A new home

I’m in the process of moving all of my domains over to a VPS, and gathering some of my sites under one WordPress MU install. Thanks to Donnchas fantastic WordPress MU domain mapping plugin (Thanks Donncha!) that is  very easy! In that process, I’m discontinuing some features of this site. There will be no more forums for the plugins I’ve made – since nobody used that and they were just filling up my inbox with spam registrations anyway :-/

I’ve not dropped of the face of the earth, but the summer is not the most active time when it comes to blogging og development. I hope the fall and the comming winter will bring more in the development and blogging department!

Happy blogging to you all!

New WordPress MU plugin

After reading the forum (http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/12773), I thought I should make a free (GPL) based plugin that does much of the same as the one you pay for over at WPMUdev.org (http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/footer-content). The plugin let’s you users make their own footer, but it will strip the text for java etc, and let  html tags like strong, href etc work. Your site and themes footers will not be altered, the users footer will be after those.

I’ve made one English version, and one Norwegian. For Norwegian users, please have a look here. For the rest of you, get it here.

Hope you enjoy it, and please feel free to make it better or play with the code as you wish. I’ll give no support for this plugin. But if you really need some help, you could try the forum

If you find bugs or have othe req. for this plugin, please use the Trac!

It’s springtime

The springtime is here, and I needed to let this blog get a fresher and lighter theme. So here we go. The Sunshine theme is based on the previous theme I used (iNove), and comes with a lot of translations (.mo and .po files) so this is easy to install for all.

Well, thats it – now the spring and summer can come whenever they’re ready!

Argh

I just hate when there is server problems… On one of my sites there is a problem reading the DB, but the support staff can’t find any errors. The problem is it just “shows” it self when you’re logged in, but the site will not let you log in with a test users I’ve made just for those cases…

It’s a WPµ install, and it won’t update the DB or read (correctly) from it. It says it has no posts in the admin section, but it shows on the page. It says it has no comments on the post, but it shows on the widgets but not in the admin section. It says a user don’t exists but the DB shows the user…

It’s soooooooo frustrating!

What’s more annoying is that I have several sites with the same host, and all the others (including this) works like a charm – but they’re using different DB servers. So my conclusion is that there is something wrong with the DB server. I just hope they (the support staff) finds (and fixes) the problem!

Again, ARGH!

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-09

Free WordPress MU Google Analytics plugin

I notice that WPMUDEV.org would like you to buy (you need a premium membership) a WordPressMU plugin that lets you utilize Google Analytics on your WPMU install.

But why don’t you use a free plugin. I don’t know if they’re just re-branding a plugin, but it seems by the description to do just the same as the rafik_ga plugin. This is from the readme file

To set up Google Analytics on this site:
> Admin. Site> Google Analytics.
Paste the Google Analytics (in the form “UA-xxxxxxx-x”).

To set up Google Analytics on a specific blog, blog administrator can set his own blog:
> Options> Google Analytics.
Paste the Google Analytics (in the form “UA-xxxxxxx-x”).

That’s it!

Note: Make sure you have the wp_footer hook wp_footer(); in your footer.php or else it wont work.

This plugin works just fine with WPMU 2.7.1, and I’ve translated it to Norwegian, but it’s also available in English. You can download the Norwegian version or the English version from the links below. There is no .mo or .po file, so the translations have to be hardcoded.

So why pay when you don’t have to?

Just to clarify; WPMUDEV.org have their version integrated with another plugin you have to pay for… So there is a difference between the two versions!

[links]
Norwegian version
English version

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-02

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-02-23

  • Ny uke. Nye muligheter? #
  • Noen (les:Netcom) må bygge ut 3G i Kleppestø området (Askøy). Det er jo bare Edge her :-( #
  • @xmasb mase lenge nok – så blir hun lei og sier ja… Eller i Nike stil; just do it! in reply to xmasb #
  • @KristinKWangen wops :-) *leter etter den store stopp internet knappen* – fant den i en rettsal i Sverige! in reply to KristinKWangen #
  • @KristinKWangen Frittgående? Måtte du fange den først? in reply to KristinKWangen #
  • Noen som skal på foredraget til Richard Stallman @ UiB/Dragefjellet i dag? #
  • @jhuglen Det er en link på framsiden på UiB.no. På høyre side. Begynner 17:00 og varer til 19:30. Han skal bl.a snakke om GNU… in reply to jhuglen #
  • Waiting for Richard Stallman! http://twitpic.com/1kj6t #
  • Mye folk som er kommet for å se/høre Stallman :-) #
  • Stallman has just started his lecture. http://twitpic.com/1kjd9 #
  • Stallman mener det er bedre å gi en piratkopi til din nabo enn å nekte ham applikasjonen. Hvorfor? #
  • Det minst onde av to onder… #
  • Stallman er morsom. Han snakker om ideen bak navnet GMU :-) #
  • GNU/Linux == Linux || Linux == GNU/Linux :-) #
  • Stallmans andre identitet… St. Ignutius :-) http://twitpic.com/1kl1q #
  • Det var et lærerikt foredrag av Richard Stallman. Vet han skal videre til Oslo, så har du en mulighet, så er det verdt det! #
  • +1 til mariusk! RT @mariusk: @oyvind skal med MMS på en telefon med en så bra epostklient? Tull og vas. Få folket over på epost heller. #
  • @jhuglen mms er død:-) Vel, not… Men jeg tror nok den (mobile)eposten blir mer populær, men det avhenger også av hardware som er tilgj. in reply to jhuglen #
  • @Ehva Ja, han er en snodig fyr. Har bare sett ham i intervjuer før, så artig å se ham live! Han har mye fornuftig å bidra med – og noe ikke! in reply to Ehva #
  • Lager sjokolade kake til min bedre halvdel :-) #
  • @KristinKWangen Vi feirer bursdagen hennes! Hun har ikke før om en uke, men men :-) Hun fortjener det! in reply to KristinKWangen #
  • RT @KristinKWangen: Shockingly Big IE6 Warning på norsk http://tinyurl.com/dzfntq #IE6 #
  • @xmasb Håper dere får en fin ferie! in reply to xmasb #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-02-16

  • Litt snø – mye kaos. Typisk… #
  • Hunting bugs on a site… Always fun :-) #
  • RT @wordpress: WordPress 2.7.1 http://tinyurl.com/d7nowh #
  • So. Much. Snow. Urk! #
  • RT @ryanblock: iPhone app idea (read: someone please make this): dial my phone from within Address Book/Mail/etc. on the desktop via WiFi. #
  • Testing nambu for OSX – looks nice :-) http://tr.im/g6f0 #
  • Prøver burger på Inside Rock cafè i Bergen :-) #

All quiet on the west front…

Well, most of my blogging these days goes through Twitter. I’ve not (completely) abandoned this, or any other blogs I have. But I’ve started school again and that takes most of my time. 

That means that it will be some  consequences for my plugins for WP/WP MU and bbPress. I will not do anything with any of those plugins in the foreseeable future. It’s not that I don’t want to, but I just don’t have the time!

I will try to help out in the forums, but it might take time before I answer any questions. All of my plugins are GPL’ed, so if anyone would like to hack at theme, they’re more than welcome!

So if you want to keep track of me, just follow me @ twitter or @ Brightkite.