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Plugins Survey

Stef — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:13:24 +0000

I have added a contact form page. It’s the Plugins Survey page.

If my plugins’ users are so kind to complete it, it’ll allow me to know who uses what and where and what are the most wanted features for new releases of these plugins.

Thanks for your cooperation.

RSS Just Better wp plugin Version 1.3 Released

Stef — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:03:48 +0000

Here we go again. Previous version was 1.1. Version 1.2 has never been released.

Long due release. Changes are as follows:

New Feature: It’s possible to disable the reverse chronological order established by default. Normally, this results in a chronological order but not always. I.e. Google news will not be in chronological order.
New Feature: Added “Serbia” to the list of Google News countries
New Feature: Added “More Top News” to the list of Google News topics
Change: Added more comments to code
Change: Google News attributes for shortcode are now the same as for widget variables (to avoid confusion)
Bug Fix: Non-latin alphabeths and non-standard chars (Google news locations) are now displayed properly
Bug Fix: Image URL for rss icon in shortcode is now correct
Bug Fix: Standard Google News feed URL has been changed (by Google)
Bug Fix: Location as null string does not deafult to usa (??) (Google news)
Bug Fix: urlencoding text for Google News searches

Cat eating with fork

Stef — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:21:21 +0000

Dubbed Conversating cats

Stef — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:54:02 +0000

Attempt of a translation from cattish into English:

Conversating Cats

Stef — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:49:26 +0000

Another great video ab cats:

Google News Just Better retirement

Stef — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 06:15:50 +0000

I have released a new version of my plugin Google News Just Better, the 1.4 purely to inform the users, it wont be maintained any longer. It still perfectly works with the current version of wordpress, the 3.4.1 but all its functionalities are taken over by RSS just better my other plugin.
So please, use this instead.

RSS Just Better wp plugin Version 1.1 Released

Stef — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:09:54 +0000

Here we go again. Yes, previous version was 0.8. I have skipped two versions.

Still no possibility of viewing images/media in this version, however:

The date (weekdays & months) is now “localized” (=displayed in the language your wordpress is installed)
The user is able to display items published only by a given amount of hours (for infrequently updated feeds)
The user is able to display Google News feeds given the new params: localization, topic or search keyword(s), local (for Us & Ca news only)
The preview of the excerpt on mouse-over is disabled if the excerpt is ticked-off (widget)/set to TRUE (shortcode)
Documentation and explanations have been improved
Error messages are now better detailed
Fixed path to RSS image from ‘../RSS-just-better/..’ to ‘../rss-just-better/..’ (thanks Mike)

As a matter of fact, this plugin now can fully replace my other plugin Google News just better. I am checking how to retire it elegantly.

Oggi è Santa Felicita

Stef — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:32:53 +0000

Signorina Felicita, è il tuo giorno!
A quest’ora che fai? Tosti il caffè:
e il buon aroma si diffonde intorno?
O cuci i lini e canti e pensi a me,
all’avvocato che non fa ritorno?
E l’avvocato è qui: che pensa a te.

La Signorina Felicita Ovvero La Felicità

di Guido Gozzano

RSS Just Better Plugin version 0.8 released

Stef — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 09:46:35 +0000

This version includes a few new features:

Being able to truncate/limit the title to (given) chars
Being able to choose the date and the time format
Being able to sort the feed items by title (instead of the default date/time)

Some changes and bug fixes:

“Link to author” in widget form becomes “Link to the Plugin Homepage”
The popup window showing on mouseover title is limited to 400 char
Optimized function to retrieve feed and format list
Changed error message when feed URL does not return the items list: if it has already worked before, it must be just a feed temporary issue and not a misformatted feed
Fixed the plugin homepage URI in the readme.txt file

Pages on how to use it and better demo have also been added to this blog.

Now, for the users who wait for the ability to read and display images within the feed, please be patient it’ s a major change and I’m still working/thinking about it.

Any comment or remark please drop me a live via the contact form.

Tijger ♥♥♥ Rust in Vrede / Rest in Peace / Riposi in Pace

Stef — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:00:49 +0000