Blogs for Bands

Gigs Calendar 0.4.0

Dan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:24 +0000

I’ve just pushed out the new version of Gigs Calendar. It is available on the official download page. Please report any bugs you find, even if you know they existed in 0.3.3.

New Features

WordPress 2.6 compatibility
New plugin API to allow for greater customization. With this, I (and others) can create one-off customizations of the plugin without having to worry about the changes breaking when I release a new version.
RSS Feed for Gigs (iCal coming soon, probably in 0.5)
Set permission levels for users accessing the plugin.
Interface for using a post’s custom data fields.
A new widget to display details on the next gig.

Those are the biggies. In the next few days, I’ll put up a plugin to demonstrate the API and custom fields functionality.

How to translate Gigs Calendar

Dan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:36:46 +0000

There’s a new tutorial up at my development site about translating Gigs Calendar (or other WordPress plugins). If you’ve been wanting to translate Gigs Calendar and I hadn’t gotten back to you, check it out.

Translating Plugins

Gigs Calendar 0.4 beta

Dan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:07:30 +0000

Last night, I wrapped up all of the features that I think will be making it into 0.4. I still need to write up some documentation and examples, but I’d be grateful if anyone could download the development version of the plugin to look for any gaping holes/glaring bugs that I have somehow missed. There are some bug fixes in this version, so you might want to see if I’ve fixed your favorite bug. If not, send it to me again, I may have lost your bug report.

The major features include:

RSS feed of events (without using a category)
Custom fields using the built in post custom metadata. (these are extensible using a new plugin API, I’ll have documentation and examples for that soon)
Pointed the custom templates folder to a new location that won’t get destroyed when you use the automatic WordPress plugin updater. (the new templates go in /wp-content/gigs-templates/)

Calling all Londoners

Dan — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:57:07 +0000

I’d like to ask a few of you a couple of questions about your fair city. I would greatly appreciate if you’d let me send you a quick email. Send me an email at “dan” at this domain or leave a comment if you wouldn’t mind.

Thanks!

Google problems sorted out

Dan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:29:51 +0000

Somehow, the WordPress option to hide this blog from search engines was checked. I don’t know why I would have checked that, but I can unhappily report that it does work very well to keep you out of Google. I should be showing up soon, hopefully with decent PageRank because of all of the awesome links I’ve gotten from you guys! Thanks!

Auto-Upgrading in WordPress 2.5

Dan — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:13:41 +0000

WordPress 2.5 comes with a cool feature that lets you automatically upgrade plugins from the admin panel via FTP. This is very handy for most people, but there’s a problem with it. If you’ve done any customization in the “templates” folder, all of your changes will be lost. Forever.

Be sure to backup all of your customizations before you upgrade your plugin from the WordPress plugins admin page. If you’re uploading the new files yourself, or upgrading via SVN, you shouldn’t have any problems.

Gigs Calendar 0.3.3

Dan — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:57:56 +0000

Version 0.3.3 is another quick bug fix release. Below are the bugs that I’ve fixed.

In WordPress 2.2.x, categories were not showing up in the dropdown box in the settings page.
Also in WordPress 2.2.x, this version was completely messed up because I used some functions that weren’t included until WP 2.3. That’s what I get for not testing thoroughly.

Gigs Calendar 0.3.2

Dan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:05:43 +0000

The new version of the Gigs Calendar plugin is available for download. This fixes several of the outstanding bugs in 0.3.x (but not all of them). The fixes are…

Updated the I18n file. In short, this means that translators can finally translate all of the strings available in version 0.3.x.
Squashed a bug that gave you a database error on inserts on some versions of MySQL server for Windows.
Using tags on the gigs could really screw things up in the template system. You may or may not have noticed a problem. Either way, it’s fixed now.

If you don’t see your pet bug listed on the todo-list for 0.3, feel free to send it in again. I’m trying to work through all of my emails and get back to everyone.

No time like the present

Dan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:11:13 +0000

Dougal Campbell, a developer of WordPress, posts about the importance of upgrading. Hackers are actively exploiting security problems on versions of WordPress older than 2.3.3 (the latest release was 2.5).

If you’re running an older version of WordPress, you could be putting yourself at risk. If you aren’t comfortable upgrading your WordPress install, make some geeky friends and get them to do it for you. If you need professional help upgrading, including testing themes and plugins against the new version, you know where to find me.

Feedback problems

Dan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:50:02 +0000

If you’ve sent me a feedback email from the plugin in the last 12 hours or so, I haven’t gotten it. The problem with my email has been fixed, so you may need to resend your feedback.