New Comments Display
I just submitted Recipe Press 0.8 to the repository, and this one adds the long awaited recipe comments to the mix. I spent 12 hours today working on this update, testing it on various installs of both stand alone Wordpress as well as Wordpress MU, and making sure I left no debugging code to mess up your sites. But there are other updates and changes including:
- Comments! Of course, this is the big thing, and I think you will like how it works.
- New settings for comments added to the Recipe Press Settings page.
- New option to remove all Recipe Press data on plugin deactivation added to settings page.
- Consolidated all plugin options into one record to clean up the options table.
- Added a lot of template tags for the comments – more coming for categories and recipes soon.
Upgrade Notice
The addition of the comments meant that the recipe-display.php template file had to be modified to show these comments. Luckily, it is just a little change. If you are using a custom template for your site, you must add <?php $this->showComments(); ?> to your template before the comments will show on your site.
Another change was to consolidate all the Recipe Press settings into one record in the Wordpress options table making it easier to uninstall this plugin. Of course, the added option on the settings page to remove all data helps with that. Don’t worry though because I included a script on activation to convert your old settings to the new format, and remove all the old settings.
What does the future hold?
The next major enhancement to the plugin will be the ability to add photos to the recipes. I have decided to use the built in Media Library for this so that images uploaded from the site can be used in recipes, and vice versa. This enhancement will be another major marathon of coding and likely will not happen until after the holidays. If you have any requests or suggestions now is the time to send them in.
To make the plugin more configurable, I have already started coding in Template Tags, Actions, and Filters similar to the Wordpress features. Once these are added there will need to be some modifications made to your template files if you are using custom templates. I will post instructions for this when that happens.
I am also going to improve on the Categories function to integrate these more into Wordpress navigation. In an upcoming version I will add an option to auto generate a page for each category that will automatically show the recipes in that category with no extra code needed. You will be able to move these pages around and order them in any way you want using the standard Wordpress page hierarchy.
Finally, I am looking into how to allow this plugin to create RSS feeds as well as output recipes in a standardized recipe format. This upgrade will be a ways off but I am looking for your ideas and suggestions for this. Either post below or send me an email if you want to contribute to this or any other feature.
So, enjoy the new features and as always, please visit the Support Forums to report any bugs or ask any questions.
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