As a result the site has become more a commercial venture and personal posts now seem inappropriate to the point where I rarely add any. None-the-less I wanted to still put finger to keyboard occasionally so I decided to separate out my personal posts. I looked at 3 different ways to do this…

1. Get the site to exclude personal posts and list them in their own separate section. Sadly, excluding one category from certain parts of WordPress is not as simple as it seems and just caused me problems when I tried it.
2. Use the Multisite option in WordPress to set up a secondary site. Unfortunately, as I have an established site with set (and indexed) URLs, introducing a 2nd site would likely to cause problems.
3. Create another site. Thankfully I already had one. A few months ago I decided to create a separate sandboxed WordPress installation for testing my plugins. Hardly used except for the odd bit of testing I realised this would be the ideal candidate – I can still use it for testing as if this site goes down for a short while it’s not a big deal.

So, I’ve done it. The sandbox website has had a splendid new theme (although not of my design – I used a free “out of the box” one) and I’ve transferred over all my personal posts. Many of these are quite old so were in need of TLC – videos spilling out of page widths, missing images, etc. I also had to go through and add new categories to them all (and there’s over 100 posts!).

Click here to visit my new personal site – I’ve already christened it by way of a new post today.

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I’ve also got rid of my first plugin.

Plugins that have been given a fresh lick of paint are (in no particular order)…

• Artiss PSN Status
• Artiss AdSense Insert
• Artiss Content Reveal
• Artiss Draft List
• Artiss Code Embed
• Artiss Twitter Data
• Artiss Relative Date
• Artiss YouTube Embed

You’ll notice they all begin with “Artiss” – another change which is part of a new re-branding exercise. Some of these, however, were modified early on and will be due a further update to bring them totally in line with current standards.

Existing plugins due for an upgrade in 2012 are…

• Flu Pandemic Level
• Google Docs Viewer
• Simple Social Bookmarks
• Simple Timed Content
• Simple URL Shortener
• WP README Parser

Simple Feed List is to be re-written from scratch with feed duties being all “in house” rather than relying on WP’s built in RSS functionality (which appears to be rather flaky).

Artiss Facebook Link, Simple Twitter Link and Simple Buzz Link will all be merged into one new plugin, Artiss Social Link.

Android App Share, Simple Readbag List, Simple TTIW List and Simple Wakoopa List will all be merged into a single new plugin, the name of which is yet to be decided. It will also allow for other sites that provide XML data.

WP Plugin Cache will be abandoned (as all caching will be performed by individual plugins).

What all of this will mean is a reduction in the number of plugins, by merging a number of similar products. However, all are due to recieve the “full monty” of additions so, rather than adding the odd small feature, most should require minimal maintenance in future. Plugins such as Social Bookmarks and YouTube Embed, however, are likely to continue to have big changed applied to them.

If after this I find some time, I have a number of plugins that I’d like to turn my hand to, including a banner rotation plugin. There are a number available in the market but none that offer what I need (and I’m not being particularly needy either) – it was actually a user who asked me about this after coming across the same problem.

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But let’s get back to the plugin. Once installed you have option to use a sidebar widget, use an in-post (or page) shortcode or even just manually call it via PHP. A new templating system allows you to define exactly how the results are output – yes, you can output a list of draft posts, but what about adding an author name, word count or date of last update? All of this is possible.

It’s all cached so takes as little resource as possible and you can even exclude certain posts from being included in the list (this is done in the editor itself). Finally, you can make sure that the list only includes drafts for a particular time period – for instance, any created in the last month.

Scheduled posts are not excluded either – these can be included and can be indicated via an appropriate icon.

So, how does this help SEO? Well, let’s take a live example from my site. I recently had a product review post in draft. Searching for that product in Google, gave the following result (click to see a larger view)…

As you can see all the top results in Google are for my site – even though the review hasn’t been published. Instead the fact that the text is in the list of drafts within the sidebar has already attracted attention to my site and getting me listed. Of course, this is quite an obscure product so don’t expect top billing in Google for anything as a result. But it does help with your SEO and it give your readers a helpful insight as to what to expect soon.

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Thankfully, Memset provide cPanel and a host of data analysis tools. As you can see from this graph it’s rocketed since mid-October.

I’d love to say it’s because visitors have gone up as much, but that’s not the case. Looking at the biggest bandwidth hogging files, it’s exactly as normal – in fact nothing in particular is causing it.

What did happen mid-October though is that I started looking and changing the site’s caching. I’d been using PHP Speedy with all options switched on (except for GZIP, which I had in my .htaccess file along with a few other tweaks) but was finding that was breaking Debug Bar and jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries. You can exclude certain scripts from PHP Speedy but that didn’t seem to fix the problem.

I therefore decided to try an alternative method. After some testing I settled on WP Super Cache (to cache the pages – this improved speed but not bandwidth as the same size results are delivered) and WP Minify (this combines and minifies the scripts – something that PHP Speedy did, but I could get WP Minify to work with the aforementioned Debug Bar and Lightbox scripts). I also retained my .htaccess changes.

And that’s how it’s been since. The site’s very quick BUT it looks like the size of the pages being delivered are horrendous.

The cause? Right now, I have no idea and I’m still tinkering – expect to see some site problems over the next few days as I try and resolve it.

What I’ve immediately done is switch off WP Minify and put PHP Speedy back on. Oddly, it’s working with GZIP switched on – if the .htaccess changes are working, this shouldn’t work. I therefore need to check my .htaccess further. Maybe the changes made to this file by WP Super Cache have affected it.

Certainly something has to be done with some urgency and if I have to I’ll abort all changes and had back to PHP Speedy solely (and break those other scripts). My hunch – GZIP isn’t working. Testing tools indicate otherwise.

I’ll update this post, as it may be of use to other developers. And, of course, if you have any ideas please comment and let me know your thoughts.

Update, 16th November.

Sorted. Although online testing tools reported that GZIP was working, it wasn’t. Activating that has put my bandwidth back to normal…

Through some further testing I’ve settled on using WP Minify rather than PHP Speedy. I’m also using WP Super Cache but note that this doesn’t affect bandwidth, only speed.

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Using JavaScript to capture contents is the easy bit – adding it to the clipboard is a lot more difficult. IE has a JavaScript command built in, other browsers vary. Unfortunately, other browsers (e.g. Firefox) also restrict this ability for security reasons. This is because the ability to write to the clipboard also comes with the ability to read from it as well – quite why this functionality can’t be detached and restrict just the reading I don’t know.

So, using JavaScript is problematic.

Thankfully I’m not the first to come across this problem and a third party script named ZeroClipboard is available. This uses Flash to update the clipboard, which doesn’t have the same security limitations. Of course if you’re viewing from a device that doesn’t support Flash (cough, splutter, iPad, iPhone, cough) then you’re still out of luck. None-the-less this seemed a perfect solution.

Unfortunately, my limited JavaScript skills failed me – I found the program to be over-complex for what I needed and failed to be able to get it to work.

At this point I found an alternative – ZClip uses ZeroClipboard but is controlled via JQuery (which is built into WordPress) and provide a much easier and friendly method of access.

I was now in a position where I had a working plugin. Until I used Admin Bar. That seemed to affect the positioning of the Flash overlay so you had to click slightly above the “Copy to clipboard” button to get it to work.

The customer, though, didn’t have an issue with this and I could only hope that they didn’t have anything else within their theme or plugins that could affect it in this way (I did try contacting the developer of Zclip but got no response).

What really ended it all though was the limited way of capturing text in zclip, which I hadn’t appreciated earlier on. ZClip can capture in 2 ways – from static fields (e.g. the text between a SPAN) or dynamic (e.g. from a field). The first doesn’t capture any formatting, even paragraph breaks – returning everything as one long line of text. The second did, but by capturing the HTML.

The customer wanted the customer to be able to copy to the clipboard long paragraphs of text – neither offered a neat solution to this.

Then I gave up. One day I may return to it – certainly ZeroClipboard will probably allow me to do what I need it to, but I’ll have to get my head around how to first.

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It’s not had a smooth ride either – early software was buggy, battery life was poor, people had problems with one of the provided clips and reviews were generally negative. It’s now 9 months later, the software has been updated and the price has dropped. Is it now worth a look?

Can you use it?

Although made by Sony Ericsson, it does work on other phones as well – a  full list of compatible phone is listed on their site. As a general rule of thumb, just as long as you have Android 2.0 and  Bluetooth 2.1 or above, then you should be fine.

What’s in the box?

In the box you get the LiveView, 2 clips (more on that in a minute), a strap, a power cable (which plugs into the Micro USB port) and an instruction booklet.

The clips connect to the underside of the LiveView and you can either have a belt clip version or one that you can connect the strap to and convert it to a watch. However, connecting the strap is fiddly as it comes with 2 thin telescopic pins that must be threaded through the strap and pushed into the phone clip. I found the edge of a flat-bladed screwdriver was useful in pushing the pins down before snapping them into place. Once done, however, that’s it – why didn’t Sony package the strap already connected and save consumers this hassle?

I mentioned before that people had problems with one of the clips – this was the watch one and, apparently, many people had issues with it coming away from the LiveView when in use. However, there were then reports that a change was made to the design. If this is the case then it did resolve the issue because I’ve had no such problems.

What does it look like?

The device itself is square, black and is lacking any kind of branding what-so-ever (unless you look on the back). There are two buttons on the top and a micro USB port on the bottom. One of the buttons also has an LED built into it to indicate current status.

The screen is OLED – it’s not touch-screen but you scroll around by lightly pushing the edges of the screen. The one downside of the otherwise good screen is that the front is cheap glossy plastic and will very easily scratch in use.

The provided strap is of a canvas style material and is held with Velcro. Not very elegant but it works. Because it uses the standard “pin” method of being held in place, I suspect most watch straps would work so a replacement should be easy to come by.

Size wise, it’s 35mm square and 11mm deep. The depth is the real issue, particularly when used as a watch – it’s rather deep. I’d have preferred a wider device which had less depth. The weight is 15 grams.

I’d love to say that depth is due to a removable back, but it isn’t. As far as I can tell the battery is non-replaceable.

One further issue is that when used as a watch the strap gets in the way of the USB port so you have to remove the LiveView from the clip to charge it. Whatever the earlier issues were, though, I found the watch stayed in the clip without a problem.

Getting Started

The first you need to do is fully charge the LiveView using the supplied USB cable (or any other micro USB cable). Next, pair the device with your phone – I found this easy to achieve.

The next thing I’d recommend doing is updating the firmware on it. This isn’t documented, but you can download the Software Updater software from the Sony Ericsson website. Install it and follow the on-screen instructions. However, you’ll need a cable to connect the LiveView to your computer via USB (which SE didn’t include in the box).

Once you have the latest Firmware you need to head to the Android Market Place and download LiveWare manager and the LiveView Application. Confusingly, the first allows you to download any plugins available for the LiveWare, the second then lets you configure them and the LiveWare itself. That’s right – plugins. You can install special plugins to add further capability to the phone.

For some reason it doesn’t store the date and time when not connected to your phone so this is lost when they’re no longer paired – an odd way to do it. Press the power button and within a matter of seconds it will connect to your phone and, hopefully, the date and time will then appear. Press the second button to switch to the various events that can be reported.

What does it do?

Straight out of the box, the LiveView can do the following…

• Music player control. Press the right button for a couple of seconds and the display will show a media control – your currently playing track on your phone is shown and you can use the 4-way screen control to move tracks, pause, etc. This is designed to work with the stock Android media player and is not guaranteed to work with others. However, it works fine with the player on my Samsung Galaxy S2.
• Incoming calls. Shows the  phone number (and name, if available)) for incoming calls and you can mute the ringer too. Missed calls can also be viewed.
• Text Messages. Shows any text messages that have been received.
• Calendar Reminders. Not a calendar viewer, but simply shows any reminders.
• Social Updates. Shows updates from Facebook and Twitter. This isn’t live “wall” information, but rather notifications. The functionality is limited but still remains useful.
• Find my phone. Selecting this cause the phone to ring at full volume – useful for when you’ve mislaid the phone (however, it still has to be in Bluetooth range, which is only up to about 10 metres).

When any kind of event occurs then the LiveView vibrates. However, it’s so subtle that many people think the function doesn’t work – it does, but may be easily missed.

So, some reasonable functionality, but many are probably more limited than you’d have expected.

A number of plugins are available (some free, some not) to expand this capability but I’ve found few to be of use. The one I really wanted was Gmail but the only plugin to provide this doesn’t work (and everyone else appears to be having the same issue as well). Other useful plugins are “Mode” (allows you to modify your various volume controls) and  “Calendar” (view your calendar and any entries). Sadly the Alarm Clock plugin didn’t work for me either.

Battery Life

Battery life has been a real issue for many users, with many stating that it only lasts a day. Considering the fact it’s running an OLED screen and bluetooth in such a small device it’s probably not surprising. I’ve had the LiveView now for about 4 weeks and have only recharged it twice.

Although I wear it regularly, I have few alerts to look at so the screen is rarely on. And I suspect it’s the screen that limits the battery life rather than the connectivity.

If you assume you will need to charge it each night then you’re not going to be disappointed. But there’s a good chance you will be pleased.

Conclusion

It’s a great concept at a very good price. Sadly, it’s let down in the end by its lack of useful (or working) plugins, rather than the early teething problems. It’s also a bit clunky to navigate.

If Sony Ericsson were to release a replacement, here are my top wishes…

• Expand the functionality of the built in functions
• Improve the screen – a flat glass screen would be best
• Reduce the depth
• Put the USB port on the side
• Ensure a number of good quality, working plugins are available – get developers interested in the product!

Lastly, a watch that displayed the time permanently would be good – a blank watch that needs a button press to see the time is like returning to an early 70′s digital watch. A thin LCD substrate over the top of the OLED screen would allow a traditional digital watch output when the LiveView has a blank display.

Summary of Sony Ericsson LiveView

Good price, good idea, good screen but let by down by the design (bulky, cheap plastic) and the lack of software  expansion. However, it’s good to see that Sony Ericsson ironed out a lot of the initial problems. Get it from Amazon for £42.99

Reviewed by David Artiss on 19th August 2011.

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There are a number of new features, some of them cleaning up changes made recently to work around some issues that users were having. For example, you can now turn on and off options to use HTTPS instead of HTTP. I’ve also taken the opportunity to improve the error reporting as well.

Away from that, new features include more specific options for thumbnails – you now have 5 thumbnail types to choose from – and, most importantly, support for the latest API changes.

Recently, you may have noticed that the default YouTube player has changed from a light grey to a much darker scheme. At the same time YouTube updated their player API to allow users to switch between light and dark themes. They also took the opportunity to add a feature where you can change the colour of the progress bar from red to white. Both of these are now supported by my plugin, so if you want the old light colour back you can do.

However, whilst testing this I can across what looked like a bug with YouTube’s API. I couldn’t get the light theme to work with the white progress bar – the progress bar would always appear in red. I double checked my own code to ensure it wasn’t my issue but I don’t believe it is.

YouTube’s own blog entry suggest that this entry is valid…

I opened this up in their forum where another user of the API confirmed my find. However, over 24 hours later, I have yet to receive a response from YouTube.

I’m therefore releasing the plugin as-is but with mention of this issue in the instructions.

Update (19/8/11 @ 19:36): Google have provided an update on the bug…

This is a bug, and it is scheduled to be fixed next Wednesday
evening.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team

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However, it also has an open API built-in allowing anybody to access statistics from their own code. As a result I’ve created a new of small functions for my own site. To get these to work, ensure you have Google Analytics Dashboard installed, active and you’ve authenticated yourself using the OAuth method!

The most useful is the one I use in the sidebar to display the most popular posts. I was using specific plugins which track visits independently. However, I found these to inconsistent and unreliable.

This isn’t the version I use, as I’ve had to make specific modifications to only display posts and to tidy up the page titles. However, this is the same base code just with my very specific changes removed.

function latest_posts_list( $days, $showposts, $cache_hours ) {
   $cache_key = 'ga_posts_' . $days . $showposts;
  $output = get_transient( $cache_key );
  if ( !$output ) {
     $output = '';
    if ( $days == 0 ) {
       $start = '2006-09-01';
     } else {
         $start = date( 'Y-m-d', ( time() - ( 60 * 60 * 24 * $days ) ) );
     }
    $end = date( 'Y-m-d' );
    $thispost = 1;
     $login = new GADWidgetData( get_option( 'gad_auth_token' ), get_option( 'gad_account_id' ) );
    $ga = new GALib( 'oauth', NULL, $login -> oauth_token, $login -> oauth_secret, $login -> account_id );
      $pages = $ga -> pages_for_date_period( $start, $end );
    foreach( $pages as $page ) {
       $url = $page[ 'value' ];
         $title = $page[ 'children' ][ 'value' ];
         $output .= '<li><a href="' . $url . '" rel="nofollow">' . $title . '</a&gtl';
        if ( current_user_can( 'edit_posts' ) ) { $output .= ' (' . $page[ 'children' ][ 'children' ][ 'ga:pageviews' ] . ' views)'; }
        $output .= '</li>';
        $thispost ++;
       if ( $thispost > $showposts ) break;
     }
    set_transient( $cache_key, $output, 3600 * $cache_hours );
 }
 echo $output;
}

Add this code to functions.php and then edit the line $start = '2006-09-01'; to reflect the date on which your blog statistics started. Then call latest_posts_list  with 3 parameters, all of which are required…

1. The number of days across which to gather statistics. If you specify 0 then it will be for all time.
2. The number of posts to display in the list.
3. The number of hours to cache the results.

A sidebar example, with checks for function availability, would be…

<?php if ( function_exists( 'latest_posts_list' ) ) : ?>
    <li>
        <h2>Recent Popular Posts</h2>
        <ul>
            <?php latest_posts_list( 30, 5, 24 ); ?>
        </ul>
    </li>
<?php endif; ?>

This will display the 5 most popular posts within the last 30 days and will update this list every 24 hours.

Two further functions that I use elsewhere add live statistics data to a posts content. The code can also be added to your functions.php file…

function ga_visits_shortcode( $paras = '', $content = '' ) {
 extract( shortcode_atts( array( 'days' => '' ), $paras ) );
  if ( $days == '') { $days = 30; }
   $start_date = date( 'Y-m-d', ( time() - ( 60 * 60 * 24 * $days ) ) );
   $end_date = date( 'Y-m-d' );
 $login = new GADWidgetData( get_option( 'gad_auth_token' ), get_option('gad_account_id') );
   $ga = new GALib( 'oauth', NULL, $login -> oauth_token, $login -> oauth_secret, $login -> account_id );
   $visit_data = $ga -> total_visits_for_date_period( $start_date, $end_date );
 return number_format( $visit_data[ 'value' ] );
}
add_shortcode( 'ga_visits', 'ga_visits_shortcode' );
function ga_pageviews_shortcode( $paras = '', $content = '' ) {
 extract( shortcode_atts( array( 'days' =>'' ), $paras ) );
   if ( $days == '') { $days = 30; }
   $start_date = date( 'Y-m-d', ( time() - ( 60 * 60 * 24 * $days ) ) );
   $end_date = date( 'Y-m-d' );
 $login = new GADWidgetData( get_option( 'gad_auth_token' ), get_option( 'gad_account_id' ) );
 $ga = new GALib( 'oauth', NULL, $login -> oauth_token, $login -> oauth_secret, $login -> account_id );
   $visit_data = $ga -> total_pageviews_for_date_period( $start_date, $end_date );
 return number_format( $visit_data[ 'value' ] );
}
add_shortcode( 'ga_pageviews', 'ga_pageviews_shortcode' );

Now, all you have to do is call either shortcodes – [ga_visits] or [ga_pageviews] to output the number of visitors of pageviews that your site has had. Useful for promoting your site. There is one parameter, days, which allows you specify the time range this is for. If you don’t specify this parameter then 30 is assumed.

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Months in the making, it’s been totally re-written with a host of new features. It’s also compatible with a wide range of existing plugins, in case you wish to migrate! Changes include…

• XHTML and HTML5 compliant – works with all the latest browsers
• Multiple embedding methods available – OBJECT, IFRAME and EmbedPlus
• Allow users to add videos to comments
• Build your own playlists and play them back however you want
• Create multiple profiles – use them for different videos to get the exact style that you want
• Google compatible metadata is added to the video output – great for SEO!
• Code is cached for maximum performance
• Using a different YouTube plugin? Documentation and tools are provided to help you migrate to Artiss YouTube Embed
• And much, much more!

For more details please visit the official page on this site OR visit the WordPress page. If you have any question, why not visit the forum?

You can also learn more about some of the features…

1. Embedding Options
2. Profiles & Lists
3. Why this plugin?

That list link is especially good, as I compare this plugin against the competition (I hope fairly) – see why you should switch!

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