Hey David,

Thoughts on spam issues with plugins like this?
Can it hook into Wordpress Aksimet?

Nice work.

Sull

On Feb 4, 2008 5:01 PM, David Meade <meade.dave@...> wrote:
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> Hi all -
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> Based on some initial playing around with the video comment plugin
> for wordpress, I've updated the plugin to version 1.2. You can
> download the latest version at
> http://www.davidmeade.com/wordpress-plugins#videoComments
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> Feel free to test/play-around at: http://slackspace.net/testblog/?p=11
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> Let me know if you find it buggy in anyway.
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> Changes are as follows:
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> -- UPDATE / CHANGE LOG --
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> version 1.2
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> * Thumbnail URLs are now validated
> ---> Link must point to a valid link (not resulting in 400 or 500
> level http error codes)
> ---> Invalid images are replaced with a default thumbnail
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> * Video URLs are now validated
> ---> Link must point to a valid link (not resulting in 400 or 500
> level http error codes)
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> * Post Permalink URLs are now validates
> ---> Link must point to a valid link (not resulting in 400 or 500
> level http error codes)
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> * If a video URL is invalid, but the post permalink is good, the
> thumbnail will link to that instead. (allowing link to fall through to
> the permalink)
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> * Video Comment fields will now show up when editing an existing
> comment (Allowing an administrator to go in and fix/update video
> response links as needed).
> ---> NOTE: Currently, this requires adding a line of code to the
> file wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php (pre-modified version is now
> included with the plug-in). I have requested this be fixed in the core
> wordpres files so that such modification is not required in the future
> (http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5741). See "ADVANCED INSTALLATION
> OPTIONS" below.
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> * Robust clean-up of video comment fields upon deletion of associated
> wordpress comment
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> -- TO DO: --
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> * Validate links on content-type. (This is code complete but for some
> reason wordpress is sometimes returning odd results for links, so I've
> disabled it in this version)
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> -- KNOWN ISSUES: --
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> * Not compatible with the OpenID plugin - video comment fields are
> lost when user is redirected to an OpenID url for authentication.
> (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/154438?replies=1#post-685165)
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> -- UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS --
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> 0) download a backup of your current "video comments" plugin files
> 1) Disable your current "video comments" plugin
> 2) Delete your current "video comments" plugin files
> 3) continue with normal install instructions
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> -- INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS --
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> 0) download the latest version of the "video comments" plugin
> 1) extract to a local folder on your computer
> 2) upload the entire "VideoComments" folder to your plugins directory
> (wp-content/plugins)
> 3) activate the plugin
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> -- ADVANCED INSTALLATION OPTIONS --
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> 1) update your theme's css to set max-width for the
> "videoResponseThumbnail" class
> 2) ensure the line:
> <?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>
> appears in your comments/php file for your them. (this is where the
> video comment fields are added to the comment form)
> 3) ensure the line:
> <?php do_action('edit_comment_form', $comment->comment_ID); ?>
> appears in your wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php file. I recommend
> putting this just above the "Advanced" section). If you aren't sure
> how to do this, you can use the pre-edited edit-form-comment.php that
> was included with the zip file for this plugin - just upload it it
> your wp-admin folder (make a backup of your existing file first).
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> Thanks,
> - Dave
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> http://www.DavidMeade.com
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