Beta: The CG-PowerPack of WordPress plugins

  • I wanted to get the word out to my more avid testers and other interest parties. Rather than generate a ton of individual archives, for the initial testing of my new CG stuff, I’m packing up ALL of my ‘libraries’, plus enabler ‘plugin stubs’ for WP1.2+, in one archive.
    This includes my existing libraries:
    1. CG-Amazon (amazon data feeds)
    – added keyword searches, new Find feature to add to db, default to external links (and not internal to cgaindex), fixed cgaindex ‘bot thrashing’, and created CG-Inline for inlining Amazon products in articles. New XMLParser from Feedread.
    2. CG-Feedread (RSS/Atom aggregation)
    – New XMLParser, uses custom HTTP connection code to reduce ‘lockups’ due to bad/unavailable XML services. Fixed some encapsulation and output cases.
    3. CG-Referer (referral, bot, and query/search tracking)
    – Updated blacklists. Overhauled bot code. New bot and query detection.
    4. CG-Samecat (listing posts within a category)
    – No major changes.
    … plus my new additions:
    5. CG-Inline (embedded macros within posts for images, amazon items, and post links)
    6. CG-Related (assisted process for building table of related posts and listing them)
    7. CG-WhatTunes (tying music player/watcher http POST updates to CG-Amazon, to show the current music you are listening to)
    … and associated helper files and functions.
    Many of the above are completely missing documentation at the moment — but I wanted to get the new Amazon and Feedread stuff out, and had people interested in WhatTunes and Related, and didn’t make sense to go pulling them into seven different packages at the moment. ??
    Anyway… for those brave souls, go grab the CG-PowerPack, and let me know as you have issues. Feel free to start new Topics here for different plugins, so that they don’t all get junked in one post. ?? For general issues or Qs, feel free to respond to this post of course!
    FINAL NOTES:
    – All CG-Amazon users really should update, and CLEAR their cache_amazon folder, as bots may have flooded it with junk.
    – Feedread users, note that the cache folder name has been changed from cache_rssfeeds to cache_feedread to note ‘who owns it’. ??
    -d

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  • Thread Starter davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    Hi everyone:
    Just FYI, version 1.0b9 of the CG-PowerPack is now up on CHAITGEAR.
    Minor fix (well, major in some cases) for CG-Inline basically ‘eating’ posts that had zero comments whatsoever. That’s now fixed, should be working as expected.
    Let me know if you run into further issues! ??
    -d

    Thread Starter davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    Okay, due to a request, 1.0b10 has been quickly posted. The only difference from b9 is a one-line fix in feedread.php, to support feeds with only a single item.
    The fix helps, but a related issue might come up elsewhere… has to do with tricky games I play with collapsing arrays with only a single element up into their parent, which is needed due to XML structuring.
    -d

    Thread Starter davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    Gee, fun.
    Due to the BAD fix I added to 1.0b10 for singular-entries in a feed, I’ve put up 1.0b11 just now to FIX it so that CG-Feedread now works again. Also minor fixes to other systems.
    If you’re using CG-Feedread, GET THIS VERSION.
    -d

    Dang, I just updated to b10 an hour ago. Is b12 due out in the next hour or two?

    well, i added a $showtheTime = false variable.

    Thread Starter davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    Yeah, sorry about that. I actually commented it out completely for the next version — I only really wanted it for the table-styled output for admin usage.
    And I’m having a bad day, as I JUST figured out that CG-Feedread still isn’t working properly. UGH. Yes, b12 is due out real-soon-now. ??
    BTW, after you’ve used Referer for a while, you can do fun things as an admin, like {path-to}refererLib.php?searches=100&match={some-word}
    Great for whittling down what searches have been done.
    Will post in a bit.
    -d

    How about whittling out?

    Could someone post a link to where I could see cg-feedread in action? I couldnt find it on the Chaitgear website…
    BTW, David, neat work on chaitgear… I will be recommending it to friends who are looking for gadget reviews….

    Beel, your website is timing out…

    Yeah, computer crashed.

    Thread Starter davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    Vohiyaar –
    Thanks — been a lot of work.
    On the front page, there are two feeds at the top of the right sidebar — cnet and the register. But that’s only one approach. You can also go with a ‘posts-styled’ feed output, that shows the body of each entry as well as the title. Beyond that, it’s pretty flexible… I’m looking at a template-style system for more customization.
    -d

    David .. FYI. Naming the one folder …
    cg-amazon extra stuff
    is a pain on *nix which does not like the spaces. You might consider …
    cg-amazon-extra-stuff
    Just a thought.

    David,
    I took some time to put everything in it’s final place and update the docs in CG-PowerPack. The download link is available with the related post.
    Feel free to use what you want and ignore the rest. If you use something, let me know and I will note it on my blog.
    Doug

    OK … CG-Amazon. I still have questions.
    I followed Steps 3,4,5 in the CGAREADME.

    1. I have the CGA link in the WP Admin UI.
    2. cg-plugins/cache_amazon/ is set to 777 so it writeable.
    3. I invoked the CGA menu and generated my table.

    Now, I see the CGA Menu. But nothing seems to work.
    If I search for an item, I always get “No Items Found”. Does this actually query Amazon? I assumed it did. Or, does it only query the local DB of hand-entered ASINs?
    If I put in an ASIN, I get the following error:
    Result = [ERROR_QUERYING_AMAZON]
    What am I missing?

    Beel: I tried a more specific queries [“The Hobbitt”, “Doyle Brunson”, “Liz Phair”]. All return “No products found.”
    I know those should return a reasonably small dataset. So, I am wondering two things …
    1. Do I have the most recent codebase? Will confirm when I get home tonight.
    2. Assuming I have the most current code, is there a timeout setting I can should manipulate to give my install more time to get a resultset?

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