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Posted 16 October 2010 in Dynamic Widgets

Dynamic Widgets development version

Thanks to a comment STB made I found out that the development version of Dynamic Widgets hosted at wordpress.org is not updated with the latest revisions. It looks like it’s stuck within a revision I uploaded about a month ago. So, for the time being, I’ll be hosting the current latest revison 300505 myself and probably some following revisions. The latest development version of Dynamic Widgets can always be found via the development version link in the sidebar.

Posted 3 October 2010 in Tweet Lovers

Tweet Lovers 1.0.1

I’ve just released a small update for Tweet Lovers. In this release a Follow Me button option in the followers widget has been added and an incompatible use of XHTML in the widgets fixed. You can download the new version right away or wait until WordPress picks it up.

Posted 18 September 2010 in Tweet Lovers

Tweet Lovers 1.0

I’ve just released the first stable version of Tweet Lovers. My (small) testpanel didn’t hit into crashes, strange bugs, etc. anymore.

Data retrieved  from Twitter is cached for 15 minutes. Let me know if you think this should be extended or shortened. Also other remarks, comments, bugreports are as always welcome!

Posted 15 September 2010 in Tweet Lovers

New Project: Tweet Lovers

With the shutdown of the plain text authorization protocol for Twitter, many Twitter plugins for WordPress are broken now. Sabine (yes, she again) used a plugin to show some love to her Twitter followers by displaying her Twitter followers in a widget. Due to this change, the plugin stopped working. And it seems all other similair plugins. Guess what she did…. Yep, she came to me again. So, I’m going to develop a WordPress plugin named “Tweet Lovers” which will show the Twitter profile pictures of the ones you are following or your followers in a widget.

I’ve made a rough first version which you can view here in the sidebar and a screenshot of the admin area here below. Advantage of the way this plugin communicates with Twitter it doesn’t need your password. Only your Twitter username.


UPDATE: The rough version is now available. Please note this version is absolutely not finished yet.

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Posted 10 September 2010 in Dynamic Widgets

Dynamic Widgets 1.3.5

I’ve just released version 1.3.5 of Dynamic Widgets. In this version the following has been changed:

  • Added support for themes which use the WP function is_active_sidebar() when the method is set to FILTER (default). 1
  • Bugfix by removing a possible unnecessary loop for dynamic widget options.

[1] Starting with this version, Dynamic Widgets is using a new method for removing widgets from the sidebar(s). This new method, called FILTER, is more in line with the way WordPress provides access for plugins to it’s system. However this method comes with a downside. Due to it’s nature it might slow down the process of removing widgets when you have and use many sidebars. For this, there is the OLD method. The OLD method uses the previous method before version 1.3.5. Downside of that method is that it may leave you behind with a visible empty sidebar. There is a way to prevent this, but for that you have to have some PHP programming knowledge. Ask me for an example script if you need it. If you are using the standard WP Twenty Ten theme, you probably want to have a look at the Twenty Ten Weaver theme. Bruce from WP Weaver fixed the empty sidebar with the help of this example script. So you don’t need to fix it yourself.

You can switch to the OLD method by clicking on the ‘Advanced >’ link in the Dynamic Widgets overview page and checking ‘Use OLD method’.