WPBook 2.1.2 Release

Quick update – just tagged and released WPBook 2.1.2 – should show up in the repository shortly.

Note that if you’ve already made the changes described in upgrading from 2.0.x to 2.1 you do not have to redo them, though you will have to regrant permissions (in order to fix #s 1 and 2 below).

Three significant bug fixes:

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WPBook 2.0.11

Ours Goes to 11

Just tagged and checked in another maintenance release of WPBook, 2.0.11. This will be the last (hopefully) release in the 2.0 series – next up is 2.1, with OAuth 2.0 for authentication. (Facebook is migrating in this direction, which means eliminating by March 2011 some of the calls I’m relying on now).

This release also incorporates all the 2.0.10 changes, but it marked stable – so many of you will jump right from 2.0.9.2 to 2.0.11.

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WordPress Editorial Calendar

Photo by Jason Permenter - http://www.flickr.com/photos/volcanologist/3334093782/in/photostream/

(Via Chris Brogan)
Editorial Calendar is an excellent new plugin for WordPress which shows your blog posts (already published as well as scheduled for future publishing) in a calendar view and lets you drag posts around to different days. Simple, clean, and just works (at least on the two 3.0.1 WordPress blogs I’ve tried it on – haven’t dealt with multiple authors, etc yet).

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Once more with Feeling: WPBook 2.0.3

That’s what I get for trying to make too many changes in one release. Sheesh.

WPBook 2.0.2, released last night, is already superseded by 2.0.3, which I just tagged for release.

Bugs fixed:

• Extra whitespace in wpbook.php after the closing ?> tag
• Cleaned up includes to break on functions rather than midstream

I think that will solve the most immediate issue folks are having.

As always, let me know what you’re seeing here or in the support forums.

WPBook 2.0.2: Tabs, Stream Publishing, Comment Imports

Lots of changes in WPBook 2.0.2, which I’ve just finished tagging for release, but the most important are:

• Import of comments posted on Facebook Wall. (If you’re following non-stable, beta releases, you’ve had this since 2.0.0 – but it is improved and stable enough now for all to use)
• Ability to suppress posting excerpts to Facebook on a post-by-post basis
• Fix for bug with posting excerpts to Facebook Wall (of individual profile or fan page)
• Revised instructions to match current Facebook and WPBook settings pages, in four steps
• Reordered and simplified settings page, putting most used settings nearer the top (and matching new instructions step by step)
• Tabs: for individual profiles and application profiles, you can now add a view of your blog as a tab – and much html is supported. (Sorry, no objects or iframes, thus no embedded videos).
• Debug setting which writes a file with attempts to import comments
• Ability to edit the attribution WPBook uses when posting to Facebook Walls
• PHP 5 calls moved to conditional imports – should improve error reporting for folks trying to use WPBook on PHP4 hosts, when it requires PHP5

As always you can get the latest WPBook from the WordPress.org repository and let me know in the support forums how it’s working for you.

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