Thu 18 Jun 2009
WP Update Message
Posted by jenst under Plugins[2] Comments
(23 votes, average: 2.91 out of 5)
Loading ...Add a short note about the latest changes in the current post or page. Activate it and it work instantly. All the settings are optional. This plugin was made for the competition 2009.
This is how a message box in admin looks like
This is how the message can be displayed on your site
Settings preview
It works with version 2.6 – 2.8, but might even work with 2.5.
The plugin and more information is available on my site jenst.se. You can download it from wordpress.org as well.
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[...] latest plugin to be entered into the competition blog is WP Update Message. I quite like this plugin because it isn’t something that I had thought of myself. What it [...]
Hi,
I really like this plugin and I installed right away. It conveniently replaces my manual updates in the core of the text. Granted, it works its best with only one revision, but this is already great.
I have some suggestion, that I already implemented on my blog (well, only partially, because I am not a coder):
I changed the HTML text for this (since there is no preview here, I changed the brackets):
‹ins datetime=”%ud%” class=”wp-update”›
‹div class=”update_message”›
‹small›%ud%‹/small›
‹p›%ut%‹/p›
‹/div›
‹/ins›
Why so?
- “ins” because, well, this is what it is meant for. Note that ins (as well as its relative, del) is both a block and an inline element
- “datetime” is badly formatted, because it should be YYYY-MM-DD. This is where I need a coder
- class=”wp-update”, because the default rendering for ins (which _does_ make sense) is not great with a border (border + text-decoration:underline do not work well together). Then one can add “ins.wp-update {text-decoration:none} or better yet “ins.wp-update {text-decoration:inherit}” to one’s CSS
Ideally, I would merge the div and the ins (div is the default block when nothing else—and here there is something) and would use normal formatting for datetime:
‹ins datetime=”YYYY-MM-DD” class=”update_message”›
‹small›%ud%‹/small›
‹p›%ut%‹/p›
‹/ins›
Ideally again, borders would be replaced by a real piece of CSS (similar complaint: ). Then, implementing “ins.wp-update {text-decoration:inherit}” would be much easier.
I think this is not much work, but definitely something I do not feel like doing myself-I am analphabet when it comes to PHP. Plus, I am not the maintainer.
Could you implement this?
Thank you for your consideration.