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WordPress Plugin Updates
Posted by clifgriffin in Technology on May 6th, 2009
I spent some time updating all of my WordPress plugins today. A few months ago commenter Bramus noted that Simple LDAP Login allowed all WordPress users, regardless of rights, to access the administrative page. I took an appalling amount of time to get around to updating this, but I went ahead and updated it in all of my plugins. (Those with admin pages)
I also fixed a couple of other minor issues that hardly merit mention.
If you are using these plugins, I suggest you go ahead and update.
Featured Category WordPress Plugin
Posted by clifgriffin in Code on October 5th, 2008
Find a bug?
If you believe you have found a bug, please open a ticket here. This will allow me to track the issue as a single issue and others to comment and give feedback.
I’m finding it difficult to discern user error from bug from configuration differences among different installations. All of this will lead to a quicker turn around for reported issues. Isn’t that cool?
Official WordPress Link
About a month ago I began searching for a plugin I just knew existed. I needed a plugin that would allow me to select a category, a number of posts, and display a neatly formatted list of the applicable posts from that category.
For the site in question, I needed to list recent posts from a “Projects” category. I imagined that there would be at minimum a plugin for posting news items that I could modify. I settled with using The_Loop. At the time I made a mental note “I need to turn this into a plugin.”
Which brings us to Featured Category, my first WordPress Plugin. (Be gentle!)
I tried to follow the WordPress API as closely as possible.
Once you activate the plugin, , simply load it’s settings page and choose the category, the title or “heading” and the number of posts you wish to display.
If the style is not to your liking, simply modify featcat_style.css in the plugin directory. I have included entries for implemented and unimplemented portions to speed things up.
An example from this site. (See home page)
A screenshot from the settings page.
This plugin makes displaying posts from a specific category simple.
Please contact me with any questions. Feel free to post a comment below.
Any feedback will be appreciated.
Updates 10.9.2008
Thanks to user feedback I fixed/modified the following things in version 1.0.1:
- Settings page now sets the category drop down box selection when you return to the page.
- It shouldn’t run in sidebar widgets anymore.*
*Assuming the sidebar loads after the post…if this isn’t the case on some themes, I’ll have to do more thinking.
Updates 10.11.2008
Thanks to feedback from Raju, I have fixed the following issue:
- Path to CSS file was broken in wordpress version of the download. This is because wordpress named the folder differently than I expected.
Updates 5.6.2009
Version 1.0.2.1
- Fixed security issue. Only administrators can access admin pages now.
- Deleted trailing spaces/empty lines in plugin file that were causing issues with WP Super Cache.
Download it now…
Featured Category 1.0.2 for WordPress 2.7.1
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