Download Monitor 3.3.5 Tagged for release

The latest update to Download Monitor for WordPress has been released; this version comes with a many fixes and some new features, such as improved sorting. For full details view the readme; you can grab the plugin here.

Closing the Forums

Just posting to let current users know that I’m closing the forum on Blue-Anvil. This is mainly due to spam-registrations getting out of hand and being a general nuisance. I will be posting good topics as FAQ items within posts if applicable.

Please note that you can still post and get help for my plugins/themes by posting on the wordpress.org website.

Show off your MiniCard!

Are you a user of the WordPress MiniCard theme? Its been downloaded over 14,000 times so far!

If you have used it as-is, made your own child-theme or done something creative with it, please show off your MiniCard’s in the comments, I’d love to see how the theme is being used!

Spam Stopper updated for WordPress 3.0

My Spam Stopper plugin has been updated for WordPress 3.0 (version 3.1.3) – you can grab it here. Sorry this update took longer than my other plugins but this one gets less lovin’ – if you want to change that feel free to donate, spread the word, or rate it on the WordPress.org plugin page.

SexyBookmarks & Tr.im

Just a notice to users of the brilliant http://www.sexybookmarks.net/ plugin by shareaholic – If you use tr.im (as I have on a few client sites) be aware tr.im has ceased operation so you may see errors on your blog or in your source code; it screwed up the background and headings on one of my blogs.

To fix, go to sexybookmarks options, switch services in the “Which URL Shortener?” box, and tick the box to reset all short urls. Once done, your blog should return to normal.

Download Monitor 3.3.3.9 ready for testing

I’ve been having reports of slow performance with download monitor .8, so I’ve made 3.3.3.9 ready for testing – I won’t make this ‘official’ for a few days just to make sure no-one finds any bugs. You can get this development version from here.

Here’s the changelog:

• Pre-loading meta and relationships again – less queries, better performance
• Improved download page loading time
• Using built in stripslashes_deep to fix magic_quotes stuff
• Made filesize save to custom fields so we don’t need to look it up every pageload
• Fixed strstr bug on delete
• Added option in config to disable mirror selection
• wp_dlm_ins_button dropdown on post screen is history – use the media button instead. Dropdown was slow and not very usable (when you had shed loads of downloads).
• htmlspecialchars_decode in download.php for people with dodgy file names