A small plugin problem
Seems that my WAR Renown Rank plugin was causing problems with my website today. It was having problems connecting to Mythic's Realm War page and as such was bringing the rest of my site to its knees. Obviously I need to do much better error-handling/connection-handling in the plugin so that if it cannot reliably connect and get the required character information in a reasonable time, it will timeout with a useful error message, rather than cause the entire website to throw a 500 Internal Server Error.
At least I eventually found out it wasn't a problem with my webserver.
~MikeR.
WAR Renown Rank plugin is official
The WAR Renown Rank plugin that I wrote was officially accepted by WordPress.org Plugins. It's now available here, and can also be found in your WordPress dashboard under Plugins -> Add New.
~MikeR.
WAR Renown Rank plugin for WordPress
I wrote my very first WordPress plugin the other day!
It lets a user specify their character ID and server of their Warhammer: Age of Reckoning character, then it will simply connect to the Realm War website and display their character's name, renown rank, and a nice progress bar showing how much further they have to go until the next renown rank. Two examples are in the sidebar to the right; Baelgur and Lannerea (my character and my wife's).
While it's not much, like I said it's my first plugin and I think it's pretty neat. There's still some things I need to fix up, such as gracefully handling the inability to connect to the Realm War page (happens more often than I thought, even though a page refresh usually fixes it). I wonder if anyone other than myself will ever use it...
~MikeR.
Currently Reading
 |