Test it!

I’ve been sitting on Cricket Moods 3.7 since late October. I’ve had little motivation and even less time to test it. The biggest change in this upcoming release is some basic WPMU support. Most of the other changes are just minor back-end things that don’t really make an end-user difference.

There is, however, a new string that needs translation (help, tikurion!).

So, anyone that feels inclined to, please test the updated version. It particularly needs testing on WPMU installations. Thanks bunches!

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10 Responses to “Test it!”

  1. tikurion Says:

    I’m absolutely willing to translate further strings! I’ve been going through the 3.6 version and found some minor mistakes which I changed now, so it would probably be best if I sent you the edited file or something and you just gave me the string you’d like a translation for.

    Comment on December 25, 2007 at 8:15 am

  2. Rachelle Says:

    Great plugin, but there is a confict with http://imagecaptioneasy.contentspring.com/ This plugin uses the ALT text of an image to create a caption and a fancy border round any image. No alt tag stops ‘image caption easy’ making captions and boarders. As you can imagine, a caption and a border messes Cricket moods badly, so an option or hack to remove automatic ALT tags from the icons would be a great benefit.

    Thanks very much. Rachelle.

    Comment on January 25, 2008 at 3:30 pm

  3. kccricket Says:

    I can certainly do that, if you’d like. Would you prefer absolutely no ALT attributes or just blank ALT attributes? I suppose I could code the option for both, it wouldn’t be hard. Be aware that removing the ALT attribute from a IMG tag causes a page to fail markup validation for HTML4 (maybe?) and XHTML strict doctypes.

    Just as a side note, I always figured that something to better display the title attribute of an image would be more useful than the alt attribute, especially since alt is really more for accessibility purposes. title is intended to be informational text pertaining to the image, like a caption. Doesn’t seem very useful to me to have the words “a baseball” below the picture of a baseball. That’s just me, of course, and will have no impact on my design of the plugin, so I will happily accommodate your needs.

    Comment on January 25, 2008 at 4:59 pm

  4. Rachelle Says:

    Mmm, No ALT or Blank ALT?? I’m not sure how the ‘image caption easy’ works, except that any characters in the ALT tag tell the plugin to display the caption and make a border. Sorry, that’s not very technical :-( There are other plugins/ hacks I’ve seen that use the ALT tag text as a trigger to do display it as a caption. ALT=”" would make it compatible, I think. Maybe you could run the ‘image caption easy’ plugin on a testbed and see?

    Thanks for your response, I hope you could figure out my poor descriptions.

    Rachelle.

    Comment on January 25, 2008 at 5:11 pm

  5. kccricket Says:

    Yep, no problem. I’ll just take a look at the plugin before making my changes.

    Comment on January 25, 2008 at 6:02 pm

  6. Les Says:

    Helloooo

    Love the plugin - in fact I use it on just about every post. But have you seen what happens with WordPress 2.5? Thanks to the new Write page layout, its box doesn’t appear in a friendly sidebar any more - it just lurks at the bottom of the page. Do you have any idea if this can be improved? If I could code my way out of a wet paper bag, I’d try to work out what’s going on, but as I can’t, I won’t.

    No rush as far as I’m concerned, but 2.5 is going live moderately soon, and I’m sure people will be asking…

    Comment on March 19, 2008 at 7:51 am

  7. kccricket Says:

    Yes, this is true. 2.5 uses different functions to add things to the write page. I’m sure people will be asking. Unfortunately, my teachers will also be asking for the homework they assigned, and my employers will be asking me to come to work.

    There’s a number of things on my todo list, and I’ll add this one. I don’t know when I’ll get to it, but I’ll try to get it done “Soon™.”

    Comment on March 19, 2008 at 10:00 am

  8. jb Says:

    Is there a way that I can pull up a page that has a list of the moods and then the list of posts for each mood? I’d like to have an overview page on my site that lists all of my posts by mood. Is this possible?

    Comment on March 20, 2008 at 10:52 am

  9. Les Says:

    I’ve made a small modification to Cricket Moods which makes it a little more 2.5 friendly. I added this function to put the Write page mood selection box look 2.5 style, and to put it in the upper part of the page rather than at the bottom where much scrolling is required:

    function cm _add_moods_box() {add_meta_box('cricket', 'Moods','cm_list_select_moods', 'post','normal');}

    In cm_list_moods, I changed the fieldset call (line 312) to this:

    echo '';

    Then removed line 342:

    add_action('dbx_post_sidebar', 'cm_list_select_moods');

    And finally added this:

    add_action('admin_menu', 'cm_add_moods_box');

    I’m sure someone who (unlike me) can code their way out of a wet paper bag could do a better job (and make it work for 2.3.x and 2.5 at the same time), but this works for me, and makes it less likely for me to forget to add a mood to a post.

    Comment on May 18, 2008 at 7:12 am

  10. Les Says:

    Bother. The key line was mangled. Let’s try that again!

    echo '<fieldset id="cm_moodlist" class="meta_box">';

    Keith - if that breaks, please fix/delete/laugh at my code as appropriate :-)

    Comment on May 18, 2008 at 7:14 am