Last day of 2008

Mark Cunningham — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:59:09 +0000

I only a few minutes to blog today, on the last day of 2008. I may not even get to finish this post, depending on when my son wakes up from his nap. I don’t have a checklist or wishlist of things I had planned to do this year. Nor do I intend to do it for next year. Too many things have happened this year that it would be unfair to summaries as a bullet point in a meme. The scary thing is that it only seems like yesterday that it was the previous Christmas as I can vividly remember what the kids got then and now.

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and that next year brings you good things.

A christmass gift to all TDO-Mini-Form users!

Mark Cunningham — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:40:28 +0000

Yep. A new version for you all. A new permalink widget, integration with Geo Mashup plugin (for all your geo-positioning needs), enhanced user permissions and some 2.7 testing. You should be able to get it shortly from wordpress.org or via the new plugin update system in 2.7.

I won’t be around for Christmass/New Year so they’ll be no support really for bugs and fixes.

My original intention was that the next release of TDO Mini Forms would include post editing. I’m afraid this isn’t going to manifest till the new year. I wanted to do some intial ground work by adding the enhanced user permissions and creating a widget class (which was used to create the two new widgets in this release) first but when I had done that I started to procrastinate just a tiny bit and when I procrastinated, I ended up bug fixed or add the new widgets so I don’t think it was time wasted!

Lots of bugs got fixed: slashes in posts, breaking comments, errors during upload, ‘0′ not being accepted in text fields as valid values, slow loading of admin menus when you have too many users, recaptcha not working in AJAX mode and a few more other little things.

The new widget Permalink allows you to let users set a different permalink for the post. This allows you to let users submit links that when a user clicks on the post, they’ll be redirected to the URL. The Geo Mashup integration widget is based on the original hack of hitekhomeless and its something people have been asking for a while now. It seems to work fine on my test setup (but there are some minor display issues if using a heavily customised theme).

Also, I’ve created a Widget class. If you’re not into code don’t worry - if you are, I hope in the new year to write up a very simple tutorial on how to create your own widgets to add some fields to the form and process them after submission. The new widget class really simplifies it.

And yes. TDO-Mini-Forms is compatible with 2.7 and I’ve now updated the info on wordpress.org to reflect this.

So enjoy and have a Merry Christmass.

Don’t forget, this plugin is free, however if you found it useful you can show your appreciation via a small donation, buying me a book or giving this plugin a high rating on wordpress.org!

2007 Christmass TODO List progress

Mark Cunningham — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:36:41 +0000

You’re going to hate me. Sorry.

Figure out what to get everyone… check!
Get Alice to write Santa letter… check!
Buy presents… check!
Wrap presents… check!
Put up Christmass lights… check!
Put up Christmass tree… check!
Put up Christmass decorations… still to be done but will be done by the end of the week.

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Last day of 2008

A christmass gift to all TDO-Mini-Form users!

2007 Christmass TODO List progress