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dougsb
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Otto,

Great plug-in but there's an issue I'm having concerning the way S-F-C displays the 'HTML source code' read literally and posted. Can it please convert the 'source code' back to readable text when posting, for example a FB post shows:

"N&#1077w York City's 9/11 memorialThe memorial mall &#1072nd &#1110t&#1109 two h&#965g&#1077 fountains &#1072r&#1077 now bringing &#1072b&#959&#965t 10000 visitors each day t&#959 ground zero, even &#1072&#1109 .." is being posted

instead of posting the actual readable text shown by the browser:

"Nеw York City's 9/11 memorialThe memorial mall аnd іtѕ two hυgе fountains аrе now bringing аbουt 10000 visitors each day tο ground zero, even аѕ "

Hoping you can please update the plug-in so the source code is converted/displays human readable (i've tested other plug-ins and they display the human readable text (not the html source), so hoping you can fix this)?

-d thank you..

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/
Samuel Wood (Otto)
Tech Ninja
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

Why would the "e" in "New" be converted to an HTML entity? Are you running some kind of odd plugin that's doing that or something?
dougsb
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi Otto,

Many sites have html/UTF as their source code for one reason or another. There are several generic WP plug-in keeping the post content fresh every time viewed, but converts up to 50% of the source code to raw html, nothing odd here.

Moreover, decoding the HTML ensures the post shows correctly (same as viewed by the browser) as source is sometimes UTF or HTML. I'm asking if your plug-in can accommodate this request as it generic in nature and benefits all users.

regards -d
Samuel Wood (Otto)
Tech Ninja
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

No, it can not accommodate this request.

If you have something which is changing the content to that odd HTML code, then that is what the plugin will use.

Stop using whatever plugin you're using that is obfuscating the content, and then the content won't be all weird. Use plain text, readable by anybody. Converting your content to strange HTML codes is spammy behavior, and I won't change my code to deal with such weirdness.
dougsb
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hello Otto,

It's always tough when a developer of a great plug-in like s-f-b can't be a bit more 'insightful' into the needs of a single user. I'm really not making the 'obfuscation' part up.. it's real and nothing 'weird' about it. I'm sure other user's will run into the same issue when advancing in their WP skills and encounters across the web with various articles, postings, feeds etc. If you are a really good developer you'll reconsider and look into this a bit further... sure it's not a big deal to resolve.

So for now we have to part ways, to let you know there are other plug-ins that do charge a bit .. but have this feature. I hope you do update yours and I have the chance to pick back up again and get the chance of donating to your cause.

best regards and a happy new year!
Samuel Wood (Otto)
Tech Ninja
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

If you're using some other kind of plugin to muck around with the content in some random and weird way, then no, I'm not going to change to be compatible with that weird way of doing things. Most people don't do that, and sorry man, but I'm shooting for the 90% only.

It may only be one line of code to fix the problem, but I'm not going to write that one line because I do not want to encourage people to do something such as you are describing. It's something I'd rather see not happen, and so I'm not going to accommodate it.

Feel free to use a different plugin, and best of luck to you.
kenirwin
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I'm experiencing this problem too, but I don't think I'm using any weird code or additional plugins. In one part of the FB post, it's converting several punctuation marks to numeric HTML entities. If you look at the fan page we're posting to:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Thomas-Library-at-Wittenberg-University/35913864467
you won't see any funny characters because we took them out, but apostrophes and dashes were both getting rendered numerically in the first line. (The title shows up once as the posted text and then again in the link; it showed up fine in the link, but was getting rendered numerically in the text of the post.)

Any idea what we could do to correct this? The only other plug we've got is Akismet, and we're just entering plain text.

Any advice on how we can use the full range of characters would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Ken
Samuel Wood (Otto)
Tech Ninja
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

Try the trunk version of the plugin.

http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-facebook-connect/trunk/

If this version fixes the problem, then the next major version will have said fix. If not, then let me know with examples and I'll take a look.
kenirwin
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Thanks Otto.

I'm not entirely sure what to do with this. Do I replace all of the php files in my plugin directory with the ones from the trunk instead? (And: Is there a zip file for this someplace?)

How does the trunk file relate to the version I installed (1.2)? Is the new code you've been working on since the last main version?

Thanks
Samuel Wood (Otto)
Tech Ninja
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

Trunk is the latest version under development. It's where all fixes go.

Every once in a while, trunk gets copied and tagged with a new version number, and that's the released version.

And yes, just replace the files to try the trunk version.

A ZIP of any plugin's "trunk" can be found on the plugin's downloads page. Look for "Development Version".

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/download/
kenirwin
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Thanks!
roppel
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I am having this same problem. If you look at the page http://www.facebook.com/EstateSalesHelp you'll see that I get code for apostrophe's, periods, and quotations. Does the trunk version seem to fix this?