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Wordpress 2.5 Compatibility

stormerider — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:37:16 +0000

I’m testing out some of my plugins on this blog, which is now running WP 2.5.1.

I see no need to continue development of the category or archives replacement widgets as the base widget code now has all the functionality that I added. Those two are now retired.

Morgan’s WIP Manager continues to function fine, as does Morgan’s Progress Meters and the Get Weather Widget.

Morgan’s Replacement Links Widget needs to be updated to work with the new way that 2.5 functions.

Morgan’s Replacement Links Widget 0.7

stormerider — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:16:46 +0000

This version requires WordPress 2.1 or above. Given that we’re on WordPress 2.3, and they’ve changed how links work since 2.1… it’s time for me to get my code up to snuff and out of the deprecated bin.

I also added in the ability to specify how you want to sort the display of links, per request.

Download here:

Morgan’s Replacement Links Widget version 0.6 (Option to control sort order of links.) — Requires WP2.1 or higher

Morgan’s Replacement Links Widget 0.6

stormerider — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:23:39 +0000

This is a minor feature-based version… Peter Lurie sent me a small diff to add support for the LanguageSwitcher plugin, which I’ve integrated. I’ve also added support to open links in a new window, per request.

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Morgan’s Replacement Links Widget version 0.6 (Option to open links in a new window, and support for LanguageSwitcher plugin.)

Morgan’s Replacement Links Widget 0.5

stormerider — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:59:11 +0000

Went to install this widget for a friend (Crystal Jordan), and we both noticed that when you’re using it in long form (not drop-down) and with multiple categories, it looks a bit odd showing “Links” and then the category title. I’m releasing 0.5 with the option to skip the header, for those folks who it would look cleaner without.

Download here:

Morgan’s Replacement Links Widget version 0.5 (Option to skip the header.)

Morgan’s WIP Manager

stormerider — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:45:31 +0000

As most of you have probably noticed from my (infrequent) posts over at my LiveJournal and/or elsewheres on the ‘net, this hasn’t been a good set of months for me. I haven’t gotten much done lately due to my increasingly frequent migraines.

As such, I decided to spend some time today cleaning up the WIP Manager and rolling it out. It’s not “complete” like I wanted it to be, but if I wait for that… well, we’ll all be waiting a while. I’d rather have it out there and usable than delay the release further.

Support for characters does not exist– if there is a link that takes you to anything character-related, it’ll fail. The summary reports folks could see over at Evo aren’t coded in, either. Nor is the RSS feed. I did get the widget coded, however, which is more than I thought I’d have a chance to get into 0.1.

This is designed for single-author WP installations (though it should play nicely with WPMU, which is something I’ll be testing shortly). The only nod that I’ve given to multi-user WP blogs (such as author loops) is an option for the widget, to show which author is posting the WIP update.

I’ll do my best to respond to bug reports, but I can’t guarantee that my response will be timely. Sorry in advance.

Download here:

Morgan’s WIP Manager version 0.1

Morgan’s Progress Meters 0.4.2

stormerider — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:06:11 +0000

Releasing version 0.4.2– apparently my code for 0.4.1 was missing the bit of code to actually store the option value that was tracking the database schema version. This was the culprit for the error message:

WordPress database error:[Duplicate column name 'meter_updated'] ALTER TABLE `wp_progress_meters` ADD `meter_updated` TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

You’ll likely get the error once more but then it should disappear on the next page load. Many apologies for the wait for the corrected version.

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Morgan’s Progress Meters version 0.4.2 (Added missing call to update_option().)

Morgan’s Now Reading Exporter

stormerider — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:09:22 +0000

I’ve recently stumbled across a very neat little site for sharing what books you’re reading. Something like a Friendster of reading lists, or Stumble Upon. Anyways, the site is GoodReads. For those of us who use the Now Reading plugin, though, it seemed like something that would be a pain to re-enter all the books that we’re already tracking via Now Reading.

However, GoodReads offers a CSV file import feature. As a result, I whipped up a minor plugin that exports all your Now Reading data into a handy CSV file that you can then import into over at GoodReads.

Download here:

Morgan’s Now Reading Exporter version 0.1

Morgan’s Replacement Links Widget 0.4

stormerider — Mon, 07 May 2007 22:16:17 +0000

Went to use this widget while helping out The Novelty Girls, and I found a minor bug, so I’m releasing 0.4.

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Morgan’s Replacement Links Widget version 0.4 (Minor bugfix for multiple instance support when not using drop-downs and when limiting to specific categories.)

Morgan’s Progress Meters 0.4

stormerider — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:40:49 +0000

Releasing 0.4 right after 0.3 since I had time to get the widget done earlier than I had expected.

Update: I just noticed a glitch in how the database upgrade scripts process and had to rework it a bit, so I’ve rerolled 0.4.1. I’ve added in a variable to track the database schema version number as well as the plugin version number, so future upgrades should go smoothly on this front.

Download here:

Morgan’s Progress Meters version 0.4.1 (Now includes an integrated widget for user convenience.)

Morgan’s Progress Meters 0.3

stormerider — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:31:39 +0000

New version of the Progress Meters… fixing the WP-MU bug I mentioned earlier. Thanks to the folks over at Authors Abode for helping me isolate the bug and bearing with me while I fixed it. Next version will include the widget.

Download here:

Morgan’s Progress Meters version 0.3 (Supports WP-MU properly)