today I'm proud to present the 0.9.8-beta to you, ready to be tested. There are a lot of enhancements, and a lot of new features:

• [new] Name of the Gwolle-GB directory can now be changed.
• [new] News for Gwolle-GB are now shown at the dashboard of the plugin
• [new] Dashboard widget for a quick glance at the latest guestbook entries.
• [new] Deleted entries are now 'moved to trash', just like the 'trash' feature in the new WP version.
• [fix] Rewritten some code. Stills looks messy, but we're on the right track.

Download it here.

I hope you like it. Please test it and send feedback, either by mail or by posting a comment below. I'm interested in your experience.

Greetings from Germany!
Wolfgang

PS: Remember: This is a beta version, so do-not (!) use it in a production environment/site.

/edit: I just found out that I deleted the "wp_head" action hook that inserts the stylesheet into your frontend. I'm going to release a beta update soon.

yesterday I released the new version of Gwolle-GB, 0.9.7. Thanks everybody for beta-testing!

This version ships with a widget. Please note: I do not recommend using the widget, because it's in early alpha stage and I'm not sure if it is working or if there are errors within the plugin. Use at own risk!

The major fix in this plugin: You can now post again, yey! No, seriously folks, I'm sorry for the latest bug and I'm happy to release a working copy of Gwolle-GB again. Also, this update should fix the issue of manually adding the link to your Gwolle-GB page, because it automatically searches for the post containing the [ gwolle-gb ] tag and uses that post's ID to generate the links.

Thanks againg for your help, have fun with this release! As always, feedback as well as bug reportings are always welcome.

Greetings from Germany
Wolfgang

I'm releasing the 0.9.7 beta today, as the last version throws several errors. You may download the beta right here, but please do not use it on your live site, because it may (well, hopefully won't) damage your Gwolle-GB data. I'd love to here about your experience and as soon as it's ready, I'm going to commit it to the WordPress plugin repository.

As always, feedback is appreciated and, as this is a beta, needed, because you decide wether this release is ready or not.

Greetings and thanks in advance!

Wolfgang

PS: This version contains a Gwolle-GB widget at early alpha stage. It's not ready - use at own risk.

Sorry for this one, folks. I didn't see that coming.

Want to help preventing such emergency releases? Drop me a message and become a beta tester today!

• [new] When viewing 'all' entries you can now enable/disable entries by just clicking at the icon. (AJAX, Yey!)
• [new] French language (thanks, cobestran.com)
• [new] Author's can now be linked to his/her website. (Can be turned off in the settings.)
• [new] Smilies are now replaced using the built-in WP smiley engine. (Can be turned off in the settings.)
• [fix] 'Spam' is now only an attribute, no longer a state. This results in only two states: 'checked' and 'unchecked'.
• [fix] Cleaned up the code a lot and using a lot of functions. (Check the "func.php" files for futher reading.)
• [fix] Date is now displayed as configured at the WP options page.
• [fix] Admin entries: Only show stuff member's name if found.

I think the most important change is the start of cleaning up the code. It's really a mess, since at first Gwolle-GB was not coded for public release. There's still a lot to do, and I'm working on it.

For you Gwolle-GB users out there I've implemented the WordPress smiley mechanism, so that you may now have smilies with the entries. Another feature I like is the fact that you can enable/disable guestbook entries in the backend just by clicking at their icon (which have to be enabled, of course). The script makes an AJAX Post request to the admin/ajax.php file which sets the state of the entry as you wish. It's really simple (thanks, jQuery!), and it's a timesaver.

As always, feedback is appreciated, as well as feature requests and/or bug reports.

Have fun with this release!

To long time Gwolle-GB users this isn't a big update, but to users familiar with other guestbook plugins for WP it is. With this new version Gwolle-GB ships with an import assistant that can import you DMSGuestbook entries, so if you were using DMSGuestbook and think of switching this is for you. Start using Gwolle-GB and take your old guestbook(s) with you. It's as easy as 1-2-3.

As always, Feedback is appreciated as well as updated language files. (Sorry, I don't speak any Spanish. Would you like some latin? )

sorry for the update frequency. I've spotted a few more bugs and thought I'd fix them before you update the plugin. This update includes:

• [fix] Correctly displaying author's name if it contains HTML elements such as <script> tags
• [fix] stripslashes on author's location, so locations like "My aunt's house" are displayed correctly.
• [fix] the_content() now just returns the guestbook instead of echo'ing it. This way, other plugins are able to modify the content.
• [fix] Added success message when uninstall is completed.

As you can see, these are only small ones, but it's nicer to have them fast than to wait for another week. Enjoy the update!

Gwolle-GB version 0.9.4.6 is finally here. Check out the changelog:

• [new] Option to output text before/after the gwolle-gb-Tag, as requested
• [new] Whois link for IP address of the entry author
• [new] Entry content can now be send with the notification mail. For security reasons '<' and '>' are send as '{' and '}'.
• [new] Polish language (thanks, Daniel Speichert!)
• [new] Spanish language (thanks, José Luis Sanz Ruiz!)
• [fix] Support for localization of the frontend
• [fix] Now coded in XHTML, just as pointed out by "KriLL3"
• [fix] German special chars ("Umlaute") are now displayed correctly.
• [fix] Metaboxes ('Save' etc.) are displayed again. Sorry for that one, folks!

Have fun, and as always: Please report any errors, e. g. in the comments or in the WP forums!