So nice. After releasing my previous plugin (download counter for wordpress), I found out that I’ve put a wrong URL in the plugin’s comment. Therefor, a nice amount of hits found the wrong page for support. An empty page, that is. With only a download link to the latest version, but nothing else. My fault completely, of course.
Monthly Archive for July, 2007
Today I’ve updated the download counter to a new version. The first release seemed to contain a parse error, which is fixed by now.
This version also adds a overview of who downloaded which file and when it was downloaded. Also the referer is stored, so you can see where your downloaders are looking for your files.
You can download the updated version at the Download Counter page. Do not forget to re-activate the plugin, to create the new database table.
I’m crazy about numbers. I won’t do anything with them, but I just like them. Just like to watch counters increase, or graphics to grow. Since WordPress does offer attaching downloads to pages, but doesn’t keep track of statistical information about these downloads, I wrote this plugin.
During the coding and testing of an application for one of my clients, I ran over and over against the wall using the .NET progressbar control. I missed a lot of properties to adjust the progressbar to the design of my application instead of the default Windows look ‘n feel. Properties like a smooth indicator, printing the progress inside the control and more control over the colors of both the background and the progressbar. After searching CodeProject, I’ve found some nice contributions, but none fitted my requirements. That’s why I wrote my own. Continue reading ‘ExtProgressBar’