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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: New plugin for AIM usersIt’s for people who want to publicize their post through AIM. By clicking on the icon this plugin inserts in your post, your away message automatically changes to an excerpt (and link) from your post. You can see it in action on my website.
People who use blogging as a way to stay connected might want it to let their friends know when they’ve updated. News bloggers might want it so that readers can set their away message to an interesting article.
Does that help any?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: New plugin for AIM usersOne more bump. I didn’t really get too much feedback. Any suggestions?
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: My first WordPress blog…Anyone else use AOL and have this same problem? I have no idea what would cause it.
Thanks, petit 🙂
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: My first WordPress blog…Wow, I hope not. That’s bizzarre. What browser are you using? What version of AIM? I can’t imagine that there’s a script out there that would even do that…
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: My first WordPress blog…Thanks, emalen!
I wouldn’t exactly call myself a programmer. I’m a former design student that somehow got interested in PHP, and I’ve self-taught myself a few things. In the process I somehow landed a web development job and hacked my way through some ColdFusion. I’ve never taken a class.
I didn’t really learn it from a tutorial, either. If you learn the basic principles of how something works, then learn the syntax of the language, you’re able to do anything (instead of the few specific things the tutorial taught you). What exactly are you trying to learn? I’d be happy to help, although there are probably more knowledgable folks out there.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: My first WordPress blog…As far as I can tell it’s working right now…
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: New plugin for AIM usersOK, sorry to bump this (I’m really not trying to spam the forum), but obviously I didn’t get much feedback. Is there a better place to post this question?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [UPDATE] AIM Online Status IndicatorIn case anyone’s interested, I just finished another AIM-related plugin: AIMpost.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Working with get_the_excerpt() in pluginStill can’t figure this out. Is there a way to manually apply the filters without using apply_filters()? That might be barking up the wrong tree anyway. At this point I’m worried I might have to generate my own excerpts.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Plug-In Suggestions pleaseIf moshu and Kafkaesqui are correct, one of my favorite “decorative” plugins is Image Headlines – http://www.coldforged.org/image-headlines-plugin-for-wordpress-15/.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Support search is not workingActually, once you get the broken page, if you hit search again it’ll go through. However, you get the same jumble of EEP EVERYTHING ON THE SITE!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do I change post IDs?Is there a particular reason you need the IDs to be sequential? By having unique IDs, you make sure that nothing wierd happens where a new entry is joined to a deleted entry’s info.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Working with get_the_excerpt() in pluginOh, and the following code works beautifully for specified excerpts but not for generated ones:
$ap_message = get_the_excerpt();
echo '<a href="message.php/message=' . urlencode($ap_message) . '">link</a>';
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Working with get_the_excerpt() in pluginThanks, but for some reason this doesn’t work for what I want to do. Here’s what I tried with your code:
$ap_message = apply_filters('the_excerpt', get_the_excerpt());
echo '<a href="message.php/message=' . urlencode($ap_message) . '">link</a>';
With this, the urlencoding doesn’t seem to work completely. It doesn’t create apostrophes correctly and in generated (not specified) excerpts, double space comes out as the  character. I’m so confused 🙁
I’m gonna keep playing with it, let me know if I’ve misinterpreted something. I really appreciate the help.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Browse Happy: But don’t sell to the convertedAlso, having that button isn’t just an advertisement. It’s a statement of identity; saying that you support it. It’s like carrying the “Vote Kerry” signs at a Democratic convention. You do it to show you’re proud and excited to be around like-minded people, not just to convert others. Christians wear crosses partly to identify themselves to other Christians. Same goes for Firefox ads, in my mind.