StickiWidgets

WordPress 2.1 Ella was just release yesterday (1/22) and includes over 550 bug fixes in addition to new features. This is definitely worth an upgrade.

We just completed our upgrade to WordPress 2.1 Ella. If you are running WordPress, you should check out the updates and changes. The upgrade process is simple and painless. Just follow the instructions and it shouldn’t take long. Always remember to back up all files and your data before the upgrade. We did not have any problems or issues but it’s always better to be safe than sorry.

Everything seems to be working so far and all our plugins and widgets are functioning correctly. No tweaks or new plugins were necessary for our upgrade. However, you should verify your other plugins to make sure they will work with 2.1 before starting the process.

Good luck…

Chris Pirillo posed a semi-challenge to us a while ago. With new work, projects, holidays, etc. We just haven’t gotten around to it. Finally, here are the results of the request (more of a nudge than challenge or request) from Chris.

“Glad you liked it. You should totally use our API to create bLaugh widgets for “WordPress, Stickam, MySpace, Friendster, et al” - what say you?” - Chris Pirillo (2006.11.26)

Yes, that was from a long time ago. Hey, better late than never. So here you have it. Drum roll please… Presenting the bLaugh widget…

This is a flash widget that allows anyone to cut and paste the code below to any site (most sites any ways). It will present the latest bLaugh comic on load and allow you to cycle through the 20 latest comics from bLaugh. Clicking on the comic image or title should take you to the bLaugh page for that comic.

Tested and working with WordPress. You can use embed to put on a MySpace profile. However clicking on the comic or title will not take you to bLaugh.com. This is a security measure put in place by MySpace. We are currently working with Stickam to get our domain and widgets white listed for their site. Should not be a problem, just a matter processing the request.

This is a very basic widget so feedback is welcomed and enhancements will be made, time permitting.

Update: Stickam has approved our request for allowing our widgets on their system. However, they also employ the same security measures as MySpace. As a result, we have added a couple of simple links to the code for both bLaugh and StickiWidgets. We ask that you include the links when you use the widget.

Update #2: We have updated the widget for site like MySpace and Stickam that insert the tag allowNetworking=internal on the embed. Go to the bLaugh Widget page for the new code.

<embed src="http://stickiwidgets.com/widgets/blaugh/blaugh.swf" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="447" height="270" name="blaugh" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /><br /> <a href="http://www.blaugh.com" title="bLaugh">bLaugh</a> widgetized by <a href="http://stickiwidgets.com/blaugh-widget/" title="StickiWidgets: bLaugh Widget">StickiWidgets</a>

We discovered a minor bug in the Stickam WordPress Sidebar Widget. If there is more than one chat room with the same name, the Chat Room Monitor would display both with incorrect formatting. We provided a quick fix that corrects this problem. All chat rooms that match the name specified will now be displayed correctly with the latest version 8.

You can download the latest version 8 from the Stickam WordPress Sidebar Widget page.