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

The wiki is located at http://athena.outer-reaches.com/wiki/ and is accessible through the ‘Wiki’ option in the menu at the top of each page.

I have a few plans for things I want to include in version 0.6 but I’m a bit tied up with work and one or two other things at the moment. As soon as my current urgent commitments are finished, I plan on knuckling down and getting 0.6 finished off and released.

The problem was that under certain circumstances, the widget failed to display the information linked to a particular page. It was caused by other widgets using the $post variables. Thanks to James Collins for highlighting this after he put the widget below the recent posts widget and found it didn’t display anything.

Get the latest version here or upgrade it automatically using the plugin manager.

Apologies to anyone who has downloaded it and is now using it, but version 0.3 had a couple of issues that I desperately wanted to fix.

First up, when the plugin is deactivated, it deletes it’s configuration… not great when you use the automatic updates… so, for upgrading to version 0.4 I highly recommend a manual upgrade. I’ve tried deactivating the plugin on my development blog and the changes appear to work as the configuration is still there once it’s reactivated. Feedback would be appreciated if you have problems with this as I want to get any issues like that nailed early on.

The other thing I wanted to fix was the lack of a .POT file. I believe the one that’s now provide is up to scratch. If not, again… feedback is appreciated.

I should also give a shout out to Jacob Santos for his information about the uninstall hooks in WordPress 2.7 (available on his blog at http://www.santosj.name/2008/general/wordpress-27-plugin-uninstall-methods/). Unfortunately I found his example of the uninstall file didn’t work and I had a nightmare getting it to work, so here’s the one from ACFW.

<?php

if (defined("WP_UNINSTALL_PLUGIN")==TRUE)
{
	if (current_user_can(activate_plugins))
	{
		delete_option("widget_adv_custom_field");
	}
}

?>

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-custom-field-widget/.

But I just noticed that I haven’t sorted the translation code out! DOH!!! So, if you download it and expect it to be capable of being localised, I’m afraid it’s not at the moment. I’ll see if I can get it sorted this week.

Visit the ACFW page for more information (links to the page and to download the latest version are in the sidebar).

After a busy weekend upgrading the theme and plugins on the site, I figured I’d try and stay on top of the upgrades, so now 2.7 is at release candidate 1, I figured I’d take the plunge. My confidence was boosted by the fact that the Simplicity theme by Zit Seng supports 2.7, he’d already upgraded and the quick test upgrade I did on my working copy on my laptop went swimmingly.

But the live one… I forgot to deactivate the plugins!!! *ARGH!!!!*

The site itself worked sweet, but the admin area was completely knackered. Thankfully I had a backup of the database (give or take a couple of days of stats) and the working 2.6.5 site (complete with plugins etc). One quick restore followed by a full deactivation of the plugins later, and the upgrade went great.

So, I’m sat here typing away on the great new 2.7 admin system and I have to say… I LIKE IT… I like it alot. But for now, that’s all I’m going to say about the latest version.