thedeadone.net » editing http://thedeadone.net Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:04:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Tutorial Video for TDO Mini Forms! http://thedeadone.net/blog/tutorial-video-for-tdo-mini-forms/ http://thedeadone.net/blog/tutorial-video-for-tdo-mini-forms/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:58:15 +0000 Mark Cunningham http://thedeadone.net/?p=787

A guy called Court has put together a video tutorial and article on using TDO Mini Forms, my free WordPress plugin.

The video is pretty good too as it shows you how to create a submission form and an edit form. I think I may be adding a link to this on the FAQ! :)

As a footnote to the video, the latest version 0.13.7 does include Custom Field editing and the compare view for edit posts is now working. :)

Also check out his site for indie musicians called indilean that uses TDO Mini Forms too.

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]]> http://thedeadone.net/blog/tutorial-video-for-tdo-mini-forms/feed/ 15 A new version of TDO Mini Forms is released: 0.13.6 http://thedeadone.net/blog/a-new-version-of-tdo-mini-forms-is-released-0-13-6/ http://thedeadone.net/blog/a-new-version-of-tdo-mini-forms-is-released-0-13-6/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:18:40 +0000 Mark Cunningham http://thedeadone.net/?p=783

It’s been a while since the previous release and each release seems to take longer and longer before it’s ready, but it was officially released on WordPress.org Extend yesterday, so you should be able to automatically update today.

The big change in this release is that you can now created Edit forms that allow you to modify Custom Fields as text areas, fields, checkbox or a select list. It took a while to do because I had to refactor the Custom Field widget into the new class I designed for widgets. The power of this feature should be obvious for any sort of CMS style use of WordPress as Custom Fields are incredible powerful. The plugin also keeps a history of Custom Field changes made using the plugin and you can compare between versions, something WordPress doesn’t do itself. So you can rollback edits as required (and also moderate incoming edits).

I also refactored out all the individual field types so that fixes and features for text areas, for example, can be shared among all widgets. For a start, text fields can be used to take an email, a url or a number. I haven’t gotten around to a date/time combination yet, but it’s certainly possible.

I’ve also integrated some code improvements and hope to continue to try and improve the code base into the future. I’ve improved the AJAX code that is used for forms, hopefully preventing people from double posts (a problem that has cropped up a lot recently for people posting to the forum). The plugin also only loads the admin pages and functions only if someone with admin rights is logged in.

You can check the changelog for a full list of changes (though some minor improvements seemed to have not gotten onto the list, sorry about that).

Again, and it seems to be a recurring thing, I have to apologies that I haven’t got through to every support request on the forum. I do my best, but I really only have a few hours a week to work on TDO Mini Forms and my time gets divided then between actually implementing features or improvements or going through the forum (and I often side on working with the code instead). I know people have offered to pay for improvements, but I cannot currently commit to deadlines as I’m working a full time job at the same time.

Please keep in mind that this plugin is free and any support I do manage to provide is also free. If you found it useful you can show your appreciation via a small donation or buying me a book!

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]]> http://thedeadone.net/blog/a-new-version-of-tdo-mini-forms-is-released-0-13-6/feed/ 6 Ahhhh! v0.13 escapes with editing functionality! http://thedeadone.net/blog/ahhhh-v013-escapes-with-editing-functionality/ http://thedeadone.net/blog/ahhhh-v013-escapes-with-editing-functionality/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 08:56:40 +0000 Mark Cunningham http://thedeadone.net/?p=697

You can grab the latest version of tdo-mini-forms from WordPress.org right now!

I’m sure within minutes the internet will collapse but I’ve finally got it done. v0.13 adds the ability to edit posts and has improved moderation screen. I say that with a big sigh because there is still a lot to do to finish off the backend, improve the post editing and finally tackle the long list of bugs that has accumulated, but with this version at least you can start to play with editing.

Enjoy! And any issues report them to the support forums or even try out twitter (hashtag #tdomf).

Please keep in mind that this plugin is free and any support I provide is also free. If you found it useful you can show your appreciation via a small donation or buying me a book!

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