Title: Make Tabbloid Author: mhawksey Published: 6 มกราคม 2009 Last modified: 2 มิถุนายน 2010 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/make-tabbloid.svg) # Make Tabbloid By [mhawksey](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mhawksey/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/make-tabbloid.zip) * [Details](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/make-tabbloid/#description) * [Reviews](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/make-tabbloid/#reviews) * [Installation](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/make-tabbloid/#installation) * [Development](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/make-tabbloid/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/make-tabbloid/) ## Description **THE END** HP recently removed 3rd party access to their Tabbloid service which breaks this plugin. An entirely open source alternative which can be self-hosted, called ‘Make PDF Newspaper’ has been developed and can be [downloaded here](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/make-pdf-newspaper/). The ‘Make Tabbloid’ plugin integrates with HP’s [Tabbloid Service](http://www.tabbloid.com) to automatically create printer friendly ‘tabloid’ editions of your WordPress blog in an attractive magazine/newspaper format. The plugin includes a widget to let you control how you advertise your ‘tabloid edition’. You can also choose to display a thumbnail of your custom newsletter ( powered by [http://view.samurajdata.se/](http://view.samurajdata.se/)) to let your readers see what they are missing. **Key features** * **NEW!** – Option to include QR codes for each post * Customisable banner text (default is Today’s Tabbloid) * Option to automatically footnote all the links which appear in a post (using tinyurl to shorten long links) * Integrated widget to display thumbnail of your publication (or function code to include in your template) * Option to aggregate more than one RSS feed within your publication * New editions automatically generated when new posts are added See the ‘screenshot’ for a summary of the features. For an example of its usage visit [http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/](http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/) ### Upgrade Notices This plugin in now obsolete and users should updrade to [Make PDF Newspaper](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/make-pdf-newspaper/) ## Screenshots * [[ * Screenshot of an example outputted PDF from ‘Tabbloid’ ## Installation 1. Upload the `make-tabbloid` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Go to [http://www.tabbloid.com/developer](http://www.tabbloid.com/developer) and‘ agree to do no evil’ then click on ‘Make me cool’ to get an API key 4. Via the ‘Settings’ menu enter your Tabbloid API key and then add the RSS feed of your blog 5. You can then either add Make Tabbloid to your sidebar as a widget or by placing` ` in your template The script needs write access to your Blog directory. Check out the [WordPress Codex](https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions) or have a look at the FAQ for help. ## FAQ I get an fopen error and / or permission denied If you get permission errors make sure that the script has writing rights in your blog directory. Try to creating a file with your chosen pdf filename (e.g. mytabbloid. pdf) manually, upload it with a ftp program and set the rights to 777 with CHMOD. A good tutorial for changing file permissions can be found on the [WordPress Codex](https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions). Why is my PDF file blank Either [Tabbloid](http://www.tabbloid.com) is struggling with your RSS feed or your feed is making its way to the front of the queue to be tabloided. Try going to www. tabbloid.com, adding your feed url and clicking ‘Generate sample issue now’. If it doesn’t generate a PDF either wait an hour and try again or drop a line to the techies at Tabbloid. Why doesn’t the thumbnail appear? The thumbnail is generated by [http://view.samurajdata.se/](http://view.samurajdata.se/) so there may by a problem with the 3rd party site. Images are also cached for 3 days so changes may take this long to filter through. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Make Tabbloid” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ mhawksey ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mhawksey/) [Translate “Make Tabbloid” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/make-tabbloid) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/make-tabbloid/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/make-tabbloid/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/make-tabbloid/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/make-tabbloid/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog **1.0.0** – The End. HP have removed API access. Please upgrade to updrade [Make PDF Newspaper](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/make-pdf-newspaper/) **0.9.6** – Update * Option to include QR codes at the end of posts **0.9.5.2** – Minor Fix * Minor fix to prevent slashes when using the widget **0.9.5.1** – Minor Bug Fix and Readme update * Minor fix to a bug in the widget control panel **0.9.5** – Update/Fix * Implemented the ability to customise the banner/header text used in the pdf publication. It can be controlled via the widget menu or calling the function do_makeTabbloid(‘ linkName’,’fileName’, showThumbnail, ‘bannerTitle’). * Minor fix to prevent “format error: Not a PDF or corrupted” (I think this was something to do with utf encoding, but I’m not sure) **0.9.4.2** – Minor Bug Fix * Minor fix for Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF, expecting ‘{‘ in …/ wp-content/plugins/make-tabbloid/make-tabbloid.php on line 371 **0.9.4.1** – Minor Bug Fix * Minor fix to the prevent Feedburner redirect (Fixes: call_user_func_array() [ function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback,‘ mt_ prevent_feedburner’ was given in /wp-includes/plugin.php on line 339) **0.9.4** – Bug Fix * Fixed custom feed (?feed=make-tabbloid) to prevent redirect to Feedburner **0.9.3** – Major update * Fixed the duplicate function * Included a custom feed for tabbloid which automatically footnotes all the links within posts and uses TinyURL to shorten any long links **0.9.2** – What was I thinking **0.9.1** – Bug Fix * Fix to get current list of feeds registered with Tabbloid **0.9** – Initial Release ## Meta * Version **1.0** * Last updated **16 ปี ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 2.5 or higher ** * Tested up to **2.8.1** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/make-tabbloid/) * Tags * [newsletter](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/newsletter/)[pdf](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pdf/) [printable](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/printable/)[tabloid](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tabloid/) * [Advanced View](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/make-tabbloid/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/make-tabbloid/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/make-tabbloid/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ mhawksey ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mhawksey/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/make-tabbloid/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/make-tabbloid-plugin/)