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I have just uploaded 1.1.7 of MiniCard here and to the WordPress theme directory. This updates includes:
- New networks; xing, gowalla, yelp, foursquare, mobileme, google buzz
- A way to change link text and define multiple links of the same network
- A way to define your own custom links + icons
- Improved admin panel
Hope you like it, and don’t forget you can show your support by purchasing the premium pack from here.
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It’s been about two weeks now since I made the transition from a shared reseller hosting account to a VPS (Virtual Private Server) account – impressions so far, excellent performance but fiddly to configure.
The reason I wanted to change from shared hosting was the fact the server was always being hacked (even though ALL my scripts were secure), there was frequent downtime, support blamed me for problems every time, and it was slow as hell.
Those used to a shared hosting environment would probably not know where to start when faced with configuring a VPS. Luckily, a lot of it was pre-configured when I received my account – certainly some of the major security holes were patched. I was not satisfied with those however. As a victim of hacking in the past (previous host swears it was not there fault, something I don’t believe) I took extra care to secure it as a much I could – configuring brute force detection, the firewall, installing mod security (excellent rules for that here: http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php/Atomic_ModSecurity_Rules) and going though multiple guides (like this one: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=468168) with a fine-tooth comb.
The result? My pages are loading at least 6 times faster, I have had no down time (or at least have not noticed any), and I feel in control and happy. No longer am I at the mercy of shared hosts 
If your interested, I chose ServInt as my provider as they offered a great deal, as well as being a managed service (so I’m not on my own if I screw things up). I was tempted by the bells and whistles of Media Temple, but felt the ServInt service was better value.
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Download Monitor has received some more love and has been updated. Here’s the change log from the new version:
- Small bugfix in uploader.php – cat ID
- Changed stats graph calculation – thanks lggemini
- Changes to headers in download.php to avoid caching
- File Browser fixes – $root was clashing with something….
- exclude_cat works in all sections of download_page now
- Removed hardcoding of /uploads/
- Added action to download.php – should be able to use it to stop a download if you want – maybe limiting downloads per day or something? Whatever you want…
- Made it so if you post new file on ‘edit’ screen, the post date is updated.
- Fixed the ‘blank meta’ section which blanks out custom field values when nothing is set.
- Moved ‘allow_url_fopen’ check.
- Someone said downloads don’t work with spaces in the name. They do! Wasting my time sonny…
- All work and no play make jolley a dull boy
- Had to rename capabilities so they work. Apologies if you have to set this up again! Cheers to Mark Dingemanse.
- {category_ID} custom format tag added. Useful if you want to send someone to its category on the DL page I guess. Also added {category_other} so when no category is set “other” is shown – this is because the download page can show an ‘other’ section if you want it to.
- You can now manually edit the post date on the edit download screen.
If you have edited capabilities for download monitor user permissions, you’ll have to again sorry! This is because I named them too long. Also, you should check your forced downloads still work because there was a logic error meaning they may not have been forced after-all…
Enjoy.
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Today I completed the update for the Wordpress Download Monitor Plugin – many tweaks, fixes, and features added. There were no changes to the database structure so people upgrading should be fine. Here is the list from the change log:
- {user} tag added for custom formats
- ‘autop’ option fix
- Download page buttons applied with CSS so they are easier to customise/translate.
- Fix for pagination bug after editing a download
- Category output fix on edit downloads screen
- Category urls on download page use ID rather than name to prevent errors when cats have the same names.
- exclude_cat added to download_page shortcode
- Localised ‘hits’ ‘date’ ‘title’ on download page
- Option to disable the download logging
- Read file ‘chunked’ some people found large files were corrupted so this should help (fingers crossed)
- Added show_tags option to download page – displays x amount of tags on the download page.
- File Browser root setting and download.php logic/mime types modified thanks to Jim Isaacs (jidd.jimisaacs.com)
- Interface Improvements
- Bulk edit categories, custom fields, tags, member only downloads
- Added roles for download monitor admin – should be able to use with a role manager plugin if you want anyone other than admin to access the admin section e.g. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/capsman/
- Change redirect after add
- Edit Cat names/parents
- Dedicated tags and thumbnails fields (they still use meta table though)
And yes, those category link bugs are fixed at long last, and you can edit category names finally. Phew!
A number of users were experiencing errors with the sidebar login widget I created, issues such as bugs with cookies and headers sent. In a bid to stop these errors I have created a new version, compatible with wordpress 2.3.
Creative Graphics and Communications says:
When activated and tried to add the widget on the trunk version of WordPress I am getting following error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare widget_sidebarlogin() (previously declared in {path-to}\wp-content\plugins\sidebarLogin\sidebarLogin.php:14) in {path-to}\wp-content\plugins\sidebarLogin\sidebarLogin.php on line 14
Any help is appreciated.
Comment made on January 23, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Mike Jolley says:
1) It shouldent be a in a folder, just straight in plugins/
2) Because you have it in a folder, it makes me think you might have it in plugins/ too, and activated both…
Comment made on January 24, 2008 at 8:20 am
JamesT says:
Hi Mike downloaded your sidebar login widget and I seem to have an issue with reset password, it sends out fine but when I click on the url to take me to the rest page it says that the key is not valid and asks me to enter the details again and so on….
Any idea what could be the cause for wordpress not to recognise the reset url in emails …..
Thanks
Comment made on January 24, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Mike Jolley says:
Im confused to what you mean…the widget just shows a link to the reset page…the reset itself has nothing to do with my plugin.
Comment made on January 24, 2008 at 11:15 pm
puttee says:
Hi, i tried this version because i have also problems with cookies. But this version does not work correct, too. I tested it on FF and IE7.0. After entering login data, error message for cookies appears still BUT when try it twice and more always the same error, so no login is possible.
Hope you could help…thx
PS: of course cookie are activate.
Comment made on January 25, 2008 at 12:03 pm
JamesT says:
Mike Just for the record, I misunderstood the process for the reset password, it was brain failure not the widget, so thank you.
I would like to reduce the size if the username and password field as it overlaps in my columns http://www.glasgowmods.co.uk. I looked at the sidebar.php and couldnt see a pixel setting, any help would be appreciated.
thanks in advance
Comment made on January 25, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Brett says:
Interesting, as I too was getting the cookie error but only sometimes… Unfortunate, as I know this information does not help. It’s consistent reproducible issues that help most. If I find out more, I’ll try to contribute. It’s working now, but when it wasn’t the error told me that the browser was not excepting cookies and would not log me in.
Comment made on February 1, 2008 at 1:38 am
Wilhelm says:
Sounds good – thank you for working on that. I also experienced cookie issues with the previous version (2nd login attempt always worked though).
I am looking forward to this update, but will wait a few more days – were you able to resolve ‘puttee’s problem?
Thumbs up for this plugin though – on the right track
Comment made on February 1, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Wilhelm says:
Me again,
just tried to install and I made sure to clear cache and cookies and authenticated sessions from browser – and i find myself not being able to login via the sidebar login screen. i installed ver. 1.1 again and there it always works (although always the second time after the cookie message)
hope that helps :]
Comment made on February 1, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Mike Jolley says:
I see some people are still having cookie trouble. I’m going to try a fix someone sent me…
Comment made on February 2, 2008 at 12:12 am
Chris says:
I’m getting a Call to undefined function: wp_safe_redirect() error when I log a user in. Any clue why?
Comment made on February 6, 2008 at 4:49 am
Chris says:
“I’m getting a Call to undefined function: wp_safe_redirect() error…”
Nevermind. I found the answer at WP Forums. I need to reload a fresh copy of wp-includes/pluggable.php
I haven’t tried it yet, but it seems to solve the same problem by others.
BTW, the plugin/widget is exactly what I need for my site.
Comment made on February 6, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Mike Jolley says:
Gd gd, wp_safe_redirect is a new function in the new wordpress versions
Comment made on February 6, 2008 at 9:55 pm
YikYak says:
Hi,
I tried the update 1.51 of the widget to get round the cookie errors. My blog is behind https: and as a result the login widget just stopped working. Couldn’t login, and maybe couldn’t register etc (I didn’t leave it long enough to really find out). I changed all the http:// in the code to https:// and it seems to work now. Is there any way to build this in automatically?
Anyway, thanks for a great plugin.
YikYak.
Comment made on February 13, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Eder says:
Tnx a lot for the update. We’re using your plugin on our site.
Comment made on February 19, 2008 at 3:13 am
Alessandra says:
I thought that after a login a user’s info would automatically be entered in the required fields when wanting to enter a comnent to a post…. if this doesn’t do it, what does?
Comment made on February 21, 2008 at 9:09 am
Ian says:
Hello,
I recently installed this plugin and consistently get the following error after attempting to login. Do you have any advise on how to correct it?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_safe_redirect() in /home/ian/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/sidebarLogin.php on line 131
Comment made on February 21, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Ian says:
nevermind i reloaded the wp-includes/pluggable.php and that resolved the issue …for anyone else who has this problem i got the pluggable.php by downloading a new copy of wordpress.
great plugin
Comment made on February 21, 2008 at 1:45 pm
newideal says:
Hi. Is it possible to reduce the length of the input boxes for username and password? They are too long for my widget box.
I took a look and couldn’t find the size in the plugin file. Thank you for the great widget!
Comment made on February 26, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@new ideal – Style using css..if you modify the form you can add
style="width:100px"or what ever length to the inputs.Comment made on February 27, 2008 at 12:18 am
newideal says:
Mike, thanks so much for the quick reply. It worked!! The boxes now fit. Thank you muchly for the help. I love the widget!
Comment made on February 27, 2008 at 1:05 am
silentkiller says:
Many thanks! I have been looking for something like this!
Comment made on February 27, 2008 at 8:14 am
Shannon says:
is there a way for this to work with a custom lost password or register page with in my site… I dont like that it still redirects them to the wordpress register and lostpassword pages away from my site
Comment made on February 29, 2008 at 6:02 am
Lynda M says:
The “Register” link/text is not showing up for me at all. I can see “Lost you password?” just fine, but no “Register”.
Please help! ;o)
Thank you in advance. This is a great plugin!!!
~L
Comment made on March 22, 2008 at 1:23 am
JH says:
Hey Lynda, me too, I’m getting the same problem.
Works great but no Register.
Comment made on March 24, 2008 at 1:32 pm