Many thanks to Ronald van der Zwan for his Dutch translation of ACFW which was released today as version 0.96.

You can download the latest version of ACFW from the WordPress Plugin Directory. You may also want to check out my wiki pages about ACFW, especially if you haven’t upgraded for a while (0.92 was a major re-engineering effort in preparation for version 1.0).

In my continued efforts to resolve the problem that exists between the WordPress plugin directory and Advanced Custom Field Widget, I have re-encoded all the text files as plain ASCII text and submitted a new version. I have also brought the name of the POT file into line with the widget and text domain (didn’t really understand that part until I actually paid some attention to it yesterday). Whilst doing all this, I was retagging as version 0.93, but for some reason, it can’t seem to handle deleting a file (and then committing the change) and then retagging… SVN kept coming back with an error about the old POT file being missing.

So, it’s been retagged as version 0.94. It’s not a major change… if you have 0.93 and it’s working, then don’t worry about this update, until of course the plugin directory issue is resolved and then hopefully your blog will nag you about updates

Well, it’s only 2 weeks since the last version was released, but already version 0.93 is here and it’s a bit of a major step forward. (more…)

Well, I’m quite getting into this WordPress plugin lark… I have just released version 0.1.1 of a new plugin that is designed to allow you to create ‘virtual’ sidebars that can be managed in the normal way, but which can then be inserted on demand into post and page content using a shortcode.

For more details visit the plugin page here.

I released version 0.91 (aka. 0.90 or 0.9) on Sunday only to discover later that evening that the changes to prevent the widget messing up the main WP query weren’t actually working on a page with multiple posts. The query wasn’t correct and wasn’t pulling out the correct data resulting in the widget terminating before any content had been created.

This was fixed fairly quickly and version 0.92 has now been release. Unfortunately, the WordPress plugin directory appears to be broken as it’s unable to establish that 0.92 is the latest version and so, if you have ACFW and you want to upgrade to this latest version, you’ll have to do it manually I’m afraid as your blog won’t even tell you there has been an update.

It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of version 0.91 of Advanced Custom Field Widget. (more…)

Now, before I go on, these are based on Visual Studio 2005 (but I have just looked at Visual Studio 2008 and I have no reason to think these don’t apply). So what are my comments this time around on my Microsoft bashing merry go round (more…)

Well, I’ve dabbled with C# before, tweaking a RunUO instance, but this is the first time I’ve actually used the language in anger, writing something from scratch, so I figured I’d just jot down a few thoughts. The project… a PowerPoint add-in.
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For anyone who uses my Advanced Custom Field Widget, I thought I’d get ahead of the game and see how it fairs when running under WordPress 3. My initial tests running WP3 on my development blog suggest it will be fine, and should not require any changes.

The tests were done with ACFW Version 0.82 and WordPress 3.0 (Beta 1).

With the release of WordPress 2.9, a fault with the Advanced Custom Field Widget was identified which resulted in blank instances of the widget being displayed. Version 0.82 (available here) has just been released to address the problem.

For more information about the widget, check out my wiki.