Note that Fresh Comments 1.2.1 is out.
I’ve been slightly because this couple of weeks so you see my posts are lacking these days. I’ve been busy but the times are quite fun. I’ve been meeting and talking to quite a lot of people recently. Mostly are my pals in camp, I haven’t seen them for quite some time.
There are surprises as I walk around my neighborhood too. I’ve been meeting long lost friends - okay, not that long - basically just secondary school friends and stuff.
Also has occupied me is my Fresh Comments plugin. I lost touch so fast. I don’t know what I coded already. I revisited my code a couple of days ago and just literally shut my text processor off to play Ragnarok Online. But this afternoon I really went on to try to understand my codes.
I’ve been listening and I implemented a couple of extras to the existing plugin, notably:
# Ability to display fresh comments from static and published pages.
# Allows you to include the date or time of the posted comment in whichever format you wish so long as it follows the PHP date format.
# It is also neater. Yes, it’s quite neat already, but it just got neater again. The whole HTML portion is rewritten from a scratch so the structures are prettier. I use tables when necessary.
# Also, you can select if you want pingbacks or trackbacks to be listed. Okay, I got to be honest - I haven’t coded that part fully. It’s half-written and I had to rush off to a friend’s birthday.
I am aware that some users request for these:
* Cached Fresh Comments.
* Show fresh comments in categories.
* Private post’s comments are not shown to people who logged in.
The above 3 features are not implemented in the coming release (version 1.1). Fresh comments in categories are kinda hard. I mean it’s not hard to code but it’s just not that worth the trouble. I have to query MySQL too much to get that done. I have yet to figure out how to do caching too. And private posts… Well, I haven’t figured that one out too.
I’ll be releasing the plugin after more tests. Probably coming Monday or Tuesday if possible.
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