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• podPress 8.8.5 released

  Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:03:30 +0200 | podPress | Tim B.

  Today, I released podPress 8.8.5. This version comes with a lot of bug fixes and adjustment to current WordPress versions. It is compatible up to WP 3.0. podPress has also some new features. You can find a full list of the changes in the new Changelog.
  
  If you discover a problem with this plugin then report it in the WP.org "Plugins and Hacks" forum and tag your post with the tag "podpress".
  
  All phrases in podPress are now ready for translation. Prepared .mo and .po files are in the package of v8.8.5. If you have a translation or if you have questions, please send an email to podpress [at] web.de
  
  I have already started to make a German language file: podpress-de_DE_885_19072010.zip.

• new plugin for debbuging plugins and themes in WP 3.0

  Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:10:54 +0200 | general | Tim B.

  Motivation:
  If you run WP 3.0 and you get messages like "The plugin generated 2533 characters of unexpected output during activation. If you notice "headers already sent" messages, problems with syndication feeds or other issues, try deactivating or removing this plugin." then you can uses this plugin to print the original message(s) which have e.g. 2533 characters into a log file. (These message might occur if you set the constant WP_DEBUG = TRUE.)
  
  Usage:
  
  
  
  • use ONLY with WP 3.0 (upcoming WP version might have build in such output function (see this proposition))
  
  
  • install and activate this plugin
  
  
  • insert in line 63 of /wp-admin/plugins.php the lines:
    if (function_exists("printphpnotices_var_dump")) {
    printphpnotices_var_dump($result->get_error_data());
    }
  
  
  • (re-)actvate the other plugin which causes the messages
  
  
  • look into the log file (printphpnotices_log.dat) which is in the folder of Print PHP Notices plugin
  
  
  
  
  You can download Print PHP Notices here.

• podPress 8.8.5 RC 2.1

  Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:26:08 +0200 | general | Tim B.

  podPress is going to become marked as stable very soon. But one or two minor issue needs to be reviewed first.
  
  Follow the discussion here and here.

• podPress 8.8.5 beta 12

  Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:49:23 +0200 | general | Tim B.

  Beta 11 and 12 include a lot of fixes for problems with the "Play in Popup" and YouTube videos which occurred especially in (old) IE browsers. Furthermore beta 12 incudes bug fixes for problems with the new bot list functionality.

• podPress 8.8.5 beta 9

  Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:29:15 +0200 | general | Tim B.

  I believe that this is probably the last beta version and that the next Development Version will be a Release Candidate.
  Beta 9 brings some HTML and CSS modifications specially on the post/page editor pages and compared to earlier beta versions the way the plugin determines the upload directory is now compatible with older WP versions again. Furthermore the process of the file size and duration determination has been improved a little bit more.
  
  Please, test the Development Version and tell me your experiences.

• podPress and WP 3.0 Multi Sites

  Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:45:21 +0200 | general | Tim B.

  Today, I made some further changes to podPress Development Version. podPress 8.8.5 beta 7 which is the current Development Version should be compatible and usable with WP 3.0 in the new Multi Sites mode.

• podPress 8.8.5 beta 4

  Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:07:39 +0200 | general | Tim B.

  In the last weeks I have written with the help of some diligent bug reporters a lot of patches for podPress. All theses patches are now in the current Development Version of podPress. You can download this version here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/download/.
  
  That is new or changed in 8.8.5 beta 4:
  
  
  
  • new ATOM feeds: podPress adds now an feed with the name "torrent" which contains only posts (or pages) with .torrent files and a feed with the name "enhancedpodcast" which contains only posts (or pages) with .m4a/.m4v files
  
  
  • more options for the podPress - Feed Buttons widget: more buttons (new buttons added: feed-enhpodcast.png, feed-torrent.png, button_comments_rss_blog.png, button_atom_blog.png, button_comments_atom_blog.png)
  
  
  • more options for the podPress - Feed Buttons widget: feed buttons mode or text mode (In the text mode there is in front of each text a feed icon, but only for WP 2.2 . For older WP versions it is possible to add an icon via the Filter Hook: podpress_legacy_support_feed_icon)
  
  
  • more phrases ready for internationalization (http://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers)
  
  
  • frappr.com maps advice on the General Settings page of podPress removed
  
  
  • contains a fix for a problem (WP.org forum post 379290) with single and double quotation marks in the media file titles (Thanks to John Halton)
  
  
  • the appearance (incl. paging) of the tables on the statistic pages is updated
  
  
  • new feature: a bot filter for the download statistic - users can select (and deselected) IP addresses and user agent names which are probably search engine bots. The statistics will be computed without the download numbers of these bots. (for FULL / FULL stat logging)
  
  
  • The display of the statistics of the different collecting method Count Only, FULL and FULL are now separated. If the Count Only logging is active then the statistic page will have now besides the Quick Counts a comparable graph. This table and the graph and the Statistic Summary on the Dashboard are based on the numbers of the db table wp_podpress_statcounts. In Full or Full logging mode the number come from the wp_podpress_stats. That is important to know because the counter which counts the downloads on the wp_podpress_statcounts table counts when one of the 3 logging modes is active but the other counter which collects the data in the wp_podpress_stats table counts only during Full and Full mode. In other words: the numbers of the 2 tables can differ if someone uses the Counts Only mode for a while and than one of the others. Furthermore it is not possible to display the numbers of the Counts Only mode without the download numbers of the bots.
  
  
  • a new "Downloads Per Media File" and a new "Downloads Per Post" overview (for FULL / FULL stat logging)
  
  
  • The object-element of the players has the class "podpress_player_object".
  
  
  • each podPress page and the Admin Menu has an icon (podpress_icon_r2_v2_32.png and podpress_icon_r2_v2_16.png added)
  
  
  • a new button and icon for YouTube videos embedded with podPress (embed_youtube_button.png / embed_youtube_icon.png)
  
  
  • a new button and icon for WMA files embedded with podPress (audio_wma_button.png / audio_wma_icon.png) (Now, podPress handles WMA file internally as audio_wma and not as video_wma.)
  
  
  • podPress uses now the DB_CHARSET or DB_COLLATE constants to create the 2 statistics tables
  
  
  • a new customizable XSPF player (Ticket #1089)
  
  
  • a reworked player preview
  
  
  • fix for podPress_downloadlinks container
  
  
  • fix for the "Before More"-functionality
  
  
  • better handling of invalid input data in the feed generating procedures
  
  
  • additional descriptions for the feed settings pages of podPress
  
  
  • patch for an error-free stats counter
  
  
  • Podango message at the general settings page of podPress
  
  
  • compared to 8.8.5 beta 2 the last patch of this Ticket #1064 makes that the enclosures which are added with podPress listed always before the enclosures from the custom fields with the name "enclosure". That is important because podcatchers like iTunes tend to recognize only the first enclosure of a RSS item. (Is a fix for this problem.
  
  
  • update to 1PixelOut player a.k.a. Audio Player 2.0
  
  
  • update to getID3 1.7.9
  
  
  
  Please, help to test this beta version.
  Before you start testing make a backup of your database and your files!
  Report your bug in this forum and if your start a new thread then use at least the tag "podpress".

• Custom Field List Widget v1.1.2

  Thu, 20 May 2010 15:09:22 +0200 | Custom Field List Widget | Tim B.

  The plugins frontend has now a Danish translation provided by Peter Kirring
  
  Further I have enhanced the German language files and switch from the old translation of custom fields "Spezialfelder" to the new one "Benutzerdefinierte Felder".

• PhotoZip v0.7.2 and the future of this plugin

  Thu, 20 May 2010 15:06:54 +0200 | Photozip | Tim B.

  PhotoZip v0.7.2 is a bug fix release which contains fixes of some old and sloppy PHP code. PhotoZip should work with modern PHP versions again. But ...
  
  Since WP 2.7 I am using the WP-own picture uploader to fill my image galleries. This uploader does what only PhotoZip made possible in older WP versions: upload more than one picture at once. But now you can use the WP-own uploader in a comparable manner. You simply select multiple files and click on "Upload" and WP does the rest.
  Because that procedure works so good I am not going to continue the development of this plugin.
  I will try to answer your questions and help if someone else like to continue or to modify this plugin.
  
  One very helpful plugin for the switch from PhotoZip to the WP media uploader is probably the Add From Server plugin. This plugin "[...] allows you to browse the filesystem on the webserver and copy any files into the WordPress uploads system, Once "imported" it will be treated as any other uploaded file, and you can access it via the Media [...]" library.

• Custom Field List Widget v1.1.1

  Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:21:30 +0200 | Custom Field List Widget | Tim B.

  This version contains a fix for a bug in the sorting order functionality of version 1.0. The option ASC/DESC should work now as expected.
  I am very sorry that I have created probably some confusion with version 1.0!!
  
  Special Thanks to Connie for reporting the bug!!

• Custom Field List Widget v1.0 RC 4

  Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:46:24 +0200 | Custom Field List Widget | Tim B.

  v1.0 RC 4 includes a new feature. It should now be possible to sort the post title resp. the (lowest) sub list elements alphabetically. (Fabio brought up the idea in the comments (nr. 37))
  Furthermore I have found and fixed a problem with the "sort the values by the last word" feature.
  
  You can try this RC 4. To do so, download the Development Version from the repository.

• Custom Field List Widget v1.0 RC 3

  Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:41:13 +0100 | Custom Field List Widget | Tim B.

  Version 0.9.9 came with the new drop down menu option but it was only possible to have the values displayed like with the option "each element with sub elements" and there was no way to change by a setting on the widgets page. That is different in version 1.0. In that version you have to select this option actively.
  Another new thing is the class "customfieldlist_opt_link" which all clickable drop down menu elements have.
  The widget_custom_field_list.css file contains now predefined CSS definitions for this class which makes the clickable elements in the drop down menus look like links (< a > HTML tags).