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Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Export Posts by Author- Featured Image referencejust an fyi, i was having issue with exports-imports as it pertained to Featured Image for custom post type per the Promotions Slider plugin by Woodent and you can read that thread here ->
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-from-url-exporting-importing-andand his plugin is here -> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/promotion-slider/
in the end, his plugin allows the Featured Image to be over-written by using custom CDN url and when i export just his custom post type (promotions) then the url stays with the post data on import … and as stated in that thread (and as bill mentions here), if i export “all content” then yes, featured image will make the export-import road trip … but as i pointed out in my post over there, i’m working on one domain with several sub site domains as part of Multisite network thus was looking for easy way to copy the custom post type settings and posts from one subsite to another hence the desire for a better export tool that allows for metadata like featured image and/or author but i digress …
as to username, thanks for kudos … at some point i hope to loop back to my own blog with upgrade to WP 3.1.2 and some of these cool plugins but you can read the story behind the username and blog here ->
http://chuckingit.com/about-chuckingit/ …cheers – chuck scott
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Promotion Slider] Featured Image from URL, exporting importing and …looping back to my issues with export – import using stock WP Tools menu option, when using the CDN option to specify the slider image, the export Promotions works fine (vs having to export “all content”) … thanks again for such a neat plugin …
and just some more fyi, the reason the export-import thing is bugging is me is that i’m working on a WP Multisite Network with several sub sites … thus would like to mimick the Promotion Slider on Site-A onto several other of the sites on network since they are all for same domain – e.g., one site is just for photos, another site is for twitter-like conversations, another site for general company info, etc … thus to get the slider to appear on all three sites, i thought that export-import would be easiest way but then when i saw the Featured Images did not migrate, i got bummed but now with CDN option, that is new info and i’ll have to rethink strategy as to how to setup sliders so i can update them in one spot and then move that info over to the other sites ..??.. to be continued … cordially, chuck scott
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Export Posts by Author- Featured Image referencethank you for the link and heads up … and here is hoping some future issue of WP will solve this author specific / custom-post specific export-import option :>) … cordially, chuck scott
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Promotion Slider] Featured Image from URL, exporting importing and …WOW – that’s pretty cool – using the Content Delivery Network option to include an external URL of an image …
as fyi, i did notice that while the external image shows in the slider just fine, a corresponding mini-thumbnail is not generated thus in the previous – next menu of thumbs, an external image is blank and ditto for no corresponding alt tag or text …
thus maybe something to consider down the road would be to include another field that goes with CDN Image URL like ‘CDN Image text’ that could then be used for the alt tag text … not sure how you’d go about creating mini thumb from external file and/or if that is possible ..??..
and THANK YOU for super fast response :>) cordially, chuck scott
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Promotion Slider] Featured Image from URL, exporting importing and …UPDATE on Export Import … okay since i started thread above, i’ve since done some more research and testing …
turns out that the Featured Images did not export / import when i selected “export Promotions” (as opposed to export posts and pages) …
however, if i export and select the check “All content This will contain all of your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, terms, navigation menus and custom posts.” then the Featured Images do travel with the Promotions posts …
okay, now to figure out how to create Featured Posts from external URLs :>0 cs
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Export Posts by Author- Featured Image referenceditto here on this stinks – featured image not being part of export that is … ugh …
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Subscribe To Comments Reloaded] Anybody get it to work with P2 theme ..YIKES – do i feel silly … combing thru config settings again earlier this eve and it just hit me with plugin option -> Options Tab -> Let admin subscribe -> i had checkbox to no … ugh … but yippee on options thus i share in case others follow this thread …
as fyi a couple things also occured to me today …
a) the value of testers and software testing … nobody likes to pay for this function but is critical and i found myself sharing said subject on walk earlier today with wife and dog about old thread i read that stuck with me ever since -> “I’d rather find the bugs before my client does” … not sure who said this as is 20+ years in my coding DNA / mantra but i digress …
b) it’s always the user … as a developer and coder of sorts, i too am fluberghasted* when users do silly things and often i just want to say “read the manual” but then i have to drop back and say to self, “well – maybe i could have done a better job with manual ..??.. maybe it should have been a video ..??.. or a video game ..??.. or …”
truly i jest and just wanted loop back with latest on plugin saga status … this is awesome plugin and works like a charm in other themes … not sure why the P2 theme is giving me issues but back to the loop on user – almost always the user -> thus to be continued in this dept as said user seeks to wrestle plugin functionality comfort into theme …
cordially, chuck scott
*spelling = ?? – but also might be new Dr. Seuss word ..??.. and looping back to spelling, Mark Twain was purported to have said, “A man or woman who spells the same word the same way everytime is a person lacking in creativity” … thus the creative word!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Subscribe To Comments Reloaded] Anybody get it to work with P2 theme ..Hi Camu – thanks for responding and i think i’ve found out a number of things and a bit of a bug …
as fyi, the test site i’m working on =
http://saintjosephbrookfield.com/dude/ … after i submitted the post above, i saw a number of errors in error logs that suggested some other plugins were misfiring … since this was / is a Multisite 3.1.1 network and subsite on that network, i turned off all plugins that were network activated then reactivated at them sub site level … that seemed to help as no more error logs …then i went back and re-installed the P2 theme unmodified* and brought your plugin online and then loaded each one of the other plugins, one at a time to see if there was conflict …
Firefox was fairly reliable but IE 6 (i know ugh but still wanted to get sense) started to hiccup with intro of Share and Follow plugin but it turns out that this did not get in the way with your plugin but it explained why checkboxes to subscribe to posts were missing (as the Share and Follow icons also went missing in IE) …
so morale of the story … i did not need to add the this code to the P2 comments.php file
<?php if (function_exists('subscribe_reloaded_show')) subscribe_reloaded_show(); ?>by adding it, i was getting confusing results and once i yanked it, turns out things started working pretty much as advertised …
the bug i alluded to seems to be with Admin not being able to subscribe to comments – my posts, my comments or other author posts or comments …
now maybe i’m missing something as i only have two users on this sub site – me as admin / super admin, and another user as author … when i log in as the author, no problem, i can check to subscribe to a thread, manage my subscriptions, get my emails, etc … but i cannot do the same thing when i log in as admin …
maybe that is by design or maybe i’m missing something or maybe buglet or ..??..
anyhow, thanks again for response and thanks in advance for any pointers you might be able to share … cordially, chuck scott
*i modified the P2 theme so that drop down categories could appear on the front page during a post … this required editing post-form.php, p2.js, and ajax.php … thus i’m not 100% i didn’t introduce error or conflict hence going to propose to client we skip the categories on front page and go back to default files … authors can always log in to the dashboard and update posts with category choices from there …
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Form Manager] [Plugin: WordPress Form Manager] Email error in version 1.2.9Thanks for continued improvements with this … the required checkbox works like a charm … i also like the new behaviors form options …
i did some tests logged in but had multiple browsers open so cookie sessions might have gotten in way and false sense but i was a bit confused by the Behaviors – namely Single Submission vs User Profile style – they both seemed to work the same in that i could use back button and enter new info and submit form again and again … the “Keep only most recent submission” did work fine in that yes i could go back and re-enter data but the form collected data only showed the last set – which is Cool :>)
at to tweaks, i’d probably suggest adding messages to the final form … eg., the user profile and Single Submission option show the resulting form fields and their data but it would be nice to have a success message that also said “thanks you information has been submitted” (or something like that) …
ditto on the Keep only most recent submission and having a sucess message – e.g., “thanks – your form data has been updated and submitted – now go out and do something that would make your mother proud :>0”
truly i jest but you get the idea – some kind of follow-up thanks message akin to when the form is in the default mode …
to be continued … cordially, chuck scott
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Form Manager] [Plugin: WordPress Form Manager] Email error in version 1.2.9Hi Campbell – i can appreciate the human test recaptcha route but i was thinking more along the lines of nonce variable / cookies … yes, if my form was public, then the captcha thing makes sense … but i’m leaning on using forms for logged in users so the captcha thing isn’t as important (at least i don’t think) as i was impressed that you are capturing / recording the user-id when i looked at the data from submitted forms … that’s what got me thinking “gee – that admin guy submitted same form four times” … the nonce thing i believe is how other form plugin folks are able to limit user submissions and even allow a user to go back and edit their submission – e.g., Formidable Forms -> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/formidable/ and DB-Toolkit -> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/db-toolkit/ … not positive on this but share as fyi and food for thought :>) cordially, chuck scott
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Form Manager] [Plugin: WordPress Form Manager] Email error in version 1.2.9ooops … i found out why … i had other forms from versions 1.2.4 and 1.2.5 so i deleted all those forms, de-activated plugin, re-activated, then created new form and voila – the email error was not present …
thank you – version 1.2.5 worked :>)
ooops … just realized that my post above mixed up PSC experience with UAM (user access manager plugin that i was also testing on another sub site on the network) … and yes, after clearing out custom field values from user meta tables and starting over, all seems to be working with both plugins on both sites on network (that is PSC on site-A; UAM on site-B) … not sure which one i’ll ultimately go with as tough call but just thought i’d share in case others might follow this thread and say, “what was he talking about Reset User Access Manager with PSC” … suffice it to say time for homeboy to take a break and clear the coding fog from my head :>0 … thanks again … cheers – chuck scott
Wow Veraxus – Thanks for super prompt and thorough response … in between my original post and your reply, i did a bunch more testing this AM and ultimately got it working thus we can consider issue RESOLVED with MultiSite 3.1 (although i’ll be upgrading network to 3.1.1 later today) …
i think you were right in that something was getting hung up and i believe it was when a role had been assigned the group …
for instance, i had used Justin Tadlock’s Membership plugin to create a new role called “teachers” so even though i turned off his plugin, that role was still in the database …
so when testing PSC, i created a group called “mysillygroup” and assigned the Role Affiliation to the role of teacher … and that is where i got in trouble when i removed the test-user from that group, since the role of teacher was still assigned to the mysillygroup, said user (or any other user with the teacher role) could still access the private content because their default role was teacher (as was the group) …
so this morning i started over again with just the four default roles (editor, author, contributor, subscriber) and first RESET USER ACCESS MANAGER thus essentially started with clean slate … and yes, all then worked as advertised …
so then i went back with custom roles and to Justin’s Member plugin, reactivated it, assigned some new responsibilities to teacher role, went back to PSC and started adding and removing test-user with teacher role as well as other default roles and that is when i realized that if a group shared a default role (of say subscriber or teacher) then it did not matter if i removed a user from that group or not since that role was associated with said group thus user was auto affiliated with group because of their role …
whew … suffice it to say i really appreciate this forum and plugin authors like yourself and plugin teams like PSC that really bring the WP experience to a higher level of performance for the rest of us …
accordingly, a BIG THANK YOU and to be continued … cordially, chuck scott
WOW – that totally worked – the priority setting that is … Muchisimas Gracias WP Amigo!!!
Long Live the WhiteShadow, his seed, friends, family, and all those like him who help bring forth code light of wisdom for the rest of us :>) cordially, chuck scott
ps – here is the completed/corrected function and action
/* Turn off Dashboard Widgets for everybody but Admin */ function remove_dashboard_widgets() { global $wp_meta_boxes; unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_quick_press']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_incoming_links']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_right_now']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_plugins']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_recent_drafts']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_recent_comments']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_primary']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_secondary']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['blc_dashboard_widget']); } if(is_admin()){ add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_dashboard_widgets', 20 ); }