Comments on: WordPress Plugin: Plugin Info

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:50:29 +0000

0.7.6 is out.

* Addition of a new plugin_info() template tag for displaying plugin info outside of your posts. Based on code by Melvin Ram.
* Various code improvements including caching improvements by Matt Martz.

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:13:48 +0000

Thanks for the heads up Dougal, much appreciated. I’ll check it out once we get a 3.0 RC.

By: Dougal Campbell

Dougal Campbell — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:39:33 +0000

I was going to try it out under WordPress 3.0 (svn trunk), but it doesn’t appear to be saving the plugin slug info from the meta-box. Of course, the New {Post/Page/[custom-post-type]} stuff is still in flux right now, so it might “fix itself” later in the WP dev cycle. Just thought I’d give you a heads-up, though.

By: Hugh Johnson

Hugh Johnson — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:15:38 +0000

Hi,

I have also upgraded to 2.9.1 but the problems with the Latest Change, FAQs & Other Notes sections are still present as described in my previous comment (http://lud.icro.us/wordpress-plugin-info/#comment-5687 ).

Regards,

Hugh

By: Denzel Chia

Denzel Chia — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:22:21 +0000

Hi,

I have upgraded to WordPress 2.9.1 and the plugin is working now.
You are right that it is a WordPress Cron bug

Thanks!

Regards,

Denzel

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:47:39 +0000

Hi Denzel,

There is a bug in WordPress 2.9 which means the WP-Cron system may not be working properly, which will cause this plugin to not update periodically. There is also an outstanding problem with the WordPress API which I have yet to find time to look into.

Stay tuned and I’ll post an update this week. John.

By: Denzel Chia

Denzel Chia — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:55:46 +0000

Hi,

Please help. The plugin info doesn’t update for my site for quite sometime.

I had tried deactivating and reactivating plugin as well as deleting and reinstall, but it still doesn’t work. Clearing my wp_super_cache plugin also doesn’t help.

I am using 0.75 version of plugin info and WordPress 2.9

Thanks.

Regards,

Denzel

By: Melvin Ram

Melvin Ram — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:47:38 +0000

Okay, so it is possible to use the plugin_info plugin outside of the content block. Here’s how:

http://pastie.org/754165

By: Melvin Ram

Melvin Ram — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:30:50 +0000

We’ve just released Automatic Wordpress Backup (www.wordpressbackup.org) and at the top, I have a link to the download url. How would I use the plugin without using shortcodes? I didn’t see a function to do this but it would be useful to have a plugin_info(slug, info_wanted) function that could be used in the theme.

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:17:30 +0000

Thanks for the comments everyone, I’ll be looking into this in the next few days.

By: Ade

Ade — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:44:19 +0000

For info, I have the same issues as Hugh Johnson. This is on both 2.8.6 and 2.9 beta2.

By: Hugh Johnson

Hugh Johnson — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:22:13 +0000

John,

Looks like the wordpress.org Plugins API is still having problems. I’m running 2.9 beta 2 and I’m seeing the following problems:

– Latest change is not working, no content is returned (although the full changelog still works)

– H4 tags are not being applied to question titles in the FAQs section (by titles I mean items wrapped in `=` tags

– H3 tags are not being applied to section titles in the Other Notes section (by section titles I mean items wrapped in `==` tags

– Line breaks between paragraphs that are present in text in the Other Notes section are not being pulled across

Regards,

Hugh

By: Ade

Ade — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:14:57 +0000

Ah-ha! Didn’t think of that. I’ll keep an eye on it and see what happens.

Thanks.

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:03:05 +0000

Ade: Looks like the wordpress.org Plugins API is a bit wobbly at the moment. Screenshots aren’t showing up for my plugins either. Hopefully this is a temporary issue and will be fixed soon.

By: Ade

Ade — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:35:37 +0000

John,

Using version 0.75 with WP 2.8.6.

I’m finding that I’m losing some, but not all, plugin data. For example, screenshots and changelog no longer display, but other plugin data does. Working fine up until yesterday, now these items are missing. No plugins added or any other changes made to my site during this period.

This is the page in question: http://www.studiograsshopper.ch/dynamic-content-gallery/

Ade.

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:10:49 +0000

Viper007Bond: Glad you got it working!

By: Viper007Bond

Viper007Bond — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:19:40 +0000

Fixed. I needed up edit my server’s hosts file so that it could resolve itself. Thanks! :)

By: Viper007Bond

Viper007Bond — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:38:55 +0000

You know, they may not be working. That’s a good point. Lemme install DD32’s cron inspector.

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:35:53 +0000

Viper007Bond: Are other cron schedules working on your blog? I noticed you had some problems with scheduled posts, which might indicate a problem with WP-cron.

By: Viper007Bond

Viper007Bond — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:26:50 +0000

Still having trouble with the cron. I’ve deactivated and reactivated with no luck.