Community Cloud 2.0 Released

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Community Cloud 2.0 Released

6 Comments 07 February 2009

This has been a long time coming.

Check out the community cloud download page.

What new in version 2.0?

More Social – This version now includes optional “social” hCards. The plugin will check the website/blog URL of each of the commenters in your cloud and if they have an hCard it will include it on the commenters link.
More Efficient – The plugin is a lot more efficient than the last version. The cloud is no longer generate and displayed in real time. The cloud is prebuilt on activation and continually maintained as people comment on your blog.
More Accurate – Instead of filtering out commenters by name (different people might comment with the same name), comments are now filtered out using commenter’s email address, which is a lot more accurate. There is also an option to exclude, certain link URLs from your cloud.

What’s planned for the future of the community cloud plugin?

Popup wth the 3 latest comments from commenter when clicking on their tag
Better hCard detection and retrieval (looking into using representative hCards)
Allow multiple hCards per URL for cases where there are multiple authors per blog
add an option to include a social hcard template in comment thank you message with install instructions, so commenters know how to take advantage of your community cloud’s social features.

Any ideas and feedback welcome. Thanks.

Thanks to Michael Champanis for his contributions and sparking the next release.

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super rats
When I upgraded to CC 2.0 (on WP 2.7.1) it stopped working. Anytime I, and I assume visitors, would comment, I’d get these errors:
Warning: Missing argument 2 for community_cloud_update() in /homepages/xx/xxxxx/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/community-cloud/community_cloud.php on line 132
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/xx/xxxxx/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/community-cloud/community_cloud.php:132) in /homepages/xx/xxxxx/htdocs/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850
http://www.miguel.co.za Miguel dos Santos
thanks for the report back.
If you’re upgrading from the previous version you will need to deactivate and reactivate the plugin.
This is because the new version of the plugin needs to create a community_cloud table in the database on activation.
On your error messages, it could be related, but I’ve now updated the plugin so that this doesn’t happen.
If you download the latest version 2.0.1 I’ve uploaded here, you’ll find the error message won’t appear.
As for the community cloud not appearing, please try to a) deactivate and reactivate the plugin (if you haven’t already tried this) and b) go to the Community Cloud settings page and update options. When you update the community cloud options it will try to rebuild the cloud if necessary.
super rats
Thank you, it works for me again!
http://sites.univ-provence.fr/postculture/ Anna
Hello again Miguel !
You can see in my blog your plug-in working wonderfull !
And it really helped me in my researches. Now I will finich the project and will analyse tha data. It will be worderfull if the community cloud can display the country flags like the plug-in integrated for the comments do (EasyIP2Country)
Do you think it will be possible?
http://bloglaneta.com cosi
Hi there!
Is it possible than this plugin filter the author by name, and no by email?
Sorry for my bad english…
http://www.miguel.co.za Miguel dos Santos
Yes, this is possible and how it was done in version 1.0, but as people can have the same name, this isn’t really optimal.