Jaiku Plugin for WordPress Released!
Douglas KarrThanks for stopping by my personal blog on Marketing Technology! Over 50,000 visitors a month find my content worth returning for, so don't forget to subscribe to the Marketing Technology Blog RSS feed or to the Marketing Technology Email to have new content sent directly to your inbox. You may also find my other business blog helpful, Social Media Domination.
A few days ago I wrote about Jaiku, a ‘micro-blogging’ service. I was immediately impressed with Jaiku because it has a robust API.
After a fun weekend of programming, I’ve released (what I think) is the first Jaiku Plugin for WordPress! Version 1.0.0 is stable and based on code that I had written for my Technorati Rank plugin.
The Jaiku Plugin has 2 key features:
- It allows you to display your latest Jaiku presence on your sidebar (You can see mine in my sidebar on my home page).
- It also allows you to post your latest presence to Jaiku directly from the Jaiku Options in WordPress!
Additionally, the plugin caches the Jaiku response so we don’t beat up on Jaiku’s API too bad! Enjoy!
Link: Jaiku Plugin for WordPress Project Page
Screenshot:
The issue you’re running into is most-likely your version of PHP. This plugin requires PHP5+ since it utilizes the SimpleXML library. Check with your hosting provider and see if they can upgrade you. PHP5 performs much better and has been out for quite some time. If your host doesn’t offer it, change hosts!
Warmest Regards,
Doug
First, thanks for creating this plugin. I was looking for something that could replace the standard Jaiku badges.
Problem is though that a parse error at line 85 is shown each time I try to activate it. Is there a solution to this problem?
Thanks!
An error at line 85 means that the SimpleXML library is not available on your server. You’re probably running an older version of PHP, before PHP5.
Doug
Thanks again!
B.
We’re seeing this with any plugin that utilizes caching. Interestingly, it’s a 500 error on every other page display. If you can contact GoDaddy and get your server logs, I’d really like to take a look at them. There are a lot of notes out on the net about this with GoDaddy. I’d like to see if there’s a way to work around their issue.
Doug
Back again with a request: Since my host isn’t going to update PHP to version 5 anytime soon I was wondering if you could perhaps create a (stripped down) version of your plugin? I’m trying to find a way to display my Jaiku activity in text in stead of using one of their badges, but I haven’t been able to figure out how.
Surely it must be possible to extract the info from an RSS feed or something and then displaying only the most recent activity and location in text? So I figured: What if Douglas’ plugin can do that, leaving the extra’s that require PHP5 out… it might be a small change. From my ignorant point of view
Cheers!
B.
Please put pressure where pressure is due. Make your host upgrade you or find a new host.
Hope you understand! It’s not you who is ignorant, it’s your hosting company!
Thanks
Curl is a library referenced by the code. It allows your site to make requests to Jaiku to get the data it needs to push/pull the messages.
That’s geek talk…. it usually means that your hosting company doesn’t turn on the curl library by default. If you ask them to, they should. If they don’t - I’d look for another host.
It’s on by default with most PHP configurations.
Doug