PubwichFork Updates

Closed Issue: Dev/services

Warrows — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 12:46:50 +0000

Added twitter and github default configurations

New Issue: YouTube is not working

HDValentin — Fri, 29 May 2015 18:49:36 +0000

On my Pubwich the youtube-service stops working: http://www.vbachem.de/pubwich/ Any ideas for reparing that?

Closed Issue: Test Status.net service

haschek — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 01:59:04 +0000

Closed Issue: Test Readernaut service

haschek — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 01:58:52 +0000

Closed Issue: Test reddit service

haschek — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 01:53:41 +0000

Closed Issue: Test Pinboard service

haschek — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 22:11:20 +0000

Closed Issue: Test Dribbble service

haschek — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 02:50:49 +0000

Closed Issue: Test Text service

haschek — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 23:35:33 +0000

Closed Issue: Test Gowalla service

haschek — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 23:21:17 +0000

Closed Issue: Flickr stopped working

HDValentin — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 23:18:48 +0000

"Es trat ein Fehler mit der API von FlickrUser auf. Diese Daten fehlen somit." See at http://www.vbachem.de/pubwich

Closed Issue: Twitter-Stream stops working

HDValentin — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 23:15:36 +0000

Website: http://www.vbachem.de/pubwich/ Twitter is showing the following error: "Es trat ein Fehler mit der API von Feed auf. Diese Daten fehlen somit." Is there a solution for the new? Api from Twitter? I have version 2.1 installed.

New Issue: Implement Steam service

Warrows — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 11:15:00 +0000

New Issue: Implement Soundcloud service

Warrows — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 10:42:44 +0000

New Issue: Implement Tumblr service

Warrows — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 10:39:06 +0000

I'm using the rss feed. But a service fetching specifics tumblr blog posts and displaying them given their type (images, videos, links, text...) would be great.

Closed Issue: Restructure project

haschek — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:34:44 +0000

Separate libraries, user configurations/extentions/themes, and core files. If possible use submodules for libraries.

Closed Issue: Exclude vendor libraries

haschek — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:34:16 +0000

exclude libs from repo, use http://getcomposer.org/ to get them included for developers, keep them in archives for users.

Closed Issue: add GitHub Flavored Markdown to README

phlipper — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:49:09 +0000

* This makes the example code easier to read, especially when perusing the docs on github

New Commit: Merge pull request #29 from phlipper/patch-1

haschek — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:49:08 +0000

Merge pull request #29 from phlipper/patch-1

add GitHub Flavored Markdown to README

New Commit: add GitHub Flavored Markdown to README

phlipper — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:30:13 +0000

add GitHub Flavored Markdown to README

* This makes the example code easier to read,
  especially when perusing the docs on github

New Download: pubwichfork.2.1.zip

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:31:01 +0000

PubwichFork 2.1

PubwichFork 2.1 released

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 06:16:00 +0000

7 months after version 2.0, the new PubwichFork 2.1 comes with improved support for responsive mobile layouts and updated social media service classes.

After saving original Pubwich from death, PubwichFork 2.0 was downloaded appr. 350 times, installs from the repository not included, it attracted attention in some weblogs for web developers, PubwichFork powered sites were shown on barcamps and featured in a professional journal.

Now PubwichFork 2.1 comes with some minor but nice improvements.

Download and installation

That’s easy! Just download the PubwichFork 2.1 archive (we provide Zip and Tar), unpack it in your webspace and follow the config instructions from the manual.

Improvements made in PubwichFork 2.1

Fixed Bugs: correct some strict PHP errors that were shown in some cases
Added service class for Identi.ca
Updated service classes: Github, Twitter (1.1 API), Delicious
Mobile styles included: the default theme now includes responsive mobile styles for smartphones and tablets

Check the changelog for a detailed list of changes.

About PubwichFork

PubwichFork aggregates your latest Social Web and Social Media content across multiple service websites, e.g. your Twitter stream or Flickr photos. Then it renders one single website featuring all your content. PubwichFork is written in PHP and licensed Open-Source under a GPL.

PubwichFork was featured in WebResourcesDepot, La Ferme du Web, PHPspot and Hot Scripts Blog. (only to ping that sites about this realease :)

New Download: pubwichfork.2.1.tar.gz

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:50:54 +0000

PubwichFork 2.1

New Commit: [mod] change version number to 2.1

haschek — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:38:09 +0000

[mod] change version number to 2.1

New Commit: [mod] prepare doc files for 2.1 release

haschek — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:20:47 +0000

[mod] prepare doc files for 2.1 release

New Commit: [mod] improve responsive styles

haschek — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:43:32 +0000

[mod] improve responsive styles

New Commit: [mod] Update Meyer's reset styles to 2.0

haschek — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:24:47 +0000

[mod] Update Meyer's reset styles to 2.0

New Commit: [mod] update to Twitter API 1.1

haschek — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:19:17 +0000

[mod] update to Twitter API 1.1

PubwichFork im Screenguide #15 und warum FLOSS nicht totzukriegen ist

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:11:00 +0000

In der aktuellen Ausgabe 15 des Screenguide Magazins wird auch ein Screenshot eines Social Media Newsroom gezeigt, welcher mit PubwichFork realisiert wurde. Leider das freie Softwareprojekt für tot erklärt, was natürlich Quatsch ist. Im Gegensatz zu proprietärer Software kann Software mit freien Lizenzen auch überleben, wenn der Entwickler nicht mehr aktiv ist.

Michael Zinkl von EQS beschreibt im Artikel “Website als Newsroom” Möglichkeiten, um (Firmen-) Aktivitäten innerhalb von Sozialen Netzwerken auch wieder auf der eigenen Webseite zu präsentieren und dadurch auch mehr Möglichkeiten bei der Präsentation dieser Inhalte zu haben. Der im Artikel beschriebene Ansatz beinhaltet das Sammeln der einzelnen Aktivitäten über die von den verschiedenen Social Media Services zur Verfügung gestellten Schnittstellen wie REST-APIs und RSS-Feeds. Auch der Newsroom von Troisdorf, welcher mit PubwichFork realisiert ist, wird als Beispiel im Artikel mit einem Screenshot vorgestellt.

Als softwareseitige Unterstützung zum Aufbau eines eigenen Newsrooms wird unter anderem der Social Media Newsroom der EQS Group vorgestellt. Auch Pubwich wird kurz erwähnt, leider nur mit folgender Aussage, die falsch ist:

Pubwich ist eine Open-Source-Alternative, die kostenlos zur Verfügung steht, jedoch seit 2010 nicht mehr weiterentwickelt wird.

Es ist zwar richtig, dass sich der ursprüngliche Autor und Gründer des Pubwich-Projekts seit 2010 aus der aktiven Entwicklung zurückgezogen hat, deswegen ist Pubwich aber noch lange nicht tot. Seit Mai 2011 gibt es einen Fork von Pubwich, welcher weiterhin aktiv entwickelt wird. PubwichFork steht kurz vor der Veröffentlichung von Version 2.1. Dies hätte man auch leicht über Google oder im Github-Profil von Pubwich herausfinden.

Ich möchte hier niemanden unterstellen, dass die FLOSS-Alternative im Bereich Social-Newsroom-Software für tot erklärt wird, um das eigene proprietäre Produkt besser promoten zu können. Ich gehe eher davon aus, dass leider einfach immer noch nicht die Vorteile von quelloffener Software unter freien Lizenzen verstanden wurden.

Im Gegensatz zu proprietärer Software kann freie Software auch weiterentwickelt werden, wenn der Hersteller oder Hauptautor den Support für die Software eintellt. Proprietäre Software hingegen wäre an dieser Stelle wirklich tot, FreeHand ist dafür ein sehr populäres Beispiel. Nutzer dieser Software haben ein Problem, wenn sie auf die Software angewiesen sind. Im Bereich freier Software ist es dagegen möglich, dass die Software von anderen Parteien übernommen und weiterentwickelt ist, unabhängig wie gut oder schlecht das Projekt geschrieben und dokumentiert ist. Die Möglichkeit ist vorhanden – und wurde im Falle von Pubwich auch genutzt.

Wer mithelfen möchte, PubwichFork weiterhin aktiv und lebendig bleibt, ist herzlich eingeladen:

Closed Issue: PubwichFork Demo

haschek — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:57:21 +0000

Install a public PubwichFork instance somewhere to demo it, use project feeds for it.

New Commit: [fix] mobile enhancement

haschek — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:25:10 +0000

[fix] mobile enhancement

New Commit: [add] Service class for Identi.ca support

haschek — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:45:19 +0000

[add] Service class for Identi.ca support

Closed Issue: Test Twitter service

haschek — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:46:01 +0000

New Commit: [fix] test and adjust Twitter service class, close #24

haschek — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:45:50 +0000

[fix] test and adjust Twitter service class, close #24

Closed Issue: Test Github service

haschek — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:02:02 +0000

New Commit: [fix] test and correct Github service, close #15

haschek — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:01:47 +0000

[fix] test and correct Github service, close #15

New Commit: [fix] make json_decode method static b/c it is called like that on other places

haschek — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:55 +0000

[fix] make json_decode method static b/c it is called like that on other places

New Commit: [mod] insert simple media queries to adjust layout on mobile/small devices

haschek — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 12:16:38 +0000

[mod] insert simple media queries to adjust layout on mobile/small devices

New Commit: [rem] delete copyright notice from template

haschek — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 12:15:45 +0000

[rem] delete copyright notice from template
- aggregated data is not necessarily copyrighted by the user of the aggregator application

New Commit: [mod] add option to config tags

haschek — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 10:35:52 +0000

[mod] add option to config tags

PubwichFork: "Newsroom statt Webseite" beim BrainCamp Cologne 2012

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:52:00 +0000

Ansgar Hein von anatom5 und dem Screenguide-Magazin stellt PubwichFork im Rahmen der Session “Newsroom statt Webseite” beim BrainCamp Cologne 2012 vor.

Er geht dabei auf Vorzüge und Einfachheit der Applikation ein, um auf einfache und schnelle Weise verschiedene Social-Media-Kanäle auf einer Seite zu bündeln. Als Beispiel zeigt er den Newsroom von Troisdorf, welcher mit PubwichFork realisiert wurde.

Mehr Eindrücke vom BrainCamp 2012 in Köln gibt es bei Denkwerk und Netzmilieu, als Nachschlag gibt es die Dokumentation aller Sessions bei BrainCamp Cologne.

Ich war nicht in Köln, freue mich aber, dass “mein” PubwichFork vorgestellt wurde. Wer Interesse an mehr Infos direkt vom Entwickler hat, meldet sich einfach :)

Update: bei PubwichFork ist einiges in der Pipeline, offizieller Twitter-JSON-Support, Mobile-Support im Standardtemplate, etc … und ein offizielles PubwichFork-Demo ist inzwischen auch online.

Thank you for talking about PubwichFork!

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:06:41 +0000

You need to attract people to make Open Source software projects successful. That’s the reason why I wanna say thank you to everybody who spread the message about PubwichFork. You are as important as the software itself.

Creating an Open Source software project is easy, getting attention is hard because we have so many great software projects. Small FLOSS projects do not have budget to buy commercial advertising, neither they have a big community at the beginning – they live on word-of-mouth recommendations.

WebResourcesDepot, La Ferme du Web and PHPspot introduced PubwichFork to their readers after the PubwichFork 2.0 was released. Recently the Hot Scripts Blog list it in their top three most popular social wall scripts.

I want to thank especially every single person who tweeted and bookmarked it, contributed feature requests and bug reports.

Please keep it on! Do not stop spreading the word. It’s important!

New Commit: [fix] use string for name of class in callback method

haschek — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:49:07 +0000

[fix] use string for name of class in callback method

New Commit: [fix] update PEAR stuff and correct Twitter service, close #26

haschek — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:25:12 +0000

[fix] update PEAR stuff and correct Twitter service, close #26

New Issue: WordPress Plugin

ElkeFleing — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:18:31 +0000

Hi, I really would like to integrate PubwichFork into several selfhosted WordPress Sites - so I would appreciate to have a plugin for that... Thanks, cheers Elke

New Download: pubwichfork.2.0.zip

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:43:25 +0000

PubwichFork 2.0

PubwichFork 2.0 released

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:01:00 +0000

I promised that I release the final PubwichFork 2.0 version while CLT2012 (Chemnitzer Linuxtage) and even if the CLT2012 is almost finished (the last sessions just ended): PubwichFork 2.0 is here!

What is PubwichFork?

PubwichFork is a PHP web application that aggregates your latest Social Web & Social Media content across multiple service websites (e.g. your Twitter stream or Flickr photos), and it renders one single website featuring all your content. You can create your own themes, add new services (or just use the built-in services) and it is possible to add filters on data streams. I already wrote about PubwichFork earlier here.

How to install?

That’s easy! Just download the latest PubwichFork archive (we provide Zip and Tar), unpack it in your webspace and follow the config instructions from the manual.

Upcoming development

As PubwichFork 2.0 is currently an original Pubwich + bugfixes + stable feed import + data stream filters, there is room for improvements and enhancements planned for upcoming versions:

Pubwich 2.5 (planned for end 2012)

Activity stream service: merging various social media service sources to one merged stream, useable additionally to the single service boxes.
Google+: adding a service class aggregating your Google+ stream
Improve theming: adding regions to template, improve grouping of service boxes
Change license to GPL2+: currently Pubwich and PubwichFork are licensed under GPL2, I hope that I can convince other developers to provide their code under GPL2+ which would bring some advantages

Pubwich 3.0 (planned for 2013)

New project structure: new folder organisation, separate core components, libraries and user extensions.
Improved configuration process
Enabling multi sites in PubwichFork

Links & Resources

New Download: pubwichfork.2.0.tar.gz

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:43:03 +0000

PubwichFork 2.0

New Commit: [mod] change versioning constant to 2.0, e.g. in crawler user agent string

haschek — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:54:34 +0000

[mod] change versioning constant to 2.0, e.g. in crawler user agent string

New Commit: [mod] insert processing data method to make filters for last.fm data possible

haschek — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:44:23 +0000

[mod] insert processing data method to make filters for last.fm data possible

New Commit: [fix] correct LovedTracks and using TopAlbums 7day period for WeeklyAlbums

haschek — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:00:04 +0000

[fix] correct LovedTracks and using TopAlbums 7day period for WeeklyAlbums

New Issue: Test Slideshare service

haschek — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:49:50 +0000

New Issue: Test Instapaper service

haschek — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:48:33 +0000

New Issue: Test Goodreads service

haschek — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:48:02 +0000

New Issue: Test Foursquare service

haschek — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:46:43 +0000

New Issue: Test Facebook service

haschek — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:46:23 +0000

Social media aggregation: PubwichFork release candidate & updates

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:06:00 +0000

PubwichFork is an open-source PHP web application that allows you to aggregate your published data from multiple websites and social services into a single HTML page.

Update: PubwichFork 2.0 is now released.

As the original Pubwich software is not actively developed anymore, my maintained fork is probably the better option to use. It fixes a few bugs, adds filtering methods to the data streams and brings a performance boost compared to Pubwich.

Current development: release candidate & final version

End of November 2011 I’ve released a release candidate of PubwichFork 2.0, in between I made some changes to it. I thank everyone for testing (committing bug reports and feature requests is still very appreciated), especially to Valentin Bachem raising so many user questions :) Check out Valentins PubwichFork powered site, including his weblog, photography, Twitter posts and Youtube videos.

The final PubwichFork 2.0 version will be released soon, probably within the next two months.

How to contribute

Blog and twitter about #PubwichFork
Install PubwichFork, file bug issues and feature requests
Add documentation and manuals
Fork it, play around and send pull requests

The poster

Get the PubwichFork typography layout at Flickr.

New Milestone: 3.0

haschek — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:06:28 +0000

New Issue: Activity Stream

haschek — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:35:38 +0000

Add a activity stream module what is a merge of the activated module data feeds, this made it possible to present recent content (activity stream) beside featured older content (e.g. the latest flickr pics what might be one year old).