I just released 4.0 of Search Everything. It’s 2.3 compatible, except the category exlclusion option, I need to figure out the new taxonomy schema a little more in order to fix this. Hopefully someone else will send me an fix before I get around to it.
Search Everything increases the ability of the default Wordpress Search, options included:
* Search Every Page
* Search non-password protected pages only
* Search Every Comment
* Search only approved comments
* Search Every Draft
* Search Every Excerpt
* Search Every Attachment
* Search Every Custom Field (metadata)
* Exclude Posts from search
* Exclude Categories from search (WP 2.2 only)… tagging support and category exclusion for WordPress 2.3 coming soon.
If you’re using any other version it’s a good idea to upgrade. I completely rewrote the admin backend with a much cleaner look while fixing that annoying initial save bug. I also move the options page to the manage area, which makes more sense and since Wordpress will not be seeing any Search Management in the near or distant future (which is for another post) it’s there to stay.
If you haven’t downloaded it, what are you thinking?
Mobile Admin 1.1 has been released. I mentioned earlier what the new features and fixes are. If you’re a 1.0.x user this is a huge update.
Oh yeah, we also support the iPod Touch.
No not the 1.1.1 firmware update that must have just been released after I left the house this morning, I’m talking about Mobile Admin for the iPhone.
Jared and I will be releasing a major update to the UI, some key updates:
While working on the CSS today I notice one major property that the iPhone does not support, even though Safari 3 does, contrary to what this article states, appearance does not work on iPhone’s Safari even with the webkit prefix. It was a big deal for me because it would have solved a lot of the issues I have with our approach to skinning the admin UI.
Jared and I were talking last night and he’s got some great plans for the plugin and I’m looking forward to how it unfolds.
[Updated 10/5]
Version 2.0 was just released.
Version 2.0 – multiple mobile browsers supported
After a week and a half of hard work Jared and I committed Version 1.0.2 to Wordpress Extend. we lapsed and forgot to test the plugin on the 2.2 branch and now we’ll need to pull it back for a later release when we get everything straightened out for the majority of users.
Mobile Admin started it’s development shortly after Matt requested on the [wp-hackers] mailing for the community to create an iPhone Admin theme in response to the MovableType iPhone beta theme released just a days prior.
Jared did the majority of hard core coding and I centered around the interface and CSS. Since I was the one with the iPhone I was the lucky one to exhaustingly check in and test new CSS changes for testing on the phone, since there aren’t any good development tools for iPhone devs; iPhoney is phony before anyone suggests it.
Here’s the current trac project home for bugs and management.
Here’s the support and suggestion forums. If you have an iPhone we really need your suggestions so please throw them out to us there.
Or if you have any contributions or changes you’d like to make directly just contact us.
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
Details:
iPhone / Mobile Admin UI for WordPress?
The plugin home page is on WordPress Extend.
Contributors
Jared Bangs and Dan Cameron
Gives a mobile-friendly admin UI to browsers by User Agent. The iPhone is the primary supported device for the first release.
Description
Mobile Admin adapts the WordPress? admin UI to be more friendly to mobile devices, specifically phones. The iPhone is the primary target (and only supported device) for version 1, with more to come in the future.
Most common WordPress admin features are supported:
… with more to come in later revisions.
Other resources
Please submit all usage questions to the support forums
The Trac server can be used for viewing changes and submitting tickets
SPECIAL NOTE – Testing and bug reporting is especially encouraged, as only one of us currently owns an iPhone.
It never fails me, no matter how “easy” I try to make the wordpress upgrades with SVN and supllying my own repos there’s always something that goes wrong.
This time when setting up my sites with my own wordpress repo that I apply updates to I mistakingly overwrote the wp-contents folder, taking it out of checkout and then resulting in the svn update to bomb when it got to that folder.
It shouldn’t have been a big deal, just delete the folder or rename it then do another update. Well I ended up running some of the update.php scripts prior to noticing the problem and the upgrade when bad. I’m not sure how they became related but my guess is there were some files in the includes or the admin folder that weren’t included.
I ended up having to restore two dbs, including this one and rerunning the script (again) after a proper checkout. Argg, and I also had to stay up this late messing around when I should be sleeping.
I’m going to suggest that the wordpress devs include a force upgrade script, since that would have alleviated the restores. I wonder what and where get_option(‘db_version’) checks or is it something else I could have reset to force the reinstall.
I just updated Search Everything with the ability to exclude specific posts, pages or categories. There are a few things I still need to fix like the entire admin panel needs an overhaul (props mikecherim) and a major release needs to come out of the release of Wordpress 2.3 next week. I haven’t put enough time in looking at 2.3 but the last thing I read the plugin will be broken with the update, not just the tag searching functionality (that just wont exist yet). I really need to find the time to update the plugin this weekend, or maybe I’ll wait for someone else to fix it; that’s worked out well before ;).
After posting this on Twitter:
Whoever is recommending dotster for hosting and domains please stop. Sorry, but if you’re not ignorant you’re an idiot.
Jared asked, “What’s wrong with Dotster?”. LOL, I had forgotten he uses it.
I was requested to setup a client’s outlook to receive email from one of his many domains he purchased through Dotster today and I anticipated it to take a few minutes since he already had a server/hosted plan. Nope, it took forever and I found out a lot of crappy things about Dotster.
First thing I noticed, you can’t add additional domains to your server plan. I’m not sure how they could get away with this so I contacted “live” tech support and after a quick “hello, how can I help you” I never received a reply and I waited 20 minutes since I was looking through documentation and the control panel. Maybe it was the plan that he purchased but any hosting plan limited to one domain is inexcusable.
I just gave up on the hosted plan and looked into the domain configurations. Turns out they love the idea of upselling the customer.
Additional POP and SMTP is $12/yr.
I’m a GoDaddy fan. And after seeing this I’m a bigger fan because the second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh options are all free. I was amazed to see that domain forwarding was an extra charge as well as e-mail forwarding. I’m unclear with transfer locking since it says free / $10 and I thought domain locking was required by ICANN.
I ended with the gmail solutions Setting up the client with e-mail forwarding to gmail where POP access is free and has a bunch of other spectacular features that I rather not list here but I will say it’s the best solution I’ve found for managing e-mail from your own domains. That way he can have webmail access, archiving and use personal email accounts without worry.
So that’s why I have a beef with dotster. Their confusing admin panel, limited hosting plan and extremely expensive domain registration is amusing to say the least.
aside:
Outside of the the average user perspective, like todays client; DNS management is a big plus for me with GoDaddy (it’s free BTW). I had originally started using it because I didn’t have BIND setup on my own VPS when I moved all my sites so I instead opted for the “quick and easy”. I intended to get BIND up and running but soon after I realized having GD manage DNS is ideal. Not only do I have all the controls I need but it gives the extra redundancy if my VPS crashes and I need to point to another IP. There most likely are some limitations but after 9 months I haven’t found any.
OpenDNS added shortcuts today. I’ve been an OpenDNS user for sometime and it’s an excellent service. I haven’t noticed any speed advantages from their caching but I’m glad that we’re safer with it blocking phishing sites, it also helps with some quick URI typos.
Setting up the shortcuts feature took 2 minutes. I just needed to setup an account and add my IP (which was already populated for me) then add a few shortcuts. Now instead of http://www.google.com/reader/view/ I can type gr or rss and the page loads. I’m actually impressed that I have this functionality without needing to install anything and without it being slow what-so-ever.
If you’re not using OpenDNS on your network or your computers your going to have to spend a few more minutes configuring your router or computer but I’d fully recommend OpenDNS even if you don’t care for shortcuts. Even the network admin has a bunch of great tools like network stats.
Thanks for the great service guys.
