Comments on: KB Countdown Widget

By: Arnulf

Arnulf — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:04:53 +0000

oops…. I’ve done a great mistake….
your calculation is quite right. Of course the bar is counting correct because starting with today, the bar has to show the beginning….

sorry.

(shame on me)

By: Arnulf

Arnulf — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:21:19 +0000

don’t hurry. I’m still busy to convert my old page into this new style.
Counting down the days still works. It’s only the progress bar.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:15:23 +0000

Hmm. That is weird. I’ll have to take a look at the code, but it might be a couple days.

By: Arnulf

Arnulf — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:09:19 +0000

sorry, i’ve forgot to give you the (temporary) url:
[link]

start date is (month-day-year) 4-24-2007
end date is (month-day-year) 5-16-2008

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:53:07 +0000

I assume that you set both a start and end date. If you set only one of the two, the bargraph won’t look right.

If you gave your URL, I could look for myself, but as you didn’t, there’s not much I can say other than to check that you set both dates correctly.

By: Arnulf

Arnulf — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:43:06 +0000

Hi!
countdown is a very nice widget. I installed it today with wordpress 2.2.1 running.
Everything looks ok except the bargraph is wrong (in my opinion).
I tested it with several dates. But even a few days remaining shown only a few pixels in the progress bar.

if it helps: I’m running WP 2.2.1 on a german server.

Arnulf

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:34:40 +0000

Thanks for catching that, Nicole. That’s what I get for going too fast and trying to update two widgets at once. It’s fixed now.

I hadn’t updated because I use WP-MU, not plain WP. But I just updated MU today, which has the same changes to widgets.php, so I’ve checked and this should work fine now.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:30:24 +0000

Had the same problem by upgrading to 2.2.1.
Thanks for the quick update, great service!
FYI: now there’s only one little, small bug (no problem for me), that the widget is called “KB Advanced RSS1″ and not “KB Countdown”.
Don’t know what the prob could be if one has installed both widgets?! I have only KB Countdown installed.

BTW: you should/could update; for me there were probs with the WYSIWY-editor, now it’s solved (was a fresh installation of 2.2).

Again:great work, go on like this, wish you all my best!

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:51:26 +0000

KC: Go download the updated version. It seems that the WP developers like to screw with the widgets API on every WP update lately, so I had to change a few things for it to be compatible with 2.2.1.

I have NOT installed 2.2.1 on my own system for testing, so please let me know whether my fix works. It should work in theory, but reality and theory are distant cousins at best.

By: KC

KC — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:01:11 +0000

It seems that this very newest 2.2.1 has broken the display of the widget. The admin of it seems perfectly fine… but it shows nothing, like an empty widget.

Aaron, yes it does (did) work on 2.2 perfectly for me.