Hey George,
Thanks for taking the time post a support request here.
To answer you questions, I think the reason your settings aren’t saving is because you have some sort of JavaScript conflict on the page. Most likely another plugin you are running is loading some JS on the settings page, conflicting with our code.
I would try deactivating all other plugins and trying the settings page again. If the error persists, it’s most likely your theme loading the JS. You’ll need to alter the enqueue function to prevent it from loading on the timeline express pages.
1- The timeline data will remain in the database once the set time has passed. This is due to the fact that some users may want to go back and display past events, or maybe they want to export all of there announcements. You can always go back and adjust the dates etc if you want to have it re-appear on the timeline.
2- I have considered adding some sort of setting that allows users to use other posts weather it be standard posts, pages or even custom post types. The difficulty with that, is that the date, icon and color settings would be non existent and we’d probably need to load a separate template.
I think I may have a reasonable solution to add a filter to allow you to load your own posts into the timeline, but that will need some testing and will have to be in a future release.
Thanks,
Evan
Hello Evan,
my thanks considering my requests.
Well, of course I deactivated the other plugins before I posted here.
No I change the theme as well, twenty fourteen. The same happend: did not save my changes.
In the other topic (1) it seems that I did not make myself clear enough. What happens with the data after deactivating you plugin. Is the data still available? If yes, in which format.
I was inspired by your blog in the blog – plugin to share news and progress of the flatrate-finder project that it might become more personal and users, visitors can become involved in a real story in real-time.
But, what happens with the data if you stop with this plugin? Just data? Or how can this data be used without your plugin? Or how can this content be poured into a new format; into regular posts .. or similar?
Thanks an bye for now,
George
Hi George,
The data can either be fully erased from the site when the plugin is uninstalled, or you can choose to preserve the data in case you ever want to use the plugin again, or if you’re just doing a quick uninstall/re-install.
This is all controlled by the setting on the settings page “Delete Announcements On Uninstall?”. If left unchecked your data will remain in tact.
To answer your other question, all announcements are set up as custom post types with the announcement data being stored as meta data attached to the post. If you choose to stop using the plugin for whatever reason, you can always write your own custom WP_Query to extract the data from the database for display on the front end. So without a custom query or writing your own code the data cannot be utilized if the plugin is uninstalled.
Thanks,
Evan
