Hi all - 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
Feel free to test/play-around at: http://slackspace.net/testblog/?p=11 Let me know if you find it buggy in anyway. Changes are as follows: -- UPDATE / CHANGE LOG -- version 1.2 * 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 * Video URLs are now validated ---> Link must point to a valid link (not resulting in 400 or 500 level http error codes) * Post Permalink URLs are now validates ---> Link must point to a valid link (not resulting in 400 or 500 level http error codes) * 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) * 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. * Robust clean-up of video comment fields upon deletion of associated wordpress comment -- TO DO: -- * 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) -- KNOWN ISSUES: -- * 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) -- UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS -- 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 -- INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS -- 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 -- ADVANCED INSTALLATION OPTIONS -- 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). Thanks, - Dave -- http://www.DavidMeade.com
