Galaxy Zoo

This plugin offers two WordPress widgets through which users can display data
from their accounts on Galaxy Zoo.

Author:Tomas Vorobjov aka SciBuff (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:2.8
WordPress version tested:2.9.2
Plugin version:1.0
Added to WordPress repository:24-11-2009
Last updated:15-01-2010
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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This plugin offers two WordPress widgets through which users can display data
from their accounts on Galaxy Zoo.

The first widget, ‘Galaxy Zoo’, display general stats such as the username,
the date the user joined Galaxy Zoo, the number of galaxy classifications
and the latest classified galaxy.

The second widget, ‘Galaxy Zoo Favorites’, displays thumbnail images of
galaxies the user selected as his/er favorites (using the Galaxy Zoo’s My
Galaxies page – http://galaxyzoo.org/my_galaxies)

Both widget are completely customizable via the widget’s control panel and
style-able via a separate css file(s).

Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project which invites members of the public
to assist in classifying over a million galaxies. It is an example of Citizen
science as it enlists the help of members of the public to help in scientific
research.

The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which
have been imaged with a camera attached to a robotic telescope the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey (http://www.sdss.org/)

Requirements

  • PHP 5.2.0 or newer (SimpleXml required)
  • WordPress 2.8 or newer

Known Issues

1.0

  • Changing the number of favorites on the favorites widget will NOT reset
    the cache, i.e. the new number of favorite galaxies will be requested
    only once the current cache expires (or is manually deleted)

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