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Hi all
I’ve been busy beavering away behind the scenes on a few new plugins and websites which I hope to be announcing shortly. In the meantime, the WordPress team have announced the release of WordPress 2.5. They haven’t made a 2.5 tag for this release in their SVN repository yet, so those of us who are upgrading via SVN will need to use the Trunk for now (if you don’t know what this all means read here).

I’ve just installed the latest version on my development server, and can report that so far the latest version of MyDashboard looks to be working correctly. If anyone would like to write a “Right Now” dashboard gadget or work on a style to emulate the new WordPress dashboard then please let me know and I will look to include your work in a new release.

In the meantime, it’s back to the grindstone for me.

Tags: 2.5, mydashboard, style, theme, wordpress

Plugin refactoring

Beginning today (well in a bit, I’m on a quick coffee break) I will be performing a complete audit on all of our property related plugin code (enquiries, bookings and property manager) and also moving everything from Google Code across to it’s new home at Assembla.

Since starting developing these plugins, I have increased their scope and functionality to the point, now, where they have started to overlap in more and more complex ways (development versions). Whilst this is fine, to a point, for a single person to maintain, I have increasingly found myself spending longer trying to work out where a particular bit of functionality should belong. So I dread to think what trouble there will be with more than one person to maintain the code base.

What does this mean?

As I don’t currently know of anyone who downloads the plugins using SVN, it will mean very little to everyone out there. Downloads of the existing versions will still function as before. The code held in the Google code SVN will be frozen as of today.

For myself, and the new team, it provides us with a lot of new toys such as an integrated Trac system, ticketing and project management. Which will, hopefully, mean the new development will move forward quicker and in a more structured fashion than my current “code when I have time” development method.

More announcements coming soon.

Tags: google code, plugin, property, svn, trac, wordpress

Wow, how things change when you’re not looking

Well, my plan to write a post at least twice a week didn’t last very long. Nor did my promise to get WordPress MU compatible versions of my plugins available for download. And what’s more… this blog is still running on the standard WordPress install rather than WordPress MU.

My excuse… I have spent the past two weeks in meetings and discussions with a number of people, who shall remain nameless for the time-being, regarding the way forward for both myself and the software.

Needless to say, I am quite excited at the moment about the future direction, but unfortunately that is all I can say for now. Let me just say that it is good news and, hopefully, will mean a new lease of life for all concerned (you guys included).

Tags: direction, new