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Find out for yourself. What do you think of the conversation?

As mentioned in my previous post, the previous version of Single Bookmark Category List widget broke in WordPress 2.2. I’ve completed work on the new version and the end result is Single Bookmark Category List Widget version 1.1.

You can download or learn more about it here.

Actually, I’ve been running it for most of today. Changes seem transparent and nothing too weird has happened.

I think my theme doesn’t break… at least I haven’t seen any breakage. Here’s hoping it stays that way in the theme department

I did have a widget that doesn’t function properly anymore. Fortunately, it’s mine! Yes, the Single Bookmark Category List widget breaks in WP2.2. I’m working on a fix and it should be complete by the end of tomorrow. My apologies goes out to users of the widget.

…and since this version has significant changes compared to the 2.1.x series, it means I need to set up a test site to make sure nothing breaks my current data, themes and plugins.

You can download your copy here.

I’ve been unable to ping to PPS for the past week. Frankly, I have no idea why. I don’t multi-ping, I don’t re-ping old posts, and I’m very sure that I’ve been abiding to PPS policies since the first day I found it… which is roughly two years ago.

I wrote the following email to pps(at)petalingstreet.org after I’ve confirmed that my pings are not getting through:

Hi Aizuddin (or who’s reading this),

I noticed that my pings from HTNet (heritage-tech.net) didn’t get through since yesterday. At first I though it might be some minor glitch, but I’m pretty sure now that it’s definitely an issue.

Is my domain or IP address blocked somehow? If so, could I know why and what was the offending ping that got me blocked. If it was an IP based blocking, I’d just like to let you know that I am on shared hosting.

I’ve been pinging PPS for two years plus and am very sure I didn’t violate any of the PPS Policies.

Looking forward to your feedback.

Warm regards,
Azmeen Afandi

So far, I haven’t receive any replies to that email. Probably Aizuddin and the folks at PPS are busy with other projects.

I guess if this post fails to go through as well, I probably won’t ping PPS again. If this is the case then I would just like to say “Thank You” to everyone who made PPS possible… it was a useful tool for me and probably thousands of other Malaysian bloggers.