WordPress Plugin:
Instapaper ‘Read Later’ Links

Latest version: 1.0 – Released 30th January 2009

Description

This plugin allows you to display Instapaper ‘Read later’ links next to each post on your blog just like on Give Me Something To Read. You can either automatically insert the links adjacent to your blog entries, or you can just use the template tag to insert the links wherever you like.

What the hell is Instapaper?

From instapaper.com:

Instapaper is a fast, easy, free tool to save web pages for reading later. When you find something you want to read, but you don’t have time now, you click ‘Read Later’. When you do have time to read, you visit Instapaper on your computer or phone and get whatever you wanted to read.

Check out instapaper.com for all the details and to sign up.

Can I see an example?

The plugin is active on this very blog, so ‘Read Later’ links should show up next to each post title on here.

Installation

1. Unzip the ZIP file and drop the folder straight into your ‘wp-content/plugins-’ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Check out the front page of your blog. A ‘Read Later’ link will now show adjacent to each post.

Usage

By default, this plugin displays a ‘Read Later’ link adjacent to each blog entry on your blog. If you wish to control where the links are displayed, you can go to the Settings -> Read Later Links menu and choose between a few display options. You can even disable the automatic display of the links entirely.

If you do this, you’ll then need to add the following code to your theme in order insert a ‘Read Later’ link for each post:

<php do_action('read_later'); ?>

The code must be inside the WordPress loop.

Thanks

• Marco Arment for making Instapaper

Download

This plugin requires WordPress version 2.3 or later. Tested up to 2.9.x.

Version 1.0 ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org

Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment!

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