Bookmarkify Release Candidate is Available
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 by Gary KeorkunianPosted in Bookmarkify |
Well, it’s been a little while since I’ve posted an updated to the Bookmarkify plugin, but it’s finally available.
The newest revision - 0.9.3 - includes the following updates:
- Integration of Site Icons - pulling the icons directly from the site has been an issue within IE and sometimes Firefox. This has been remedied by including the site icon files with the plugin.
- Sidebar Support - The plugin has been enhanced to let you include a sidebar version of the widget by making a simple PHP call in your template’s sidebar.php file. You can see it in the sidebar of this blog just beneath the Category list. Please refer to the readme.txt file for instructions.
In addition to these changes there were also a number of small cosmetic changes and a fix to support W3C validation.
If you are upgrading from a previous version you will need to deactivate and uninstall the current version of the plugin before uploading this new update. This is because the plugin has migrated from being a single file to being a full subdirectory within the plugins directory. This was required to support the addition of the site icons. All of your options will be retained, however, so you will not need to reset them. Please see the readme.txt file for more details.
You can download the update here.
I would like to thank the scores of people who submitted their comments over the past couple of weeks. I apologize for not responding to each of you directly, however, I did read each of them and incorporated the best of the ideas into this version.
I am labeling this version a release candidate as no new features, only bug fixes, will be added before the 1.0 release. I am compiling ideas for future versions so please submit any requests you might have.
Have a great day!!
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May 2nd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
What a great plugin. Using the latest version, I was having issues with the icons showing on my site. It seems, the path to icons wasn’t working because of my rather unique hosting set up. In case anyone else is having this same issue, here’s a solution to get the icons to show on your posts and not the alt text.
If you’re having a problem with the icons not showing in your blog, try changing line 199
Find:
$iconFolder = dirname(__FILE__).”/”;
Replace with
$iconFolder = “/thefolderyourblogisin/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/”;
Be sure and change “thefolderyourblogisin” to the correct folder name.
That should do it.
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:44 am
Thanks for the tip. I am working on a way to avoid needing to make this change.
Gary
May 5th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Hi there….i have a strange problem, i have installed the latest version of this wonderful pligin…..but i cant see the icon on my post !!!!!
Maybe i have done something wrong….is anybody that have this problem ?
May 5th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Hi Asorbanseo,
There is an issue with icon display in version 0.9.3. This has been corrected in the latest version - 0.9.4. Please download and install that version and all should work OK.
Gary
May 5th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Hi gary….thank you for your reply…but i have installed the latest version !!!!
May 5th, 2008 at 8:02 am
The strange is……when i click on the missin icon in the properties….the address url of the icon is correct !!!!!!!
May 5th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Asorbanseo,
I looked at your sight and appears that the bookmarkify directory is setup correctly, however, it does not appear the plugin has been activated.
Gary
May 5th, 2008 at 8:06 am
yes…sorry…i was just installing again the plugin….now is on line…..help me
May 5th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Asorbanseo,
I just looked at it again and your site is displaying the icons OK. Perhaps you just need to empty your browser’s cache or force a refresh on the page (F5) so that you can see them.
Gary
May 5th, 2008 at 8:18 am
i have done…….but i cannot see the icons yet………i have already clear the cache and reloaded the page several times………..maybe its a problem of Internet Explorer 6,0 ……..i will check later at my home………thank u for ur support
May 5th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I think that there was a problem with IE……infact, at home with IE 7, i have the same problem, i cannot see the icon !!!!!!!!
May 20th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Hi,
I installed the plugin (0.9.51) and activated it, but I can neither find the options page for bookmarkify nor see the icons. All I get is a “powered by bookmarkify” under each of my posts. Has anyone encountered the same problem? Where am i supposed to find the option page?
Alexis
May 20th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Hi Alexis,
The Bookmarkify Options page can be found in the WordPress Admin area.
Depending on the version WordPress you are using you will either find it under the “Options” menu item or the “Settings” menu item.
Gary
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:26 am
Thanks Gary, problem solved!
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:20 am
My pleasure