Vote It Up 1.2.2 (emergency update)

Posted by multippt

Several issues have been found with a revision of Vote It Up (version 1.2.0). A new version of the plugin has been released at Wordpress.org. Version 1.2.2 patches some of these existing problems.

Note: This plugin is NOT yet compatible with auto-update. Updating this plugin with the auto-update in Wordpress may cause some issues.

Version 1.2.2 specifically addresses the following issues:

1. Guest voting problem

A problem has been identified that will prevent guests from voting once another person has casted a vote. This affects users using version 1.2.0 and the new database version (3000). Version 1.2.2 fixes this problem and guests can now cast votes normally.

2. Loss of votes when using plugin auto-update

Vote It Up does not support the auto-update feature from Wordpress yet. Fortunately, Vote It Up provides a back up system for votes in the event that the database upgrade failed, hence no votes were lost. Version 1.2.2 adds a roll-back button (accessible via plugin options) that forces the plugin to use the older database instead of the new and blank one generated by auto-update. You will obtain your original votes by clicking on the roll back link.

Using an older version of Vote It Up may restore your votes as well.

3. User register notice

The plugin no longer embeds a hidden layer in a page’s footer if the user chose to enable guest voting.

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I apologize for any inconvenienced caused as a result of the latest update to the plugin.

Regards,

Nicholas Kwan

Vote It Up 1.2

Posted by multippt

Vote It Up has been updated to version 1.2. This is a bug fix release hence it is recommended that you update to the latest version.

Changelog

[Changed] - Database format changed. You will need to update the vote database in order to use the new features present in this plugin and future revisions of the plugin
[Changed] - Drafts, private posts and pages no longer show up on widget
[Bug Fix] - Technical limit removed for voting. Votes can be created as long as the blog still has sufficient disk space for it
[Bug Fix] - Fixed duplicate voting issues arising from caching
[Bug Fix] - After Vote Text issue with images fixed
[Bug Fix] - Added pagination for Edit Votes Panel
[Bug Fix] - Votes considered in Most Voted widget correctly includes the most recent posts

Database update

The database format has been changed. Some of the new features or fixes requires this new format.  You can update the database via the Wordpress dashboard through the Vote It Up configuration page.

The following features requires the update in order to work or they will be disabled:
[Changed] - Drafts, private posts and pages no longer show up on widget
[Bug Fix] - Technical limit removed for voting. Votes can be created as long as the blog still has sufficient disk space for it
[Bug Fix] - Fixed duplicate voting issues arising from caching
[Bug Fix] - Added pagination for Edit Votes Panel
[Bug Fix] - Votes considered in Most Voted widget correctly includes the most recent posts

Vote It Up 1.1.1

Posted by stoob

Vote It Up has been updated to version 1.1.1. You can download the latest version of Vote It Up here.

What’s changed:

[Feature] - Added Percent (%) voting mathamatics and capability (inital votes count as “up” vote)
[Feature] - Added Percent skin

Vote It Up 1.1

Posted by multippt

The Vote It Up plugin has been updated to version 1.1. You can download the latest version of Vote It Up here.

Please use the Wordpress mirror to download the plugin. Due to technical difficulties, the plugin page could not be updated on this site.

A summary of changes is listed below:

[Feature] - Initial vote count added
[Feature] - Text shown in place of vote text after user casts vote
[Feature] - Permission setting that can disallow post authors from voting own post. Their posts would show up as voted by themselves
[Feature] - Ability to set number of posts shown in Most voted posts widget
[Feature] - New template added: Text. This is a simplified version of the ticker without borders
[Feature] - Votes can now be edited via “Edit Votes”
[Changed] - Two-way voting now made more flexible
[Changed] - When guest voting is disabled, a popup appears to inform users they need to register
[Changed] - Some visual changes in administration panel for VoteItUp to fit the Wordpress 2.7 dashboard
[Changed] - Template system modified so as to adapt to several plugin changes
[Changed] - Former “Modern ticker” template renamed to “Orange ticker”

In addition, Stoob has been added to the committers list for this plugin.

Tevine site changes

Posted by multippt

I’ve a fairly long absence from updating Tevine, I’ve decided to make a formal announcement on this issue. There are some major and minor changes to Tevine. In summary:

1. Vote It Up plugin now has a new contributer (SillyBeans from Wordpress)
2. Discontinuation of mini e-zine (MagThis)
3. Discontinuation of ApiThis service. The Social Bookmark service has been relocated to Tevine. An emergency update to Social Dropdown will be released to fix this problem.
4. Some minor administrative changes. Hopefully Tevine may get some updates from other people.

Q3 PageRank update review

Posted by multippt

Looks like Google has rolled out another PageRank update. Overall, most sites won’t experience any change in PageRank. However, there is still a significant number of sites whose PageRanks have fallen by one or two points, usually for sites that have been around for quite some time. New sites are fairing fairly well, most of them achieving an average of between 2 to 3. There were improvements in PageRank for some relatively well-known sites, such as Youtube (why of course, a Google product). However most others simply experienced a dip in PageRank, and well-known ones are not spared either.

Though, if compared to the previous update, the previous one would be much enjoyed by most webmasters (firsly being that there were much more increases in PR than decreases). Seems like Google may have tweaked the alogarithm a little, or it could be that most webmasters are relaxing after preparing all that Search Engine Optimisation last year.

The previous PageRank update was on May, which means this update came a lot more sooner than expected. Judging from past updates in January, February, and May, it does seem that Google is updating PageRank much more regularly, with its cycles becoming shorter (hopefully moving towards the 1 month cycle Google had about 6 years ago). The current PageRank cycle is estimated to span across 1.5 to 3 months.

Notices on iGoogle?

Posted by multippt

Update: The “beta” notice appears to be gone, for now.

Seems like Google is doing a mini experiment on the iGoogle page. This time, it involves a small little yellow notice with a “Close” link. Apparently Google forgot to place any message on the notice.

Clicking on the close link will close the notice, though not for long as the empty annoucement will spring right back on the next time you reload the page.

Once again, yet another one of those minor things to happen on the Google home page.