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I just finished a tag cloud module for WordPress MU for Joomla!. This module allows you to pick any blog ID and display the tag cloud for that blog. You can also pass the parameters that you want using this guide. Just make sure you are passing the parameters in this format: “name1=value1&name2=value2″.
This module is great if you are using the Sitewide Tags plugin.
Enjoy!
Today I finally finished a plugin and a template that work together. The WordPress MU plugin and template allows a display of sitewide tags.
The plugin basically creates a new blog. The plugin will then create a new post on this blog automatically every time a user creates a new post. Currently there is no need for that since we already provide the EveryHome Template which dynamically pulls posts site-wide, but this plugin actually stores them to the database.
A few users have gotten a 500 error after installing WordPress for Joomla! and WordPress MU for Joomla! extensions. If you don’t know, a 500 Error is a server related error. I’ve been trying to figure out why this happens, and I think I’ve narrowed the issue down to a problem with the 1&1 hosting company.
Thankfully, one of the users just found a fix to this. All you have to do is put this line of code on your .htaccess file:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
It is as simple as that.
There is more information in 1&1 site. Our extension works on php4, but for some odd reason have to run it as php5 on the 1&1.
I just finished the WordPress MU for Joomla! latest posts module. This module pulls the latest posts site-wide. It has many configuration options so it’s pretty flexible.
It is available to download from our downloads section.
Here is a screen shot of the module parameters available:
Enjoy!
This bug does not affect every user, which is probably why I didn’t notice it until now. Also, it only seems to happen if you have an old version of Joomla! previous to 1.5.10.
This bug only affects the main blog when the EveryHome template is used.
If you see an error like this:
Fatal error: Class ‘JCache’ not found in /media/wpmu/themes/everyhome/home.php on line 23
The please download this file.
Rename it so it doesn’t have the .txt extension and upload it here:
/media/wpmu/themes/everyhome/home.php
We can also take care of this for you if you submit a support ticket with FTP access to your site.
The next release for WordPress MU for Joomla! is here! I have moved all of the WordPress and WordPress MU for Joomla! data and work flow into more organized systems to help speed up development and keep track of bugs, feature requests and plugin requests. After a while, post-its just don’t cut it.
We have opened up an account with LightHouse. This web service allows tracking of tickets, and we are using it to track bugs, feature requests and plugin requests for our WordPress extensions. Soon we’ll also be using it for Community ACL.
I have received multiple tickets from people who have had problems getting WordPress MU for Joomla! to use another language. I thought I tested this feature and and got it to work, but I checked again. Yes, there is a bug. Fortunately, it is still possible to get it working without waiting for a new version release.
I spent most of today fixing bugs for WPMU4J! and adding new features.
This release focuses mainly on bug fixes. The main bug dealt with locating blogs. Some users reported that the component showed a white page with an error message when it tried to find a specific blog. Pretty annoying! In case you are interested, this happened because the blog was registered under the domain name (ie. example.com). Therefore, the blog worked every time that the users visited example.com, but when they visited www.example.com the error would show up. The reverse would happen if the blog was set up as www.example.com. This registration initially happens at the time of installation. Regardless, this problem is now fixed.