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Skype Online Status plugin for WordPress

No time for reading? I understand, just grab the latest Skype Online Status development release and enjoy!

The plugin Skype Online Status allows you to add one or multiple, highly customizable and accessible (!) Skype buttons to your blog. You can pick any of the available Skype button themes that will show your online status and place them in your pages and posts content (with a neat little Skype quicktag button in the WYSIWYG editor), in your sidebar via widgets (unlimited number) or anywhere in your theme template files.

The Skype Status admin page and Skype Widget options are adequately annotated but there is also a Quick Guide section with lots of information on all the possible ways to get you blog Skyped. If you still cannot get it working the way you want to, find a Skype link to the developer on the Notes & Live Support section.

Button themes are mostly based on the themes you can find on Skype's button wizard page but more feature rich, like showing your online status in the alt text of the image, more accessible (!) and much more customizable, like setting your own Status texts in your blogs language. Even a button to invoke normal phone calls or multichats or conference calls is possible!

Which version?

Older versions have been developed for WordPress 2.0+, 2.1+ and 2.3+ but with versions 2.6.x the main development focus was on WordPress 2.6. From version 2.6.9, WordPress 2.7+ is supported but support for below WordPress 2.1 has been dropped.

This plugin also has been tested on WPMU 2.6+ and 2.7.

Translations

Since version 2.6.4.0, Skype Online Status is ready for internationalization. Anyone who wants to contribute can do so by making a transation. Read translation instructions (also included in the latest package) for more info.

Get It

Since version 2.6, this plugin can be found on the official WordPress.org Plugins directory. Please go there, read more about Skype Online Status for WordPress and download the latest stable version.

If you are interested in the latest development version, use this link to download straight away: Skype Online Status - development

Purely for reference and not maintained anymore -- so do not expect support other than 'Please upgrade first' -- here are older versions:

Support

All donations are much appreciated and (without objection) will be mentioned here as a way of expressing my gratitude.

Thanks!

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Get help

Join the Skype Online Status Google Discussion Group to get help.

	Join WP Skype Online Status
	E-mail address:
	Browse Archives on groups.google.com

Contribute

If you want to contribute to the evelopment of this plugin, just let me know. Consider doing a translation, place your 1-5 star rating on WordPress Extend or post your bugreports, improvement suggestions or review on the Skype Online Status Google Group pages.

Any contribution is appreciated :)

Freedom of speech

The world wide web in general and Blogging in particular, allows anyone - and without discrimination - the freedom of expression. In the 'western world' this freedom is (still) protected to a great extent by law.

Daleth does not take this right for granted and sees the freedom of speech as a great value and promotes it actively as a universal human right. For those that are limited in that freedom, Daleth is willing to provide a personal WordPress blog for free.

If you feel you are in dire need of a personal weblog and you are prohibited by your government to get such in your own country, just contact us :)