Flattr is way for content producers to be paid by content consumers.

Get paid for your work

A must-have for bloggers, developers, designers and other creators. Just add a button to your blog or website and wait for people to click. When they do, you get paid.

Support creators

Give to creators with just one click. We all wish there was an easy way to give to those who serve us with free content. Flattr is just that!

Usage

Configure _config/site.yml

Your _config/site.yml needs to include the property flattr_username with your account identifier.

Property	Description
flattr_username	The Flattr username receiving flattrs

Use page.flattr_javascript

This will emit the javascript necessary to provide Flattr button integration. This should be used once and only once per page hosting a Flattr button. Put it for example in the footer area.

.content
  = page.content
.footer
  = page.flattr_javascript 

page.flattr_large_counter

This will emit a large Flattr button like this one.

This is okay to invoke it several times per page and ie put several Flattr buttons.

By default, the Flattr button will be associated with

• the page URL eg https://awestruct.github.io/extensions/flattr
• the page title as Flattr title
• the Flattr text category

You can override these however passing respectively the url, title and category parameters. You can even associate a set of comma separated tags via the tags property.

.sidebar
  = page.flattr_large_counter
.content
  .externalresource
    .abstract
      = page.flattr_large_counter((
          :url=>"http://example.com/", 
          :title=>"Emmanuel Bernard", 
          :tags=>"goodstuff,photo,bacon")

page.flattr_compact_counter

This will emit a compact Flattr button. Otherwise, everything is like page.flattr_large_counter.

Parameters

None

Examples

Generic Installation

Awestruct::Extensions::Pipeline.new do
  extension Awestruct::Extensions::Flattr.new()
end

See Also