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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  • More semantics, I think by “category” number you meant ID number ?? but in any event, it does need the name of the category, not the ID as that is specific to the item.

    Thread Starter davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    Yeah, I’ve been meaning to get rid of the numberings in the admin screen, as they serve no purpose. Also, I know people might want to use matching strings between CG-Amazon that are the same as WP categories — but I’m just not there yet, not sure how to do that while retaining web-platform independence.
    Glad you got it working! (Thanks Beel!)
    -d

    Thread Starter davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    Okay — feel free to post if you do think of something! ??
    -d

    Hiya,
    Is it possible to list a particular book – I’m wanting to display a book I’m talking about in a particular entry post (and I want to link to it using my Amazon Associates code) – is this possible with the plugin? (I have it all installed and have added the book to my CGA items).

    Thread Starter davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    Thanks Beel… I’ve been trying for 15 minutes to get the posting to work properly… 60s wait between posts… darn formatting issues with HTML comments…. AAAARGH! ??
    -d

    Helps to have IE and FF open to the post when doing a lot of editing – cuts it down to 30 seconds ??

    Ahh, that’s brilliant – thanks for the speedy reply. I’ve just adapted the CSS styles etc too.

    Thread Starter davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    Okay, I’ve decided to put forth b19 of the CG-PowerPack, in case this week gets busy and I don’t have another chance.
    Enhancements and bugfixes in: CG-SameCat, CG-Inline, CG-Amazon, CG-Feedread, CG-Referer.
    CG-Inline and CG-Amazon now share the amazon image-size determination code… things should all now work the same in all cases. CG-Inline docs updated a teensy bit with better description of the Amazon inlines.
    Working on seller searches and other variations for CG-Amazon. Write me at cgcode AT chait DOT net if you have particular Amazon requests (browse node queries may be next).
    -d

    Thread Starter davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    Just to confuse people (heh!), I’ve put up b20 ahead of expected schedule. It fixes some ‘bugs’ in b19 with CG-Amazon image size stuff not working properly (especially for inlines and for no-image cases). Also reworked some of CG-FeedRead to better handle UTF-8 unicode character sets.
    In any case, I thought the changes had a significant enough impact to merit replacing b19 with b20 real quick… ??
    -d

    Where would I be able to download a program that uses POST to a .txt file for the whattunes plugin?

    I use iTunes and I’m on a PC. where would I download ITunesblogger?

    Let me do a google search for you ?? …

    https://www.ituneshacking.com/wiki/wakka.php?wakka=HomePage

    Alright, I downloaded it, I have it running now what would I put as the URL of the script, the one with the plugin or a new one? Sorry for my n00bness :-p.

    Thread Starter davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    Just to be clear (since I’m not always), “link-to” is the path on your web server to get all the way down to tracktunes.php in the cg-plugins subfolder. So it’s something like

    https://yoursite/wp-content/plugins/cg-plugins/tracktunes.php

    at the start of that sample.
    -d

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