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Online Leaf

Description

Because Internet browsing consumes a lot of energy on a global level, Online Leaf develops methods to reduce the amount of energy required to browse the internet, by making websites greener.

The plugin

This plugin enables your blog to install a green standby engine on your blog. The engine will automatically activate a dark screen when your visitors are inactive, which darkens the colors and hides animations and effects, so that the monitors do not waste energy generating those and simply because dark colors, on many monitors, require less energy to display than brighter ones.

The goal

Online Leaf aims to reduce the overall CO2 emissions from displaying websites, without any loss of visitor experience. You can still use visual effects, animations and heavy graphics to improve your website’s overall quality, since the standby engine does not conflict with any of those (as it is only activated when your visitors are inactive). The only change is that your blog will be a Green Website and help in making the web a much greener place to surf.

CO2 neutralized

The usage of Online Leaf is CO2 neutralized, by acquiring CO2 quotas, which are cleared with the state authorities in EU.
Please read more about CO2 neutralized websites if you are interested.

Screenshots

  • One-click installation of Green Engines
  • Standby screen activated
  • Logo for Green Websites

Installation

Instructions

  1. Upload the folder online-leaf to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory or search for Online Leaf in Plugins > Add new and click Install to the right of Online Leaf
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress

You can also manually install the standby engine by following the instructions on OnlineLeaf.com or OnlineLeaf.com/Advanced/ for more configuration options (might be useful if you manage other websites than WordPress blogs).

FAQ

How do I use it on other websites than WordPress?

There are some simple instructions on OnlineLeaf.com/Advanced/, which will guide you through setting up the standby engine on any website.

How can I help?

If you like developing plugins or anything else, we highly appreciate all the help we can get to extend the project even further, so please don’t hesitate to contact us if you feel like working with us to help the environment.
We also advise you to share it wherever you can, so people get to know about the project more quickly. Digg it, Share it on Facebook, Twit it, give it a good rating here on WordPress.org or even write a blog post about it. Anything is much appreciated.
… and of course, any contribution and donation will be a great help to maintain the servers and keep the development at high speed. To thank you, we also list you as Green Donor along with your website on OnlineLeaf.com/Donate/ and OnlineLeaf.com/Green-Websites/.

Why are there so few questions?

It is pretty straight forward. You install the plugin and your website instantly becomes green and reduces the energy required to generate it. There is really not much to it.

I have another question anyway

Feel free to contact us or visit OnlineLeaf.com for more information.

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Contributors & Developers

“Online Leaf” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Translate “Online Leaf” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.1

  • OnlineLeaf.com is CO2 neutralized
  • Made compatible up to WordPress 2.9
  • Translation
  • . Language added (French, short code β€œfr”)
  • . Language added (Vietnamese, short code β€œvi”)

1.0

  • Fixed bug with timing option
  • Translation
  • . Language added (Indonesian, short code β€œid”)
  • . Language added (Swedish, short code β€œse”)

0.9

  • Added changelog
  • Configurable timing before standby screen launches
  • Language selection added
  • . Language added (Danish, short code β€œda”)
  • . Language added (Dutch, short code β€œnl”)
  • . Language added (English, short code β€œen”)
  • . Language added (Italian, short code β€œit”)
  • . Language added (Slovenian, short code β€œsl”)

0.8

  • Registers keystrokes as activity
  • More efficient and faster loading

0.7

  • First version of Online Leaf