Well, some people were complaining that their plurks weren’t being sent when their posts were published. Naturally, my first inclination was that something was broken with my plugin, so I dove in and tried to figure out where the code was misleading me. In the end, the cookie needed for the plurking process wasn’t writeable, [...]

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This release enables URL shortening via TinyURL. It’s also a much more skinned down, mu-like plugin. I’ve limited the posting options to include only new posts, as it seems that having all the ancillary posting options was going to cause problems in the future. Thanks to everyone who has brought issues to [...]

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Plurk recently announced the ability to modify your profile page using CSS if your karma is above 25. There’s really not much I can say about this, other than I’m dumbfounded by the decision but also see it as good at the same time. I like the ability to customize my page (just [...]

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I’ve decided to remove RLPlurkAPI from Plurk Updater to keep conflicts to a minimum. Instead, Plurk Updater will just do cURL calls directly from the plugin without accessing the API. Since all it does is login and post, there’s not much point to having the full API in the plugin. Plurk Updater [...]

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I repackaged the Plurk Updater to include the newest security fix. The other difference in this version is more JSON and PEAR classes are escaped if they’ve already been defined, which should cut down on the amount of fatal errors people are having in that regard. Thanks to Marcus Hamaker for working through [...]

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The Plurk A-Team has updated their internal API, and subsequently broke the unofficial Plurk API created by Ryan Lim. But alas, justice prevails, and we’re able to post to Plurk yet again. Here’s how:
In wp-content/plugins/plurk_updater/RLPlurkAPI/RLPlurkAPI.php, scroll down to/near line 382. There you will find:

$array_query = array(
‘posted’ => $posted,
[...]

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The main update here is the format of the Plurk that’s sent out by WordPress. Instead of having text followed by a link, Plurk Updater sends out all the text as a link, as Plurk intended it to be. Also, I noticed there were some incomplete links in my comments, so I fixed [...]

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Plurk Updater sends a Plurk to your account anytime you create, publish, or edit a post on your WordPress blog. You can pick and choose when Plurks are sent and what text is passed along with it. An example would be “new blog post: Plurk Updater for Wordpress ( http://mark.bockenstedt.net/?p=64 )”. The [...]

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Plurk has promise, there’s no doubt about it. However, there are a few things I would like to see things changed/fixed/added. Here they are:

Dump the Karma system. There’s no point in having karma-based “achievements” like we’re all in seventh grade again. Allow us to have all those “achievements” and “perks” from [...]

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