Michael Bester

Hi Folks,

I know some of you have been having issues with the new versions of the plugin not playing SWF files in some locations, like on the headers or in widgets. The recent updates fixed some issues with with how the shortcodes were being interpreted by WordPress, but in doing so, those changes killed the ability for the plugin to parse shortcodes which are outside of a post.

I know what I need to do to fix it, but I don’t have the time to do so until the end of April at the earliest. In the meantime, if you’re having trouble you can try rolling back to the last version of the plugin that supported that full-page shortcode parsing. That was version 2.4.1 and you can download it here and install it manually.

Lars –

While I didn’t change any requirements about the shortcode syntax, I had to change how they are getting parsed. I had a custom parser in there for a very long time, and I’ve now switched to using the official WordPress Shortcode API. Doing that actually broke support for the syntax I recommended in the very earliest versions of the plugin, where shortcodes were indicated with angle brackets (<kml_flashembed ... >) instead of the official square bracket style ( [kml_flashembed ... ]). My custom parser handled both cases, but unfortunately, I don’t think there’s any way to maintain the old angle bracket syntax using the official shortcode API

The > at the end of your code snippet makes me think that maybe you’re using the old angle bracket syntax? If so, can you find any instances of the shortcode on your site that use that and change it to use square brackets?

Wow, that’s embarrassing, Lars! I’ve found the problems and just pushed out a patch as the 2.5.1 release. That should fix up those undefined variables issues.

It’s should be in good shape again, as of my new release, version 2.5

It’s done, John. Go ahead and install the 2.5 release.

Hi Folks,

Michael, developer of Kimili Flash Embed here. I’ve just dropped version 2.5 of the plugin which strips out the old custom shortcode parsing code I wrote years ago—and which WordPress 4.0.1 finally broke—and replaces it with the official shortcode API. Update your installs and everything should be in good shape again.

All the best –
Michael

Thanks again, Kitchin. I’ve just tagged a new release (2.3) which incorporates a modified version of your updates.

Thanks for finding these issues, Kitchin. I’ll roll them into the plugin, test it out and release an update as time allows.

Hi Ben,

I’ve just checked in a 2.2 release which takes care of this issue.

Enjoy!
Michael

I’ve looked into the issue and found a fix for it, which I’ve outlined on the WPML forum. It’s something that needs to be worked into the WPML plugin.

Cheers!

I’ve looked into the issue and found a fix for it, which I’ve outlined on the WPML forum. It’s something that needs to be worked into the WPML plugin.

Cheers!

+1 for drag and drop!

One other feature request, please: post sort order in a category also gets inherited by subcategories, with the potential to override that inherited sort order in the subcategory.

The latest version of KFE (2.1.3) resolves this very issue.

KFE 2.1.3 removes the offending line and fixes the compatibility issues with Contact Form 7. Thanks for pointing this out.

If you want to change the defaults in the tag generator, you can modify admin/config.php to set the default values for each of the form elements.

I may expand the preferences to allow a user to set defaults for each value in a new version of KFE.