Auto AnimateImage vs Jellyfish Counter Widget

Auto AnimateImage is WordPress plugin that applies AnimateImage script to your site automatically. AnimateImage displays multiple images continuously like animated GIF. All you have to do is write img element like below, and the image will be animated automatically. As you know, animated GIF is the most common animation format, but it supports up to only 256 colors. There are some alternative animation formats such as APNG, MNG, JNG, Motion JPEG and SVG Animation. However they are currently not widely supported by Web browsers. That is why AnimateImage is the most appropriate method for animated images. Auto AnimateImage Features Automatically applies AnimateImage script to your site All you have to do is write img elements. No JavaScript, No Shortcode, No Gallery. Common options and animation styles can be customized via Settings screen Compatible widely down to even obsolete WordPress 2.7 AnimateImage Features Displays multiple images continuously like animated GIF. It supports sequential/arbitrary filenames. Supports any image formats supported by Web browsers, such as GIF, PNG, JPEG, JPEG XR (HD Photo), BMP, TIFF, WebP and SVG. Thereby transparent animation with more than 256 colors is available. Many animation options are available, such as animation delay, repeat count, rewind, pause and blank image img elements with data-files attribute are animated automatically. No need for writing JavaScript. Animations are controllable by writing JavaScript. You can start/stop/replay them at any time. Standalone script with 5.6 KB file size, without using JavaScript libraries such as jQuery Supports Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera and their older versions How to Install See Installation. How to Use All you have to do is write img elements with data-files attribute, and the images will be animated automatically. You can animate multiple images with sequential number, zero-padded sequential number, sequential alphabet and arbitrary filenames. AnimateImage supports many animation options such as animation delay, repeat count, rewind, pause and blank image. You can specify them with data-* attributes like below. See Code Examples for more information. Support Me To keep my motivation, put rating stars and vote compatibility (works/broken) via the right sidebar If you have any questions, view support forum or post a new topic See Localization if you can translate the plugin into your language I would be grateful if you would donate to support plugin development Contact me if you have any feedback Any comments will be very helpful and appreciated. Thank you for your support! Links attosoft.info AnimateImage script Auto AnimateImage plugin Code Examples Example 1: Sequential Filenames Example 2: Arbitrary Filenames Example 3: Format String in Directory Name * data-files attribute is specified with filename or relative path to directory, including format string. Example 4: title/alt Attributes * alt attribute with the value of title attribute will be added if not specified. Example 5: id/class Attributes * class attribute will be added if not specified. default class attribute value is "animation". Example 6: delay/cycleDelay Options * In default, delay option is 500 ms and cycleDelay option is 0 ms. Example 7: repeat/rewind Options * In default, repeat option is -1 (infinite iteration) and rewind option is false. Example 8: pauseAtFirst/Last Options * In default, pauseAtFirst option is false and pauseAtLast option is false. Example 9: showBlank/blankClassName/blankPath/stretchBlank Options (Blank Image) * In default, showBlank option is false and blankClassName option is "blank". Example 10: Arbitrary Attributes Example 11: Arbitrary CSS Properties Localization You can localize the plugin with Poedit. Here is how to translate the plugin into your language. Download Poedit and install it Run Poedit and select your language Input your name and mail address (optional) Open “auto-animateimage/languages/animateimage.pot” file Select original string and input its translation Save the file as “animateimage-[LANG].po” “[LANG]” is a language code. For instance, “de_DE” is for German, “sv_SE” is for Swedish, “pt_BR” is for Portuguese spoken in Brazil. If you want to know your language code, see WordPress in Your Language. If you need more information, see Translating WordPress. I would be grateful if you would send me any translation files. Here are the available translations included in the latest plugin. Japanese (ja) translation by attosoft If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

The Jellyfish Counter plugin provides a widget and shortcode enabling you to easily add animated counters to your WordPress site. Counters can be used as a manually updated total, an automatic counter that updates over time or just as an animated visual effect. Each counter can count upwards or downwards making them suitable for both incrementing totals or countdown situations. A great visual effect for travel blogs or any website that wants to display a running total or countdown of anything. Jellyfish Counters are highly configurable through the widget interface, and being generated using CSS and JavaScript, they require no external graphics files. You may have as many counters as you wish on a page, all can have individual settings for totals and appearance. Shortcode support allows you to generate a counter directly within any post or page content making counters no longer limited to your sidebar or other widgetable area. Advanced users will find that Jellyfish Counter objects are fully accessible via JavaScript and may be controlled and reconfigured as desired though your own custom scripting. Demo Check out the plugin homepage for demos and further information: http://strawberryjellyfish.com/wordpress-plugins/jellyfish-counter/ Usage Widget Simply drag a counter widget to your sidebar and adjust the settings to suit your needs. There are three basic modes of operation: Static – If you want the counter to simply display a non animated number just set a Start Value to the desired number for the counter and set the Counter Type to ‘static’ Animated – If you supply both start value and end value in the widget, the counter will increment upwards or downwards depending on the chosen Counter Type until it reaches the end value. Speed of the count is controlled by the Animation Speed option. Note, this counter has no memory, it will reset when a page is reloaded or changed but it is great for a visual effect where start and end values are relatively close together. Continuous – If you want to count over a long period of time and need your counter to continue to count irrespective of page loads then just select the continuous option in the widget. Then choose the interval between the counter increments, in seconds. As soon as you save the widget the counter will “start” and will continue to tick away even if nobody is viewing your blog. Changing the setting on an active continuous counter will not effect the count value and it will keep count, if you wish to reset an active continuous counter just change the start value and save the widget and the counter will restart from the new starting value. Note: In continuous mode, animation speed and display tenths have no effect. The counters are very configurable through the widget panel. You can define the digit height, width and font as well as animation speed (animated mode only) and “bustedness” (odometer style misalignment of the digits). You can further customise the appearance of an individual counter via the “Digit Style” input that will accept a valid CSS style attributes such as font-family, colour, background etc. Note: the size of the font here as is automatically calculated from the height, width and padding settings. Need a flat looking counter? “Disable 3D effect” removes the CSS shading effect. If you want to display a prefix on the counter or include separating characters, use the Format input. Just enter a string here representing your desired counter appearance, a 0 represents a counter digit, any other character will be displayed as it is. The Format option overrides the number of digits option, if a format string exists then the counter will use the total number of 0 characters as the number of digits. Example Formats: $0.00 1,000,000 0000 km Shortcode You can generate a counter directly within page or post content using the [jellyfish_counter] shortcode. The shortcode accepts a full range of parameters to provide identical functionality to the widget version. The following parameters may be used within a shortcode: digits : a number, Number of digits in the counter format : a string, representing any fancy display format tenths : true/false, display tenths digit or not digit_height : number, pixel height of digits digit_width : number, pixel width of digits digit_padding : number, pixel padding for digits digit_style : a string, custom css styles for the digits alignment : ‘left’, ‘center’, ‘right’, ‘inline’ overall counter alignment bustedness : a number, misalignment of digits flat : true/false, don’t show 3d effect, show 3d effect speed : a number, 0 – 100, animation speed start : a number, starting value for the counter end : a number, ending value for the counter direction : a, string ‘up’ or ‘down’ interval : The number of seconds between updates of a continuous counter tick_multiplier : the number of units the counter will increment every interval (defaults to 1) timestamp : false or a string representing the starting time for the counter If you don’t specify a parameter it’s default value will be used. Examples: [jellyfish_counter end=100] The above shortcode translates as: Display a counter that animates upwards from 0 to 100 [jellyfish_counter start=999 end=0 direction=”down” digit_style=”background: transparent; color: red;” flat=true; timestamp=”2014-09-28 9:20:21″ interval=300 ] The above shortcode translates as: Display a counter that starts at 999 and ends at 0, counting downwards. It has red digits on a transparent background with no 3D shading effect. It is a persistent counter that started counting at 9:20:21 on 2014-09-28 and has been decrementing by one every 300 seconds (5 minutes) since then. Styling You can modify the appearance of an individual counters text through the widget control panel or through shortcode parameters. This should be sufficient for most uses. However, if you need to globally override the default counter style or make other CSS changes to the counter digits or container, take a look at jellyfish-counter.css for the appropriate class names. You should override this in you theme rather than modifying this css file as any changes made would be lost when the plugin upgrades..