LINICKX.com

Revision 565380: * fix beer display issue in admin page

nick — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:50:00 +0100

Revision 565380: * fix beer display issue in admin page
* test oEmbedded enabled feeds
* ...

My Lifestream - PHP, Curl, CA & Certificate Issues

nick — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:56:00 +0100

I use my own lifestream plugin to feed my blog page with activity from other sites.

A (long) while ago HTTPS feeds stopped working, basically due to certificate trust issues.

Now the lifestream plugin uses WordPress built in functions to perform HTTP requests.... and this was not something I wanted to change. It's taken a bit of exploring to work out why the default configuration did not work... and then find the best way to patch it.

Eventually I found out that you can set the PHP_CURL CA Path in php.ini using the curl.cainfo directive. On CentOS the "well known" CAs are stored in /etc/pki/tls/certs/ therefore the fix was quite simple, add the following to /etc/php.ini

curl.cainfo = /etc/pki/tls/certs/

Job done! Now HTTPS only site (like github) lifestream nicely!

Making your WordPress.org/extend/plugin pages look cool!

nick — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:38:00 +0000

Whilst browsing what is on offer at wordpress.org/extend I noticed that the plugins by automattic had fancy banners (e.g. jetpack & buddypress)... I wanted in!

Since the text on these pages is generated from the readme.txt in a given plugin's repo I figured I'd take a look there and see if the automattic guys were doing anything different... oh yeah, there were!

These repo's had a "assets" folder in the root, and in there was a banner-772x250.png. Simply by generating my own banner (772px wide by 250px high), creating an assets folder in each of my repos and committing did the trick - so secret sauce required! (NOTE:You have to wait a while for wp.org to update, I waited overnight)

I think these are looking rather groovy :)

Revision 515613: LifeStream icon/banner

nick — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:24:00 +0000

Revision 515613: LifeStream icon/banner

LINICKX LifeStream Version 0.3

nick — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:11:00 +0100

It's been a very long time since I've needed to look at this plugin but since linickx.com has moved to twentyeleven I wanted to take advantage of post formats; this has motivated me to make some minor updates.

New Fetures

Post Format Support
Feeds can be assigned post formats, Standard is the default format if you theme doesn't support this, twentlyelevn does and I think the link format works quite well.
Fail without Bail
A bug I'd just lived with was if the feed was corrupt then the plugin would simply crash and burn, sometimes a factory reset was required to recover. Now the plugin will detect the error, dump the message and carry on... much better!
Admin Page Updates
I've been slowly adding context help to my plugins, you know the little help in the top right hand corner, so help is now even closer. The news feed at the bottom will now take advantage of the fail-without-bail feature for when linickx.com is down. The final change here is a dontate feature, there is a tick box to remove this ;)

All the old features still exist and the same old information applies...

- ***[Download LINICKX LifeStream from WordPress.org](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/linickx-lifestream/)*** - [Get **Support and Help** on WordPress.org](http://wordpress.org/tags/linickx-lifestream?forum_id=10#postform) - [Submit **Bugs and Patches** to Trac](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/newticket?component=linickx-lifestream&owner=linickx)

Enjoy!

Revision 443100: 0.3 is ready to rock.

nick — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:09:00 +0100

Revision 443100: 0.3 is ready to rock.

Revision 443091: New readme.txt section required by WP validator.

nick — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:24:00 +0100

Revision 443091: New readme.txt section required by WP validator.

Revision 442891: Admin (Dashboard) Page updates, including help.

nick — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:44:00 +0100

Revision 442891: Admin (Dashboard) Page updates, including help.

Revision 435922: Post Format Support

nick — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:18:00 +0100

Revision 435922: Post Format Support

linickx on github

nick — Mon, 30 May 2011 10:40:00 +0100

For your social coding pleasure, linickx code is now in github!

Yesterday I completed the subversion mirror of my WordPress projects - phpbb_recent_topics , root cookie and linickx lifestream - now this isn't a migration, it is a mirror! For the time being I'm happy using the subversion tools provided by Automattic and the WordPress team but I understand that git is gaining momentum and many are switching, basically I'm hoping this makes it easier for the WP community to get in touch or make suggestions to the code.

I'm also working on uploading some of my old work, I rely heavily on google to broadcast my wares and perhaps there are some old dinosaurs that need resurrecting by a new community of devs? Well if you're feeling nosey "A is for Abandonware"

It's likely that new code and projects will appear on git hub, I've been toying with running subversion on linickx.com but now that Xcode4 has git built in this cloud based social service might be a better option.... I guess only time will tell!

Enjoy!