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Plugin Description
Use this free plugin to add to your WordPress blog a mini-box that presents your readers with a lottery numbers’ supplier. By choosing within it a lottery from a selection of the ten most popular games and then clicking a button, they will get in response a row of ‘quick pick’ numbers tailored to the requirements of their chosen lottery. Then to get more rows all they need do is to click the button again.
Liven up your WP site with this fun and easy-to-use feature that will help increase user engagement and attract more repeat visits.
You can locate this mini-box in any place on your pages or posts you want by inserting in that place the shortcode [lotsup cycles=’n’] where ‘cycles’ is an optional argument.
Under certain conditions you can insert a condensed form in a sidebar. (More details can be found in the ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ section.)
(A noter que cette extension est disponible aussi en Francais.)
Please note that this is not an application that will also enter the numbers it supplies into any lottery, as its functions do not extend to enabling your readers to actually play a lottery.
When using this ‘Quick Picker’, your readers are given a choice of lotteries from a selection of some ten of the most popular multi-state games of North America and Europe. (Please refer for their names to the snapshots.)
The plugin can rapidly provide as many lines of quick picks as your visitors request within reasonable limits, while at the same time taking up a bare minimum of your page’s real estate with an attractive, compact box that is at most only four rows deep and narrower than 300 pixels. (For an example please see the snapshots.)
This is a relatively fast application leaving a small footprint that has been built in part with AJAX technology to enhance its dynamic operation, while also preventing multiple pages reloads on each next click of its button for another line of quick picks.
It is a secure plugin that has built into it a number of safety measures that shield you from unwelcome intrusions and abuse without interference to the rest of your site’s operation.
How do my readers and I stand to benefit from this plugin?
This is a free plugin that should help make your WordPress blog a more fun and useful destination for your subscribers.
In particular, it will give your site’s regular visitors the ability to pick lottery numbers from the convenience of their own tablet or home computer, without them needing to rely on a terminal operator at the store for obtaining random numbers to play.
This plugin is able to provide this service, as it functions independently of lottery game operators with whom we haven’t any affiliations or relationships at all.
Lending further support to the unbiased nature of these quick pick numbers, is that their generator is driven by a rapid and highly-rated algorithm that is one of the rare few in being the closest to a true randomizer.
To use this plugin
Insert where you want the “Quick Picker” to appear in a page or post this shortcode:
[lotsup]
This will result in the appearance at each such place of a mini-box that displays within it a title line, a drop-down list of lotteries with alongside it a ‘Pick’ button and a next row containing a text-area that will hold upon its arrival a response line of as many as eight distinct numbers.
When your site’s visitor clicks the ‘Pick’ button after having selected a lottery, a row of numbers will be supplied in the response line. That user will then be able to repeat this five more times to get more rows of numbers for the same lottery selection or for any other one chosen in place of the prior selection.
The same user will be able to resume with a further round of six picks after a 12-second pause or intermission. This total of six lines obtained corresponds to the amount of times that rows of numbers will be supplied by default between each intermission.
To change this default, supply a value for the shortcode’s optional argument ‘cycles’.
Example:
Insert in a page the following:
[lotsup cycles=’9′]
Here by supplying the shortcode an argument ‘cycles’ with a value of ‘9’ specified for it, you over ride the standard default of ‘6’. From hereon, all the users of the plugin will be able to go for 9 continuous rounds of pickings at a time.
Caution
If you supply the argument ‘cycles’ with the shortcode, ensure that you give it a value only from within the numbers’ range from 1 to 12. Were you to give it any other value, the plugin will respond with the error message:
Omit cycles or give a number 1..12
To sum up;
To apply the plugin, use the shortcode [lotsup cycles=’n’] where ‘cycles’ is an optional parameter. If omitted, the value of ‘cycles’ defaults to the number six. If used, ‘cycles’ must be given the value of one of the numbers from 1 to 12.
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License
This file is part of lottery-number-supplier.
‘lottery Number Supplier’ is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
‘lottery Number Supplier’ is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
A copy of the license is included in the root of the plugin’s directory. The file is named LICENSE.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License. If you
did not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
How to uninstall the Lottery Number Supplier
To uninstall ‘Lottery Number Supplier’, you merely need to de-activate and delete it from the plugins’ list of your administrator dashboard.
Screenshots
Starting view of Quick Pick mini-form
View of Quick Pick form with pull-down selections
view of Quick Pick form after response of a numbers’ line
Sample of the Quick Pick form’s French version.
View of Quick Pick form’s slimmer version in sidebar.
View of Quick Pick form’s slimmer version in sidebar, French version.
