Published on Wednesday, July 7 2010
Quick warning: don’t run WPBook with the latest version (0.99.9.8-BETA) of the Lifestream plugin. Bad things will happen.
An updated version of the prohibition on burning the candle at both ends
Here’s why it’s important to test plugin updates.
After my last post about beta testers for WPBook, I decided to go update my other plugins which had updates available, including Lifestream, which had an update to 0.99.9.8-BETA from 0.99.6 available.
So I jumped in without really doing any investigating of what changes there were – bad idea.
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Published on Wednesday, July 7 2010
Test Boxes, photo by David Bleasdale, cc-by license
I’ve just tagged version 2.0.0 of WPBook for release, but haven’t yet changed the “stable” tag in the readme.
What that means is that if you’re using WPBook, you won’t seen any automated notification of a newer version being available. You’ll have to go to the WPBook download page and find 2.0.0 at the top of the “other versions” list.
Please do so, especially if you are willing to help test the new features.
What is there to test? Most importantly, a new feature which imports comments made by users on your Facebook wall (or the wall of a Facebook page) in response to excerpts posted by WPBook on those pages.
In other words, if you have “publish to Facebook Stream” enabled and working for your personal wall and/or the wall of a Fan Page, when you publish a new blog post, and that post gets published to the FB wall, and users make comments on that wall post, those same comments will get imported to your WordPress hosted blog.
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Published on Sunday, March 28 2010
Two quick Sunday updates.
First, ReTweeter has been updated to 0.9.4. The fix here was primarily to deal with tweets which, when retweeted with the username prepended, were longer than 140 characters.
Second, WPBook has been updated to 1.5.3. This includes a new option to enable publishing to the wall of a Fan Page independent of publishing to the author’s personal wall. (1.5, 1.5.1, and 1.5.2 all could publish to Fan Page walls, but also published to the author’s wall, which in many cases results in duplication for many of your friends and fans.)
Also in 1.5.3 is some improved error checking (fixed the “activation on PHP 4 hosts” bug and added more Try/Catch pairs around Facebook client calls) and the ability to support old school permalink urls with query string parameters.
Good to be home on the weekend . . .
Published on Monday, March 15 2010
I’ve just tagged and released version 1.5.2 of WPBook, which should be available for download by the time you read this.
In this version:
- Plugin now checks for PHP 5 at activation, will not allow activation under PHP4
- Checks for zero pages of which user is admin (avoid edge case exception)
- Added link to installation instructions to permissions page
- Added offline-access permission request (some users had not yet granted this permission)
Added “show errors” mode, which when enabled traps exceptions thrown by the Facebook client and shows them to the user
Not really a required upgrade, but it should help folks having trouble, and won’t cause trouble for others.
I will also now close comments on the existing 1.5 release blog post, as it is now out of date.
In general, I’d prefer not to use comments for troubleshooting anyway – please use the support forums for those kinds of items instead.
Thanks
Published on Monday, January 4 2010
(Update 1/14 – now 1.4.2. Fixes detailed in readme – Admin side javascript issue, issue with submitting comments for folks who install wordpress files in a subdirectory different than their root URL)
(Updated 1/5 – it’s actually 1.4.1 now, as there was a typo in the theme/index.php file – get_exteral_url should be get_external_url).
Last night I packaged and released version 1.4 of WPBook, the plugin I maintain which creates a view of your WordPress blog as a Facebook application.
(For example, see Open Parenthesis as a blog, and then Open Parenthesis as a Facebook app).
Highlights of this release
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