Fatal Error on "Select" Style – also some suggestions

  • CK MacLeod

    (@ck-macleod)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    Not very important to me, since I don’t expect to be using this style, but under configurations of the Auto-Shortcode (haven’t tried with other formats), a Fatal Error is produced.

    Fatal error: Call to undefined method EG_Series_Public::post_shortcode() in [...]/wp-content/plugins/eg-series/inc/eg-series-public.inc.php on line 73

    While I’m here, and it’s fresh in my mind, I want to say first that, after spending some time reviewing and experiment with a number of “series” and similar plug-ins, I’m using yours, at least for now, because it looks more easily customizable, and I especially enjoy having the widget options – even though I think the implementation still has room for improvement and refinement.

    Suggestions:

    1) Provide some examples of shortcodes with multiple parameters and results – or of at least one with multiple complex parameters! – since the format you’re using, with multiple asterisks, is a little unusual.

    2) Enclose the shortcode-generated list of posts in a series, including series title, in a “div” to make CSS manipulation easier, and attach a class to the title.

    3) Provide a priority number for placement of the list at end of post, since that area tends to get crowded with other items (social media, footnotes, etc.) also often appended to the_content.

    4) On the series widget the “number of series to include,” defaulted to 0 is confusing – also not clear whether, if I have multiple series, it will display more recent ones, first ones, random ones, etc. Ideal would be full range of options, of course, but at minimum should be more clear.

    These are just initial impressions based on a first installation.

    Thanks for all of the hard work that must have gone into this plug-in, and I hope you keep working at it.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/eg-series/

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  • Thread Starter CK MacLeod

    (@ck-macleod)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Oops – meant to include and obviously important on the Fatal Error: It is produced when using the “Select” style for list output.

    Thread Starter CK MacLeod

    (@ck-macleod)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    One other suggestion on the series widget:

    5) Another desirable option would be include/exclude categories and/or specific post IDs, allowing for multiple instances of the widget, and, in effect “sub-series.” Might also apply to “series pages” and other uses, for instance if I have a group of multi-part posts on one subject matter – WordPress Development – and another group on an unrelated subject matter – Political Philosophy. When I get a chance I’ll see if I can achieve the same effect with multiple shortcodes on a single page or in a single text widget.

    Also to be investigated: use in conjunction with various membership, paywall, and newsletter plug-ins and applications.

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