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Regarding World of Warcraft, WGR, and a new project

Posted on October 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

Time has passed, and I’m now employed again. However, the new job required me to move to Minneapolis. With luck, I’ll be closing on a house on Friday that my wife and I have been in the process of buying for over a month now. Once that happens, I’ll have access to my home computer again.

I stopped playing World of Warcraft when I got laid off in order to save some money. With Star Wars: the Old Republic looming, I’m not going to resub any time soon. However, that doesn’t mean my efforts into WoW plugin development for WordPress are at an end.

WoW Guild Retrieve’s current version will be its last. The code that went into the 2.0 version has been repurposed, though, for a new project:

World of Warcraft for WordPress!

This new plugin has all the features of WoW Guild Retrieve, but also includes support for a number of other WoW-related features. All of them will be widgets that can be included in any widget-ready theme. W3, as I’m calling it, also will have support for other developers to add their own modules to it.

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v1.10 of WGR, and an update on v2.0

Posted on July 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

WoW Guild Retrieve now uses the new Community API that Blizzard released late last month to fetch guild information. Since the old Armory is being decommissioned August 2nd, I decided to separate out the Community API code and release an updated WGR early.

v1.1.0, then, is just a small release. It adds Achievement Point tracking (which is a little buggy at the moment on Blizzard’s end) and Guild Level, and now uses the latest guild data. It also fixes an issue with apostrophes in realm names.

I got laid off last month, and I’ve been working hard to find a new job. In the mean time, though, I continue to work on v2.0 of WGR. If all goes as planned, v2.0 will be released next week (on or around July 26).

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WGR 2 delayed, but great news!

Posted on April 28, 2011 | 4 Comments

Following an announcement by Blizzard on April 13th on the WoW forums, I’ve decided to delay WoW Guild Retrieve 2.0.

Blizzard is in the process of releasing their new WoW Community API that lets developers hook into various info sources. The first part they’ve put out is a Realm Status check, and it’s pretty slick. Character info and guild info are next up.

In light of that, I’m holding off on WGR 2.0 so that I can make use of the new API to add even more awesome features to the plugin. Further news will be forthcoming in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!

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WGR v1.0.6 and plans for the future

Posted on January 28, 2011 | 8 Comments

WoW-Guild-Retrieve now uses, by default, the new WoW Armory URLs for characters. This is a minor bug fix release.

The future holds some interesting things for WGR. Planned new features that I’m working on are:

Use whatever Blizzard’s new XML scheme for the backend is
Support custom styles without using code
Cache Armory data to reduce the number of hits your site has on the Armory, and have options to control this
Track Achievement points
Track average item level
Have mouseover character snapshots (like Wowhead’s item snapshots on mouseover)

These are just a few things I’m working on for the next few versions of WGR. Expect to see all of this before v1.1.0 of the plugin, except maybe the Blizzard XML update.

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