In updating my post plugins to work with WordPress 2.3 I managed to break various things too. Versions 2.3.2, just posted, fix a bad interaction between tags and categories and correct issues with excluded categories. I might be able to extend the plugins to do something useful with tags now that I understand them a …
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WordPress 2.3 Plugins Fixed
Well I hope so… I did some work on my 5 post plugins, uploaded them to my site (to check they still worked under WP < 2.3), upgraded to WP 2.3, and, fingers crossed, everything seems functional. I will modify the docs, package the plugins, and post them for download in the next few minutes. …
Posts Plugins Problems in WP 2.3
Sorry to all the people letting me know that the new WordPress breaks Similar Posts and (maybe) my other plugins. I’ve been out of touch due to my CFS problems but I will do my best to post some updates in the next day or two to fix the issues.
WordPress Plugins
Coming soon … updates to the posts plugins. Quite a few changes have built up over the last few weeks that I haven’t had time to properly release. I hope I can make sure that the changes cover the whole set of plugins — that should teach me to keep better records rather than rushing …
Similar Posts for your Content Feeds
The beta versions of the post plugins have been tweaked a fair bit in the last week or so and new options added to all of them. Recent Comments, in particular, has improved. The main news though is a brand new plugin, Similar Posts Feed, which works alongside Similar Posts to add a list of …
New Versions of WordPress Post Plugins
Version 2.0.0 beta of Similar Posts, Random Posts, Recent Posts, and Recent Comments have just been released. They each have their own page now; they have been tested to work with the upcoming WordPress 2.1 release; and each plugin has its own independent admin options page. Some functionality has been re-jigged, a lot of new …
Feeds Fixed
I noticed about an hour ago that this site’s feeds were not working and hadn’t been working since around December 20th. After checking the source and then deactivating all my plugins one by one I found the culprit and zapped the error. So… feeds should be working again … and I learned a little more …
How To Make Blix Theme Ready for WordPress 2.1
Just a heads up to those out their in blogland who, like me, use Blix by Sebastian Schmieg as their WordPress theme. The upcoming version 2.1 has made some change which mess up Blix’s handling of its navigation bar. The fix is simple and I post it here to allay anyone’s nerves who begin to …
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Post Plugins Updated
Similar Posts, Random Posts, Recent Posts, and Recent Comments have all been updated. The update is an interim bug-fix until the next real versions are ready. Two bugs are addressed. One caused some users to get spurious characters displayed before the post listing. The other… well the plugins were meant to work together but I’d …
Post Plugins Updated
Similar Posts, Random Posts, Recent Posts, and Recent Comments have all been updated. One or two bugs in parameter handling have been fixed, certain parameters can now be blank where appropriate, or be more complex than before, e.g., ‘before_title=<li class=”item”>’. Excerpts can now be trimmed down to stop them ending in mid-word. They can be …