16 Responses to “Creative-Commons-Configurator WordPress Plugin”

1. Car Seat Cover Says :
   January 26th, 2006 at 6:24 pm

   You have really done a good job on this. Keep it up!

2. Josh Wilkins Says :
   February 2nd, 2006 at 5:26 pm

   Just wanted to say thanks for the great plugin!

3. John Holman Says :
   October 26th, 2006 at 9:28 am

   Just a note of caution: I am no expert so this might be due to something I did. But part of my site went down after I installed your plugin — I run WP 2.04 and a modified K2 091. The home page was there and correct but all other pages lost some their formatting and appeared corrupt. I de-installed your plugin but that didn’t change a thing. I then went into the database and deleted the wp-option stuff your plugin inserts. After that all worked well again. Sorry, as I said maybe it was just me and my site (template) but I thought I’d mention it….

   Regards
   John

4. GNot Says :
   October 26th, 2006 at 2:29 pm

   Hello John,
   Reporting such issues is the right thing to do, so you shouldn’t be sorry about that.

   First of all, some info about the options. The following are the options that this plugin adds to the wp_options table whenever a CC license is set:

   bccl_body_extra
   bccl_body
   bccl_html
   bccl_rdf
   bccl_header
   bccl_feed
   

   All these options are removed whenever the license is reset from the admin interface (options->license tab). For example, when you press the “Reset License” button, the above options are removed. If you de-activate the plugin without previously reseting the license, the above options will remain in the wp_options table, but they are not used for anything else and they cannot interfere with any of the blog’s functions. They just take some storage space in the database table.

   Here are some possible reasons that the problems you mentioned might have happened:

   || The home page was there and correct but all other pages lost some their formatting and appeared corrupt.

   There might be some problem between the default message’s (license info) HTML code, that appears under each post, and your theme’s HTML code. Probably not all HTML tags are closed properly and generally a HTML related issue.

   || I de-installed your plugin but that didn’t change a thing.

   This is something I do not understand. This plugin works without requiring any manual theme editing. It uses the available hooks to add the license info in the post body, feed, or page head.
   An issue could rise only in the case that the user has manually used the template tags that this plugin offeres, so to add license information to any place the user likes. In this case, if the plugin’s functions are called from within the theme, but the plugin has been de-activated, the blog would simply not work. This is normal behaviour. It can be avoided by using function_exists when calling a function.

   In your case, I assume that either the wordpress cache or any other caching mechanism you may use was the reason that the page remained the same, even after the de-activation of the plugin.

   || I then went into the database and deleted the wp-option stuff your plugin inserts. After that all worked well again.

   As I explained earlier, the stored options cannot produce any problem by themselves. They are just some options, prefixed with bccl_. It’s also very unlikely that some other plugin has the same options so to conflict.

   Generally, I cannot provide any other explanation about your issue. I believe that the problem is only the default license message’s HTML code or any additional HTML code that is added to it through the admin panel. When I have the time, I’ll re-examine the plugin in a new test blog to determine if there is an issue with it.

   Thanks for your feedback.

5. John Holman Says :
   October 26th, 2006 at 11:31 pm

   Thanks for your fast feedback. I might get brave and try it again today. I only know enough about this stuff to be dangerous but my thoughts about it were also to do with something like and unclosed div or some html stuff. It installed well, and only went ape after I chose putting cc in the header and RSS! BTW just for accuracy, when I said I de-installed, that was not a correct statement. I deleted it via ftp so I suppose it didn’t deactivate and maybe I exacerbated my problem. Told you I was dangerous :-)

6. GNot Says :
   November 1st, 2006 at 12:23 pm

   John: I had some free time today and, after upgrading to WP v2.0.5, I checked this plugin a bit. You were absolutely right about the corruption of the HTML code. It happens when the extra license message field is filled with HTML code. New versions of wordpress escape this code, which produces the results you mentioned in your comment.

   Plus another bug with the administration panel have been corrected in version 0.5 of the plugin.

   Thanks for your feedback.

7. Ryan Salinger Says :
   November 29th, 2006 at 3:16 am

   Thank you so much for this plugin. It works flawlessly and is so neat!

8. Albert Keizer Says :
   January 17th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

   We’re working with wordpress now for over 3 months. As a company that puts value on a worldwide change of view on ways of licencing we are searching for an option to give each of the writers for our blog a choice between licences for their piece, ranging from strict copyright too the most loose form of public domain. In this CC-licencing can play a big role, cause they have them all.
   What I now miss with this plugin is just that, give the writers their own form of licencing to pick within the ‘write-post’ section throug a drop down or checkbox functionality.

   Is there anyway you guys allready working on this. And if not, is there any way we can encourage you guys to do so :)

   Hope to hear from you soon.
   Sincerely,
   Albert

9. GNot Says :
   January 17th, 2007 at 2:24 pm

   Hello Albert,

   This would be a nice and useful feature, but sincerely I do not know how much time and effort it will require in order to implement it. I have never studied the code that has to do with user management in wordpress.

   On the other hand, I expect that support for CC licenses becomes part of wordpress itself because, as you have mentioned, licences are very important.

   I would like to extend this plugin’s functionality by making it possible to define a CC licence on a per-post basis and, after yor request, on a per-author basis. The problem is that I have no free time at the moment and there is absolutely nothing that can be done for this right now or in the next 2-3 months. Sorry.

   Moreover, I would encourage you to file a request for support for CC licences in the wordpress trac.

   Best Regards,
   George

10. Daddo Says :
    February 14th, 2007 at 4:13 pm

    Hi,
    Plug works without any problems, nifty little thing,
    I’m not so familiar with php but would like to include the license image like you have over here in my footer, how would I go about this ?
    THX

11. GNot Says :
    February 16th, 2007 at 1:02 pm

    Hi, the plugin provides some template_tags which you can use in your theme templates. To display an image hyperlink of your current licence you can use the following:

    <?php bccl_license_image_hyperlink() ?>
    

    For more info, please read the advanced section of the plugin’s configuration panel.

12. Daddo Says :
    February 18th, 2007 at 3:15 pm

    THANK YOU !!! :)

13. GNot Says :
    February 21st, 2007 at 11:46 am

    TODO LIST

    * Move this page to a new CC Wiki page

14. GNot Says :
    February 24th, 2007 at 9:05 am

    Support for creative commons v3 licenses has been added.

    A new release will be available later today.

    Stay tuned ;)

15. GNot Says :
    February 24th, 2007 at 10:25 am

    Version 0.6 of the plugins has been released. This was a quick fix in order to support the new Creative Commons v3.0 licenses, which would not work with the previous version of the plugin. I would like to thank Dave for reporting this issue.

    How to update:
    - Download and extract the new version of the plugin.
    - Overwrite the old file with the new one.
    - Go to Options->License configuration panel and reset the license (this will also clean the database from any old options)
    - Now follow the instructions in order to add the new license code. Actually this involves pasting the code that you have generated from the creative commons website.

    A new version, which will contain cleaner code will be available in the following weeks. If you encounter any issues with the current 0.6 version, please report them ASAP.

    Thank you

16. GNot Says :
    March 15th, 2007 at 2:24 am

    The latest and greatest version 1.0 is out.

    This is an almost new plugin! Just try it out! :)

    Upgrade instructions:

    - Reset your current license
    - Install the new version of the plugin by overwriting the old file
    - Go to Options -> License and select your license and options.

    Enjoy!
    :-)