Updated PubSubHubbub plugin for Wordpress MU

by Josh Fraser on January 23, 2010

I just updated my PubSubHubbub Wordpress plugin to work with multi-user installations of Wordpress and also verified that everything still works with version 2.9.1 of Wordpress. If you haven’t installed the plugin yet, I encourage you to check it out.  It’s the fastest and easiest way to realtime enable your Wordpress blog. I’ve now had over 1,200 downloads of the plugin and I’d be stoked if you added it as well. You can grab the latest version at:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pubsubhubbub/

As always, please let me know if you have any issues with the latest version.

If you’re curious what I changed, it turns out one of the secrets to making your plugin MU compatible is to register any of the settings you want to use.  This forum entry proved to be the solution I needed.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, this post about PubSubHubbub is a good place to start.

Hope you’re having a fantastic weekend.

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My talk from The AJAX Experience

by Josh Fraser on January 19, 2010

Back in September 2008 I had the privilege of speaking at The AJAX Experience in Boston.  I talked about designing great forms and covered a lot of my own pet-peeves with forms on the web and shared some of the things I've learned along the way. Today ...
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Openness and security go hand in hand

by Josh Fraser on January 19, 2010

I just saw the post on Mashable about Microsoft downplaying the IE security hole. The one quote that caught my attention was from Microsoft's UK security chief Cliff Evans. He said: “The net effect of switching [from IE] is that you will end up ...
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Backwards compatible window.postMessage()

by Josh Fraser on January 15, 2010

Simple cross-domain messaging This blog post explains how to implement a backwards compatible version of window.postMessage() to handle all your cross-domain messaging needs. If you’re in a hurry, you can skip directly to the demo or just grab ...
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No risk, no reward

by Josh Fraser on January 5, 2010

If you don't miss a flight every now and then, you're wasting too much time hanging around in airports. If you're a mountain biker without any scars, maybe it's time to earn some. If you haven't wiped out in a while, maybe it's time to push the ...
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The bell

by Josh Fraser on December 6, 2009

Jeff Bezos loves to tell the story of the bell that rang in the Amazon office every time they made a sale.  Of course, after a while it began ringing so often that they had to turn it off.  The important thing was that the bell served as a constant ...
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If only we lived in an ideal world

by Josh Fraser on November 29, 2009

After my last post on the importance of IP addresses, I emailed a few friends I respect for feedback.  I'm glad I did because there's an important aspect I neglected to address.  Brett Slatkin made this comment: The post makes sense. What I'd focus ...
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Everything comes down to the IP address

by Josh Fraser on November 20, 2009

Two of the companies I've been most excited about recently are SendGrid and Superfeedr.  These two companies have a lot in common.  For starters, both companies have products aimed squarely at developers like myself.  Both solve real pain points that ...
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One of my favorite quotes

by Josh Fraser on October 4, 2009

Thanks Theodore Roosevelt. This inspires me every time I read it: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is ...
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Head to head: PubSubHubbub vs. rssCloud

by Josh Fraser on September 9, 2009

Today I was honored to write my first guest post for TechCrunch in an attempt to give a detailed comparison of PubSubHubbub and rssCloud both from a technical and business perspective. I'm pretty sure I can now lay claim to one of the geekiest posts ...
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