Bug Fixes and Enhancements

After a lot time away from development due to an illness, I have started back on updates, improvements, and bug fixes for my plugins. The first was a bug fix in the Login Configurator plugin fixing a problem where the “Teaser” option did not work on a static page. If you have any comments or suggestions for that plugin, please let me know.

The other recent updates was in the Better RSS Widget plugin. I have added a short code to this plugin to allow you to embed RSS feeds into posts and pages.  I have included a couple samples of embedded RSS (you may need to view the full article) and you can find more information and usage instructions on the RSS Shortcode page. Future additions to this plugin will include conditionals so that you can place widgets only on specific pages, and perhaps a feed aggregator function to bring multiple feeds into one widget.

Example of Embedded RSS with Date and Author

better-rss feed=”http://wordpress.org/development/feed” items=5 show_date=1 show_author=1

• WordPress 3.0.1 July 29, 2010 Andrew Nacin
• PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement July 23, 2010 Mark Jaquith
• 100 Million Plugin Downloads and Counting July 2, 2010 Andrew Nacin
• Summer of WordCamp June 29, 2010 Jane Wells
• WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious" June 17, 2010 Matt Mullenweg

Same RSS Feed with Summary

better-rss feed=”http://wordpress.org/development/feed” items=5 show_date=1 show_author=1 show_summary=1

• WordPress 3.0.1 July 29, 2010
  After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku: Three dot oh dot one Bug fixes to make you smile Update your WordPress This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make [...] […]
  Andrew Nacin
• PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement July 23, 2010
  Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the [...] […]
  Mark Jaquith
• 100 Million Plugin Downloads and Counting July 2, 2010
  WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed 3 million downloads yesterday, and today the plugin directory followed suit with a milestone of its own: 100 million downloads. The WordPress community’s growth over the years has been tremendous, and we want to reinvest in it. So we’re taking the next two months to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major [...] […]
  Andrew Nacin
• Summer of WordCamp June 29, 2010
  It’s been summer for about a week now. Whether you’re on vacation or burning the midnight oil, attending a local/nearby WordCamp is a great way to spend a weekend. Meet other WordPress users, developers, designers & consultants, learn a little something, maybe share a little of your own experience and knowledge, and break bread (or [...] […]
  Jane Wells
• WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious" June 17, 2010
  Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow [...] […]
  Matt Mullenweg

Note: The text in italics is the actual shortcode used to create the output. The plugin does not display this, it is simply included on this page so you can view the examples.