Comments on: Addressbook Version One! (was v.0.9)

By: Sam Wilson

Sam Wilson — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:13:27 +0000

v1.1 available now. I'll look into fixing the other issues listed here very soon.

By: Benny

Benny — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:31:27 +0000

Hi Sam,

thanks for your work!

Here are some notes :-)

* The height of li.addressbook-item (10em) is too small for someone who has added a long notes text. The layout of the boxes will break (in my case, the float over the sidebar)

* The notes text is too short, maybe tinytext should be replaced with text?

* The format of the current box content looks pretty “strange” – see http://www.uploadhouse.com/viewfile.php?id=1411389 for a snapshot. It does look a kind of … unsorted or disquietingly (don’t if this the right english word), doesn’t it?

* After editing a entry and clicking the save button, it leads me to the 404 page of my blog. I think the url is corrupt: host/wp-admin/$addressbook_basefile?page=addressbook/addressbook.php&action=edit&id=9
Should this part ($addressbook_basefile) be correct?

Cheers,
Benny

By: Ben King

Ben King — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:03:29 +0000

I have a couple of fixes to the last available download for addressbook.
1. I was having trouble with the form submit addresses and fixed that.
2. I also added the syntax in.
3. I added the ability to select a single contact by mysql id in by adding the id number in like so or This makes it easy to use addressbook on review sites.
4. And finally, I added in a template mechanism and used the hcard generator as the default template. This will allow easier adjustments if somebody doesn’t like the look.

Sam, would you like me to email this to you so you can check it out?

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:29:08 +0000

Just upgraded to version 1.0. I’m having problems editing addresses that already exist. I can add new ones without any problem. After I click the “Save” button from the edit screen I get “Error 404 – Not Found”. This wasn’t happening with the previous version I had installed. Did I miss something about a file needing to be in the wp-admin directory?

…/wp-admin/$addressbook_basefile?page=addressbook/addressbook.php&action=edit&id=1

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:35:25 +0000

@Sam: Sounds like a good idea, then they can use a central “repository” for there ident…

By: Sam Wilson

Sam Wilson — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:53:54 +0000

@Thomas: No, at the moment you can’t import or export, but this functionality is next on the list. (Along with comma- or tab-delimited data, I’m working on hCard import using the Operator Firefox addon, and export to well-typeset (LaTeX) printable address books.) But I’m not super-fast, and you might want to look at importing your address data using a MySQL utility like phpMyAdmin.

@Darren: After import/export stuff, I’ll have a look at putting in a choice between using a gravatar or local photo for each contact (or maybe all contacts). It’ll probably be a matter of providing a URL for an image, rather than uploading one, so that I don’t have to duplicate WP’s upload capabilities, and because there’s nowhere to store private images. Does that approach seem reasonable?

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:48:58 +0000

Nice plugin, would be nice if you could allow users to upload a photo too though, not everyone where we use wordpress (an internally located server) has access to Gravatars…

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:27:52 +0000

I use OS X address book offline and sync it with my phone. Fine. But now your plugin looks like I coul even have all my contacts online. That would be fantastic, especially with my students changing emails every other month. I’d love to be able to update a contact online in class.

Your plugin looks I could do just that but does it allow imports of, say, .vcf files? Or csv files? The thouht of entering all one’s contacts all over again, frankly, is quit depressing.