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Events 1.5.7

Yes yes, another update. Some fixes, some internal changes. And we’re slowly progressing to version 1.6. The most important change in this version is that i have removed a check for wordpress tables. This leaves Events a bit more vulnerable since WordPress suppresses errors with all it’s might.
However, i think i’ve got that covered pretty well.

Instead of having Events check if the 2 database tables are still there on every page load it now only checks on the dashboard. If they are not available (removed/unreadable) on the website itself it just says there are no events shown as if everything is normal but there are no events. On the dashboard however it shows some obvious big errors and prevents you from doing anything with Events on the Mange > Events dashboard. Instructions on how to fix it are also shown there.

Some minor bug fixes are also fixed, templates are now properly assigned to the various lists. $cat is now optional for the sidebar, this allows the old behavior without breaking the new options. And apparently when a title for an event was a link and longer than your set limit it broke the sidebar. This also is fixed.

Changelog:
[fix] Template usage for archive and today’s list now works properly
[fix] $cat value now optional for sidebar
[fix] Longer titles as a link no longer breaks the sidebar
[change] Revised auto-removal code to use timezones also
[change] Events and Categories have their own notification on removal now
[change] Events no longer checks for mysql tables on every page load
[change] Checking for tables and error reporting done in the dashboard
[change] Events now uses register_activation_hook() for installation

More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/events/

Download:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-events.1.5.7.zip

Events 1.5.5

Bugfix release and some minor changes that should improve the stability and performance of the plugin overall.

Changes:
[change] default sorting in manage events is now descending
[fix] Sidebar now uses the right setting for language links
[fix] Events can be added again (broke in 1.5.4)
[fix] Supposed theme bug fixed (precaution) on the management dashboard
[change] Universal output builder for lists (saves lots of code)

More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/events/

Download:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-events.1.5.5.zip

Events 1.5.4

A small bugfix update. Fixing 2 bugs.

When editing an event the ending month is now shown correctly and the All-day events have nothing to worry about times anymore.

More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/events/

Download:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-events.1.5.4.zip

Crippling Spotlight, yay!

For weeks i’ve been annoyed with me looking up something in Spotlight, expecting the thing to find what i want and pressing enter in a split second only to find me ending up in a dictionary.

It seems Spotlight deems it necessary to look in the dictionary, wikipedia and more of such things also for programs. And give that higher priority than actually finding an App or file.

No more i say!

defaults write com.apple.spotlight DictionaryLookupEnabled NO

Solves all that. And damn Spotlight is faster too! yay!

Ofcourse for this to take effect Spotlight has to be restarted. Done by either restarting your mac or killing the Spotlight process.

Later i found this options is also available in the amazing prefpane secrets from Blacktree.

Which makes things even easier.

A bunch of zeros

So after last weeks datadisaster i managed to recover many data using “data rescue II” at work. I decided to save office things only and loose any films, music and other data as i was not up for sorting through that again only to see it’s broken anyway, outdated or otherwise unnecessary to keep. Yea i had a lot of junk!

Anyway, i finally have a lazy day again and decided to put the “broken” 320GB disk back to work. But before i do that i’m writing it full of zeros to find if there are any bad blocks/sectors or whatever. I expect just that partition table to be broken so it’s another external drive for me if it works. So many disks lately… rating up to 4TB in total lately… Yea, it’s nuts.

Events 1.5.2

So here it is. Yet another new version…

Changes and new stuff:
[new] Duplicating events
[fix] Deletion of events now works again (broke with 1.5)
[change] Removed ‘delete event’ link from edit form
[new] Option to manually or automatically (default) delete old events
[new] Button to manually remove old events from management
[update] un-install notice
[change] Improved notification system

The duplication option can be reached when you edit an existing event. Fill in the things that differ and click the duplicate button. It’s really easy.

As a sort of workaround for the automated deletion of old events. You can turn that off now to prevent premature deletion of events which you want to keep but are not archived (yet). Only archived events show on the website, non-archived old events only show on the dashboard.

For a change, no special upgrade instructions apply. Just upload all files to the right spot and enjoy!

More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/events/

Downloads:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-events.1.5.2.zip

AccessQontrol 1.2

mmmk! Attempt 3!

I got fed up with the exception list so i rewrote it’s code. Now uses array_merge(), which requires PHP4.2+, and i’ve discovered that when the exception list remained empty both array_merge() and array_combine() went nuts. This allowed everyone to keep coming to your site.

This is now fixed, at least… I tested this on 3 setups on 3 different servers and it works there.

More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/accessqontrol/

Downloads:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/accessqontrol.1.2.zip

AccessQontrol v1.1

The plugin has been updated so it actually blocks people. A small addition to the options panel; It now shows a message when the settings are saved.

More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/accessqontrol/

Download:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/accessqontrol.1.1.zip

The forums

As many of you have seen i have a forum for general support and random topics (if you want).

Obviously there are some hitches in usage, some have notified me that the registration mail is not arriving or very slow. Please if you run into trouble… do not hesitate to contact me about it. If i don’t know the problem i cannot fix it… So contact me!

The register email should work now… this was caused by a plugin.

Minor buggery stuff!

Events user Beth has uncovered a small bug in the parsing of the Archive and Today’s listing of events.
This is fixed as of now. Please if you have trouble parsing %link% redownload the plugin and overwrite wp-events-functions.php with the new file.

No new version has been issued.

Thanks Beth!