Yep. 0.13.2 is out today. See the (new and improved wordpress 2.8) changelog for details of whats in this release.
I have to apologise for my lack of responses on the numerous support requests. I’m about a month behind but I will get through them, so hang on! 
Life, work and my other hobby projects are all overloaded these days.
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!
I’ve been testing TDO Mini Forms (a Wordpress plugin) on a live server for a few days now. Spam protection seems to work, which is great. I only have two things left to do before I do an official release: update the readme.txt and update the ReCapatcha widget to work with the editing form.
But to get people going, you can download a beta now from the development branch.
I’ve also been sucked into twitter! @thedeadone – I will be “tweeting” (is that the right verb?) using the hashtag #tdomf anything relevant to TDO Mini Forms. (’tdomf’ is the tag I’ve always used to tag stuff relevant to TDO Mini Forms online).
Any comments and feedback welcome, but don’t expect major changes before the next release (which should be very soon!). Thank you.
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!
I’ve been toiling away on TDO Mini Forms for a while, but I’m finding it hard to get a big stretch of time to work on it. So work is done in bits and pieces and I’ve had to priorities what work is done. Right now I have a long list of bugs and other features to be implemented because of being concentrating on getting Post (and Page) editing implemented.
It’s still a long way to go, however the core work is done. I can create forms that allow you edit posts and to moderate edits. It should work with Akismet, much like submissions do, but I haven’t yet tested that part of the code. The Form Options screen has been updated and the Moderation screen is much more Wordpress 2.7 now. Still there is a lot of work to do and even when I have it basically finished (and release it), I’ll still have tons more to do. The admin UI is still in a transitionally design between Wordpress 2.5 and 2.7 look and feel and most of the other widgets will incrementally get added to the editing feature.
However, to wet your appetite, here are some screen shots of the moderation screen and edit form:
I’ve just committed v0.12.7 of TDO Mini Forms into Wordpress Extend SVN, so it should be available for download shortly from Wordpress.org/Extend.
I know I said the next version will be v0.13 with Editing Support, but that’s not to be. This release includes a fix for a pretty critical bug. If you are using a Windows host please upgrade immediately!
A combination of Wordpress legacy implementation, Windows file name and TDOMF could end up attempting to delete you’re hosts harddrive. This sadly lead to a number of users, who were using their personal Windows PCs as development hosts to lose many personal files.
This would happen if you used the Upload Files widget and uploaded files and then attempted to delete the file using the Wordpress admin. The file path would be stored by TDOMF in a Custom Field. However, the Wordpress internal API (add_post_meta specifically), currently strips back-slashes from all data put in. This was because originally add_post_meta was only used by the admin backend, but is now a wildly used function by plugins and other parts of Wordpress. (IMHO it doesn’t make sense that add_post_meta modifies your input data and also this “feature” is not currently documented anywhere). Windows paths uses back slashes as directory separators, however Unix and Linux systems use forward slashes. Therefore file paths in Unix were stored successfully but Windows file paths were corrupted. So when the post was deleted, TDOMF would try to delete the associated files with that post but end up attempting to delete the hard drive because of the corrupted file path. This problem is not specific to any single version of TDOMF, but any version of TDOMF with the Upload Files widget.
Additionally in this release is a fix for the Queuing of Submissions which was broken on the move to Wordpress 2.7, a “double-opt-in” feature to Auto Respond Email widget, a necessary update to the core widget class (which may break your existing configuration, so make sure to double check) and a fix to the default Form code for the Form Hacker.
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!
Just a quick post to give you an idea where I am with the next release of TDO Mini Forms. I’m currently working on supporting Forms to Edit posts and pages that support all the other lovely features of TDO Mini Forms. However it is not a “simple” extension and it’s taking me some time to work thought it. I’m only about, I think, 30% through. 
Which means my usual bug fixing and support has been affected and apologise to anyone waiting for support or bug fixes.
I’ve been working on the next version of TDO Mini Forms and the first thing I’ve done is make sure that it works with Wordpress 2.7. And it does, the only change is some formatting on the admin menus.
Along with the usual bunch of bug fixes, I’ve implemented new form access options. In the next version you’ll be able to control who can access a form by role, specific users and specific capabilities, which should give you more power. I’m next going to be working on trying to enable forms to be used for editing, not just for submitting.
So I’ve been doing some hacking for and analysis of Planet Irish Gaming and I’ve added one new feed and welcomed back another.
Using the power of python, I wrote a site scraping script that generates a feed of LiveJournal blogs that are members of the irishgaming LiveJournal blog i.e. an RSS feed of the friends page. It’s updated three times a day (which seems to be good enough for the rate of posts) but any post that doesn’t have comments enabled can’t be included (because the site scraping script can’t generate a permalink for that post). The link to it is here on Planet Irish Gaming and it’s included in the big feed. It’s pretty nifty.
I continued with my script-hacking and created a script that “fixes” the feed from irishgaming.com. There are some technical problems with their feed so that I couldn’t include it in Planet Irish Gaming. As far as I know, they were not going to get fixed any time soon. My script fixes them and generates a valid feed so now I can include the feed. Yea!
Ah scratch that. I just checked both feeds and they have totally the wrong date. *hack* *test* *debug* *fix* … an hour later… fixed. It seems individual items in both of these new feeds were picking up the latest date rather than the last date the item was added. Should be working fine now.
Because I added the “fixed” feed from irishgaming.com to Planet, I saw this morning that they have added “ads” to irishgaming.com. So I guess I shouldn’t really have been worried about adding ads to the irishgamingwiki.com - not that it’s earned me much (if anything).
If you’ve been using the big feed from Planet Irish Gaming, you’ll know that it gets very busy. Quite a large number of posts per day. Mostly polite drivel from forums around the place, so much so I barely scan the feed. I thought that normal users might find it overwhelming. Well, thanks to the power of Wordpress, you can just grab a feed without forums (I’ve even added this feed link to the frontpage of Planet Irish Gaming) and that includes the new friends feed from livejournal so it’s pretty digestible.
Still though, even doing that, there isn’t really that much genuine roleplaying or gaming news in there. There isn’t really that much genuine Irish roleplaying and gaming content to be honest. The thought had occurred to me that I add a new category to the site (and hence a new feed) that contains only items that actually pertain to roleplaying and gaming. What I could do is add a “vote” like link to the other feeds and if an item gets a few votes it gets automatically added to this category, much like digg.com or reddit.com. However this would require users to interact with the site on some level and I’m not sure the effort I’d have to put in to implement this feature would pay off in terms of people using it. Anyone got any opinions on this?
Version 0.12.5 of the my Wordpress plugin TDO-Mini-Forms has just been made available. (It may just take a few minutes as I’ve just committed to the Wordpress.org SVN).
This version adds four new widgets:
Also these widgets were updated:
There are a few other little updates which you can check out on the Version Log. I still have quite number of entries in my Work Queue left but I’m planning to move on and look at post editing, the last big big feature. I think now is a good time to do it rather than spend so much effort adding little features and with Wordpress 2.6 revision history feature now in full operation, allowing users to edit posts should be a dream.
Don’t forget, this plugin is free, however if you found it useful you can show your appreciation via a small donation or buying me a book!
I was planning on holding off on this release and get all the necessary “fixes” and “small improvements” done but I think it’s worth releasing what I’ve fixes so far (because there is quite a lot of them), so here is v0.12.4 of TDO Mini Forms from Wordpress.org. (You’ll be able to update automatically from the Wordpress UI in just a little bit).
One of the big issues with v0.12.3 was that when some users upgraded to Wordpress 2.6.2, they found that TDO Mini Forms clashed with a number of other plugins. You can read the full forum support thread here. What they found was that they would either get random Server 500 errors or be locked out of their blog. (FYI: when this happens you should be able quickly get to the source of it by looking at you’re hosts error logs.)
In my tests I found that the file .htaccess (used by the Apache webserver to control access to files among other things) had got messed up. Once I deleted it I was able to get back into my blog and then I let my blog re-create the file and all clashes with other plugins disappeared. I was abel to run the full list of “offending” plugins with no errors.
However it seems there was another reason so if you’re on 1and1 hosting, you should check out that solution. Essentially the problem is solved by running Wordpress (and therefore all the plugins) using PHP5 (1and1 seem to be using a earlier version of PHP by default). You can easily check your version using the phpinfo link (and there is a nice little helpful message printed at the top of the TDOMF admin screen if you’re using a version less than PHP5).
I’m not going to spend any more time investigating this bug as it has completely slowed down development of new features and other bugs. If you really are desperate to get TDOMF up and running under PHP4, please consider “donating“.
I’ve also spend time updating the included Readme.txt (which is also automatically HTML-ified on Wordpress.org), with lots of useful info. So please make sure to RTFM!
So what else is actually in this release?
If you want the full list, check the readme.txt.
What I’m still working on, which I had hoped originally to release altogether:
And maybe, after all that, I might get around to doing Post Editing…
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