It works fairly well as a way to add secondary static content to the sidebars for a particular post or page. The user interfaces are not quite what I wanted, but that will have to wait for future development.

You are more than welcome to post your feedback and bugs here, or contact me privately if necessary!

First, covering the new self discovery of WordPress Plugin directories and wp-config locations:

What Plugin Coders Must Know About WordPress 2.6 « planetOzh

I haven’t found information on development with post revisions. I had one issue with the new revision system creating multiple entries for a plugin I have been working on, and I found it easy to disable. I use this snippet to bail out of the current action on the post if it is marked as a revision.

if ( function_exists( 'wp_is_post_revision' ) ) {
    if ( wp_is_post_revision( $post_ID ) != false )
        return $post_ID;
}

The revision system looks cool so far, and it would be more appropriate to have my plugin hook into those revisions. I’ll have to save that for later.

Bad news is that life has been beating the crap out of us lately:

• Car troubles
• Too much work to do
• Keeping the aging PowerBook G4 hacked together so I can work. The damn power cable connection on the power module has been re-soldered three times. If you had one of these beasts before the fancy magno-power-cable-connector for the intel Macbooks then you probably have felt my pain.
• New carpet for our bedroom. NOTE: a missing room in a small house brings things closer together — or just plain crowded.
• And the terrible loss of a family member. My wife’s cat, Shai, who passed away because of cancer after 3 months of vets and internal medicine specialists charging us big bucks trying to figure out his problem. Shai was Caidy’s best friend who was the most stable member of this zoo.

I won’t mention the price of gas or the recession. Anyway, I’ll stop my whining! I know very well there are folks dealing with worse. Besides there were some good things; I went to an An Event Apart down the road in New Orleans, and this weekend I plan to be drunk in the woods of north-central Arkansas.

Development for WP Super Edit is done in the WP Super Edit trunk of the WordPress Extend subversion repository. It is not functional right now, but much of the database work, TinyMCE discovery functions, and other under the hood stuff is being worked on.

Most of the original features will be retained, but the complicated part is moving settings to the WordPress database. I want to focus on user and/or role configurations for the editor. The original version used flat files for configuration and I knew then it was a bad idea. WP Super Edit will also be using jQuery UI, and I want to use more of the javascript built in to WordPress as possible.

I should also note that WP Super Edit may not be able to upgrade from previous versions, but I think I will try to at least remove the old settings so I won’t be guilty of leaving old junk in the WordPress database.

Please remember, WP Super Edit is a complicated mess of PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, and Javascript code. I don’t pretend to be an expert, and I do accept patches and suggestions. You can post comments here, use the contact form, or check factory.funroe.net for the occasional and rare updates. OH, and I better mention the contribute! page since I’ll probably have to replace that damn PowerBook sooner than I want.

Here’s a quick list of the changes for WP Super Edit that were based on e-mail bug reports, some notes, and things that bothered me. I won’t bore you with too many details…

Things Completed!

1. changing …bloginfo(’url’) to …bloginfo(’WPurl’)
2. fix initialization errors
3. Simplify compatibility checks
4. Add WordPress “Next Page” tag button. - Denis Hoffmann
5. Fix “whered my button go bug” - reproduce. Activate editor plugin, move plugin button to row. Save. uncheck plugin. save. Now the next button on the row that had the removed plugin button will disappear until you refresh the whole damn interface.
6. Add FULLSCREEN button
7. Add HR button - Jake
8. WP Super Edit will now retain settings between plugin activation and deactivation.
9. Added an “uninstall” option that will delete the settings and deactivate the plugin.

Upgrade Notes

There shouldn’t be any major issues with replacing the superedit plugin folder on your site with this update. If things do start getting weird, use the “Uninstall” button, and reactivate the plugin. That should set everything back to the default state.

As always, your comments are welcome!