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Kontera Control for WP 2.3: Feel Free To Test!

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

An updated version of Kontera Control for WP 2.3 is working on my two test blogs, my diet blog and here:

  1. Test blog 1: uses WP 2.2.3. I activated widgets on the sidebar, and it’s currently displaying the “Raindrops” theme.
  2. Test blog 2: uses WP 2.3; it’s currently displaying a weird version of my normal theme. (The oddities have nothing to do with the plugin.)

Notes:
Tricia had trouble with the version I emailed her. Maybe I attached something other than what I thought was the final version? (I sometimes click “save” and end up with extra copies in odd folders on my mac.) So to avoid issues with email snafus, I zipped the version that is actually running right here on my blog. You can down load by clicking Kontera Control for WP 2.3

To use: Download Kontera Control for WP 2.3, unzip. Upload to plugins. Deactivate old version of Kontera control. Activate this version. If you like, visit the Options page and adjust options. Look at blog to see if the plugin is working.

I think there should be no problems. However, until at least a few people other than me have tested, ya’ never know. If you experience any problems, please copy the error message and send it to me. The precise words in the gooble-dy-gook message help me. (Knowing there are no words helps too.)

After that, just deactivate this version and reactivate the old one.

Changes

Changes compared to old version:

  1. Fixed a bug that occurred when widgets were used. That bug made Kontera Control think posts were comments.
  2. Found a few formatting issues on the control page.

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Kontera Control Being Updated: Would you like me to test with your theme?

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

I’m updating Kontera Control to work with WordPress 2.3 and address pesky issues that Tricia of Feverish Thoughts and Loren of Today’s Gizmo’s alerted me to. Guess what? You can help me.

If you use Kontera Control and have experienced any problems or observed any strangeness, please:

  1. Describe the problem.
  2. Tell me the name of your theme.
  3. Describe any widgets or other plugins you use — comments and categories widgets and plugins are usually the most crucial ones for me to know about. (If you don’t know your plugins and widgets off hand, I’ll ask you by email.)

Why will this information help me? Consider what happened with Tricia’s Theme.

Tricia had an issue with Kontera ads appearing in posts in the ‘Sponsored Category’ after she widgetized her site using the Raindrops theme — the plugin had worked before widgetizing.

Deactivating the widgets did not cause the error to go away. (It’s odd the error doesn’t go away when you de-widgetize … but… whatever.)

By testing Kontera Control using Tricia’s theme on my test blog, I discovered the precise incompatibility which is: The Rainbows widget somehow fills the global “comment variable” (called $comment) in a way that causes it to be “true” even outside comments.

This is a bit pesky, and caused my Kontera Control to fail, because I anticipated that “$comment” would be “false” outside comments. Silly me. :)

(Turns out it’s very, very easy to work around this. But, I need to figure out precisely what went wrong first.)

Anyway, if you are having an issue, give me as much detail, and as soon as possible. That way, I can get the fixed version of KC out by Friday, (which will make Tricia very happy!)

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Ultimate Tag Warrior: A plugin that rocks!

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

I installed The Ultimate Tag Warrior. I can now:

  • Get more blog traffic and improve SEO. How? I can easily make my articles appear in loads of Technorati tag searches. I can also inform search engines know this article is “about” a tagged topic.
  • Tempt visitors to stay longer. How? By posting an auto-magically created “related articles” list at the bottom of each blog post.

Whooo hooo! This plugin rocks!

Thank you to Tricia and Andy Beard who both told me of this plugin.

Is “The Ultimate Tag Warrior” compatible with “Hide Sponsored Categories” and “Kontera Control?”

When I was writing “Hide Sponsored Categories”, Tricia asked me how my plugin would interact with “The Ultimate Tag Warrior”.

Before I answer that, I bet some of you are wondering, what are “Hide Sponsored Categories” and “Kontera Control?” They are two complimentary tools I consider to be “Plugins for Posties!”
Kontera control lets posties keep Kontera Ads out of PPP articles — thus making you more money. (more…)

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