Category Developments

After several months of immobility, I decided to improve the plugin EG-Series. This version fixes some bugs, and adds features requested by users.

Bugs fixed

Since version 1.3, an error prevented rename the series. This problem is now solved.
I had two problems in the “posts editor” page:

• comments and trackbacks were always disabled when the metabox of EG-Series was activated,
• some links disappeared.

Jan Fabry, gave me the solution for the second bug, and I finally found the solution for the first. To be confirmed however.

I fixed a lot of errors in French translation. For example, the widgets interface stayed in English, while the translation was active in the rest of the plugin.

New Features

Two main features:

• Ability to choose the position of the automatic shortcode,
• The url of series can lead to a specified page (or post), instead of the first post of the serie.

The shortcode can now automatically appear: before the excerpt, between the excerpt and the content of posts, or at the end of posts. The new positions works well with manual excerpt, and teaser (excerpt using <!–more–>).

Until now, the url of a series always pointed to its first post (from the publication date). You can now specify the identifier of a page or post, and then dedicate a page or post to each serie.

Finally, in the widgets displaying the list of series, you can now use the name of the series as the title of the widget.

Conclusion

EG-Series progresses. I will try to improve it gradually, using suggestions from users (1600 downloads), while keeping the goal of having a plugin least “bulky” as possible.

The documentation will be updated soon.

We are (already) at the end of the summer holidays. This time is always the opportunity to make a status of your activity. Since 2009, I published four plugins. Some of them are mature, others still have good margins of evolution. So I took a few hours to set an overall development strategy for knowing what to add, change, or stop.
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As mentioned in a previous post, I participate to the contest WordPress Plugin Competition 2009, with the plugin EG-Delicious-Sync. The contest is closed since August 1st, we just have to wait the verdict of the jury. If you use Delicious, don’t hesitate to try the last version of the plugin, and to vote vote on the contest site.

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As a lot of WordPress users, I also use the bookmarker Delicious. Both of the tools are efficient to manage links, but we have to decide if we want to manage our links in the both tools, or use each of these tools differently. If we choose the first case, we have to enter the links twice.
Some plugins allow to display the Delicious links in our blog, but most of them just read RSS feeds coming from Delicious. This method has two disadvantages: we can get only the last updated or added bookmarks, and it can slow down the blog.
EG-Delicious-Sync allow to backup the Delicious links into WordPress links database. You can then use these links as usual, with the WordPress features (widgets, templates tags …).
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