PURE Player IVP WordPress Plugin

The PURE Player IVP Pluginis a WordPress plugin that allows you to simplify the process of embedding the object tag needed to display a packaged panorama image in the Pure Flash player. You can get more information about Immervision’s Pure Tools at their website.

Below is an example panorama displayed in the Pure Flash Player using this plugin. Right now this plugin only support the packaged Pure Tools IVP option and one panorama per post. You can also visit http://www.move360media.com for many, many more examples.



Installation

Installation is fast and easy. Following these steps will get you started:

  1. Unpack the *.zip file and extract the /PureToolsIVP/ folder and the files.
  2. Using an FTP program, upload the /PureToolsIVP/ folder to your WordPress plugins directory (Example: /wp-content/plugins).
  3. Open your WordPress Admin panel and go to the Plugins page (link on the top menu). Locate the “Pure Tools IVP Player” plugin and click on the “Activate” link.
  4. Once activated, go to the Options > Pure Tools IVP Player.
  5. Set the Player Height, Player Width, Panorama Directory, and Player Directory. NOTE: ImmerVision’s recommendation is to always place the IVP panoramas in a folder below the folder containing the PurePlayer.swf file. For example:

    /ivp/PurePlayer.swf
    /ivp/panos/mypano.ivp

  6. Using an FTP program upload your IVP player and a packaged IVP panorama to the panorama directory and player directory.
  7. That’s it, you’re done. You can now add Pure Tool package IVP Panoramas to your post. See the Usage sections for more details.

If you would like to test this plugin here is a zip file that contains a single IVP file and the Pure player (PurePlayer.swf). Download, unzip, FTP to your IVP and player directory for testing.

Download: Sample IVP (678)

Basic Usage

To use this plugin in its basic form enter the name of your IVP file into your post on its own line surround by the <ivp> tags. For the example above I entered the following.

<center>
<ivp>statueBig.ivp</ivp>
</center>

Of course filename.ivp would be the name of your packaged ivp.

Advanced Usage
You can overwrite the default height and/or width by entering them into the tag. A few things to note. If the height or width is left off of <ivp> tag it simply uses the default number you have entered on the Options page. Also you can have height and width in any order or even just have one or the other. Single quote, double quote or no quotes all should work. I hope these options make it as easy as possible.

All of these are acceptable options.

<ivp height=200 width=300>filename.ivp</ivp>

<ivp height=200>filename.ivp</ivp>

<ivp width=300 >filename.ivp</ivp>

<ivp width=’300′ height=’200′>filename.ivp</ivp>

<ivp height="200">filename.ivp</ivp>

<ivp width=’300′ >filename.ivp</ivp>

Download

Donate

If you find this plugin useful please considering making a donation to the development.

For now you can leave a comment below if you have any troubles. I appreciate any feedback you have and suggestions for improvement. I am more than happy to keep adding to this plugin if there is enough interest.

Here is my current TODO list if you have others post a comment:

  • Support the unpackaged (JPG) Pure Java viewer.
  • Support more than one player in a single post.

19 Comments

  1. Randy March 24, 2008

    This plugin works great. It is very easy to install. Make sure you have your setting correct in WordPress admin under Options->General for setting “WordPress address (URI): set to the actual location of your blogs WordPress root directory. I had this set wrong and all I was seeing was the PureTools Player not the panorama. Good job Ed.

  2. greshki81 March 25, 2008

    really really cool!

    I didn’t know wordpress but I’ll give it a try, it seems what you’ve done simplify a lot the process! Thanks and good job!

  3. Ed March 25, 2008

    Thanks greshki81. Let me know if you need any help with the plugin or WordPress. Happy to lend a hand.

  4. Ed August 7, 2008

    Can you post a link so I can look what is it doing? I have not had any problems with the plugin so I am sure we can figure it out.

  5. Ed August 7, 2008

    Look at the Basic Usage section above. That is the minimum you need to have in a post. Just replace the name of your ivp file with your own.

    If you post a link to the page here I can tell you pretty quick what is wrong by looking at the code.

    Hope this helps.

  6. Ed August 7, 2008

    Looking at the path you have to your ivp file it shows…

    panorama=http://erikahrend.com/laspalmas360/http://erikahrend.com/laspalmas360/Panos/Carnaval1-2000.ivp

    So the path you used in the setting is not correct. Look at step 5 in the Installation Steps above. My guess is that you have the full URL instead of something like the path in step 5.

  7. Erik August 8, 2008

    Hi again and thanks!! As stated before it was all down to my on stupidity..I had written the WHOLE path in the settings instead of just the folder name, that´s why it wouldn´t find it..The plugin not only works like a charm but is as easy to use as anything I ever used before!!

    Thanks for your kind help and for a fantastic tool.

    best wishes, Erik.

  8. Ed August 8, 2008

    Nice Erik, I posted a comment on your blog as well. Nice looking panos. I have ton of panos to upload as well. I start on it a while back but not have not finished uploading mine. I created a site for them just like you. You can see some of mine at

    http://www.move360media.com/blog/

    Cheers,

    Ed

  9. Thomas September 17, 2008

    Thanks Ed, will test it on our new WP website.

  10. Ed September 17, 2008

    Sounds great. Let me know if you have any suggestions or issues.

    Cheers.

  11. Thomas October 9, 2008

    Great Plugin, but it is not valid by the HTML Validator. Unlikely it creates more than 20 Errors. Is there a bug-fix available?

    Some errors are easy to avoid, but I don´t know how to use flash objects without HTML-Errors.

  12. Ed October 9, 2008

    I will look into this Thomas. If you are using the plugin please post a link.

    Cheers,

    Ed

  13. Thomas October 11, 2008

    Of course, I would link you. At the moment I use the Pure Players Java-Code because it cause less errors. I will write a german article about using flash-tools for panoramas at wordpress. You will named there of course, because your plugin is at the moment probably the most easy way to do so.

  14. Harriman Hikers March 12, 2010

    Any idea why the embed using the plugin is displaying fine in FF / Chrome but not IE on our site ? The Pure Player on your site and Immervision’s seems to load fine in IE. FYI I have tried using a freshly installed, unedited Kubrick theme but no go. Also tried lowering the security level in IE to “Mediium” for “Medium High” …nada ??? Mystified… thx

  15. Harriman Hikers March 12, 2010

    well… here’s one clue… my webhost confirmed that there are rlimits set for our account on the server side. On top of everything else about it perhaps IE is a memory hog as well?

  16. sigi August 27, 2010

    Hello, I tried do download the sample ivp as writen in point 7
    (7. sections for more details. If you would like to test this plugin here is a zip file that contains a single IVP file and the Pure player (PurePlayer.swf). Download, unzip, FTP to your IVP and player directory for testing. Download: Sample IVP (476) )

    But I did not get the file. Only an error page of yours came on.
    Can you please send me the zip-file or let me know when you fixed the link to the download?

    Best regards
    sigi

  17. harry December 15, 2010

    I set everything like i had to but unfortunately not working :)

    http://www.projects.webdesigndiensten.nl/media/super-lauwersmeer-kotter

  18. Ralev May 5, 2011

    I’ve tried a lot different things to make this plugin working… but nothing happens …
    Is it still supported :) ?

    If yes – please, provide more info how to make it work with WP 3.0.
    May be I’m missing something

    Best,
    MR

  19. Ralev May 5, 2011

    Okey, I have progress, but the mark code “statueBig.ivp” disappears from the “Visual’ mode when editing the page in WP… and also the ipv files that I have are organized in bad way, so I might look for another solution.

    So the conclusion is that with a little tuning – you can actually use this plugin :)

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