Plugin News

I’ve updated all my plugins to be compatible with WordPress 2.8.  There are still the lingering bugs that affect some people but not others.  Here’s the latest news and updates regarding the plugins.

Actionable

Actionable has been languishing for a while now and needs some attention.  Among the work that needs done it to the following:

1. Allow editing of action items from the admin pages
2. Create additional views for analyzing the data captured
3. Add widget that displays statistics
4. Convert animations to jQuery UI library

Version 0.8.3 has the following changes:

• Updated animated collapse JavaScript to fix issue with jquery 1.3.2.
  • This was causing Facelift Image Replacement to not work when both were in operation together.
• Tested to work with WordPress 2.8.

Facelift Image Replacement for WordPress

I haven’t had time to do much more than minimal maintenance on Facelift Image Replacement. I’ve seen that there are number of issues with the plugin for WordPress. The roadmap for Facelift looks something like this:

Version 0.8.8 should include the following updates:

1. Add realFontHeight as a checkbox item for Elements to Replace
2. Add option for custom FLIRStyles in Elements to Replace
3. Add correct wrap for FancyFonts
4. Add check for get_browser – disable checkbox for IE 6 option if not available and add notice
5. Fix location of global settings for Automatic (wrap/progressive/etc.) – currently listed with Elements to Replace which only shows when using methods other than Automatic
6. Fix font name issue – probably will only note that fonts cannot contain spaces

I am planning the following for version 0.8.9:

1. Update FLIR to 2.0x whatever version is available when I get there.
   1. No longer planning to branch FLIR for tighter integration of the plugin more closely with WordPress plan the following instead:
      1. On upgrade recreate config-flir.php from stored settings in WordPress DB.
      2. Change the fonts path to wp-content/flir-fonts so user fonts are not removed when the plugin is updated from within WordPress.
      3. Change the cache path to wp-content/flir-cache cache will not cause the upgrade to fail of directory permissions are not the same a web server user.
2. Add ability to upload and manage fonts from within the plugin. Will include automatic renaming of fonts to reduce issues.
3. Fix the activation/deactivation of the plugin to clear the cache and hopefully eliminate the one remaining upgrade issue when upgrading from within WordPress.

And by the time version 0.9.0 is released you should see the following features:

1. Add the long promised QuickEffects to the plugin.
2. Fix all the bugs caused by me in the previous release.
3. Add any last feature requests that seem to fit.
4. Should be considered beta for 1.0

Eventually a full verison (1.0) will be released and at that point the only real changes should be the following:

1. Use Facelift 2.0 once released.
2. Squash any remaining bugs and release.

Version 0.8.7.1 has the following changes:

• Minor adjustments to work with WordPress 2.8.
• Minor changes to jQuery method to ensure compatibility with jQuery 1.3.2.

Lightbox Plus

Finally Lightbox Plus is in need of a serious overhaul.  For this I have a number of plans:

1. Rebuild lightbox to use Colorbox for image overlay with the following advantages
   1. Supports photos, photo groups, slideshow, ajax, inline, and iframed content.
   2. Appearance is completely controlled through CSS so users can restyle the box.
   3. Written in jQuery plugin format and can be chained with other jQuery commands.
   4. Generates W3C valid XHTML and CSS, adds no JS global variables & passes JSLint.
2. Add enhanced features for use with NextGEN Gallery and WordPress built in gallery.
3. Solicit and implement language translations.

Finally version 1.3.4 of Lightbox Plus has been updated to work with WordPress 2.8

I’ve been thinking about some other plugin possibilities and I am looking for feedback regarding them.  I’ll post about them as soon as I can find my notes.