Version 2010.0207 of Add Attribution for FeedWordPress is now available for download.

This is a small compatibility release. It does not add any new features over those offered by version 2009.0730. (Like I said, Supported and mature.) But it does include a small but important change to the order of execution that Add Attribution requests, which will help it play nicer with other filters designed to work with FeedWordPress. (In particular, this update is necessary in order to avoid potential conflicts with the newly-released FWP+: Limit size of posts add-on module. If you want to use both Add Attribution and Limit Size Of Posts together, you’ll need this update in order to ensure harmonious coexistence.)

Download and enjoy! As always, you have any issues with the release, or if there is anything that you would like to see included in a future release, please use the comments form or drop me a line to let me know about it.

Version 2009.0730 of Add Attribution for FeedWordPress is now available for download.

This release adds one significant new feature — the [original-url] shortcode — and also fixes a small group (swarm? nest? hive?) of bugs originally reported by Ato which have to do irregularities in the way that WordPress parses dashes in shortcode names. Changes:

• Feature: If you want your attribution boilerplate to contain a link back to the original post that this post is a syndicated copy of, you can now do so using the [original-url] shortcode.

• Bugfix: Due to problems in the way that WordPress parses shortcodes with dashes in their names, the [source-name] and [source-url] shortcodes in previous versions might erroneously display the same link that was supposed to be displayed by [source], and [author-name] might erroneously display the same link that was supposed to be displayed by [author]. This problem has now been fixed, and each shortcode should display its proper contents.

• Documentation: Shortcodes are now more thoroughly documented; the helper box in the Attribution Boilerplate section now contains a full list and short description of all available shortcodes.

• Interface and bugfixes: Some miscellaneous AJAX changes, styling improvements, and minor bug fixes.

Download and enjoy! As always, you have any issues with the release, or if there is anything that you would like to see included in a future release, please use the comments form or drop me a line to let me know about it.

FeedWordPress users,

If you’ve visited http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress/ recently, then you have already found this out courtesy of an HTTP redirect; but for those of you who are following the feed, I’d like you to know that I am in the process of setting up a new, dedicated space for FeedWordPress at http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/.

The new website will serve as a project landing pad and a blog for announcements and updates, just like always. But there’s also an important new feature, which is the main reason for the move: by giving FeedWordPress a shiny new Drupal site of its own, I will be able to create a new FeedWordPress community Wiki, which I hope will serve two purposes.

First, it will make it easier (for me, and perhaps also with the help of the FeedWordPress user community) to bring the (woefully out-of-date) documentation for the project back into line with reality, and then to expand and improve on it.

Second, I hope that with a community Wiki it will be possible to begin developing more community features around the FeedWordPress framework than the cramped project page allowed for. In particular, I hope that it will provide a space for people to discuss and to share filters and other add-ons that take advantage of FeedWordPress’s extensive, but currently mostly untapped, filtering capabilities. Sample themes, sample code for filters and add-ons, discussions of outstanding issues, fixes, and new features for FeedWordPress; I’m opening this up to y’all, and I’m excited to see what we can develop together.

See you at http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/!

Add Attribution for FeedWordPress 2009.0724 is now available for download.

This release fixes a bug in the initial release, reported by Stephanie, which caused PHP to throw a fatal error if you attempted to use the [author] shortcode in your attribution boilerplate. The problem is now fixed, and [author] should display the author’s name, and if attached to the post content, a link to the archive of articles by that author. (That is, articles that have been syndicated on your site. If you want a link to the author’s original homepage, use the [source] shortcode.)

Download and enjoy! As always, you have any issues with the release, or if there is anything that you would like to see included in a future release, please use the comments form or drop me a line to let me know about it.