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Upcoming Events 0.5

Jake — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:36:45 +0000

Here we go with the 5th release of the Upcoming Events plugin. Again, I’m sure this won’t solve everybody’s problems with past versions, but it solves a few more than 0.4 did. Fixes in this version include:

Allow multiple widgets that can display different feeds
Fix a PHP 4 compatibility issue
Make the popups with event details fade in and out
code_name can no longer start with an underscore. If you have feeds with this setting now, the plugin will continue to work, but the next time you try to update your options you’ll be required to change it.

There are, of course, fixes that didn’t make the short list. For a complete log, see http://dev.wp-plugins.org/log/upcoming-events.

Important Links

.zip
WordPress Info Page

Upgrade Instructions

IMPORTANT: With past versions you could simply unzip the file into your wp-content/plugins directory in place of the current upcoming-events contents and be good to go. This update requires one additional step. You must also deactivate and reactivate the plugin on the Plugins tab of the WordPress admin interface. Once reactivated, if you use widgets you’ll need to visit the Widget config settings on the Presentation tab in order to re-add the Upcoming Events widget. This is because of the new ability to add multiple widgets.

Install Instructions

See the main Upcoming Events Page.

Upcoming Events v0.4

Jake — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:11:22 +0000

It’s way past time for the 4th release of the Upcoming Events plugin. I’m sure this plugin won’t solve everybody’s problems with version 0.3, but I know it will solve at least a few of them. This is the code that’s been running on my site for the past few months. I apologize for taking so long to make this release. Fixes in this version include:

Use $wpdb->prefix for forward compatibility with WordPress
Provide limited support for recurring events
Specify that the background should be White in the CSS file
Display newly added feeds by default

That last item, display newly added feeds by default, will fix most, if not all, of the SQL errors in previous versions. This will not fix it if you are trying to updating an existing installation that’s exhibiting that problem, but should prevent the problem from happening on new installations. If you have an existing installation with an SQL error, make sure at least one “Display in default sidebar” box is checked.

Download Links

.zip
WordPress Info Page

Upgrade Instructions

Simply unzip the file into your wp-content/plugins directory in place of the current upcoming-events contents.

Install Instructions

See the main Upcoming Events Page.

Upcoming Events and WordPress 2.1

Jake — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:58:59 +0000

It looks like WordPress 2.1 is getting closer to being out the door… The WordPress Development blog just made a post to suggest the plugin authors check their code to make sure if it’s naughty or nice. Well, Upcoming Events is somewhere in between. I followed the instructions on WordPress’ site for creating tables in the database which said to use $table_prefix in order to get the configured prefix (wp_ by default). It seems, however, that I should actually be using $wpdb->prefix instead. Fortunately, $table_prefix is just depreciated, not eliminated so even version 0.1 of Upcoming Events is WordPress 2.1 ready. Upcoming Events 0.4, when it comes out, will use the shiny new $wpdb->prefix interface.

UPDATE 11-Dec-2006: I edited the WordPress wiki to reflect the fact that $wpdb->prefix is now the prefered method.

Upcoming Events v0.3

Jake — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:41:31 +0000

It’s time to make the 3rd release of my Upcoming Events plugin. Updates in this release include:

Removed a debugging statement that caused days/weeks to display incorrectly
Individual iCal feeds can be immediately updated from the admin page
The events list is now valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional
The admin page now produces valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional
CSS styles are in their own separate file for easier modification
More information is provided in a tooltip-like popup for each event
Basic error checking is done when making changes on the admin page

By far, the biggest user visible update is the tooltip-like popup. To see it in action, simply hover your mouse over one of the events in my event list. Pretty much all the other updates are only of concern to the admin… though being that the plugin is installed by the admin, I think they’re a pretty important person :).

Download Links

.tar.gz
.zip
Red Alt info page

Upgrade Instructions

Simply untar/unzip the file into your wp-content/plugins directory in place of the current upcoming-events contents.

Install Instructions

Untar/unzip the downloaded file into your wp-content/plugins directory then visit the Plugin Manager in your WordPress admin interface and active the plugin. A new subpage will appear on the Options tab for Upcoming Events where you can configure your iCal feed(s). Once you have feeds configured, you can add the event list to your sidebar. If you use widgets, simply visit the Widget subpage on the Presentation tab to add the Upcoming Events widgets. If you don’t use widgets, you’ll need to edit your sidebar.php in your theme directory (the default theme is in wp-content/themes/default) and add the appropriate code from the Upcoming Events options page.

Upcoming Events v0.2

Jake — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:01:56 +0000

This second release of the Upcoming Events plugin has a couple of fixes that people asked for after the first release.

Now supports being used as a widget.
Should now work in PHP 4 (had received only moderate testing).

This second bullet point will probably excite more people than the first. I’d much appreciate it if those of you that have been having problems getting the plugin to work because you run PHP 4 could try out this release.

The .tar.gz can be downloaded from my site. A zip version is available from Red Alt‘s download page.