Displays a block with license information under the published content. Basic customization (license information and formatting) is available through the configuration panel.
• Some template tags are provided for use in your theme templates.
• The plugin is ready for localization.

Installation

Copy the cc-configurator.php file in your /wp-content/plugins/ directory and activate the plugin through the administration panel.

The license configuration can be done from within the administration panel. Go to:

Administration Panel -> Options -> License

Compatibility

For full functionality, this plugin requires WordPress 2 or newer. If you use it with older versions of WordPress, the option to include licensing info in the feeds will not appear in the configuration page.

License

Creative-Commons-Configurator is an open-source project, released as Free Software under the terms of the Apache License version 2.

Downloads, Issue Tracking, Support

For the latest releases of Creative-Commons-Configurator please visit the downloads section of the Creative-Commons-Configurator Development Portal.

The development website also hosts an issue tracking facility, where you can submit your feature requests or report bugs, and discussion boards, where you can get first class support from the community of users.

Translations

This plugin is ready for translations. The default language is English.

Translation files are available from the download area as well.

Currently the following language files are available. Just throw the proper one for your language in your plugins directory and you are set.

• Greek – By George Notaras
• Finnish – By Jani Uusitalo

Donate

This plugin is released as free software. Nevertheless, its development requires time and effort. A small donation, as a sign of appreciation of the effort, is welcome. Please, use the following button to visit the Donations page. Thanks in advance for your support!

Changelog – Release Notes

* Tue Jan 6 2009 – v1.1
- Use rawurldecode() on the values that are returned by the CC API.
- Removed the border attribute from the image hyperlink in order to comply with
XHTML 1.1.
* Thu Mar 15 2007 – v1.0
- The plugin was almost re-written from scratch. Many new features have been added and others have been modified so to provide the best functionality and ease of use.
- The license selection engine from CreativeCommons.org is now used in order to select a license for your blog. No more copying and pasting of license code.
- A new license info layer is introduced for placing under the published content. Customization of that layer is possible either from the config panel or with CSS.
- WARNING: the bccl_display_full_html_license() template tag has been replaced by bccl_full_html_license(). Make sure you update your theme templates.
- New template tags are available.
- The configuration panel has been reworked.
- The plugin is ready for translations.
* Sat Feb 24 2007 – v0.6
- Supports CC v3
* Wed Nov 01 2006 – v0.5
- When the options where modified in the administration panel, a confirmation was asked. This behaviour has been corrected and the options are saved immediately.
- WordPress escaped some characters in the extra message that is displayed after the post’s body. This resulted in corrupted HTML code. This has been corrected (thanks John)
* Wed Oct 04 2006 – v0.4
- Plugin information update
* Mon Jan 16 2006
- Update to version 0.2
- Added a WordPress version check, so that the option to include licensing info in the feeds does not appear in older WP version than 2.0.
- Added an informational section in the configuration page about the template tags that can be used in the theme.
- Added success message after successful license reset.
- Added success message after successful license code submission.
- Added error message if license code does not seem valid.
- Added some Creative Commons license code verification. Seems to work with all licenses, but is very primitive. Only the basic HTML code structure is checked.
- The default licensing info message that is displayed after the post’s body was modified.
- Added one more option. Now a user can define some custom code that will be displayed
together with the default message below the post’s body.
- Added some template tags that can be used by a user on a theme.
- More modularization of the code.
- Minor fixes, so it works properly with other CC licenses, eg Developing Nations, Sampling etc.
- Minor form HTML code fixes.
* Sat Jan 14 2006
- Initial v0.1 release

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