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BNS Featured Plugins Verified on WordPress 3.0

Edward Caissie — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:56:39 +0000

The next two plugins on my list for compatibility review with WordPress 3.0 have been verified to work correctly. The plugins I reviewed this time are:

In the cases of these plugins there were not significant edits required to verify they will work correctly when used on WordPress 3.0 installations.

Next up will be the BNS Login and BNS SMF Feeds plugins, followed by the BNS Support plugin. I will be reviewing the BNS Facebook Sharecount plugin after all of the BNS themes have been reviewed.

BNS Featured Category 1.6

Edward Caissie — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:35:33 +0000

The latest version of BNS Featured Category is now available at WordPress.org as of Nov 14, 2009. The most significant change is the addition of an option to display the Category Description of the first category chosen. Here is the latest changelog, followed by a screenshot of the current options panel:

== Changelog ==
= 1.6 =
* added option to display the description for the (first) category choice as taken directly from the Categories panel under Posts in the Dashboard
* wrapped Category Description in its own class: 'bnsfc-cat-desc'
* corrected issue with checkboxes not displaying their state correctly
* Updated the screenshot to show the most recent version of the options panel

The latest screen shot of the option panel as of verion 1.6

… and a thank you to Lucio Carvalho for giving me the idea for the latest feature, Display Category Description option.

NB: Minor correction to variable structure to allow for multiple instances of the plugin with independent post counts (version 1.6.1)

BNS Featured Category 1.5

Edward Caissie — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:43:17 +0000

Just over a month ago, Greg made a comment on the plugin page for the free WordPress plugin BNS Featured Category. He suggested adding a word limiting option on the excerpt and it has now been implemented. Thanks, again, for the idea!

Here is the recent changelog:

== Changelog ==

= 1.5 =
* added option to set the quantity of the first words of the post to display instead of the default excerpt.
* modified description to reflect new functionality
* slightly increased the size of option panel to better display controls

= 1.4 =
* added version control compared against $wp_version
* added horizontal rule to option panel for clarity

BNS Featured Category 1.1

Edward Caissie — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:15:21 +0000

I have made a few enhancements to the BNS Featured Category plugin. It now has an additional option of only showing Post Titles. I also added one line of inline CSS for images wider than the widget area. Version 1.1 of BNS Featured Category should be available within approximately 15 minutes at the WordPress.org Extend Plugins repository.

Here is the changelog for version 1.1:

== Changelog ==

= 1.1 =
* added option for Post Titles only
* added  wrapper to allow for images wider than the widget area

New WordPress Plugin: BNS Featured Category 1.0

Edward Caissie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:27:35 +0000

I would like to have posts excerpts from a single category load into my sidebar. I would love to be able to use the <--read more--> within the posts to dictate the output in the sidebar. When the read more is clicked the entire post should load into the single.php format.
jennifinch

… and so began another exercise in creating a plugin. This gave me an idea for some code, the code grew into a plugin, but I still wanted to get a better understanding of widgets and user options and now we have the BNS Featured Category plugin, fully widget capable and designed for multiple unique instances. The long description of the plugin reads:

Plugin with multi-widget functionality that displays most recent posts from specific category or categories (set with user options). Also includes user options to display: Author and meta details; comment totals; post categories; post tags; and either full post or excerpt (or any combination).

I have submitted an application to the WordPress Extend Plugins team for SVN space and hope to see an approval soon. The code is complete and ready to be used as of this writing.