July 30th, 2014 at 5:50 PM
I've decided not to do the multiple usergroups on postbit/profile plugin. I found that someone recently released a much better plugin that apparently puts the image on the private message postbit as well, and he clearly went much further than I was intending to. I won't bother doing inferior duplicates.
It turns out that someone apparently did an announcements plugin for 1.6 already as well, but I'm still planning to release mine since I already did the work on it. BAM announcements manager supports certain features, such as "random mode" and the optional global display of announcements, so it may still be useful to some people.
Anyway, that leaves me with only really one project left on my queue. My goal is to fix the bugs, do a proper port to 1.8, and make the plugin translation friendly first. After that, I'll implement the ability to reply to statuses via ajax and make a few minor improvements to the "view status updates" page, and I'll have a new plugin ready to release. 90% of the development is actually already done for 1.6, but 1.8 adds a few new features that will be useful and make the plugin a little more user friendly (particularly with regards to plugin setting types), so I'll be sure to make use of those as much as possible.
Would there be any interest in putting the latest status updates into the postbit (somewhere near the avatar) somehow? I'm not entirely sure if it's possible to do that IPB-style, but if there is any interest for it, I'll be sure to look into it. I'd like to take the chance to develop a complete plugin here.
It turns out that someone apparently did an announcements plugin for 1.6 already as well, but I'm still planning to release mine since I already did the work on it. BAM announcements manager supports certain features, such as "random mode" and the optional global display of announcements, so it may still be useful to some people.
Anyway, that leaves me with only really one project left on my queue. My goal is to fix the bugs, do a proper port to 1.8, and make the plugin translation friendly first. After that, I'll implement the ability to reply to statuses via ajax and make a few minor improvements to the "view status updates" page, and I'll have a new plugin ready to release. 90% of the development is actually already done for 1.6, but 1.8 adds a few new features that will be useful and make the plugin a little more user friendly (particularly with regards to plugin setting types), so I'll be sure to make use of those as much as possible.
Would there be any interest in putting the latest status updates into the postbit (somewhere near the avatar) somehow? I'm not entirely sure if it's possible to do that IPB-style, but if there is any interest for it, I'll be sure to look into it. I'd like to take the chance to develop a complete plugin here.
