New Bumpzee Widget Wordpress Plugin
We’ve released a new version of the Bumpzee widget wordpress plugin.
There are a few new features in this plugin:
1. The recent readers/top entries widget is now included in this plugin (instead of cutting and pasting the javascript).
2. The recent readers/top entries widget has additional configuration to allow the display of visitors to be a grid instead of a single list. You can choose how many pictures to show and in how many columns. The pictures resize accordingly.
3. Most importantly, using either the recent readers widget or the bump this widget from this plugin will get your blog’s comments reported here on Bumpzee. This is a great and unique way for people to see that there is a discussion going on over at your blog, as I talked about here: where’s the discussion?
For installation instructions, see the widgets page.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Just fixed a minor bug (thanks Vlad) where there was a bad link in the plugin description to the options menu.
It doesn’t affect the operation of the plugin, and you can still get to the options menu through the nav menu, but it’s fixed if you want to download it again.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
I tried installing this on my site and got this error:
Warning: mysql_fetch_object(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/jangro/public_html/bumpzee/affiliatemarketing/widget-community.0.17.php on line 182
Warning: mysql_fetch_object(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/jangro/public_html/bumpzee/affiliatemarketing/widget-community.0.17.php on line 248
February 14th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Pete,
looking at the code you inserted, you haven’t replaced the values in the sample code with actual colors or numbers:
<?php if (function_exists(’bz_widget’)) bz_widget(”bordercolor”, “backgroundcolor”, “headerbackground”, “textcolor”, “linkcolor”, numvisitors, numentries, visitorcolumns ); ?>
If you don’t want to customize it, just use this:
<?php if (function_exists(’bz_widget’)) bz_widget(); ?>
I’ll fix the script so it doesn’t break when folks make this mistake. Thanks for letting me know.
And I know, the documentation needs to be better…
February 14th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
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February 18th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Scott, the new code worked great - much easier than replacing the colors in the php. I didn’t think to change them myself but it works out great now. Thanks!
February 18th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Scott, I implemented the sidebar - and it threw off my valid XHTML giving a warning…any chance you can make the plugin valid XHTML?
February 18th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
nevermind…I fixed the problem in the code…the ampersand needed to be encoded like this: &
that fixed it! it would be nice to have that by default though
February 19th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Affiliate Marketing With New Technologies…
I came across a great blog post by Shawn Collins about affiliate marketing and using new web technologies. Shawn talks about “Web 2.0″ and the “next generation” of Internet applications. He mentions one of my favorites: Bumpze…
February 19th, 2007 at 6:36 am
For anyone who wants to get the sidebar widget working with the Wordpress Widgets in the presentation area, you might want to check out my post here:
http://www.exwebjunkie.com/2007/02/19/getting-bumpzee-sidebar-widget-to-work/
Hopefully in future versions it will work out of the box but this is a good workaround in the mean time.
February 19th, 2007 at 7:35 am
James, good news. I’ve sent you an email about that error on the left side. And I will endeavor to get the BZ plugin working with that other plugin.
Pete, I will fix that xhtml validation problem in the next version.
February 26th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Scott
You may alredy be aware of this site, but thought it could be worth passing details of the Bumpzee widget to help spread the word;
http://www.widgetbox.com/
I haven’t posted details myself, thought I’d let you decide whether or not you think it should be added.
Chris
April 15th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Hi Scott,
I get this error message when trying to install the widget:
Warning: call_user_func_array(): First argumented is expected to be a valid callback, ‘bz_admin_page’ was given in /home/sites/jonathanboothdesign.com/web/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 123
May 12th, 2007 at 10:33 am
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July 29th, 2007 at 3:46 am
James (comment 9), Great stuff. I use WordPress Widgets and your solution worked perfectly.
Scott, Bumpzee is great! So is this WordPress Plugin - but there are a lot of people using WordPress Widgets so an out of the box solution would be great (or even if you link to James post from the widgets page rather than people having to search for a solution).
Anyway, great stuff - Thanks.
September 7th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Thanks for the info, I will look into this immediately.