dwc’s Development Blog

I’ve finished updating the http-authentication plugin for WordPress 2.5.

This version of the plugin will work with WordPress 2.5.1 and above, due to a change in the wp_authenticate plugin hook.

This plugin will not work on WordPress 2.5, but if you want to test it you can download a nightly build or use Subversion WordPress 2.5.1.

You can download the plugin from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

Finally, for this release, I’m starting a new post for the plugin. Refer to the previous post for support issues, and if you don’t find an answer there, please ask here. Questions asked on the old post about this version will not be answered.

Update (2008-04-25): WordPress 2.5.1 is out.

As noted elsewhere on this blog, the http-authentication plugin does not run smoothly on WordPress 2.5.

Ryan P and Ben Chun have tracked down some of the changes to WordPress core that have caused problems for the plugin.

As time permits, I’ll be updating the plugin to take into account the new login code. Unfortunately I cannot guarantee a delivery date - work is keeping me incredibly busy right now.

I just tagged new versions of the http-authentication and ical-events plugins:

• http-authentication 1.7
• ical-events 1.10

The releases include updated readme files for the really slick WordPress plugin directory that was released today.

The ical-events plugin also contains a minor fix for to avoid a case where a repeat was added after the RRULE end time.

Another quick release of code that’s been sitting in trunk for a while - ical-events 1.9.

This contains fixes to boundary coniditions, support for wp_remote_fopen instead of the url-cache plugin, improvements for repeating events with specific repeat days, and basic support for RFC 2445 event status.

You should be able to download a zip file from Owen Winkler’s site shortly.

I just tagged version 1.6 of the http-authentication plugin, which adds nonce support for improved WordPress 2.0 compatibility. This had actually sat in trunk for a while; I was lazy about doing a new release.

You should be able to download a zip file from Owen Winkler’s site shortly.

I just tagged version 1.8 of the ical-events plugin, with some formatting fixes for untimed and long-running events.

Also included is support for the cURL library, via the url-cache plugin. If your host has turned off allow_url_fopen, you can still use this plugin. See the readme for more information.

You can download a zip file from Owen Winkler’s site.

Thanks to some very helpful users, a new version of the ical-events plugin is available. It contains mostly minor updates to the iCalendar parser, a fix for all-day events (thanks, Jennie!), and a fix for repeating events (thanks, Pete!).

As usual, you can download a zip file from Owen Winkler’s site.

I just tagged version 1.6 of the ical-events plugin, with a minor formatting fix and a fix for Google Calendar URLs. The caching code didn’t always generate a unique filename, depending on the URL.

You can download a zip file from Owen Winkler’s site.

Phew, been really busy recently. A few people have provided patches or suggestions for the http-authentication plugin, but I haven’t had the time to really respond to them in any useful fashion. Sorry if you’re one of these people.
With all the buzz about Google Calendar I’ve gotten a few questions about the ical-events plugin. I had been sitting on a new version, with basic support for repeating events, for almost six months.

The plugin now includes support for event URLs, since it was a really quick fix.

This version is tagged as version 1.5. You should be able to download it shortly.

If you are using 1.4 or earlier, please note the API change described on the plugin page.

A couple of people have asked me about updating the http-authentication plugin for WordPress 2.0. I’ve made a first pass at updating it, thanks to Dustin Brewer who provided an initial patch.

Currently this version is in trunk, but I’ll likely tag it as version 1.4 on Monday or Tuesday. In the meantime, you can download a zip from Owen Winkler’s site.