October 15th, 2006 › WordPress Version Check
What it does
The aim of the plugin is to help people keep up to date with new wordpress version releases. (For more info see the original plugin announcement.)
How it works
The plugin takes a simple approach to get the users attention. Once activated it checks an XML-RPC webservice for update news displaying a message at the top of every page in the wordpress admin user-interface. It will check for an update to the message every 15 mins with an additional check being kicked off if the installed wordpress version changes so as to give instant feedback on upgrades.
Possible Changes/Known Issues
The following changes have been suggested for implementationbefore the plugin hits version 1.0:
When you’re using the latest version, just show a dim grey “up-to-date” line.- Version 0.80 does this as standard.
wp_version_check()Template Tag.- Optional email sent when new message detected to help track the many installs supported by some people for friends
- Version 0.90 has this functionality
- Hello Dolly incompatible - As this plugin uses the same piece of screen real estate as Hello Dolly you can’t run both at the same time.
- …. your suggestion here ….
The following bugs have been identified:
Hard to see the message when using the Tiger Admin UI Plugin.- In Version 0.80 Tiger Admin UI plugin is now detected and alternative css is delivered for the Tiger Admin.
- In Version 0.90 MarkJ’s improved css is delivered for the Tiger Admin.
Plugin contacts the service every 15mins when the blog is viewed rather than every 15mins when the admin pages are viewed.- Fixed in version 0.80 does this as standard.
XML-RPC Error codes are not reported properly- Fixed in version 0.91
Download
The latest version of the plugin may be downloaded here: pjw_wp_version_monitor.1.00.zip
Examples
To see examples of the plugin in use see the original plugin announcement.
Hi there. There seems to be another problem with the Tiger Admin plugin…
It appears that the version check notification appears over the ‘View the site’ button.
Anyone else had this problem? I haven’t altered the Tiger plugin at all.
Comment by Dan Atkinson — 11/7/2005 @ 9:17 pm §
Dan: It appears my testing failed! Sorry. For some reason during my test install of the Tiger Admin UI plugin I manage not to put the images in the correct place and so didn’t realise that button existed. I will release a fixed version later today.
Comment by westi — 12/7/2005 @ 7:36 am §
peter…this is the css i hacked for the tiger admin console:
<style type=’text/css’>
#pjw_update {
position: absolute; top:30px; margin:0; padding:0; right:2px; font-size:12px; z-index:1;}
.warning {color: orange;}
.critical {color: red;}
.info {color: #333333;}
</style>
it seems to work for every page in the admin console except for maybe options, depending on how many plugins you have enabled that are generating option menus.
i’m using Firefox 1.0.5 on MacOSX 10.3.9
Comment by jwp — 13/7/2005 @ 1:20 am §
jwp: Thanks for the CSS. I’ve also been sent the following CSS from Mark J which puts it down in the bottom lefthand corner for the Tiger Admin UI. This is where I wanted to put it for Tiger in the last update but couldn’t quite sort the CSS out :-(. I think I will be going with Mark’s CSS in the next version which is due real-soon-now!
Comment by westi — 14/7/2005 @ 12:48 pm §
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Pingback by peen.net » Blog Archive » Plugins list — 18/7/2005 @ 9:15 pm §
Westi, got a slight optimization fix for you:
You’re doing add_option() on every page load, which creates an extra DB query. Try changing the init() method to this:
function init()
{
if (!get_option(’pjw_wp_version_check’))
add_option(’pjw_wp_version_check’,$this->options,’Settings for the version check plugin.’,'yes’);
$this->options = get_option(’pjw_wp_version_check’);
}
That way, you check to see if it exists already (which will use the cached options, if it does. If it doesn’t exist, THEN you create it. This saved 3/100 of a second on each page load for me. Every little bit helps!
Comment by Mark J — 24/7/2005 @ 12:44 am §
@MarkJ: I had noticed that myself and saw it as a deficiency in
add_option()when I looked into what was happening. I reduced my front page queries/load time from “40 queries. 0.683″ to “30 queries. 0.676″ with the simple patch I attached to this trac ticket http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1499. It seems the way that I have coded myadd_option()andget_options()calls is not unusual.The way
add_option()currently works really breaks the idea of auto_loading options as it always checks the db for existence of an option rather than checking the options cache first.I probably add the simple check you have suggested for now but hopefully my modification to
add_option()will make into the next version of WordPress and then the check won’t be necessary.Comment by westi — 24/7/2005 @ 7:52 am §
Hi. I’ve found a bug in Wordpress 1.5.1.3 that directly affects your plugin. In the IXR class, if you just specify a URL (like this plugin does), it forgets to set the timeout. The easiest way to patch this in your plugin is to add
$ixrcli->timeout = 30;
around line 67 (after the useragent string). Either that, or adjust line 63 (the new IXR_Client line) to specify the timeout. I found adding the extra line required less work.
Comment by Garett — 29/7/2005 @ 8:38 pm §
hey, thanks for the great mod. nice idea!
Comment by mamo — 5/8/2005 @ 12:26 pm §
I’ve install plugin, but I receive on top, the message “Failed to get update information.”
Why ?
Comment by marian — 8/8/2005 @ 7:43 am §
marian: The “Failed to get update information” message means that for some reason the plugin has not tried to contact the webservice to collect the latest message. This is probably because the plugin thought it had run recently enough to not check for an update.
If this persists I would be interested to know the following information to help debug the problem: What versions of WordPress, PHP, MySql are in use on your host and what type of host is it Apache/IIS Windows/Linux
Comment by westi — 8/8/2005 @ 8:57 am §
I use on locale, XAMPP 1.4.14 with PHP 5.04, mySql API 4.1.12, and latest version of WordPress 1.5.1.3.
The same error is happen on the another PC.
Comment by marian — 8/8/2005 @ 9:18 am §
marian: I would guess from the setup you are using that you are running WordPress locally on Windows XP - Can you install phpmyadmin or use the mysql command line tools and send me the value of the
pjw_wp_version_checkoption in thewp_optionstable - you can use the contact form on my blog or post it in a comment here. (Sorry for the delayed response - I have been layed up in bed with a chest infection :-()Comment by westi — 11/8/2005 @ 9:44 am §
I’m sorry, but I don’t know how… I’m newbee.
XAMPPP is contained MySQL, Apache, PHPMyAdmin. Now, in phpMyAdmin > wordpressDatabase > wp_options
In right panel, in structure of data, I didn’t found any “pjw_wp_version_check” option !
Comment by marian — 11/8/2005 @ 11:06 am §
marian: I have just set up a test install of XAMPP v1.4.14 locally and install WordPress v1.5.1.3 and Version Check v0.90. Running XAMPP with PHP5 fails as you have found - if I switch XAMPP to using PHP4 then the Version Check plugin works ok.
It seems that in the PHP5 bundled with XAMPP
fsockopenis not working correctly and returns with an error even though it opens a connection successfully - I found this php bug which shows the same issue that I am seing. I suggest for now you try using PHP4 with XAMPP until this is fixed in PHP5 on windows.Interestingly in tracking this down I found a bug in the error handling within the plugin which I will fix in the next release - you should have been seeing an Error message rather than the message that was being displayed.
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XML-RPC Error:-32300:transport error - could not open socket
why would I get that?
Comment by Dan McCullough — 21/10/2005 @ 7:44 pm §
@Dan: The error means that when the plugin trys to contact the webservice it is unable to open a socket
What versions of software is the server you are running on running?
Comment by westi — 22/10/2005 @ 9:45 am §
Running Wordpress 1.5, Apache 2.0.54, PHP 5.0.5. PHP was configured with xml enabled.
Comment by Dan McCullough — 22/10/2005 @ 2:37 pm §
Dan as your running PHP5 you may be suffering the same issue as seen by marian above. Are you by any chance running on a Windows Server? If so it looks like the PHP bug detailed above is still not fixed.
Can you confirm whether or not you are running on a Windows machine?
Comment by westi — 22/10/2005 @ 9:48 pm §
I’m not on windoze, im on FC4.
Comment by Dan McCullough — 23/10/2005 @ 2:45 am §
Found the problem. The WP 1.5.2 has the 1.67 version of class-IXR.php and you need to upgrade to version 1.7. Popped in the new version and it works.
Thanks
Comment by Dan McCullough — 28/10/2005 @ 3:45 pm §
Dan that is good to hear and very interesting.
As far as I know WordPress 1.5.2 ships with v1.62WP and the current WordPress trunk has v1.7 beta looking at the differences between the two the only major change that would affect the plugin is to add a default timeout which would only help it returning the error you were seeing quicker if your install was unable to contact the webservice.
But it works now and thats the main thing
Comment by westi — 28/10/2005 @ 10:20 pm §
Thankyou for this plugin.
Comment by Eddie — 5/11/2005 @ 6:21 pm §
Thanks for this plugin. It gave me the same error as Dan (above stated on Oct 21 @7:44). I replaced “class-IXR.php” which comes in WP 1.5.3 (class-IXR.php Version 1.62WP) with the 1.7 beta version(as Dan did) and VOILA! Instant working of Version Check. The previous “error” was also “instant” btw. FWIW
Comment by Maisy — 9/11/2005 @ 6:37 pm §
Maisy good to here it works for you with the updated class-IXR.php. I am begining to wonder if something is different in PHP5 and is causing this error - all my development and testing work has been done on PHP4.
I assume you are running PHP5 to?
Comment by westi — 9/11/2005 @ 7:49 pm §
My guess would be yes to the PHP 5 being the culprit I tested this plugin on a php4 server that I have, same basic config as my php 5 server and it worked without having to change the class-IXR.php to 1.7.
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Peter, I’d just like to say (again) that this plugin is probably the most useful one for added functionality in WP I have! Nothing comes close really. Sure I have Tiger and BDP, and they’re useful, but they don’t offer this!
Now, my current fix is that your plugin doesn’t currently work for WP 2.0b (currently using RC1).
I was just wondering if you had gotten round to having a look at the CSS fixes you mentioned here?
Finally, that’s an interesting ‘preview’ of the comment you have, but it kinda screwed up when I add links.
Thanks again.
Comment by Dan Atkinson — 6/12/2005 @ 11:14 am §
Dan, The fix for 2.0 is still in progress I hope to have the time to finish it this week.
I have been testing it for a while but I’m not quite happy with the positioning yet!
I hope to get to it tomorrow evening when I have some spare time to play
Comment by westi — 7/12/2005 @ 12:33 pm §
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Pingback by Peter Westwood » Wordpress Version Check v1.0 — 8/12/2005 @ 7:09 pm §
Um, how do your spam filter miss that one Peter? Something broken down?
Great stuff about the 1.00 being released as well! I downloaded it and it just overlaps with my site name but overall it’s excellent! I was going to try and edit it some time so that it shows at the bottom instead of the top.
Excellent work!
Comment by Dan Atkinson — 17/12/2005 @ 12:58 pm §
Hmm don’t know how that spam got through but it’s gone now!
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Great plugin, but in my opinion, if WP-Dash is enabled, the normal message shouldn’t display.
No biggy though as I’ve just commented out the hook on my copy.
Comment by Viper007Bond — 22/12/2005 @ 12:50 pm §
Since the top of the admin panel in WP 2.0 is blue, it’s a little hard to see the dark gray up-to-date phrase (don’t know about the colors when updating is needed) … could you make a 2.0 version with different/lighter colors? Thanks
Comment by Claire — 29/12/2005 @ 5:22 pm §
Wonderful Plug in, but it seems to have “blues”. What happened is for some reason I logged on to my admin area and was expecting to see the “your version is up to date” but in stead it showed some error about no XM something but when I tried to go to this site to see if there was any new version, your site would not load it was off line. Does the plug in use your site to check if the WP version is up to date ? Thanks…
Comment by Joe — 18/1/2006 @ 4:57 am §
Joe: I suspect your referring to last Friday. The server hosting both my blog and the webservice that the plugin checks with went down for about 4 hours due to power failure. I do have a UPS which I hope to setup soon to ensure that the next power failure doesn’t necessarily take down the server.
Comment by westi — 18/1/2006 @ 10:10 am §
Oh, o.k.
That explains it. Thanks
Comment by Joe — 18/1/2006 @ 11:26 pm §
When it rains spam… It pours spam huh!? Why does your spam filter do this?
Why not try Akismet?!
Comment by Dan Atkinson — 25/1/2006 @ 10:12 pm §
Indeed Dan it does seem to be raining spam at the moment.
All of these comments got through because they were manually done!
I’ve just installed my sk2 moderate plugin to enforce the “Comment author must have a previously approved comment†Wordpress core option.
Hopefully this should kill the torrent of spam.
Comment by westi — 25/1/2006 @ 10:16 pm §
Wow ! I feel sorry for you, that was a lot of spam. I read the “folowup messages” in my inbox.
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Hey there.
The spam above has reminded me that I was going to ask if it were possible to update the feed for the version check to include the current SVN version of WP (2.1 alpha 1, I believe)?
Thanks.
Dan Atkinson
Comment by Dan Atkinson — 2/5/2006 @ 4:35 am §
Well that spam’s gone now. Only the really manual stuff seems to slip through at the moment thankfully!
As for updating the webservice for version check to return for 2.1-alpha1 I’ll try and remember to do it later
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Hi westi -
I’ve just upgraded one of my blogs to 2.0.3. I’m using version 1.00 of the plugin which has been working just fine all along, and now after the upgrade I’m getting this error: XML-RPC Error:-32700:parse error. not well formed
Is there something I can do to fix this? (I deactivated plugins before the upgrade, this occurred immediately upon reactivation of this plugin.)
Thanks!
Comment by Vicki Frei — 21/6/2006 @ 5:33 pm §
Vicki: I think the error was cause by the server being in the process of being upgraded all should be well now.
Comment by westi — 21/6/2006 @ 8:37 pm §
Yep - fine now, thanks, and sorry for the bother!
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WordPress recently upgraded to 2.2.1. But after upgrading, I got a “Version check failed! - Unknown WordPress version.” message at the upper right of my dashboard.
You getting the same thing on your blog? Just thought I’d comment in case you or others might get the same thing, thanks.
Comment by Dave Zan — 21/6/2007 @ 8:46 am §
Dave: That message should now be gone. I needed to update the webservice that provides the message.
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There seems to be a problem with your plugin since 04.02.2008 - wp2.3.3 when xmlrpc.php has been patched to security vulnerability.
Since then i get:
Version check failed! - Unknown WordPress version.
I’ll look into it but i’m not familiar with wp xmlrpc.
Comment by eti — 7/2/2008 @ 11:48 am §
@eti: Fixed - I had forgotten to update the web service that the plugin uses to find out the information displayed.
Comment by westi — 7/2/2008 @ 12:49 pm §
Ok, it works now. I was under the impression that the webservice was running on wordpress.org, but after looking at the code I’ve seen it’s actually running on your server. Doesn’t wordpress.org offer such service? (that would get automatically updated)
Comment by eti — 7/2/2008 @ 12:58 pm §
I’ve got WP 2.2.3 installed, which is part of the (still-maintained) 2.2 branch. The 2.3 branch has recently gotten a security fix, which I assume does not apply to 2.2.3, but now, the plugin is telling me that there’s a new version available with security fixes and that I should upgrade, all in blinking red letters. Any way that the plugin can distinguish between security fixes that I need (i.e., if I had 2.3.x < 2.3.3) and those that I don’t (i.e., since I have 2.2.3 installed)? Thanks…
Comment by Eric — 8/2/2008 @ 5:56 am §
@Eric: WordPress 2.2 is not still maintained. The only old release branch that receives security updates is the 2.0 branch which the plugin supports successfully.
Comment by westi — 8/2/2008 @ 11:21 am §
OK, then I must be confused, or the WP Release Archive page incorrect. It says:
Comment by Eric — 8/2/2008 @ 4:59 pm §
@Eric: So it does - well thats wrong :-(. I’ll make sure it gets updated.
Comment by westi — 8/2/2008 @ 5:54 pm §
@eti: The 2.3+ branch of WP seems to have an inbuilt notification similar to Westi’s plugin - which seems to be running on wordpress.org’s servers from as much as I can tell about it on the one install of 2.3 I have around.
Comment by vkaryl — 10/2/2008 @ 3:20 pm §
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