This version improves existing and adds new features. You can check full changelog here but below I’ll highlight most important ones.
Now you can show message to registered user in admin bar so it will follow them through whole site.
Message shown in admin bar
If you use new bbPress plugin, you can show message in a reply form.
Message shown in a bbPress reply form of a Twenty Eleven theme in line with avatar
One issue that was preventing inserting correct e-mail address in field on Gravatar’s signup page was fixed too.
Other issues are under the hood. Everything now has documentation for developers, functions are reordered in a more logical way, plugin uses less resources since settings are moved to a separate file.
Finally, I prepared a video tutorial that shows plugin in use. Don’t forget to turn on captions (subtitles) since this is where you’ll get text.
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I wanted to use TweetDeck desktop app for Windows to post on some Twitter accounts in Serbian but when I started typing Cyrillic letters, they didn’t show up. I looked through settings (apparently not good enough) but I didn’t find any related to my problem.
Then I did some searching and found solution. Thing is that for some strange reason TweetDeck allows you to type only in Latin script. If you want to type in Cyrillic, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese or any other script, you need to go to settings, then chose Color/Fonts and under TweetDeck Font choose International Font / TwitterKey.
I needed to join several video files into one larger. All files were of the same codec, container (AVI) so it should have been simple. But instead I needed to try several programs to actually succeed. Those that I tried didn’t work as expected or made unbelievable results (one made file 315 GB large from 7 files large 1,3 GB in total — that didn’t work).
The only program that worked is AVI Joiner. Unfortunately, it is a shareware program but it has a trial period (which was enough for me this time).
Files are merged relatively quickly and results are great: it’s doing joining fast, quality is identical as from original files, and size is same as sum of all files.
AVI Joiner is very simple to use so I recommend it to everyone that needs quick joining of AVI files.
I released a new version of Cache Images, 3.0. By popular users requests, it contains two new improvements: option to enable automatic caching, and option to also cache images that are only linked from posts.
Also it contains one more improvements: complete ajaxification. Now you can do all work on one page, without need for reloading.
Unfortunately, I didn’t find solution for one known issue but as soon as I find one, I release a new update.
I loved OpenX project. Actually, I loved it when it had old name, phpAdsNew. I even wrote a huge post recommending other to use it.
Unfortunately, OpenX open source project is like dead now. There is no good support, there are security vulnerabilities, installation have problems…
One of common problems (by looking in their forum) is that stats aren’t recorded. This is what happened to me. One day I logged to my OpenX installation and stats page said there wasn’t any impression on that day. I checked my sites and saw that ads are running normally. So I waited to see if it’s something temporary but even after days passed, nothing changed.
Then I noticed there is a new version 2.8.7 available (I was running 2.8.5) so I upgraded my installation. But nothing changed: ads were delivering, I can see old stats but not a new one.
I decided to see if there is some solution on the web and on OpenX forums, but I can see rantings and issues that weren’t applying to me. Then I saw one post of some guy who said that he optimized and repaired his database and after that everything started to work. I did that too. But by looking in my debug.log file, I also noticed that there weren’t plugins in my installation. It appeared that new versions don’t contain plugins in itself, just empty folders. So I copied plugins from old versions.
And then, stats started to record again.
My solution (which is maybe not applicable to everyone):
check if you actually have plugins (at both place /plugins and /admin/plugins)
optimize and repair your database; since this requires some time, turn off delivery from you websites
I feel sorry when I see how this once great software is dying. What is worse, there is no any open source alternative to it. The only alternative I see is DoubleClick for Publishers, formerly know as Google Ad Manager, which I’ll consider moving to.
