Viddler Wordpress plugin
Last edited: December 9th, 2008Requirements
- PHP 4.x
- Wordpress 2.6 or above
Description
A WordPress plugin that enables video comments on blog posts via Viddler’s API, featured videos on the Wordpress admin Dashboard, and an easy-to-use interface to publish videos from within Wordpress’ “Publish panel”.
This plugin is now on the official Wordpress plugin directory. This means that you can now install it from inside the latest versions of Wordpress and upgrades can be done automatically!
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This plugin has been installed in well over 500 Web sites powered by Wordpress.
Version history
This version history can also be found in the readme.txt
1.2.3 | February 9, 2009
Fix: Turned off Dashboard widget by default (This should address WPMU errors.)
Fix: Searching by tag.
Update: Using the latest version of phpViddler.
Update: Includes php5 version of phpViddler.
Update: No longer relies on dynamic CDN URLs for thumbnails.
Misc: Improved performance, small bug fixes, slightly less code.
1.2.2 | January 20, 2009
Fix: Viddler Thumbnail URLS are being properly displayed.
1.2.1 | December 30, 2008
Fix: Fixed plugin navigation. Credit: Rob Santoro.
Fix: Search results for users with 1 video.
Fix: Height dimensions on embed being only 1 number.
1.2 | Dec 15, 2008
Wordpress 2.7 compatibility.
New options and settings!
Include either image or flash.
Default width.
New post icon.
Bug fixes.
1.0 | Feb 26, 2008
Full version release.
1.0 Beta 6c | Feb 21, 2008
Fixed admin error on manage posts and manage pages areas. Thanks to Alex Hillman and Bart Mroz.
1.0 Beta 6b | Feb 20, 2008
Some blogs could not save custom tags.
Custom tags didn’t work if you used a custom button.
Extended the amount of timeout for record with webcam.
1.0 Beta 6 | Feb 20, 2008
Added custom tags for video comments.
Moved admin panel from Plugins to Options area. Thanks to Daniel Nicolas and Alex Hillman.
Fixed empty viddler_recordlink(); Thanks to David Martorana.
Fixed conflicts with Wordpress’ built-in widgets system for the sidebar. Thanks to Rob Sandie.
Added ALT attribute to thumbnails for valid XHTML. Thanks to Matt Brett.
Fixed video titles with record with webcam where the blog post title has an apostrophe.
Several copy fixes.
Five misc. bug fixes.
1.0 Beta 5 | Feb 12, 2008
Added a Readme.txt
Changed the name from ‘Video commmenting plugin’ to ‘Video companion plugin’.
Added button text preference. Now you can choose what the button says on your site.
Added administrative panel to the plugins area of the Wordpress admin. You may now change all preferences there, you no longer need to edit the config file.
Added custom button placement preference. Instead of the button appearing automatically, now you can place it anywhere in your template (within The_Loop) by using viddler_recordlink(’text’);
Fix for overlaying the plugin on playing flash video. The plugin would appear behind any flash videos that were saved. Thanks to Andrew Smith.
Multiple fixes for people that only have 1 video on Viddler.
Added “version” to the TITLE attribute on the “Powered by Viddler.” logo. This is simply to help me with support, and to see the adoption rates of each version.
Fixed height problems for the default player being used in comments
Fixed Simple Player embed to allow autoplaying of comments when the user clicking on “click to play video”
Player background now transparent to match site’s background color.
1.0 Beta 4b | Feb 12, 2008
Added hooks to determine where Wordpress is installed. This means the plugin will work even if the Wordpress installation is NOT in the root directory of your website. (eg. /journal/). Thanks to Daniel Nicolas.
Fixed a few javascript errors with $v not being changed properly.
1.0 Beta 4 | Feb 12, 2008
Fixed tiny video comments.
Fixed a bug where if you clicked on the text link in a post it would ignore the width and height preferences
Fixed links from RSS for both comments and posts.
Inserting the video into a post now happens at the cursor
Increased recorder saving timeout (should cut down on errors)
Lowered the session expiration. You’ll need to log in more, but the API won’t error as much
Changed jQuery namespace to remove conflicts with other versions of jQuery, Prototype, and other JavaScript libraries. (From $ to $v)
1.0 Beta 3 | Feb. 12, 2008
Wordpress admin: You can now add videos to your posts on the write panel.
Player preference: Choose Simple or Normal player for both posts and comments.
Width and Height in posts: Choose the width and height of the player in posts.
Video comments now autoplay (removes one click) (to be updated behind-the-scenes on 2/13/08)
Larger thumbnail in posts
Handles comment box IDs being different than Wordpress default
Over 55 bug fixes.
Smaller footprint.
Cowbell++
1.0 Beta 2 |
Never released, tested locally only.
1.0 Beta 1 | Feb. 11, 2008
Initial private release.