Archive for December, 2009
Simple Social Bookmarks – WordPress plugin updated
Simple Social Bookmarks has also been updated. The main change was to remove the short URL caching, as this is now included within the Simple URL Shortener plugin. An additional parameter has been added to allow you to turn off caching, if you require. Full details are on the official plugin page .
WordPress 2.9 and my pages!
I updated to WordPress 2.9 yesterday. All appeared fine. That is, until I went to update a page today and found the Edit button didn’t work any more. Neither was the URL shortening for the page. And then I noticed that all the comments were missing. It appeared that the URL for the page was [...]
Simple Twitter Data – WordPress plugin updated
The Simple Twitter Data plugin is relatively new, but I’m already releasing version 1.2. That’s progress! This version includes a new data type of “image73″, which will return a 73 pixel version of a Twitter users profile picture, and a way of embedding Twitter data directly into your posts and pages. As always, details are [...]
Plugin Support
The WordPress plugins I produce are, as with most, free. And I’m happy to answer any questions and provide whatever support I can. I don’t think many people wouldn’t expect any more than that. None-the-less, I regularly receive requests for assistance that are bizarre, time wasting and sometimes just rude. Two people have asked for [...]
Simple Twitter Link – Plugin updated!
The Simple Twitter Link plugin has been updated. First, and foremost, you can now pass various options to the URL shortening options. Secondly, a workaround is in place for a reported, known error .
Beeb See Me 2
I missed this at the time – I also got a mention (and more links) on the BBC Internet Blog weekly round-up . …blogger David Artiss was pleasantly surprised that he had some BBC bods commenting on his Wii post and more so that we’d linked to him from the blog
Plugin error “cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode”
Today I’ve had reported to me that one of my plugins ( Simple Twitter Link – but I’m sure this equally occur in others) is generating the error “cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode”. In fact, it generates it about 200 times. The problem? Well, it’s a bug in version 4 of PHP , so there’s not much I can do about it (sorry!). It’s fixed [...]
Simple URL Shortener – new version released!
Yes, the testing is complete and the new version of Simple URL Shortener is available. The final tally is 87 new services, 1 removed, giving a grand total of 111. There are some other changes too, including extra parameters to allow the passing of API keys, username and passwords to the shortening services.
URL Shortening – testing, day 3
Well, I managed to finish off testing all the URL shortening services yesterday. However, as this had involved code changes I thought it only prudent to re-test them all again. Now I have 4 broken again… so more testing today. I notice that one site has been suspended – I wonder whether I should include [...]
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More phone foibles
Yes, I’m still in the market for a new phone. I’m now 2 months away from the end of my contract which means that if I stick with O2 and Carphone Warehouse I can move contracts now. Except, well, they don’t have a half decent Android phone. At the moment the HTC Hero is the [...]
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