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Ending Post From Site, Announcing PFS2

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This will come as a surprise to no one, but I’m officially ending support for Post From Site. If anyone wants to take over, let me know & we can discuss it.

I really want to make something simple & easy to use, and Post From Site as it is now just isn’t that. It doesn’t help that it was the first plugin I ever wrote, with zero experience in writing software for others to use.

So I’m starting development on Post From Site 2. It will have the same core functionality, plus WYSIWYG support (which I’ve been asked about ever since I first released it), with anonymous posting as a lower priority (that will be brought back before it’s submitted to the plugins directory). You can follow development at the github repo, but it’s currently just an outline, really- I’ll update when I have something worth installing, and of course again when it’s in the WordPress.org directory.

Meetup Widgets 2.0

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Over the weekend I released Meetup Widgets 2.0. There are very few visible changes - the only thing a casual user would probably notice is a warning if the plugin can’t detect OAuth. [OAuth is only used if you've entered your key + secret. If you have, users can RSVP for events through your site. If you haven't entered this info, users are redirected to meetup.com. So OAuth is not required for this plugin to function]

Changelog says…

* Change to using admin-ajax to process OAuth requests, rather than custom file.
* Change basic code structure to work with other (in-development) meetup plugins.
* Add warning message if the server does not have OAuth.
* use `wp_trim_words` rather than writing something custom
* pull apart a translated string somewhat

The really big changes are barely noticeable in this plugin. So why do it? I’ve developed another Meetup plugin that allows users to register & log in to your WordPress (or BuddyPress) site using their meetup.com login. I’m in the process of writing a separate post about it, & will update this one with a link.

Meetup Widgets

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A new plugin! This one I’ve been working on (& using) for a while. I co-run a WordPress meetup through a local Meetup.com group, and we wanted to have our own blog for announcements, recaps, commenting, etc. I also wanted it to have some relation back to the events on meetup.com. So we have Meetup Widgets.

This plugin creates two widgets: one a list of events from a specific meetup group (by ID or URL name); the other shows details about single event (by ID) with a link to RSVP - using OAuth if keys are specified, otherwise just a link to the event on meetup.com. Does require at least an API key (which it asks for on the settings page).

See it in action at Valley Summit Meetups. Download it in the WordPress directory.

If you want to see any other information from meetup.com pulled into widgets, let me know & I’ll see what I can do!

(Also, coming …eventually… a way of syncing buddypress users with meetup accounts.)

Post From Site 3.0

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This release is a major rewrite of the plugin code. A number of features have been added, some of these include widget support, hooks for theming, the ability to have unregistered users post (using recaptcha [recommended, but not required]). More documentation at the end of this post.

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Post From Site 9/2 Update

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The update to Post From Site on Sept 2nd was not supposed to go out as an actual update. If you downloaded it, it likely broke your site. What you should do is disable the plugin, and/or revert to 2.0.3. The plugin directory now shows the correct version.

As of Sept 5, 2.0.3 is the most current stable version.

If you’re interested in why this happened, my readme.txt - the file the directory uses to know where to find the current version of a plugin - was malformed according to expected format. So it didn’t know where to look, and grabbed the in-development version, which was a non-working screenshot of my code, basically.

post-from-site v2.0.1

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I’ve just released post-from-site v2.0.1, which fixes the unintentional bit of code left from development (that I left a path absolute from my dev environment). It should be working for everyone now, but let me know if something else is broken.

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Any support questions should be asked here for v2.0.0+. I can only help if you give me information about your error: what error message you get, where in the process it’s failing, etc. I can’t do anything if you just tell me “it’s not working”.

And now I’m going to ask you all for help: I have this plugin installed here, but for some reason, the stylesheet is 404ing. It exists, and I’ve looked in firebug and the response text is the correct CSS, so I don’t understand why the browser is telling me the file doesn’t exist. Any ideas? I also had a similar problem with a JS file for a work project, and I never really solved it, just worked around it. They’re on different servers, so that’s not it. Any ideas?

EDIT 8/11/10 First thing: A co-worker figured out the 404 problem, which might be affecting others. The stylesheet calls a require_once on wp-blog-header.php which apparently does something to mess with the headers of the stylesheet (and the other files I had trouble with), so changing that to wp-load.php seems to include all the necessary functions. I’ll upload a fixed version tonight, also changing the div back to an a tag, since I got a few comments questioning that move (there honestly wasn’t much thought behind it, other than I usually ended up putting the link in a div so it would theoretically save code? Well, it’ll be an a again).
Second thing: Custom fields seem to be a much-requested item, so I’ll see what I can do. Widgetizing it also seems popular, but I’m not sure how that works so I’ll look into it before promising anything.

EDIT 12/07/10 Apparently I forgot to edit this post to say so, but I now have a forum for questions - one section is free community help, and the other is paid support where I promise to answer your questions. For that, however, you need to subscribe.