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I’ve just released a new WordPress plugin. If you use Flickr and want to incorporate the photos into your blog, this is a great way to do it. I’m going to be entering the plugin in the WordPress plugin competition tonight (the voting starts tomorrow) so any feedback I can get soon would be fantastic.
I know it’s not strictly music related, but I know that many bands use Flickr, so hopefully this plugin is useful too.
With the new version of Gigs Calendar, there is a setting that only allows administrative users of the blog access to the settings page. For some reason, I made that setting on by default. I’ll change that for the next release, but if you’re having a hard time getting into the settings page in Gigs Calendar all of a sudden, you may need to log in as your blog’s administrive account.
I’ve just pushed out the new version of Gigs Calendar. It is available on the official download page. Please report any bugs you find, even if you know they existed in 0.3.3.
Those are the biggies. In the next few days, I’ll put up a plugin to demonstrate the API and custom fields functionality.
There’s a new tutorial up at my development site about translating Gigs Calendar (or other WordPress plugins). If you’ve been wanting to translate Gigs Calendar and I hadn’t gotten back to you, check it out.
Last night, I wrapped up all of the features that I think will be making it into 0.4. I still need to write up some documentation and examples, but I’d be grateful if anyone could download the development version of the plugin to look for any gaping holes/glaring bugs that I have somehow missed. There are some bug fixes in this version, so you might want to see if I’ve fixed your favorite bug. If not, send it to me again, I may have lost your bug report.
The major features include:
I’d like to ask a few of you a couple of questions about your fair city. I would greatly appreciate if you’d let me send you a quick email. Send me an email at “dan” at this domain or leave a comment if you wouldn’t mind.
Thanks!
Somehow, the WordPress option to hide this blog from search engines was checked. I don’t know why I would have checked that, but I can unhappily report that it does work very well to keep you out of Google. I should be showing up soon, hopefully with decent PageRank because of all of the awesome links I’ve gotten from you guys! Thanks!
WordPress 2.5 comes with a cool feature that lets you automatically upgrade plugins from the admin panel via FTP. This is very handy for most people, but there’s a problem with it. If you’ve done any customization in the “templates” folder, all of your changes will be lost. Forever.
Be sure to backup all of your customizations before you upgrade your plugin from the WordPress plugins admin page. If you’re uploading the new files yourself, or upgrading via SVN, you shouldn’t have any problems.
Version 0.3.3 is another quick bug fix release. Below are the bugs that I’ve fixed.
The new version of the Gigs Calendar plugin is available for download. This fixes several of the outstanding bugs in 0.3.x (but not all of them). The fixes are…
If you don’t see your pet bug listed on the todo-list for 0.3, feel free to send it in again. I’m trying to work through all of my emails and get back to everyone.
