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Sorry for my bad English, it is not my native language.
It will be good, if somewhere on this site will be displayed information about new and updated plugins, themes, etc.
To check it now (what updated, what is new) — users must to go throught all pages (plugins, themes, extra) and look at "Updated _date_". It is not comfortable.
I suggest: do some list in sidebar like this:
[NEW] Supporter
[NEW] Rebranding WordPress MU
[UPD] Default Theme
[UPD] Login Redirect
[UPD] Logout Redirect
And put in this list last 10 or 20 updated and new things on WPMU Premium (not only plugins: plugins, themes, extra).
One more: you can do that throught RSS. All WPMU Premium users will be informed about new and updated things on this site.
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Agreed - while we're at it do you think you could take a look around more generally and make some suggestions for improvements you'd like to see / other people might like?
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Maybe either noting what version they are up to in the description or changing th eversion number to match the wpmu version followed by a forth numerical subset (ie 2.7.1.1) is something to consider.
And that's coming from someone who hated it when they bumped up wpmu to match regular wp.
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Hiya,
I'm going to mention the 2.7 compatible version numbers in a post about the updates.
changing th eversion number to match the wpmu version followed by a forth numerical subset (ie 2.7.1.1) is something to consider.
I thought about that last year but decided against it. A fair number of our plugins don't require updates for every WPMU release. So we'd basically be forced to put out new releases/bump versions even when there's no change.
What I'm probably going to do is add a 'compatible with' feature to this site and wpmudev.
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The one and only time I suggest a different browser is when it's Safari being used and if you know me, you know I hate browser wars.
Both urls work fine in firefox although they both still show that weird "Page not found" error in the title we've talked previously about. The content is there on both of them.
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I can convince Firefox to almost display the feed, but my feed readers choke on them - the W3C Feed Validator says the feeds aren't valid, and are returning 404 errors.
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Not able to use this in any feed reader, or see it in a browser unless I click the link above and read the error code.
All return 404.
Can this be made a simple list / view / table on a page? I'll check it manually if need be (ie, rss not required), would just be nice to see a list of current versions and last updated dates.
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I hate to be a bother, but would you mind changing the status headers of the two feeds above to return "200 OK"? Currently, while they work in a browser, I can't get any of my feed readers to accept them because they're returning error codes. If you don't want them indexed by search engines, add an "X-Robots-Tag" header to the response: X-Robots-Tag: noindex, noarchive, nosnippet, nofollow
(more here )
...and/or add the "project-feed" folder to your robots.txt.
This, along with a 200 response status, would enable me to use Google Reader, Trillian or Outlook to actually be notified when updates are released.
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Agreed. Ever since they were fixed to return a 200 status code I've been able to use them where I needed to (primarily in Google Reader) without issue.
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I second this idea :-)
Member (joined February 2009) Likes (0)
You've got my vote too.
Erstwhile founder (joined May 2007) Likes (0)
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll look into adding something like this.
We actually already have feeds but it appears they're having some issues at the moment:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project-feed/updated
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project-feed/newest
Thanks,
Andrew
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Agreed - while we're at it do you think you could take a look around more generally and make some suggestions for improvements you'd like to see / other people might like?
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WOW. these links just came in handy :-) you guys have updated quite a few plugins without telling anyone ;-)
###edit###
:-( only the timestamps have changed
Erstwhile founder (joined May 2007) Likes (0)
Fixed a few things and we had to update timestamps. We'll be updating almost every plugin (2.7 styling/fixes for all) this week anyway.
Thanks,
Andrew
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are there any plugin one has to update to work with 2.7? I see a lot of the timestamps have changed but the version numbers remained the same?
Erstwhile founder (joined May 2007) Likes (0)
Hiya,
We've haven't uploaded new versions yet. I'm going to do it all at once at the end of the week.
Thanks,
Andrew
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Maybe either noting what version they are up to in the description or changing th eversion number to match the wpmu version followed by a forth numerical subset (ie 2.7.1.1) is something to consider.
And that's coming from someone who hated it when they bumped up wpmu to match regular wp.
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Hiya,
I'm going to mention the 2.7 compatible version numbers in a post about the updates.
I thought about that last year but decided against it. A fair number of our plugins don't require updates for every WPMU release. So we'd basically be forced to put out new releases/bump versions even when there's no change.
What I'm probably going to do is add a 'compatible with' feature to this site and wpmudev.
Thanks,
Andrew
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Just adding the 'Compatable With' line would be good, placed next to the version number.
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Both feeds linked by Andrew above come up empty. Safari gives this helpful error:
Safari could not update this feed because the source file is no longer available.Feeds of updates to plugins and themes would really help keep on top of things - there were a few plugins updated, and I'd missed the updates.
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The one and only time I suggest a different browser is when it's Safari being used and if you know me, you know I hate browser wars.
Both urls work fine in firefox although they both still show that weird "Page not found" error in the title we've talked previously about. The content is there on both of them.
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Hiya,
The feeds seem to work for me.
The good news is that by the end of the year we'll be providing an update notification system.
Thanks,
Andrew
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I can convince Firefox to almost display the feed, but my feed readers choke on them - the W3C Feed Validator says the feeds aren't valid, and are returning 404 errors.
http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpremium.wpmudev.org%2Fproject-feed%2Fnewest
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Cool, we'll take a look at the feeds when we get a chance.
Again though, we really don't advertise or link to those feeds anywhere. They were just something we tossed together a while back.
Thanks,
Andrew
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What's weird is if you continue down the feed validator page, there's the contents of the feed.
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Not able to use this in any feed reader, or see it in a browser unless I click the link above and read the error code.
All return 404.
Can this be made a simple list / view / table on a page? I'll check it manually if need be (ie, rss not required), would just be nice to see a list of current versions and last updated dates.
Maybe an index page, sorted by date, for all plugins.
http://premium.wpmudev.org/wpmu-plugins/bydate
Like "Recently Released Plugins" on the home page, but "recently updated".
Erstwhile founder (joined May 2007) Likes (0)
Hiya,
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll take it into consideration.
Thanks,
Andrew
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I hate to be a bother, but would you mind changing the status headers of the two feeds above to return "200 OK"? Currently, while they work in a browser, I can't get any of my feed readers to accept them because they're returning error codes. If you don't want them indexed by search engines, add an "X-Robots-Tag" header to the response:
X-Robots-Tag: noindex, noarchive, nosnippet, nofollow(more here )
...and/or add the "project-feed" folder to your robots.txt.
This, along with a 200 response status, would enable me to use Google Reader, Trillian or Outlook to actually be notified when updates are released.
Thanks!
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@Andrew
Two years old I know but these both still appear to be broken. I want to add update feeds to the Network Admin on my site....
Is there a replacement or can they be fixed? They only appear to lack a semi-colon because otherwise the information is there....!
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Sorry, confused here, what are you asking for?
Those feeds work fine - and the update notifications plugin now takes care of letting you know about new releases etc.
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Agreed. Ever since they were fixed to return a 200 status code I've been able to use them where I needed to (primarily in Google Reader) without issue.
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We actually have even more powerful feeds too if you want to break down by category:
New Plugin Releases
http://premium.wpmudev.org/wp-content/project-feed.php?type=newest&category=plugins
New Theme Releases
http://premium.wpmudev.org/wp-content/project-feed.php?type=newest&category=themes
All New Releases
http://premium.wpmudev.org/wp-content/project-feed.php?type=newest
Recently Updated Plugins
http://premium.wpmudev.org/wp-content/project-feed.php?type=updated&category=plugins
Recently Updated Themes
http://premium.wpmudev.org/wp-content/project-feed.php?type=updated&category=themes
All Recently Updated Projects
http://premium.wpmudev.org/wp-content/project-feed.php?type=updated
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