Another Upgrade

Posted on April 1st, 2008 by Steve
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Blogging Fixes Internet Wordpress

Now, csc is powered by Wordpress 2.5. This is not just a minor upgrade to patch some security holes, this is major. In order to help out, here is a list of plugins I have found to be compatible with 2.5 right out of the box…

  1. Admin Menu v. 4.0
  2. Advanced TinyMCE Editor v. 0.5.0
  3. CapCC v. 1.0
  4. Comment Sorter v. 1.1
  5. Favicon Manager v. 0.1
  6. Flickr Photo Gallery v. 0.94
  7. Google Analytics v. 0.68
  8. Multi-Topic Icon v. 1.5
  9. New User Email Set Up v. 0.2.5
  10. Search Docs v. 2.0
  11. Snap Shots™ Plugin for Wordpress.org v. 2.0
  12. Subscribe To Comments v. 2.1.2
  13. Twitter Tools v. 1.1b1
  14. WordPress Database Backup v. 2.1.5
  15. WP-Polls v. 2.21
  16. WP-Polls Widget v. 2.21
  17. WP-Stats v. 2.20
  18. WP-Stats Widget v. 2.20
  19. WP-UserOnline v. 2.20
  20. WP-UserOnline Widget v. 2.20

Some needed to be upgraded or had a line or two of code added…

  1. Akismet v. 2.1.4 “Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. By Matt Mullenweg.” This upgrade came with the Wordpress 2.5 distro.
  2. LiveJournal Crossposter v. 2.0 “Automatically copies all posts to a LiveJournal or other LiveJournal-based blog. Editing or deleting a post will be replicated as well. This plugin was inspired by Scott Buchanan’s Xanga Crossposter By Evan Broder.” This needed a couple of lines of code replaced. We’ll see if the crosspost works from here.
  3. Now Reading v. 4.4.2 “Allows you to display the books you’re reading, have read recently and plan to read, with cover art fetched automatically from Amazon. By Rob Miller.” Upgrade from the author’s site.
  4. Subscribe2 v. 4.5 “Notifies an email list when new entries are posted. By Matthew Robinson.” Also Subscribe2 Debug 1.0 and the Subscribe2 Uninstaller 1.0. Auto upgrade from package available at Wordpress.org.
  5. TinyMCEComments v. 0.4.3-1 “A simple hack to enable WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE on the comment field. By Thomas Au(MK).” This kinda sorta works. It works great on my test blog on my Mac under MAMP, online, it is invisible. I am going to see if I have any conflicts in the wp-content folder in my installation online. Upgraded this to version 0.4.3-2 and it worked, I have since added Ajaxed Wordpress and that works great now.
  6. Wordpress Gravatars v. 2.6.5.1 “Makes use of Gravatars and MyBlogLog Avatars, places Gravatars or MyBlogLog Avatars in the comments section. Uses the comment authors email to display their Gravatar. It also gives the user an Author Profile picture, based on his or hers Gravatar. Change your options here. As of version 2.2 there is also a widget for Recent Comments with Gravatars. By Rune Gulbrandsøy.” Upgraded from site.
  7. WP-SpamFree v. 1.5.9 “A powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates automated comment spam from bots. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! By Scott Allen, aka WebGeek.” Auto upgrade from package available at Wordpress.org.

Only one totally broke. That was Now Watching. It’s based on Now Reading which was recently fixed by it’s author. Now Watching isn’t anymore, it looks abandoned by it’s author. If anyone knows of any plugins for displaying a person’s movie list, (not NetFlix) let me know.

So what does this all do for you, the reader? Speed enhancements, better performance, heightened security, better SPAM filtering. It’s all good.

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  1. SteveNo Gravatar posted the following on April 3, 2008 at 7:14 am.

    :mrgreen:

  2. Pingback from Creeva’s World 2.0 » Livejournal Crossposting fixed

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  3. Captain SerekNo Gravatar posted the following on April 2, 2008 at 11:07 pm.

    I see that. I am glad someone found it useful for their blog. 

  4. SteveNo Gravatar posted the following on April 2, 2008 at 11:05 pm.

    OK, time for some corrections, additions and subtractions.

    I have replaced Comment Sorter and TinyMCEComments with Ajaxed Wordpress (AJW). AJW now does what I need it to do, and it seems to work with Safari.

    As far as Advanced TinyMCE Editor (ATMCEE) you can forget about it. Unless I am sorely mistaken, and I usually am, the author is not currently maintaining this. I thought this was TinyMCE Advanced (TMCEA) which shows up in the Wordpress Plugin Repository, alas, this was not the case. Needless to say, I have switched over to that, and it works great. I don’t use the Wordpress editor much, as ecto for Mac is my choice, but when I have to, I like to have some formatting choices at my finger tips.

    Now that csc is looking and acting the way I like, there will be very little tweaking for the foreseeable future; of course, isn’t that the fun of having a hosting account and Wordpress?

  5. SteveNo Gravatar posted the following on April 2, 2008 at 9:43 pm.

    Creeva, thanks for posting, I don’t get many visitors… :-)

    Anyway, you want to replace this code:

    if(version_compare($wp_version, "2.1", "<")) {
    require_once(ABSPATH . '/wp-includes/template-functions-links.php');
    }

    With this code:
    if(version_compare($wp_version, "2.3", "<")) {
    require_once(ABSPATH . '/wp-includes/link-template.php');
    }

    That should do it. It works for me anyway.

    I should give credit where it’s due. That answer came from this Google Group on the LJXP plugin. The link is here.

    BTW Captain Serek, that is the reason to do these blog mods, because somebody, somewhere may find them useful… :lol:

  6. CreevaNo Gravatar posted the following on April 2, 2008 at 4:35 pm.

    What lines did you have to edit in the livejournal crossposter?

  7. CaptMurdockNo Gravatar posted the following on April 2, 2008 at 3:57 am.

    Hey, whatever tickles your pickle, big guy… :-)

  8. Captain SerekNo Gravatar posted the following on April 1, 2008 at 9:54 pm.

    Checked the LiveJournal, everything is hunky dorey.

  9. SteveNo Gravatar posted the following on April 1, 2008 at 9:37 pm.

    Looks like the LiveJournal Crossposter is working. Makes my day…

  10. Captain SerekNo Gravatar posted the following on April 1, 2008 at 9:34 pm.

    Wow, lots of changes that none of us might see or be aware of on the outside. I am glad it is going to work. Good job, keep it up.

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