Frontend Updates 2RRR Fork

Thanks justinwhedon for the info.

Submit Post Problem
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Version 1.1 behaviour is totally different in this area. For the fork for Add Post on pressing “Submit Post” the button should change to “Please Wait…” as you have seen. On success a info message “Post published sucessfully” should appear above the button and the button should change back to “Submit Post”.

The article is submitted by Ajax and the info/submit button changes are done by javascript. Either the Ajax callback may not be happening or the javascript has a problem. I’ve run the code with the same PHP version you have (5.2) and didn’t have a problem. My WordPress version is 3.4.2 and yours is 3.3.2 so it could be related to that but don’t update yet because I would like to see whats going on in case others have the same problem.

What you can do which would be enormously helpful is to open Firefox and then select from the menu Tools->Web Developer -> Web Console.
This may be different on your MAC.

Tick all the logging options (Net,JS,Logging) except for CSS.

Then load your new post page.

Add your info to the new post and press the submit button.

Select and copy all the output from the web console and post it to me as a text file at the following address abruinATihugDOTcomDOTau

YouTube
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As for the contributor problem this is a WordPress capability problem. In order to embed code like this you need the “unfiltered_html” capability which only admin has. See this post for more info.

In that post there is the following submission by zer0ruth which outlines the solution I mentioned earlier.

Youtube Solution 1.
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I had the same exact problem: admin tries to embed video, no problem. Author tries to embed same video (same exact code) and it shows up as a link instead.

This is because wordpress has the Author user role defined as someone who can only write and edit their own posts AND cannot post javascript or complicated html.

to change this you have to modify the default user capability. Thankfully, this is easy to do.

Open up the functions.php file in your theme folder. At the top of this file add the following code:

// get the "author" role object
$role = get_role( 'author' );

// add "organize_gallery" to this role object
$role->add_cap( 'unfiltered_html' );

Basically, you are just giving the author user role access to post any kind of code they want by adding the ‘unfiltered_html’ capability. Just make sure that you can trust all of your authors before adding this, because without html filtering, a user could do considerable harm to your site if they decided to post some nasty javascript

YouTube Solution 2
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A much better way is outlined here.

Simply watch the video on you tube and copy the youtube address from the browsers address bar and paste it directly into the visual area of the editor.

YouTube Solution 3
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Also mentioned in the same article is shortcodes that give you more control over your video window

Runamok81 the notes in the last post should get rid of the “please wait” message on the button. However I think there is more to your problem. Can you change the files wpuf-add-post.js wpuf-add-post.js as mentioned above and retest. Thanks.

Thanks Runamok81 for the info. Some other users have been reporting similar problems with attachments and I would like to know more.

I checked out Relevansi and installed it on my website without any problems with Attachments (though I confirmed the jquery$ “Please Wait problem). I’m keeping Relevansi on my site as it’s quite a good search tool and it’s search stats are very useful.

Could you install Firebug on your Firefox browser and check is there is any Javascript errors on pressing “Submit Post”? Also interested in the contents of the returned net message (if any).

Better still if you can give me a contributor login I can look into this more thoroughly. Email me at abruinATihugDOTcomDOTau a link to your add post page and give me a login/password as a user with contributor role (that way all test posts will be given pending status and wont appear on your website). Obviously I will need the Relevanssi plugin enabled to see the problem

Hi justinwhedon,

Had a look at the media library code and found that it is only usable to add featured images for pre-existing posts (not new posts) in Frontend in WordPress 3.2.4 and below. This is because it requires a pre-existing post. WordPress’s admin post uses auto-drafts for this purpose.

There was some talk on trac on making the media library more usable for frontend posting and indeed WordPress 3.5 does improve Featured Image usability although I’m yet to check the code in this regard.

So the status of this is that I’m not going to do it for WordPress 3.2.4 and below unless I add a Preview facility (which requires auto-drafts). I may add Previews but it is some time off. Even then I may not do it as the current implementation is simple and obvious where Media Library’s Featured Image upload for WordPress 3.2.4 is anything but obvious.

WordPress 3.5 implementation depends on WordPress codebase but due to older WordPress’s being incompatible I probably wont do this for WordPress 3.5 alone.

Note I’m only talking about this development version. Tareq may have other ideas about the official version.