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Hi and welcome to my blog. My name's Alex, although I'm more commonly known as Viper007Bond (or just Viper). I'm a Portland, Oregon developer who works for an awesome company called Automattic (you've probably heard of our WordPress.com blogging network). I also contribute to the open-source blogging software WordPress and have written quite a few WordPress plugins. You can read more about me on my about page.
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Alex (Viper007Bond): I don't believe Prime95 is multi-core aware, is it? And I didn't do my overclocking using any...
Alex (Viper007Bond): It could be running out of memory (my plugin is a bit of a memory hog). Check the error_log or turn...
Alex (Viper007Bond): See the message here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-lightbox-for-native-galleries/
Alex (Viper007Bond): My plugin doesn't provide any CSS of it's own really other than modifying the cursor when hovering...
Hal: Did you ever figure out what happened and how to correct it? I have the same issue right now, but I...
Marco D.: Thanks a lot for this plugin, I erased by accident a folder with images used in many galleries and...
Mufid: Check the accordion menu at the sidebar of my blog, find the "Table Of Content" menu. That is the...
Giorgio: Congratulations for this great-looking plugin. However... is it possible to use it for a single...
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about 2 years ago
looks like a good plugin, Viper. well done. for this, and for your WP Admin Bar, i wonder what it would take to be able to do what they do across all the domains a person might happen to manage, kind of the way WP Admin Switcher works? i know, i’m dreaming, yet can’t deny how handy THAT would be.
thanks for your great plugins.
about 2 years ago
It’d be incredibly complicated for different installs to share update notices.
E-mail notification in a future version is a possibility though.
about 2 years ago
Thanks x millions. Sounds excellent to be reminded, especially for me with my Altzheimer Light
Though I also think that it should be AWESOME if this plugin could be combined with the Single Click Plugin Updater to make it even more complete.
Just a humble wish
about 2 years ago
Definitely a great plugin, but I’m experiencing a bit of a bug. It doesn’t always notify me of available updates. For instance, today my Plugin section notified me of an update for the Widget Changer plugin – which is listed on WP Codex. However, there was no Global Notification. The same thing happened with a couple of other update-able plugins listed on the WP Codex. I should have made note of their names.
Anyway, I think you did a fine job with this plugin. Thanks for sharing it.
about 2 years ago
Lifecruiser on January 1st, 2008 at 4:11 PM2008-01-02T00:11:21ZF jS, Y \a\t g:i A wrote:
I want to keep this plugin simple. Those auto-updating plugins are are huge hassle for developers due to the numerous server configurations out there. It’d be more of a headache to me than it’d be worth.
gestroud on January 26th, 2008 at 10:59 PM2008-01-27T06:59:25ZF jS, Y \a\t g:i A wrote:
Weird. Let’s take this to my support forums though as it’s easier to debug in that format.
about 2 years ago
One plugin author has updated his (it is a ‘he’) plugin every 3 days, and has done so for the last 8 months. I have seen very little evidence of changes during that time. I want to add that useful-but-bothersome plugin to an ‘ignore’ list within your great plugin. I also have some plugins installed but not currently activated, some of which I would like to an ignore list too. Is that possible?
Thanks 007.
about 2 years ago
Jonathon on February 20th, 2008 at 9:47 PM2008-02-21T05:47:21ZF jS, Y \a\t g:i A wrote:
Possible? Totally. You can do it yourself if you know a little PHP.
And what plugin is it? I can check to see if all he’s doing is bumping the version number and if so, we can report him for abuse.
about 2 years ago
Email support!
about 2 years ago
If I am not wrong he is talking of All in One SEO Plugin….I must say the author of this plugin is too proactive in updating the plugin every week(not 3 days everytime)
about 2 years ago
I tried this out on WordPress MU 1.5 which uses WordPress 2.5 blogs.
It didn’t work for me, when the plugin was activated all seemed fine, but any attempt to go to http://domain.net/wp-admin and any address that follows produced a blank white page. Only the main site worked.
I also created a test site and when activating the plugin got the same results.
Obviously since there was no longer a dashboard I had to chmod the file to 777 and then rename it to get rid of it.
I guess it doesn’t work for the new MU
about 2 years ago
I haven’t tested this plugin with WPMU and nor do I really intend to make it compatible due to the nature of WPMU (it’s mostly used by non-admin users).
about 2 years ago
I would second the need for an ‘ignore’ option. I have a plugin where the new version doesn’t work properly, but the old one does. The author has been unable to or won’t fix it, so I’d prefer to just sit with the old one, but not have the banner on my admin pages that tells me a new version is available. I’m sure it could be manually added with only a few lines of code, but my PHP is extremely limited. Can anyone suggest what code would be needed?
about 2 years ago
joe on May 1st, 2008 at 8:42 AM2008-05-01T15:42:32ZF jS, Y \a\t g:i A wrote:
Find this:
foreach ( $current->response as $plugin_file => $update_data ) {After it, add this:
if ( 'theplugin/theplugin.php' == $plugin_file ) continue;about 2 years ago
This is a neat plugin! I would love the option to get an email when a plugin needs to be updated. That would be awesome because I manage 20-30 WordPress sites and checking each site for updates can be laborous!
Thanks,
Daniel Kedinger
about 2 years ago
Yeah, this plugin needs updating. It’s on my long, long list of things to do.