Sorry for the delay

Sorry for the delay in development, have been side tracked by paying work and life, check back real soon for more updates though....got some killer stuff in the works.
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Object Oriented WordPress Plugin Development

I am curious about what kind of ideas and designs are out there for making your WordPress plugin follow a more object oriented approach. Most plugins I have looked at are basically a long list of functions that are hooked into WordPress. These functions then call each other for specific needs. Is there a better way to organize your plugin's code? Yes. In pursuit of a gold standard design paradigm I am going to post my plugin's code structure on this website tomorrow. Please come and leave your opinions and insights, Cheers 🙂

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0.7.1 – Released

Well I released a patch to fix the automatic update problem, but unfortunately I didn't realize that my old code would wipe out the entire library upon deactivation. Regardless this has been changed in the current 0.7.* releases and will not be a problem in the future. Thanks in advance for being understanding about the early development hiccups we are having in CataBlog.

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0.7.0 Released

A new version of CataBlog has been released, 0.7.0. This update includes a complete code rewrite, form enhancements and catalog items can now be tagged. Use the new tagging feature to filter your catalog to show only the items you want for that page. For instance, if you have a catalog of hardware products, some might be sinks and others doors, if you tag each item appropriately you can use the shortcode attribute tag to show only items with that tag.

Users of the old CataBlog plugin should be careful before upgrading, uploaded images are now stored in the uploads folder under another folder named catablog. Before they were being stored in a folder in your wp-content folder, if you upgrade from 0.6.5 to 0.7.0 you most likely will loose all your images. You can fix this by manually moving all the thumbnail images from wp-directory/wp-content/catablog to wp-directory/wp-content/uploads/catablog/thumbnails. The next revision will handle the image migration gracefully so only worry about this if you are upgrading specifically from 0.6.5 to 0.7.0 version.

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Initial Release

CataBlog version 0.65 has been released to the public, you can now download it anytime at our downloads page. Enjoy the free software and please let your friends know about it as well.
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Welcome

This is the new home for the CataBlog WordPress Plugin that lets you add well organized catalogs into your blog. Currently the software is not available as we prepare for our launch date, still you should come back here often for news and updates about the plugin. If you enjoy CataBlog please give it a good rating so that it can gain some exposure in the WordPress plugin community. Thanks to all who helped with this endeavor, catch you on the flip side.

Cheers!

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