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Co-Authors Plus v2.6.3: Enhancements and bug fixes

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Co-Authors Plus makes it easy to add multiple bylines to a given post, and has full support for custom post types. Out just a moment ago, v2.6.3 has the following improvements:

  • AJAX user search is back to searching against first name, last name, display name, email address and user ID. The method introduced in v2.6.2 didn’t scale well across hundreds of users.
  • French translation courtesy of Sylvain Bérubé.
  • Spanish translation courtesy of Alejandro Arcos.
  • Bug fix: Resolved incorrect caps check against user editing an already published post. Thanks to Doug in the WordPress.org forums for the help.

Please post any questions, bug reports, feature requests, etc. in the WordPress.org forums. If you want to contribute code, I’m eyeballing co-author management in Quick Edit and guest author functionality for v2.7.

For WordPress.com VIPs, this update has already been deployed to the shared plugins repo.

New plugin: P2 Resolved Posts

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On Friday, I finally pushed P2 Resolved Posts live in the WordPress.org directory. Based on Nacin’s gist of the same name, it’s a “lightweight GTD plugin for WordPress and the P2 theme.”

Mark a thread as “unresolved” when the topic needs resolution, and mark it as “resolved” when you’ve achieved that state. There are also sidebar widgets to let you see all unresolved posts, optionally filtered to a specific tag.

We use P2 extensively at Automattic, for a variety of purposes. I improved Nacin’s code last November because I wanted a simple way to encourage the culture of coming to a resolution on a topic. All too often, conversations are left hanging. This is a problem for those participating, and an even larger problem for those reviewing the conversation at a later date.

The plugin is in-development on Github. Please post any feedback, issues, feature requests, etc. in the WordPress.org forums.

Co-Authors Plus v2.6.2: Enhancements and bug fixes

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Co-Authors Plus makes it easy to add multiple bylines to a given post, and has full support for custom post types. Out just a moment ago, v2.6.2 has the following improvements:

  • AJAX user search matches against first name, last name, and nickname fields too, in addition to display name, user login, and email address.
  • Comment moderation and approved notifications are properly sent to all co-authors with the correct capabilities.
  • Filter required capability for user to be returned in an AJAX search with ‘coauthors_edit_author_cap’. This defaults to ‘edit_posts’
  • Filter out administrators and other non-authors from AJAX search with ‘coauthors_edit_ignored_authors’
  • Automatically adds co-authors to Edit Flow’s story budget and calendar views.
  • Bug fix: Don’t set post_author value to current user when quick editing a post. This doesn’t appear in the UI anywhere, but added the post to the current user’s list of posts. See related forum conversation.
  • Bug fix: Properly cc other co-authors on new comment email notifications
  • Bug fix: If a user has already been added as an author to a post, don’t show them in the AJAX search again.
  • Bug fix: Allow output constants to be defined in a theme’s functions.php file and include filters you can use instead.

Please post any questions, bug reports, feature requests, etc. in the WordPress.org forums. If you want to contribute code, I’m eyeballing co-author management in Quick Edit and guest author functionality for v2.7.

For WordPress.com VIPs, this update has already been deployed to the shared plugins repo.

Co-Authors Plus v2.6: Search user’s display names, change byline order and more

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Co-Authors Plus makes it easy to add multiple bylines to a given post, and has full support for custom post types. Out this evening, v2.6 has the following improvements:

  • Sortable authors — drag and drop the order of the authors as you’d like them to appear
  • Search for authors by display name so you can easily add bylines by first or last name
  • Option to remove the first author when there are two or more listed
  • More reliably generates the published post count for each user

Thanks to those in the forum who provided feedback and special thanks to Russell Heimlich for his contributions with sortable authors. If you feel like giving back, there are a few tickets open we’d love patches for. In particular, guest bylines would be pretty neat. I have a possible direction you can go if you’re looking for inspiration.

For our WordPress.com VIPs, this release will be available in the shared plugins directory in just a moment.

Edit Flow v0.6.4: Bulk edit custom statuses and bug fixes

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Edit Flow v0.6.4: Bulk edit custom statuses and bug fixes. Yes, I know I’m a week and a half late on writing this release post. Improvements: properly bulk edit posts and custom statuses, new “number” type for editorial metadata so you can have requirements like word count, and filters for “Posts I’m Following” and the editorial calendar so you can add custom post types to the mix. Also, we have a new dev blog you can subscribe to if you’d like to follow our development progress.

Post Author Box v1.2: Template tag

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Boone and I are hiding and coding today. It’s been far too long since I’ve committed any open source code, so I’m catching up on the numerous promises I’ve made in the last couple of months.

First up, a template tag for Post Author Box. Simply add post_author_box(); to any loop within your WordPress theme and it will automatically display a post author box based on the display configuration in settings. Alternatively, you can pass a custom display configuration in the form of HTML and tokens. Thanks to Uche for the request.

Tagged and available for download in the WordPress.org plugin directory. As always, leave questions, bug reports, and feature requests in the support forum.

Assignment Desk v0.9.5: Bug fixes

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Assignment Desk v0.9.5: Bug fixes. Number of minor bug fixes that had been adding up and one major one (an incompatibility with Edit Flow v0.6.3). WordPress 2.9.2 is no longer officially supported, although it should still work for this version. Also, Assignment Desk is now a public project on Pivotal Tracker and I’m looking for contributors to help me take it forward.

Post Author Box v1.1: New tokens and info box anywhere

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Post Author Box, a plugin I wrote last October, finally received a bit of attention today. Specifically, I’ve added support for three new tokens (%post_modified_date%, %post_modified_time% and %post_time%), a couple of filters so you can add your own tokens, and the ability to add the box to more views. These new views include the homepage, a category page, an author page, search, or a RSS feed. Thanks to titush and 310ToOvertime for their requests.

Download the plugin at WordPress.org, check it out of its Subversion repository, and hit me with any feature requests or bugs in the forum.