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A new version of my l’il old Weighted Categories Plugin is out. I went up two version points because I never released the last update I made. Oops.

I’ve updated my LiveJournal Crosspost Module/Extension to 1.3. There is one new feature added to it – any posts you make to LiveJournal will be formatted first. So you can use Markdown, Textile, or any other text formatting plugin available.

I just made an update to my Comment Text Formatting extension.

This new version allows you to specify the text formatting for your comments via a parameter in the comment display/comment preview tag.

What does this mean? The previous version of this extension allowed you to choose only one text format to be applied to all comments. This was done through the settings in the Control Panel. But say for some reason you want to apply the Textile formatting to the comments of one weblog, but Markdown on the comments of another. Well now you can do that by using the new “format” parameter!

To use, change your {exp:comment:entries} and {exp:comment:preview} tags and add the parameter wherever you want the formatting to be displayed:

If you don’t use the format parameter, then the extension will just use the settings from the Control Panel.

I didn’t even realize that I could use extensons to add new parameters like this, until, well, now.

Download Version 1.2.0 here.

I’ve made a minor update to my Show Entry View extension for ExpressionEngine. The newest version adds a new option to display the total of all entry views.

Download Version 1.1.0 here.

If you’re tracking your entries in EE using the entry views tracking feature, this extension I’ve written may be useful for you. It shows the entry view counters for each entry on the Edit page in the Control Panel.

Here’s a small screenshot:

There are four views to track and you can choose which ones you want to have displayed on the Edit page. In the screenshot I’ve chosen to show only the first two.

Download Version 1.1.0 here.

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I’ve made another update to the Link Entry from Control Panel to Your Site extension. It wasn’t playing nice with other extensions.

Download Version 1.1.1

The Link Entry from Control Panel to Your Site extension has been updated again. This new version uses less code. In previous versions I had to duplicate a chunk of code from the expressionengine core code, but thanks to a new extension hook I don’t have to do that anymore.

Oh, and said extension hook is not mentioned in the Extensions Library, I found it by accident today when going through the code.

This plugin for ExpressionEngine will reset the entry view counters. You can specify which view and which weblog to clear. It works in the same way as the clear template hits plugin.

Download Version 1.0 here. Documentation and examples are inside the plugin file, and I’ve copied them below.

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My LiveJournal Crosspost Module/Extension is now at version 1.2. Since it’s such a long name, I’ve officially dubbed it :LJCME: and added this acronym into the Acronym Module so I won’t have to link to it all the time.

The main new thing in this version is support for the new Current Location field. Those LJ people haven’t updated the documentation yet but I was able to figure out what to do. The documentation for tags isn’t there either, and tag support has been around for months!

Edit: So many strange things going on over here lately. I’m having problems with the standalone-edit form and the daylight savings time settings, the comment previews are messed up, and the acronym modules works on the comments page but not on the index page. Blearghhhh…

Made some updates to my LiveJournal Crosspost Module/Extension, making it version 1.1. I fixed a couple of bugs. And then I changed one of the module’s tags ({exp:lj_crosspost:id}) so that they’d be more consistent. It will mess up your templates, so check the docs to see how to change your code.

Also, I added another option where you can specify whether you want to enable/disable comments for any particular entry. In the last version, if you enabled comments on your ExpressionEngine entry, it would enable comments on the LiveJournal entry, and same if you disabled comments. I realized this isn’t ideal, because you might want to, say, enable comments on your EE entry, but disable comments on your LJ entry, and force users to comment only on the EE entry so that the conversation won’t be broken up into two places.

Next up: I would like to put the documentation in a separate readme file, instead of having it in the control panel – that way, you can read the documentation before installing the module.

Presenting another extension for you EE users out there.

This extension allows you to apply a custom text formatting plugin such as Textile or Markdown to comments. Rather than having to wrap your comment text with a plugin tag in your templates, you can just enable the extension and it’ll be applied automatically. The extension should work with any of the plugins in the Text Formatting category in the Plugin Library.

It’s being used on my site right now!

Download Version 1.2.0.

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I have updated my Link Entry from Control Panel to Your Site extension. It broke after I updated to the newest build of EE (latest build is 20060217). If you have this build, go download the extension again.

My next post should be a little more exciting – I have another extension! But since it’s late I will release it tomorrow.

Someone requested a Gallery Breadcrumbs plugin, so I wrote one.

Download Version 1.0 here.

That is all I’m going to say about it, the documentation is in the plugin itself.

The module/extension I mentioned earlier is now ready! Introducing: the LiveJournal Crosspost Module and the LiveJournal Crosspost Form Extension.

The LiveJournal Crosspost Module/Extension allows you to crosspost entries from ExpressionEngine into LiveJournal.

Why write this?

A while ago, Rob1 on the pMachine forums posted some code on how to crosspost entries to LiveJournal. It worked fine, but it involved 3 steps. I had to write an entry in the Control Panel, then access a template on my site, and then submit a form to post it to LiveJournal. With this Module/Extension, all I have to do is write an entry in the Control Panel, press the “Submit” button, and the entry is automatically posted!

Features

• Crosspost entries to LiveJournal.
• Edited entries will also be posted to LiveJournal.
• Support for public, friends-only, and private entries – managed using custom statuses.
• Setup can be basic or advanced.
  • With a basic setup, you crosspost the entry title and the entry body.
  • With an advanced setup, you can set up custom fields in your weblog for specifying userpics, friends groups, journal, current mood, current music and tags. You can also control the backdate settings, comment notification settings, and comment screening settings on an individual or global basis.
• Ability to retrieve a list of userpic keywords, allowed journals, and friends groups from LiveJournal. This is so that you can keep your userpic keywords etc. up to date.
• Ability to add a link back to your original EE entry.
• Ability to link to your LiveJournal entry from EE.
• Ability to convert LiveJournal specific tags into HTML, for use in EE. This code is straight from the LiveJournal Formatting Plugin, I figured I’d put it in here.
• If you have userpics set up, the userpic will be displayed in the control panel, and it’ll automatically update when you choose another userpic.

Download

Download Version 1.3 Here (see below for the changelog)

There’s a readme file included in the zip file which you have to read. Then when you install the module there’s even more documentation to read.

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I have written an extension for ExpressionEngine 1.4 that add a link from the control panel to your site. The link is added in the Edit > View Entry page as well as in a new column on the Edit Weblog Entries page. If you have the LiveJournal Crosspost module/extension installed, then there’s also a link to LiveJournal.

This extension replaces a hack that I had for EE in version 1.3 and lower that did the same thing.

Download Version 1.1.1

Here’s a screenshot of part of it:

See the two links at the bottom? That’s what the extension adds.

I wrote this extension a few weeks ago, but it’s now updated with a couple of new features. Many thanks goes to Paul for letting me use some of EE’s core code in the extension.

Thread in the forums

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