Help test our Wordpress 2.5 plugin: Version 1.1 Beta 1
Do you have Wordpress 2.5 or above installed on your Web site? Interested in helping us beta test the latest version of our plugin? First of all, thank you!
Downloading and installation
You can download the latest beta version, 1.1 beta 1, from the wiki page for this plugin. For anyone not using Wordpress 2.5 or above, version 1.0 is still there for you to use.
Installing Version 1.1 Beta 1 is simple. Just unzip the file and upload the entire viddlercomments directory to your /plugins/ folder within Wordpress. Then, go to your plugins page and click Activate on our plugin. If you are upgrading please be sure to delete the old directory and upload this new one.
What’s new in 1.1 Beta 1?
Here is a quick list of the changes between version 1.0 and version 1.1 of our Wordpress plugin. We plan on keeping these features locked until 1.1 is completed, only fixing bugs between now and official release.
- Dashboard widget You can now watch, and help promote, our daily featured videos right from within the Wordpress administration dashboard. There is a preference in the options panel to turn this off.
- Viddler videos in Add Media pop-up One of Wordpress 2.5’s flagship features is the new “Add media” pop-up window when writing posts and pages. Now, you can add Viddler videos in several ways.
- Featured videos Like on the dashboard widget, you are now able to embed featured videos quickly.
- Your videos One quick search for your username, and you can page through every public video you have on Viddler and embed them in your posts.
- Search! The search features lets you find, and embed, any video on Viddler by searching by tag and/or username.
- Record Using your webcam, or any camera attached to your computer, you can use Viddler’s recorder to quickly record a brand-new video and embed it in your post, all without leaving your Wordpress admin.
- Fixed Wordpress 2.5 jQuery conflict Both our plugin and Wordpress use jQuery, the state-of-the-art Javascript framework, and version 1.0 of our plugin causes conflicts with Wordpress 2.5. Now that is fixed!
- Several other bugs fixes and enhancements.
Video demonstration!
We wouldn’t be Viddler if we didn’t have a quick video demonstration of this version of our plugin. Now, remember, this is still in Beta so some things may change between now and the official release.
This video was embedded using our latest beta version, nifty!
Tags: plugin, viddler, video comments, wordpress
April 10th, 2008 at 10:50 am
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April 10th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Looking good Colin. Gonna try this when I’ve got time to upgrade to WP2.5
April 10th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
So no luck with the new plugin on my site. I have it installed and I tested it out. After I login to viddler, the popup goes away and my page reloads. So, any help that can be provided would be great, I would really like to get this working. Cheers!
April 11th, 2008 at 7:52 am
This is some good stuff Colin! Thanks!
April 11th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Kevin: Thank you!
Jacob: You are running Wordpress 2.5? Can you give me the list of plugins that you have installed? Can you be sure that you’ve upgraded to 1.1 beta 1 properly?
Beau: Glad you like it!
April 11th, 2008 at 8:11 am
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I didn’t actually upgrade to 1.1, I never had the first plugin installed. Is that something I needed? I followed the instructions in the video.
April 11th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Jacob: Nope. You should be good to go. Next step in testing: Can you describe every click? I know it is annoying but if you could walk me through it in a very detailed manner, maybe I can replicate the bug.
April 11th, 2008 at 8:56 am
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April 11th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Click to play this video.
A walkthrough of me trying to leave a comment with the plugin.
April 11th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Jacob Burke: That is a great way to get some quality support! We’re going to see if we can debug that problem and roll that patch into tonight’s Beta 2 update! Thanks for taking the time.
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May 3rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Oh I am so glad I stumble upon the WordPress 2.5 version. I have been bamboozled the 1.0 plug in ( you might check the links on the Plugin page — the wiki link is full of spam . . and the other link only goes to the front bag of your personal blog . . . only by searching for “viddler” did I find a route to this page).
I love the plugin as I really find Viddler to well design and very functional.
One question: Any reason why the poster shot used in blog postings isn’t the full viddler window with menu, etc? Seems before is was.
Click to play this video.
May 4th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Awesome! I’m totally adding this to my Wordpress blog! Any chance you guys will also be working on a similar plugin for Movable Type at some point?