Edward Caissie
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@johanna2patricia – Those are interesting articles that offer varying opinions on the benefits of validation … with none actually providing a compelling reason for my own personal uses to ensure everything is 100% “valid”.
I would say it is more important to understand there are “validator” tools available to use as well as to understand when and why they should be used. I would also stress it is important to also understand what the validator tools’ output means.
In that sense I can fully support the use of these tools and efforts to meet a goal of 100% validation but I would still not be compelled to not accept anything less, especially after working with WordPress for as long as I have.
~Cais.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [BNS Featured Tag] Great plugin@pfw80 – Thanks!
~Cais.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [BNS Featured Category] Thumbnail next to the title@pfw80 – Yes, BNS Featured Tag is due for some refactoring, and the plugins have always more or less mirrored each other in functionality … most of these features and options will likely be added as well.
~Cais.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [BNS Featured Category] Thumbnail next to the title@pfw80 – I haven’t fully tested the alpha code to see how the thumbnail size would work although you should just be able to add an
excerpt_thumbparameter to the shortcode (or set it in the widget) to adjust the size to something that suits your needs better.As it is, we are starting to stray a bit far from the original topic post so I will be considering that part of this conversation “resolved” … you are still more than welcome to continue the discussion of these new features/options as I suspect they will make it out of the alpha stage and be found in the next release.
~Cais.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [BNS Featured Category] Thumbnail next to the title@pfw80 – This has been a nice way to spend a Saturday morning, thanks!
I’ve reworked the 2.7-alpha version to combine a few of these ideas, and I believe I have found the best balance between new options and further leveraging existing options.
The latest 2.7-alpha version has been committed to GitHub so feel free to grab a copy of that and over-write your existing (test) site’s version.
Then have a look at what this shortcode will do for you:
[bnsfc show_tags=true show_cats=true no_excerpt=true featured_image_first=true]~Cais.
PS: You may still need some custom CSS, but hopefully it will be minimal. C.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [BNS Featured Category] Thumbnail next to the title@pfw80 – It reads more like you are just looking for a “No Post Content” option rather than the hack I put in for now … a no post content option would make much more sense as I see it and should also allow you to accomplish the layout you are showing (you did not show the tags and categories in your first example).
~Cais.
PS: After looking at this again, especially with your second example being what you were really looking for, this output can be easily accomplished with the plugin as is (see version 2.6) with a shortcode along these lines:
[bnsfc show_tags=true show_cats=true no_excerpt=true]The actual layout may require some custom CSS but the new option is not necessary to show the Featured Image with the Post Title, Tags and Categories only … the new option may not actually be needed at all. C.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [BNS Corner Logo] Not working, but would really love it to!@mellylou – The plugin does not appear to be active on your site.
~Cais.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [BNS Add Style] Works great@grzegorz.Janoszka – Thanks! I’m glad you are able to make use of it.
~Cais.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [BNS Corner Logo] Display on frontpage@buchholdt – The plugin requires a widget area on the page for it to be displayed, of there are no widget areas on the page then you will need to address that issue.
Fortunately I write another plugin that may help to sort the problem of not having a widget area that displays on the front page. Have a look at BNS Add Widget (http://wordpress.org/plugins/bns-add-widget/) it will provide a widget area in the footer which you can then use for BNS Corner Logo.
~Cais.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [BNS Featured Category] Thumbnail next to the title@pfw80 – Have a look at the latest “alpha” version on GitHub: https://github.com/Cais/bns-featured-category … it has a new option for Featured Image and Post Title only.
There was a hook for where you could change the category phrase, so following that I added a hook so you could change the tag phrase in a similar fashion.
~Cais.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [BNS Featured Category] Thumbnail next to the title@pfw80 – Thanks for the example, that is much along the lines I was expecting but now I know for certain what you are looking for.
It took a moment to sort out the second idea, currently those words are properly written within i18n functions but you are actually looking to change the word itself.
I’ll probably introduce that functionality as a filter hook as that will allow the end-user (they may need a bit of research) to overwrite the entire function call. My thinking is if they want to change those words they may also want to change other parameters in that function call as well.
Thanks for another great idea!
~Cais.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [BNS Featured Category] Thumbnail next to the title@pfw80 – So you are basically looking for an option setup that just shows the post’s title and the post’s featured image only … that will require some refactoring of the display logic but it may fit into the plugin’s ideals.
I’ll make a note for later reference, thanks for the idea.
~Cais.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [BNS Featured Category] Thumbnail next to the title@pfw80 – You could try some custom CSS to move the elements around, or worst case you may need to actually modify the plugin’s loop structure to change the layout (not something I would recommend but I don’t expect to add any “open” options to do this).
I might look at a refactoring of the plugin down the road which may allow for “templates” of sorts but that would be some time off.
@osckar – The plugin should only be displaying post from the categories you have chosen, although theoretically if you have another plugin that allows pages to have categories and you are using the same one then they may appear as well.
Otherwise, I would most likely need to see the site where you have BNS Featured Category active to see what you are describing.
Thanks!
– Cais.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Theme Check] Checks for `wp_head` do not appear to work?!Upon further review the theme I was looking at did have
wp_head()called; it was just … well, let’s say the theme could be much improved.Nothing to see here.
~Cais.