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.
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 🙂
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…
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.
Oh, o.k.
That explains it. Thanks
When it rains spam… It pours spam huh!? Why does your spam filter do this?
Why not try Akismet?!
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.
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