More bugs fixed, more testing

Thanks to Sergey for sending me his database for me to test with.

Noticed a few issues:

• The required database table wasn’t being created
• Category subdomain options weren’t being saved
• Permalink ‘/%postname/’ doesn’t work, it causes subdomain page to display all posts

I’ve fixed the first two issues.

The plugin directory now has to be in the wp-content/plugins directory, before a symlink from wordpress-subdomains would work, not now. Now when you update the plugin and deactivate/reactivate it any upgrades and table changes should be done properly.

The issue with the options not being saved was down to me doing something in a poor way that got broken when WordPress changed. I’m now doing it the correct way.

The final one is a mystery and it’s too late for me to investigate tonight. I seem to remember spending a lot of time last year trying to get all combinations of permalinks to work but it seems /%postname/ stopped working at some point. I will investigate further tomorrow.

I’ve commited all the fixes to the development trunk so if you wish to try it out download here. Remember to deactivate and reactivate the plugin after you upgrade. This may fix a number of issues straight away.

Almost there… Stay on target…

Didn’t get latest release out the door this weekend as planned, but I now have it to a point where I think it’s ready but just needs some testing. This version is the one that’s currently running this site under WP 3.0.

I can’t test for every type of wordpress setup, so I’m hoping that some of you might be able to give me a hand. If you wish to help test you can download the latest version here. If you wish to report a bug it’s better to contact me here, or just email me if you already have my address.

Overall there has been quite a lot of code change in this since the last release. Most of it was just rewriting code to behave better. One major change is you no longer have to configure the Pages with custom variables but with proper input elements which should make it a lot nicer.

One thing this version wont fix is multisite. Once this one is out the door I will start working on that.

Testing on WP 3.0 and other issues

I finally found some time to load up my development environment and try out WP 3.0

I found that the development version of the plugin seems to work with WP 3.0. As this site is using the same version I decided to upgrade to WP 3.0 and see what happened. Well it all still works which is a good sign, so this weekend I’m going to go over the last few bugs I have in that version and release it.

If you’re having issues with the plugin where it seems to work, but shows all the posts when on a category subdomain rather than just that category’s posts then please can you contact me. I’m not sure, but I think the issue may be theme related, so wouldn’t mind getting a copy of your theme to test with.

All Apologies

I’ve just found that Google has been sticking all the mail from my site into the spam folder.

Sorry for those who I’ve not replied to, I wasn’t ignoring you.

Here’s the low down. As many of you guessed I’m not actively supporting this project anymore. When I was teaching in China I had plenty of time for PHP in my spare time but now I’m working PHP 8 hours a day I find it hard to bring myself to do it in my spare moments. For me functionality of the plugin reached what I wanted many versions back which didn’t help with giving me incentive to continue.

However it seems from the emails I’ve checked through in my spam bin that the plugin does not work with WordPress 3.0. So I am going to try and resolve this problem this week. Hopefully this will give me a reason to dust off the code that’s in development as it has many code improvements over the most recent release.

If you are currently experiencing bugs with the plugin please attach them as comments to this post and I’ll do what I can to fix them.

If anyone is interest in taking over this plugin then get in touch.

WordPress Subdomains and Google Sitemaps

Thanks to a post from Arnee over on the wordpress forums it seems you can now have one sitemap to cover multiple sites. This makes using the Google XML Sitemaps plugin work properly with WordPress Subdomains.

Here’s the steps I took.

1. Install and configure the Google XML Sitemaps plugin
2. Login to the Google Webmaster Tools site
3. Add your main blog site
4. Choose to verify using the “Upload an HTML file”
5. Upload the file google give you to your document root
6. Click “Verify”
7. Add all your subdomains using the same method, it uses the same html file so there is no need to upload anything just click “Verify” each time
8. Go back into your main blog site configuration and pick Sitemaps
9. Click “Submit a Sitemap” and give it the address of the file created by the plugin
10. Google should now index all the urls in the sitemap

Hope this helps.

WP Subdomains 0.6.9 Released

I have just released WP Subdomains 0.6.9.

There is only a minor update over 0.6.8, but it also fixes the problem there seemed to be on the WordPress Plugins page where it still thought that 0.6.6 was the newest version.

I’m working towards version 1.0.0 which has a number of improvements and fixes.

You can download from here or from the WordPress Admin section of your site.

WP Subdomains 0.6.8 Released – WordPress 2.9 fixed

Happy to say that I’ve just released 0.6.8 with working WordPress 2.9 compatibility. You can get it from the wordpress plugins site.

Release 0.6.8 is just 0.6.6 with 3 main fixes:

• WordPress 2.9 support
• WordPress MU support
• Empty Subdomain Categories now shown

For those who want to try the current development version with more fixes then download the development version from the wordpress plugins website.

Now I have my development environments up and running again I hope to get back into fixing up any issues people have.

If you have any bugs or requests please send them via the contact page.

Apparently broken in WordPress 2.9

I’ve had reports that WP Subdomains is broken in WordPress 2.9

I will try my best to find time this week to get to the bottom of it, but if anyone in the mean time figures out the problem please let me know.

Delays and bugs

The bugs have been mounting and my spare time has been shrinking. I was hoping to do a new release a few weeks back but found a bug at the last moment that stopped me. I’m really hoping that this weekend i can get a couple of hours spare to try and fix it. If you are having issues with the current release then feel free to try the version in the svn trunk.

I did get a fairly worrying email not long back from someone who said that the plugin screwed up their database. The plugin shouldn’t even touch exisiting tables other than setting options. However i will look into it and if anyone else has had similar issues please let me know. If unsure backup your database before you install the plugin.

Subdomains Timeout

The last few months have been quite hectic as a lot has been going on for me. As a result my work on WordPress Subdomains has suffered. I know a lot of people have been contacting me, but I’ve just not had the time to reply.

This weekend I will be replying to those who asked for help and will be releasing the next version of WordPress Subdomains (0.7) in the next week. The code has been ready for 2 months now, but I’ve just not had a chance to test it.

Sorry for the delays folks.