A little more functionality to WP People

After looking over a few examples of adding a button to the Post/Page editor, I found Deanna Schneider’s blog about adding a button. And, I got it to work! Woo hoo! Through her example, I was able to figure out how to create a page that would be called when the button is clicked. The popup page lists the WP People available, with their picture, an abbreviated version of their bio, name and nickname. Next to each person is a button to insert them into the post. When you click the button, the full name of the person is inserted Continue reading A little more functionality to WP People

More updates to WP People

Well, in an attempt to add a button to the editor menu so that a user could easily add people from the WP People list to a post, I managed to go through and update the code to make it compatible (upgradeable) with earlier version of WP People, just in case. I also figured out how to copy WP People from the table to the XFN database. The biggest annoyance was adding the category after inserting the record in the to table. But, after figuring it out, I trucked along and made it possible to edit, add, and delete WP Continue reading More updates to WP People

WordPress plugins and svn annoyances!

Small things in programming have been annoying me the last couple of days. WordPress has started using svn (Subversion) as a method of version control for plugins. What this does, is allow the developer to upload version of the plugin to a database and then the plugin will automatically be updated on the download page. Also, it will alert anyone who has the plugin that there is an update to the plugin. From there, the user of the plugin can easily install/update it through the Admin panel. It’s actually very useful. Well, I just recently updated my WP-People plugin to Continue reading WordPress plugins and svn annoyances!