AJAXed WordPress 1.21 released…finally.

Posted on Friday the 13th of June, 2008 at 10:45 am in Plugins, Poetry

After much delaying and dragging of feet and delaying of the third kind, AJAXed WordPress version 1.21 has been released with much fanfare and reader appreciation. This version introduces full AJAX navigation, better support for embedded JS in AJAX-loaded pages, and Italian language support.

The new version of the navigation module was commissioned and paid for by DJ Nightlife (may he be blessed with many children who don’t go through the “terrible-twos”.) AJAX Navigation has been available in AWP for several years now, but it was primitive and unfinished. Its use was limited to very specific websites that were capable of embracing its flaws. I’d like to thank him for his support of the project, and I would encourage any other users to consider commissioning features both for yourself and the AWP community at large.

The changes to the AJAX navigation module were immense and involves a complete rewrite, but it is now flexible enough to be used on any website and allows one to use any number of combinations of its features including: “page” navigation, category navigation, single post navigation, home page navigation or for those who want it, navigation of the entire website. The website is fully usable by search engines and users without JavaScript, and bookmark-ability is retained for users with JS.

JS inline the post content will now work in most circumstances. One of the most-requested compatibility issues has been solved thanks to the changes in the AJAX navigation module. While there has not been large amounts of testing, things like DIGG buttons should now work even when posts are loaded inline. This works with ALL features not just the AJAX navigation.

Italian language support has been added to this version thanks to Gianni Diurno. I’d like to further thank Momo-i for continuing to maintain the Japanese translations and lots of typo-finding in the plugin as a whole.

Changes in aWP Version 1.21

Entire Project: Improvements — Finished moving to a class structure.
AWP Core: Feature — Optionally one can disable the adding of the JS scripts to the header.
AWP Core: Feature — Added ability to move JS to footer.
AWP Core: Feature — Fixed possible bug when finding the base folder name.
AWP Admin: — Added a Twitter Backend news system.
AWP Admin: — Fixed bug in admin panel default options.
JS Core: Feature — Now uses an event listener function.
JS Core: Feature — Added support for embedded JS inside of AJAX loaded content.
Inline Comment Form: Fix — Commentform now correctly displays multiple times on index pages
Preview Comment: Feature — Now works with the rich text editor.
Threaded Comments: — Fixed bug with threaded comments using wrong link text.
Threaded Comments: — Fixed bug where link can show up twice when simple threading is used with awp default comment templates.
AJAX Nav: Feature — AJAX Nav now allows you to disable the automatic addition of the div to the loops.
AJAX Nav: Feature — One may now place the navigation links manually with do_actions.
AJAX Nav: Feature — Location of the links is now customizes as before content, after content, both, or not shown.
AJAX Nav: Feature — AJAX Navigation uses unfocus history to allow forward and backwards navigation as well as bookmarks.
AJAX Nav: Feature — AJAX Navigation can now load all local links inline.
Compatibility Module: New Module — It will now be easier to make AWP compatible with more plugins.
Compatibility Module: Feature — AWP now works better with Contact Forms 7