Posts Tagged ‘multiplug’
Events 1.6.1 and more
Written by Arnan on December 21, 2008 – 4:32 amToday i kept running into trouble with MultiPlug. Issues regarding the navigation column. It seems that WordPress is not capable of running a certain function twice when required. Resulting in broken links, wrong menus and just crappy performance. I’ve decided to stuff the dashboard pages where they fit ‘best’.
EasyBan and Events have been updated and no longer require MultiPlug. After a week of trial and error it seems the error was bringing that plugin in. So to be clear. After you’ve upgraded Events to version 1.6.1 and Easyban to 1.3.1 you can disable and remove MultiPlug. This plugin has been abandoned and turned out to be a bad move.
New in Events, is a dashboard widget for quick adding events.
Adrotate has not yet been updated as i am still on and off working some new features for it. Not sure when that will be done. And a bunch of other plugins received updates today unrelated to MultiPlug, but they have their various quirks that need smoothening out.
More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/
Downloads:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/shrikee
Events 1.6
Written by Arnan on December 14, 2008 – 2:04 amJust out! Events 1.6 is here.
Fully compatible with WordPress 2.7, no longer compatible with any older version. It might work, i won’t support it.
New features are:
[change] Dashboard updates for WordPress 2.7
update] All internal links to work with new menu structure
[new] Requires MultiPlug plugin for adding menus
[update] Events now uses userroles instead of levels
[change] Localization now uses the WP setting from wp-config.php
[change] No longer uses utf8_encode() for dates
[new] Adding/editing events uses the WP text editor for html layout
[fix] Deleting of events revised, now userroles and author names
About MultiPlug:
MultiPlug is a small plugin that Events now requires to add it’s menus to the dashboard of WordPress.
The WordPress development team in all it’s wisdom has restructured the navigation in a way that Events, Adrotate and EasyBan were not able to “fit” in with the rest. Thus requiring a universal place to put their menus. This is where MultiPlug steps in creating that place.
If you do not have MultiPlug installed or activated you will be prompted for it when you enable a plugin that requires it. MultiPlug has no options, no database add-ons and is very small and unintrusive.
Download Events:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-events.1.6.zip
Download MultiPlug:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/multiplug.0.2.zip
More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/events/
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/multiplug/
Making progress!
Written by Arnan on December 7, 2008 – 3:00 pmI’ve read somewhere on Matt’s blog that WP2.7 is going to be released sometime next week.
Meanwhile i have been working on the MultiPlug plugin and how it fits nicely into Events, EasyBan and Adrotate.
Also i’ve been working on *documentation* for other developers so they can hook into the MultiPlug plugin.
Here’s a quick screenshot on how plugins check and ask about MultiPlug if its not available:
This message is dashboard-wide. So you cannot miss it. And is shown when MultiPlug is not present when for example Events is activated. EasyBan and Adrotate use this exact same method and it works nicely i think. Nothing intrusive yet very clear that you need another piece of the puzzle.
With AdRotate something weird is going on and i have no clue yet what that is. Whenever AdRotate is put in a subfolder it doesn’t acknowledge the MultiPlug plugin anymore and thus won’t work. I’m investigating it and updates will follow soon.
[update]
I also realised that with the internal links of WP2.7 changing backward compatibility to WP2.6 will be flawed at best. So my stand on it will be “it might work”.
WordPress 2.7 setbacks
Written by Arnan on November 21, 2008 – 11:51 am
I’m still working on updates to make my plugins compatible with WordPress 2.7. As testing goes on i found out that all plugins except secrets seem to work fine. Secrets i didn’t really look into yet. But since that one can disable features and *hidden* options i want to test that later on.
Currently the new plugin i posted earlier about is well on it’s way. This plugin has gotten a proper name and is now named ‘MultiPlug’. Events and EasyBan have been updated for this plugin. AdRotate will follow once i figure out why it’s not working with that particular plugin.
What if you don’t use wordpress 2.7? I’ll try to maintain a bit of backwards compatibility. All plugins require WP2.5 and up for some time. In WP2.5 / 2.6.x the menus are added as they always were. In WordPress 2.7 you’ll need MultiPlug to do it.
In the image above you’ll see the ‘mainpage’ of MultiPlug where an RSS feed of my forum is found. Also some other things will appear there over time. I have yet to figure that out and is not a real priority. Plugins functionality first! If you look at the sidebar you’ll see that CustomQuery also is present, in the Plugins menu.
Tags: adrotate, customquery, easyban, events, multiplug, new, plugin, update
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