Maintenance Release 1.5.1
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
Read moreFeature release 1.5.0
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
Read moreFeature release: 1.4.0
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
Read moreNew feature release 1.3.0
I’ve just released version 1.3.0. This is update includes several new features. User avatars are now displayed in the points logs table. The shortcode was added to display a user’s points. Read more about its usage here. Users’ points total may be stored in a custom meta key, allowing integration with other plugins. This is
Read moreBeta testers wanted!
If you have been using the WordPoints plugin and are looking for a way to give back, one way you can do that is by beta testing the next version of the plugin. I hinted before that I was working on a module for beta testing. You can download that here. Before I go any
Read moreNew release: 1.2.0
WordPoints 1.2.0 has just been released! WordPoints now fully supports WordPress multisite. You can read more on that here. It also includes a few bug fixes. The points logs for a user are now deleted when that user is deleted. The logs for posts and comments are also regenerated when the post or comment is
Read moreRelease date pushed back one week
WordPoints 1.2.0 was scheduled for release today. The code is about 99% ready, but I think it would be better to push this back one week so that I can put some more time into testing it thoroughly. I have the skeleton of a beta-testing module ready, but I haven’t fully tested it yet :-).
Read moreMaintenance release: 1.1.2
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
Read moreMaintenance Release 1.1.1
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
Read moreDevelopment now on Github
During the past week I have set up a repository for the plugin’s development on Github. This move should make the development of the plugin more open, and easier to follow. It also makes it easier to participate. If you are a developer who would like to help make WordPoints better, feel free to fork
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