It’s been some time since TextboxList got some attention. It is undoubtedly one of my most popular JavaScript projects, along with the famous Fancy Menu (MorphList) and its slideshow sibling, BarackSlideshow.
TextboxList (demo) has been rewritten from scratch, and it’s more solid than ever. The first time around, elegance was not one of the goals. I focused on releasing the first open source script that reproduced the Facebook’s tokenizer.
I’ve just released a new Wordpress plugin: FeedBurnerCount. It gets the job of retrieving feed readers from the FeedBurner API done efficiently.
Lately it seems the API is up and down all the time, many times providing invalid data, and recently moved to a new URI. The one plugin that solves this same task hasn’t been updated in months, and it’s not ready for an inconsistent API, which results in a N/A count all the time.
FeedBurnerCount can maintain your feed count even if the Awareness API is not working (or you can specify a custom message for those situations), and calculate the average readers count in a period of time. It also sniffs your feedburner details (if the FeedBurner plugin installed) for an impossibly easier setup.
Head to the the plugin page for more details.
Not only the new version fixes dozens of bugs, it also ships with impressive new features that will blow your mind (and your blog readers) away.
Some of them are:
These two widely used scripts have been updated. BarackSlideshow now supports transition effects and can autoplay (requested by the community many times).
MorphList is now even more flexible, supporting custom markup for the dynamic background.
Some important and some not-as-important bug fixes in this version. Hopefully this will be the last release candidate before the grand 1.0 release:
Click here to download
As usual, head to Lighthouse for bug reports
I guess pretty much everyone has seen Barack Obama’s website by now, which is clearly one of the prettiest of all candidates we’ve heard of so far. Not only is it an example of state-of-the-art design, but it’s also nice to navigate and interact with.
I decided to imitate the homepage slideshow. I had already experimented with similar animated lists, which allowed me to have it ready within minutes
Here is the upcoming RC3 release!
Remember that, just like any release prior to 1.0, upgrading will erase your previous campaigns, feeds, logs, etc.
I need feedback on:
Always include instructions on how to reproduce the issues please!
Go ahead and download it
Updates
Update: here it is
Just writing to let you know that the upcoming release candidate of WP-o-Matic is being cooked and betatested!
This is a list of all the exciting changes, which include new features you’ve been requesting and lots of bugfixes
As usual, stay tuned. Sorry for not being able to respond and release with more frequency, but I’ve been really busy.
