IM Online

Tue, Feb 27, 2007

I added my â€œIM onlineâ€ status plugin today which replaced and made me remove the Skype badge plugin I had.

I fully removed the “Skype badge” plugin and deleted the files from my server space. The “IM online” plugin was simple to install as it just needed me to copy the files over to the plugins folder in Wordpress and then activate the plugin. After activating the plugin I just needed to drag the plugin over in the automatic sidebar widgets.

After installing this widget I was very happy with the result as I regularly use MSN Messenger and mainly over the newer “Skype” programme, and this widget shows online status for both. The only thing I was not happy with was in the code it had a link to the IM Online plugin site at the bottom of the code and it made the plugin box a bit bigger than it needed to be because of the link it also looked naff, so I removed the following code from the plugin by editing the plugin in my Wordpress dashboard:

< small > Powered by < a href="http://www.mutube.com/projects/wordpress/im-online/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=sidebar" >IM Online< / a >< / small >< / p >

Changing it from this: