CalEvans

Richard,

You are all too welcome. Thanks for the notes, the project page has been updated to reflect them:

https://www.calevans.com/view.php/page/alexify

Current Version Available is now 2.3

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@snowangel,

Yes, it’s a cool library. I forgot to credit the author:
https://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm

I’ve just rewritten my Alexify plugin (https://www.calevans.com/view.php/page/alexify) to use it and it’s ever so much better.

Glad it’s working for you.

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Richard,

2.3 is now available
https://www.calevans.com/view.php/page/alexify

There’s a zip file now linked from the project page.

The issues I worked on this morning were:

target=”_blank”:
This now seems to work.

Space before the closing >:
This now seems to work now.

Can you test and let me know if it works for you now?

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Richard,

Ok, this sounds stupid but try something for me. On the A tags I looked at on your site there was a space between the target=”_blank” and the closing >

Try removing that space. Make it:

target=”_blank”>

Let me know if that makes any difference.

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@hismuse,

Sorry I did not respond. I try to check the forums regularly but I was a slacker today. If you run into any other problems, feel free to contact me via email.

Glad you got it working.

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@computerfriend,

The new version goes in a new directory under the plugins dir and expects some things to be in that dir with it. Try this:

https://www.calevans.com/wp-alexify.zip

That should unzip with any Windows zip utility all the files are in a subdriectory blogbling. Put the blogbling directory in your plugins directory. There should be 4 files in the zip file:
blogbling/wp-alexify.php
blogbling/blogbling_functions.php
blogbling/images/blogbling.gif
blogbling/js/wz_tooltip.jz

To upgrade:
1: Deactivate Alexify
2: Remove the current plugsin/wp-alexify.php
3: place the above files in your plugins directory.
4: Activate wp-alexify 2.1
5: Go to Options and you should now have an alexify options page.

Let me know if this works. If you have AOL IM, feel free to ping me there VirtualCIO.

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UPDATE AVAILABLE:
2.0 is now available. This fixed the stuttering image problem and should be compatible wit Safari. (I look forward to someone confirming that)

Project Page:
https://www.calevans.com/view.php/page/alexify

It can be downloaded there. Please read the Upgrade instructions if you are currently running alexify.

As wlasy, questions or comments welcome.

@computerfriend,

Can you try this version and see if it works any better?

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@snowangel,

If you check out my site you’ll see the development version of alexify in operation. It’s been rebuilt on wz_tooltip.js library. Once I get the bugs worked out I’ll try and make a version that does what you want. In the mean time, you may want to look at that library. It could be that you could make it work without a plugin.

HTH,
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@computerfriend,
Can you give me your blog URL where I can see these issues? The sidebar issue is not a bug, the plugin only registers to work on posts. I’ll look into allowing it to work on the sidebar as well.

If you check out my site you’ll see the current development version of the plugin. It doesn’t fix any of the issues you named but it does fix the stuttering image problem and it’s compatible with Safari.

I have a feeling that #2 is related to the regex I use to find the A tags. I’ll look into that. (Although I’m no regex expert.

#1 must be something else. If you look at my site you’ll see that I rarely name the links the complete URL. (There are probably 20 on my home page alone.) Again, if I could see your blog maybe I could get a better understanding.

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@ch0de
Yes, I developed it under 2.0. I havented tested it with 2.1 yet.

@himuse
I’d put it (if I’m reading your code correctly) after the line:
<?php if(function_exists(’nw_noteworthyIcon’)) { nw_noteworthyIcon(); } ?>

I can’t see your blog (I get a 403 Error) so I can’t tell for sure.

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Cheesematerdan,

Yep, someone emailed me that this morning. Thanks. I’m updating all of my BlogBling plugins with that but don’t want to bump version numbers for such a minor change. In the case of online-status, I’ve got a couple of other minor fixes to publish. I’ll probably update this weekend.

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moshu,

Can you please contact me by email? [email protected]

Thanks

Snowangel,

I wouldn’t say better. ?? It’s an interesting challeng and I’d rather be working on it. But I’m stuk in ‘gotta pay the bills’ mode.

Clarke,

The only thing I really want to add is an easier model to update the sites in the list. I’ve tried to break out the code so that I only have to add new code in a couple places but there’s still too many. Actually, what I was thinking of was a separate XML file defining the sites. Then have my version checker code check for both a new version of the plugin and for a new version of the XML. If all that has changed is the site definitions then it could just download that and be done with it. (Sorry for the stream of consciousness, that’s all off the top of my head)

That having been said, I’m happy to work with you to implement any new features you’d like to see.

Rye,

Yea I found that out after I released. I’m looking into a cross-platform solution. As soon as I find one I like I’ll release an update.

Snowangel,
That’s an interesting but highly specific plugin. I’m not sure it has much in the way of broad appeal. However, since it’s closely related to alexify, I’ll add it to my development list and if I can get to it, I’ll post a release notice here.

Sorry, given my current time constraints, thats the best I can do at the moment.

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