Tag Archives: root-cookie

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

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-772×250.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 :)

root-cookie 1.6, two years in the making?

No taking two years to release an update is not good, but in my defence root-cookie is so simple that there are very few issues and complaints ;)

Actually a two year wait isn’t strictly true, those watching the dev log would have seen I’ve pushed the odd update here and there.

So what prompts this release, well I’ve noticed that in WP3.3 that the cookie functions have changed, so to ensure future compatibility (and minimal issues for me) I have updated this plugin to be aligned to the core source.

The usual blurb…

ChangeLog

  • Contextual Help
  • Bug fix “undefined method WP_Error::get_items”
  • Logout Enhancement
  • WP 3.3 Compatability
  • Donation Link (it’s good for your karma)