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Improvements to wow-armory plugin + Linkbacks + Styles

Friday, February 27th, 2009

I’ve made some improvements to the wow-armory plugin:

Talents: You can now display your talent build. This option can be disabled per widget. You will see a link to your Talent in the Armory, displayed as “X / Y / Z”, where X, Y, and Z are the points spent in your First, second and third tree respectively. I’m not sure if the Armory will change to show your Dual-specs after patch 3.1, but I can change this if it does. Also, you’ll see the icon for your spec – if you have more talents in “Beast Mastery”, for example, you’ll see that icon.

Linkbacks: I have added an option to display a link back to my site. I debated for awhile how I can help get the word out on my addons, and this was, I believe, the best solution. This is completely optional, and it should default to “No”, so no one will show any links unless they choose to enable the option. Both the wow-armory and wow-guild plugin have this feature. You can turn on the linkbacks on a per-widget basis, or within shortcodes using linkback="1"

The link looks like this: powered_by

Shortcodes: You can use the shortcode: 

Character portrait
 of -US or EU
Level

You must have at least the char, realm, and realmtype specified.

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Impressive!

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Broke
The last couple of days have shown an amazing number of visitors to my site – way more people than I’ve seen before. However, you people are using up all my bandwidth, very, very quickly! I’ve spent almost $1 this week alone – which is way up from the typical $0.10/week that I was paying before.
So I’m going to have to bring up the dreaded “D” word again.
I’m hoping to avoid having this site go down again because of lack of funds, and if you would like to help prevent this, please show your support through a donation.
If you like either or both of my plugins, and would like to keep them available and up to date, please take a moment and donate a couple of bucks to me through. I use PayPal, which should work with any payment method you want to use, but if you want to donate in a more direct way, you can email me to discuss it.
Also, you can always link to my site, or tweet about it – Linkbacks and Tweetbacks back to you will be added automagically! So we can help each other out!
You can also give my plugins a good rating on Wordpress, if you want.
Thanks!

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Release: wow-guild WP Plugin!

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

I am very excited to announce the first release of my wow-guild WP Plugin!
This plugin will show your guild’s roster on any Widget-ready Wordpress Site!

Download it here:
wow-guild WP Plugin

I’m working on a page for this plugin, which can be found here: http://timsworld.nfshost.com/wow-guild-wp-plugin/

Please make any comments, suggestions, or bug reports on that page.

Thanks!

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On Hold

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Thanks to the sudden, surprise explosion of my computer at work, many of my projects are on hold until I can get things back into working order again. Notably, my wow-guild WP Plugin, which has been started, but is not yet ready for release, will probably be pushed back another week or two.
A certain other project of which I cannot speak is also on hold for a day or two, but this project will take precedence over the others. More details as they become available.

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Back online!

Friday, January 30th, 2009

My hosting account ran out of funds earlier in the week. I had to get some stuff together before I could add funds to the account, so my site had been down until now.

Now that I’m back online again, I plan to get back to work on these other plugins. I am also working on another actual content post, which I plan to have done in a day or two.

Unfortunately, my site went down on the say day they announced Thank a Plugin Developer Day :(

Hopefully I can keep this from happening again – I’m looking for different advertisement systems to help pay for the cost of the site… as much as I hate ads, I just can’t afford to keep this site up on my own. However, if you would like to help prevent this site from going down in the future, you can donate a couple dollars (or just one).

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Catastrophic Failure

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Things always seem to fall apart at the worst times…

Our hot water heater started shooting sparks the other day, so we deduced that we needed to replace the upper element. After flooding the house with scalding hot water, and then wrestling with the old element, which had been the wrong kind to begin with (someone had bent, and twisted, and crammed the old element to make it fit…), we replaced it, turned on the water, and then later turned on the power, only to have the whole thing burst with hot water from the emergency pressure valve, and flood the house again.
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Browser Poll

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Note: poll is now closed, a solution has been found. Thank you for your time.

It had been brought to my attention that there is possibly a problem with my Plugin not working on IE.
Before I decide how I want to handle this, I wanted to check to see who uses what browsers. When I ask “does it work”, I mean, if you look at my sidebar, does the armory data for my character(s) display, or do you just see a spinning arrow, and nothing else. Please take the time to answer this poll truthfully. Thank you.
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