pagebar by elektroelch

This blog is closed now. Any updates for pagebar will be announced on my main blog. I’m sorry for any inconvenience.

latz

pagebar 2.54 removes a problem with the “Break comments into pages” setting which could not be deselected. Unfortunately I had to remove the “show all comments” feature since I have not found a different method to code this feature.

Additionally there are two more fixes:

• Settings where not correctly inherited by multipagebar and commentbar.
• Commentbar was displayed if only one page was present.

Download:

• pagebar v2.54 (ZIP)
• pagebar v2.54 (RAR)

Hope I didn’t break anything else

I’ve updated pagebar to version 2.52. This version is fxing two bugs:

• function pb_remove_nav was missing
• non administrators could change settings

Download:

• pagebar252.zip
• pagebar252.rar

After a long time with no development I finally committed the new version 2.51 to the repository. The main new features are:

• Total rewrite of code (introduced classes)
• Added pagebar for paged comments (commentbar)
• Added pagebar for multipaged posts (multipagebar)
• Prevention of updates if WP<v2.7 or PHP<v5.0

Download:

• pagebar v2.51 (ZIP)
• pagebar v2.51 (RAR)

Let the bug party begin!

After a long time with no update there is a new version of pagebar available. The pagebr itself hasn’t been enhanced but there are the following new features:

• pagebar for enhanced comments
  This is the way enhanced comments look in the standard Kubrick theme:
  
  
  
  With installed pagebar and activated commentbar() it can look this way:
  
  
  

• Display all comments option for enhanced comments
  As you might have seen the pagebar offers a link to display all comments. This is a feature WordPress is not offering by default but is unique to this plugin.

• pagebar for multipaged posts
  The standard display of multpaged posts is quite sightly:
  
  
  
  This can be changed to be display as the following:
  
  
  

• Display all pages for multipaged posts/pages
  Again you can add a Link to the pagebar to display all parts of the post at once as shown in the image above. This is not offered by Wordpress by default.

I’m aware that there will be some bug reports in the next days. So please be patitent with me, this is a one person spare time project.

Download page for pagebar v2.5 preview 1

This plugin was reviewed on the “Webmaster Watchblog” (German only). Thank you!

Since the last update of pagebar2 almost half a year is over and various new versions of WordPress are in the wild.

Basic features
Fortunately pagebar still works with the latest version though it has some major drawbacks:

1. it does not work for comment pages.
2. it does not work for multipage pages.
3. the option interface is totally outdated and needs some brush up.

The basic code for comment and multipages is complete and I’ve got a working version of pagebar but it’s quite a dirty hack. I’m in the process of converting the old code to object oriented code. It makes sense since all three tastes are basically the same except some basic values (pages, max_page and others). At the moment all three bars will have to share the same options but three different option pages are scheduled for future releases.

The restyling of the option page turns out to be a bit more complicated than I thought because I use some tables for the layout and WordPress 2.7 has it’s own opinion about styling them. Haven’t found a good solution for this yet.

Tooltips
I’ve experimented with the possibility to add a tooltip to each page button with the corresponding post titles. It turned out that the standard WordPress actions create a database query for every single post title. If you’ve got a 3/5/3 pagebar you’ll end up with 90 queries which is definitely to much even for a low traffic blog. Need to think of a completely different solution.

Animations
Another idea was to change the centre part of pagebar into a sliding bar so that all pages can be accessed easily. Well, I’m neither a JavaScript nor a JQuery hero so this one was put way back to the end of the ToDo list.

Deployment
I have absolutely no idea when the new version will be deployed. Best prospects are late January worst are early spring since I will take a three week break from The Matrix over the Christmas/New Year festivities.

I feel lucky
… no, there will be no “I feel lucky!” button!

Frohe Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr…

Pagebar maintenant disponible en français !
Grâce au travail de Lise (http://liseweb.fr), Pagebar est maintenant disponible en français. Les traductions sont incluses dans la nouvelle version 2.20.
Encore une fois, merci à Lise !

Télécharger :

• pagebar220.zip
• pagebar220.rar
• pagebar220.7z

As I wrote in the last posting another bug was found in pagebar (thanks to Kai-shao). The reason for this strange behaviour was not easy to find but in the end it was a problem caused by the new WordPress v2.5 components namely jquery. Here a news version which solves the problem:

Download:

• pagebar219.zip
• pagebar219.rar
• pagebar219.7z

Technical background:
In WP2.5 the jquery library was updated from version 1.1.4 to version 1.2.3.
In my Javascript I used the value “null” to check if the “style.css” radiobutton is not checked. Unfortunately the dev group changed the value to “undefined”, so the texbox was never set to “enabled” because the comparison never was true. Thanks to firebug I was able to squash this bug to death.

OK folks, next one please…

WordPress 2.5 doesn’t like me… Yet another bug crept from under the dirty, wet sink. This time it’s a JavaScript problem:

I’m using jquery to enable/disable some options (automagic insert / stylesheet). The exact same code works under WP2.3.3 while it’s totally unhappy under WP2.5.
First I thought I messed up the code but it looked all the same. I check it with all my available. No difference. Than a scintillation: Maybe they have updated jquery, too. And yes, that is the problem, jquery v1.2.3.

Interestingly the code works with checkboxes but not with radiobuttons. I have no idea why.

I will try to fix this problem in the next days. If I cannot come up with a solution I have to remove this functionality though I think it looks quite neat.