I’ve just released version 1.6.0 (you can download it on wordpress.org). The highlights of this release: The value of the main setting for a hook is displayed in its title bar. Translation into Spanish thanks to Andrew Kurtis of WebHostingHub. Support for symlinked modules (that’s devspeak you don’t need to understand, for those of you

Yesterday, I released version 1.5.1, which is a maintenance release for version 1.5.0. It includes two bug fixes: Cyrillic characters weren’t being displayed properly in the points logs. Thanks goes to @joyspark for reporting this. This issue was caused by the character set of the points logs database table not being set properly. This version

1.5.0 was released yesterday. Though this release doesn’t have as many obvious new features, it does have many behind-the-scenes improvements. Some of these may actually be more obvious than you might expect. For example, if you are using a caching plugin, you may see a significant performance increase for all things related to the points

Version 1.4.0 is the latest new version of WordPoints. This release introduces a few new features and improvements. One of the biggest features is the shortcode, which displays a list of ways that users can earn points. Other changes include the splitting the comment and post points hooks in two. Originally each of these hooks

With the release of WordPoints 1.2.0 just a week and a half away, I’ve released version 1.1.2, which addresses some bugs that have been reported in the 1.1 branch. First, I noticed that in some cases the post points hook was awarding points for post auto-drafts. While fixing this I also realized that points were

I just tagged 1.1.1 which is a maintenance release to fix a few small bugs in 1.1.0. There were two main bugs that were fixed. First, since 1.0.1, we’ve been trying to make the points component active by default (which makes sense, doh). But though I thought that this was working (I actually thought that

What’s New Version 1.1.0 is the first major update WordPoints has received since its initial release. I wish I could say that it came with lots of new features, but this update ended up focusing mainly on the core APIs in the plugin’s code. That isn’t bad news though. The introduction of an improved modules

I’ve just released version 1.0.1 of the plugin. This is a minor update with a few small bug fixes and tweaks. The main changes are that the Points component is now activated when the plugin is initially activated. There are also some small user experience improvements surrounding component and module activation and deactivation. Now when

Welcome to WordPoints! I just tagged version 1.0.0. This initial release is hopefully just the start of something great. You can download it here.