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.

I’m pleased to announce, after a bit of a delay, the next version of the Advanced Custom Field Widget has just hit the WordPress Subversion servers.

With the release of version 0.8 of the Advanced Custom Field Widget, I’ve elected to move the information page for it to a new wiki, setup to provide more detailed information for ACFW and some of my other projects.

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.

Well, seems today is my lucky day for finding useful bits of information out about WordPress. Here’s the deal… you backup your site, move servers, restore everything and it all appears to work, BUT, when you go back and try and add an old image that you uploaded before you moved, it won’t display the image in the media library… instead you’re getting an error spouting something about security and open_basedir… if this is your problem… read on as I have a solution. (more…)

Here’s a little nugget which may help you if, you’ve tightened up the security on your blog only to find somethings (in this case, the flash uploader) don’t work. (more…)

For anyone that is using the Advanced Custom Field Widget, I can confirm that it is compatible with version 2.8 of WordPress.

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.

Following the report of an issue with the Advanced Custom Field Widget, I’ve released version 0.5.

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.

Well, what a fiasco that was… my first plugin and I release it unfinished!

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.
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I have finally gotten around to getting my beefed up version of Scott Wallick’s Custom Field Widget published on WordPress.org.

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.