keeping with the theme. more to come.

Been making some things. Figure they should go on the blag.

how did this get here? is this update?

quick correction from this post: as i was looking through my archives, i see that i called out Akismet as doing something wrong, and that’s why my spam filtering wasn’t working. not true: i messed up–Akismet was doing the right thing all along.

this one was a long time coming. sorry about that (sort of). it fixes, for real this time, a long standing bug with spam comments making it through.

as per usual, you can grab it from the wordpress plugin page or autoupdate through your wp dashboard. have fun out there.

there’s a new version of wp-prowl that just hit wordpress svn. it’s still in beta, but if you’re feeling adventurous, you’ll get the following fixes:

• fixes issues with spam comment notifications slipping by, even when akismet catches them
• fixes issues with WordPress MU not being able to save options (i think)

if you test it, you’ve gotta let me know. thems the rules!

get the zip out of WordPress SVN. You’ll have to do a manual install since this is the beta.

This isn’t the usual fare from this blog, but this is good information that took me quite some time to find. I’m also an avid video game collector, and i recently picked up a Sharp Twin Famicom and a few Famicom Disk System games; notably Kid Icarus and the infamous Doki Doki Panic!, which later became the USA/World Super Mario Brothers 2.

Anyhow, my Twin Famicom came with Super Mario Brothers 2 (known as the Lost Worlds outside of Japan) which works perfectly, but the game on the back (some sort of Tennis game) wouldn’t ever work. I didn’t think much of it, until both of my new games didn’t work either. I would receive an Err.21 or Err.22 message each time I attempted to load the games. The drive would attempt to read, come to a full stop (note: this is important!) and then attempt to read again, shortly before throwing the error message. (more…)

I’ve been busy. Yes, yes, new job and all that. Doesn’t leave me much time for plugins, unfortunately. It’s a tragedy I know but the fact of the matter is that plugins (plugin, rather) won’t pay the bills, so yes I had to seek employment. Anyhow..

Updates forthcoming:

• Not working in WP MU. Have to figure that one out. Something to do with how I’m saving options.
• People still getting spam messages? This is a weird one, because it should’ve been fixed. Will have to dig into Akismet, since apparently it’s too damn full of itself to use the standard data structures. Well excu-u-u-u-se me.

Also, new projects. Something else to do with Prowl. I’m only going to write the frontend. That is so long as the guy who wrote the backend doesn’t think I died or something.

Final thought, linkfarms? Things that aggregate posts from other sites, and then group them into inexplicable bunches on god awful websites? It’s a thing I don’t understand. Was Googling WP-Prowl to see if any nice people were saying nice things about it (some were!) but I get a bunch of goofy sites that are reposting posts that I’ve made to the WordPress forums. Useful? I fail to see how.

Your favorite WordPress plugin’s just been updated! Contain your excitement (I know it’s tough) and take a gander at these fine new features (that you’ve already known about since I released this in beta like a week ago but no one bothered to test it for me so I had to do it myself and then release what I hope is a really great new version for you jerks. jerks! I kid, I kid.):

• Added new notification type: New Post Pending Review. (thanks djr!)
• Added delay in new posts/pages, so notifications aren’t spammed for multiple edits in a short period (not a final implementation).
• Terribly serious rewrite of Post/Page notification code.
• Makes sure plugin activation fires on manual upgrade.
• Made steps towards being ready for internationalization. Not there yet… things left to learn.

Yes it’s almost like I tried with this one. Internationalization is on it’s way, but there’s a few nuances in the WordPress localization process that I don’t quite understand yet. Anyhow, run on over to the WordPress Plugin Page and get yourself a copy, or use your auto-upgrade from your admin dashboard to install. It might be a few minutes/hours before it goes live. Let me know if you find anything wrong!

Version 0.8.0 Beta 3 has been released, and can be downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Page shortly. Remember, you’ll have to upgrade manually, since this is a beta, it won’t show up in your control panel.

Beta 3 just implements the missing “delay” code for Page edits. This isn’t a complete implementation, however, since it’s only able to calculate from Initial Post Date to subsequent edit dates. You can see the problem pretty much right away, this works great for the initial post, but if you come back and edit again after the initial delay runs out, the same problem will be right back, and you’ll get notifications each time someone presses “Publish”. Not exactly ideal, but-t-t-t…

Well, it was the fastest to implement. Looking through all post revisions is really costly, at least through the WP API, and I’m looking into a proper way to do this. No problem, I’ll work it out, but I wanted to get something in for the 0.8.0 release. Better code will come 0.8.1 or 0.8.2, but with my new job starting, it might be a while until I get to it. I figured everyone would like a halfway implementation better than no implementation at all!

Anyhow: download, test, report bugs. I’ll love you for it!