Eric, your plugin it’s awesome. I was searching for the codeCanyon one, but couldn’t find it, and tryied yours instead.
I believe it can be enhaced, mostly on the GUI area. I’m not a plugin expert, but let me know if I can help you with anything.
regards
Daniel
PS: I rated 5 already 😀
Hey Daniel,
I just searched for the codecanyon one and couldn’t find it either. Looks like they’ve taken it down.
What kind of suggestions do you have for the GUI to enhance it?
Thanks,
Eric
Hi Eric,
first of all, my English is not the best, Spanish it’s my main language, so I apologize in advance if I sound to harsh 🙂
I’m using your software for 2 days now, and I love it. I believe it delivers all I needed when I was looking for the codeCanyon one.
I contacted the codecanyon plugin author. He told me he had to stop selling it because support requests became to much to handle. I hope you can keep up! 😀
This are some of the things I
– I notice some warnings in some cases, that could be avoided or show in other ways.
– I also think that the Client Status Dashboard could be more compressed, showing the vital info, and more details when expanded. For example: now we see the client name and a number of outdated plugins. I believe it could be added wordpress version and indexable or not in that line.
– In that line, maybe it’s better the ‘box’ approach of the CodeCanyon script instead of the ‘row’ approach you have here…I don’t know how easy is for you to change that. I realize the codecanyon thing it’s a php script, not a WP plugin.
That being said, I think your solution it’s better because I can add it to TwentyTen CRM and have a complete WordPress Client Manager in seconds.
Again, my critic it’s only to help you make a better plugin. Let me know if I can help with something…maybe a Spanish Translation?
Keep the good work!
Hey Daniel,
I like the idea of having some quick overview information on the tab while it’s closed. Initially, I had this as the box design (before I released it), and thought it should look a little different. I’m not sure this would work anymore, because we are displaying a lot more information than was displayed on WP Status Dashboard.
As for translations, that would be fine. I’ll have to do some research first, because I haven’t done any translations in WordPress before.
Thanks,
Eric
Eric, I think you’re right regarding the look: it should be different.
I’ll try to make a jpeg of what I propose, just for you to know.
Regarding translations, I think it’s pretty straightforward: you should enclose all your strings on _e() or _() functions. Then, we can translate the .pot file into locale .mo files…and that’s it.
I’ll be back as soon I have more to help you.
Thanks a lot!
Dani
Client Status is a fantastic plugin. I switched to it after the codecanyon.net alternative went AWOL. Any advice as to why it works for some WP installs and not others. I’ve got multiple WP installs on the same dedicated server and some domains work and others don’t. The configuration is the same for all the WP installs.
Hi FrameGuy,
I’m no expert, but in some installs it conflict with other plugins. For example, I had a WP 3.0 with Secure WordPress plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/secure-wordpress/) outdated, with version 1.0.6 and it gave me xml errors.
I upgraded Secure WordPress to version 2.0.0 and the problem vanished.
Maybe you can try deactivating plugins and telling us wich one is conflicting, if any?
Also, it may be related to file permissions, but I can’t tell exactly.
Regards
Daniel
@lordarkad, ya I’ve deactivated all the plugins and still get the same result. It’s driving me crazy.
Hey FrameGuy,
From what I’ve seen, this is a problem in the xml being pulled over from the client. Typically caused by some unexpected characters that other plugin and theme developers put in their plugin/theme declarations. Client Status is pulling over pretty much all of the plugin/theme information. If there is a parsing error in their code, it might throw an error in the xml being sent back to the dashboard server for Client Status.
You can check for errors in the data file by going to http://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/client-status/data.php?security_key=your_security_key_as_md5_hash
Thanks,
Eric
I’m going to mark this item as resolved for the initial problem reported. For all other issues, please open a new request on the forums.
Thanks,
Eric
