Is this compatible with the latest version 2.3.3?

I cannot get it to show on the Dashboard.

thanks
Kym

currently the plugin expects a weight entry every day. if you only weigh yourself once a week, the plugin won’t mind, but there is no way to only show one entry field per week. also, the numbers that are calculated won’t be as accurate if you only weigh yourself once a week and any change in your diet won’t be seen until well after you’ve gained more than you should have. i suggest following the hacker’s diet plan and weigh yourself every day!

i don’t have any built-in support for showing adding a sidebar widget with diet info (yet, i really want to add it but don’t have the time), but one of my users, Chad ( http://www.brainsprain.net/chads-diet-progress/ ) has created an external page to document his diet progress and i’m sure he’d be happy to give you some pointers.

One other thing, is the plugin designed to appear on the main site as an extra tab or is it only accessed through the control panel of wordpress.

Any help appreciated

Kev

If you do include any of this, I think the only thing you’ll have to do is fix the modified table so that it puts the trend number and variation numbers into their appropriate columns when updated. It works on refreshing, but not just when you click, enter a weight, and click save. Then it just puts it in the weight column alone.

hm, interesting changes. i’m trying to decide whether or not to incorporate it into the trunk.

my main hesitancy comes from the fact that i tried to purposely keep it as simple and focused as possible. to me this plugin was all about simply losing the weight and not managing your overall health. that’s one of the reasons i left out the exercise rungs even though they are featured in the book

feature is always my most hated type of creep :P

maybe i’ll make a new post and we can get some feedback from the users.

I added columns to the table to show the trend and variation for each day.
I added height (feet and inches) to the settings.
I added in ajax_blurb.php text to display the body mass index, the bmi prime, bmi category (underweight, normal, overweight, obese, morbidly obese), and percentage above the upper limit of healthy body mass.

I created a patch that you can find here: http://www.brandonolivares.com/the-hackers-diet.patch

I do like how you are displaying everything, so please don’t remove any of that, but the trend number would be useful. Perhaps if you put the variation so we can easily see the difference, but also put the trend number beside each day? Maybe expand the table to include: date, weight, trend, variation.

I do love how you are displaying the expected date at which one will reach one’s goal weight, as well as the number of pounds to go. that’s one thing that I like better about your plugin than the online tools.

Two more things I’d love to see sometime.

The online tools has something like: Body mass index: mean 37.3, most recent 37.3. I think that’s rather useful as well, if you’d be able to pull that off.

Finally, and on less of a priority than the above, something kinda similar to this sample image: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/online/figures/badge_sample.png - if you sign up there, try going to utilities -> configure web site badge. I think something like that would be perfect as a sidebar widget.

If you ever need/want any help with the programming, I’ve been a PHP programmer for 7 years. I’ve never done Wordpress plugins, but am sure I could figure it out.

hearing that it’s helped people other than me is enough thanks. :]

I don’t have much to donate, but after helping me lose 45lbs I really want to thank you.