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1.9.0 Released

A few moments ago I released WordPoints 1.9.0. This version includes various improvements of existing features. One of the biggest changes in this release is that the Post Delete and Comment Removed hooks are now deprecated. If you are upgrading from an older version, don’t worry; you’ll still be able to use them. But they

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1.8.0 Released

Yesterday, I released version 1.8.0. This was a feature release, and includes a lot of internal improvements in addition to the following:   You can display the points of the current post’s author using the shortcode by supplying post_author as the value of the user_id attribute, like this: . You can now award points to

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Better Security

If you’ve been paying attention, you know that the last two versions of WordPoints included minor security fixes. If you’ve been paying attention and you have a basic understanding of security, you’ve updated as quickly as possible. While on the one hand finding security issues in a plugin seems like a bad thing, it is

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1.7.1 Released

WordPoints 1.7.1 was released yesterday as a maintenance update for 1.7.0. It fixes a bug on the Ranks administration screen that was causing ranks not to be saved. Thanks to atomtheman10 for reporting that. Also included are some minor security fixes, so it is strongly recommended that all users upgrade as soon as possible.

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New Development Strategy

Last week I released WordPoints version 1.7.0, which is the largest feature release since the plugin was first created. The major new feature included in it was the Ranks component. The update was originally scheduled to be released by October 1st, but I pushed the date back to November 1st so that the result wouldn’t

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1.7.0: Ranks are here!

Last evening I released 1.7.0, which is the biggest release since 1.0.0! A lot of work went into this release, mostly on the new Ranks component. There will be more features related to ranks coming in future versions. In addition to introducing the Ranks component, this version also includes many minor code improvements, as always.

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Better Translation Management

WordPoints is fully localizable in any language. So far, there are three translations included with the plugin: Brazilian Portuguese — Thanks goes to Gabriel Galvão. Simplified Chinese — Thanks to Jack Lee. Spanish — Thanks to Andrew Kurtis of WebHostingHub. I’d also like to thank Raymond Calla, who is working on translating the plugin into

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1.7.0 Release Date Change

WordPoints version 1.7.0 is currently under development, and when complete, it will introduce a new component: Ranks. It was originally scheduled for release on October 1st. This week I decided to push the release date back to November 1st. I hate to do this because, like the WordPress developers, I think of release dates as

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Maintenance Release 1.6.1

Yesterday I released version 1.6.1, which is a maintenance release for the 1.6 branch. It fixes a single bug that was pointed out by Jorge on the support forums on wordpress.org. The Excluded Users setting wasn’t being applied to the Top Users shortcode or widget. This is a bug that has been around since the

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Feature release 1.6.0

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

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