Anthology of Ideas

Well I might as well be. There will be no posts, no plugin updates, and VERY little support given. Sorry for any inconvenience, for delays and for the terse replies you may or may not receive.

Sometimes the real world likes to intrude onto my fun, and for the next 8 days — until Saturday the 10th — it is intruding with all due force and demanding my exclusive attention.

(I still need to eat, so support requests sent with a donation will be answered fully.)

Oh, and for my feed readers, do you enjoy Literature Thursdays ™ or just ignore the long, esoteric, and conceited posts that you find then? I’m trying to decide if I should keep going or switch topics.

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AJAXed WordPress version 1.13 has been released. The major changes in this version include an optional rich text editor (tinyMCE) for comments, cleaner, smaller and faster JavaScript, inclusion of mootools library. Oh, and for users without JavaScript, features that serve no purpose without JS enabled don’t appear.

Changes in aWP Version 1.13

1. Entire Project: Improvements — Many changes and updates for translations to make them more flexible and usable.
2. AWP Core: Feature — Optional default structural CSS is now included, core.css.php file for modules to add required CSS to, and you can have a AWP specific style sheet in the theme’s aWP folder.
3. AWP Core: Improvement — Translations now use aWP-xx.po (mo) naming conventions. Default .po file name has been changed to match.
4. AWP Core: Fix — “Curly quotes” and apostrophes now always display correctly in links.
5. JS Core: Improvement — The giant switch statements have been removed in favor of custom objects.

The administration panel of AJAXed WordPress didn’t work correctly in IE and would report an error when someone attempted to change screens. Sorry about this, and version 1.11.1 fixes this. This only effects administrators and does not effect users, so you don’t need to worry about it if you only use Firefox.

The following is the 1.11.1 changelog.

1. AWP Admin: Fix — Fixed IE bug that made it impossible to switch screens in the admin panel.
2. Inline Posts: Fix — Fixed PHP 5 bug with do_action(’awp_post’);.
3. AWP Core: Fix — Fixed misspelling and a few untranslatable phrases. Props. momo-i.
4. Live Preview, Quicktags, Preview Comment: Fix — Fixed bug when no suffix is used on comment form.

I had to do something to commemorate the once-every-four-years event that is today. Therefore, Version 1.11 of AJAXed WordPress introduces support for WP 2.5 (still in development), better handling of child comments when parents are deleted, integration with WP AJAX Edit Comments, smooth scrolling, a more usable Administration panel, and more.

Some Screenies of the new Admin Panel: (Note: The content is the same in both panels, you just see two different tabs of the Admin panel.)

In WP 2.3:

In WP 2.5:

1. AWP Core: Feature — Scrolling method is now configurable. Choices are the new smooth scrolling, the older “bounce,” or no scrolling of any kind.
2. AWP Core: Feature — Default .po file has been added to the core. Feel free to translate it.
3. AWP Core: Fix — Fixed bug that would occur when people renamed aWP.php to awp.php
4. AWP Core: Feature — Deactivating and reactivating AWP no longer resets options.
5. AWP Admin: Feature — Admin panel was restructured to be more usable, and when saving the options or activating a module, it now “remembers” what page you were on.
6. AJAX Edit Comments: New Module — Integrates AWP with WP AJAX Edit Comments, so both may run at the same time with ALL features.
7. Inline Comments: Feature — Child comments no longer vanish when their parents are deleted.

The following announcement landed in my in-box today:

Today, we’re excited to announce the introduction of Google Sites as part of Google Apps.

Google Sites makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. You can quickly gather a variety of information in one place — including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and gadgets — and easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, your entire organization, or the world.

* Anyone can do it — Building a site is as simple as editing a document, and you don’t need anyone’s help to get started.
* Share from one place — Create a single place to bring together all the information your team needs to share, including docs, videos, photos, calendars and attachments.
* Work together — Invite co-workers, classmates, or your entire organization to edit your site with you to keep it fresh and up-to-date. And let as many or few people view your site as you want.

AJAXed WordPress has, according to WordPress.org, finally reached over 1000 downloads in the same week. Thank you to everyone who has left the link on their website, or who has helped to promote it.

If you are wondering why the statistics are done through WordPress.org, it is because AJAXed WordPress downloads are hosted in their download repository, and its own page. It doesn’t matter where you download the file from, here or there, you get the latest released version.

What do these numbers mean? It means on a daily basis, AJAXed WordPress is getting almost as many downloads (not hits) as the day with the biggest spike. (The day it was on the front page of Weblog Tools Collection.) It also means that on a daily basis it is getting more hits that Inline AJAX Page ever did. This shows me that the extra work to bring it from the beast that was INAP to AWP was well worth it.