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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: where’s my database? (database default location?)Thanks. By “my server” I really didn’t mean literally “mine” but the one I have an account in. So that means the only db backup I have is the one made more than a month ago by wp-auto-update plugin… sweet.
Should have noticed that little “export” button in the phpMyAdmin plugin before hitting the “import” one.
I’ll have to rely on “my” server’s automatic backups now, I’ve already contacted the support team… hope it works..
Again, many thanks for the clarification.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Automatic Upgrade Brokesuppose i should have made a forum check first, but yea, since i saw this brilliant plugin in my dashboard i decided to just make a back up and give it a try.
what a waste of time, the plugin took me through the countless “pseudo-automatic-steps” and now i’m also stuck in “maintenance mode”.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: login to this forum from safari…Oh, then it’s not a safari related issue. Anyway, haven’t changed anything and now login is working… Maybe it got fixed, or maybe it was a temporary thing.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: 2.5 admin backend annoyingOtto,
My humble opinion is that you have completely subverted the true meaning of Eric S Raymond words. There’s this golden point 5 in the one and only open source definition called “No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups”. No one can be locked out, not even my grandmother to whom I was explaining a couple of days ago where the “enter” key is.
Indeed “open source is made by the people and for the people” – that’s precisely the spirit from which OS originated and that’s why it is so valuable for “the people” as opposed to traditional software which is above all valuable to its owners, no matter what Eric S Raymond says. Your conclusion is quite paradoxical:
Open Source software is made by the people creating it for the people creating it. Not for anybody else.
If the creators are the users then the users are the creators! There’s no “anybody else”! Only in corporately owned software you have “anybody else”.
If you’re not one of the people actually assisting in its creation, then it’s really not being made for you.
See, what differentiates good engineering from bad engineering is the way it uses feedback. It is the good engineer (creator) responsibility to implement a good feedback system. So the user is an indirect and precious part of the “creation”, you cannot separate one from each other. “Assisting in the creation” is precisely what people who arrive to this forum want to do! It is the job of the good creator (developer) to provide the channel for the common mortal to “assist” and efficiently listen to it.
And getting to the main point here: you seem to get too easily disturbed by bad feedback. You should ignore it and care about the good. Above all:
1) You haven’t provided a solid answer about where exactly the common user can give his two cents.
2) If this is really not getting to the devs and as moshu wisely said “is only here by inertia”, it is now an insult to the user. It states that WP simply doesn’t care and, even worst, is systematically misleading the user! Instead of shrugging you should do something about it.Why don’t you simply create a sticky adverting for the state of things and pointing the way to “feedback and feature request”?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 2.5 font sizei’m sure span suggestion will work but i’d really prefer to have a simple button.. i edited the tiny_mce_config.php file as suggested but nothing changed in the editor.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: 2.5 bugs and design problemskind of non sense..
btw i understand your approach to font sizing but being a mofo lazy blogger i’d really prefer to use a button instead of custom coding every time i want to change font size in a post… having said that i did what haochi suggested with no effect.. any hint?
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: 2.5 admin backend annoyingi subscribe to gambit37’s words.. but if WP devs really ignore this precious resource,
1) why not simply erase this feedback aka “feature request” category?
2) where is it exactly the best place to contribute into making WP an even better tool?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 2.5 font sizethanks moshu, did that but there’s no font size button… paragraph, font color, paste from word etc etc… but no font size. also followed haochi’s advice but nothing happened. :/
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: 2.5 bugs and design problemswow that was precisely my concern when i started the topic but simply thought it would be stupid to have created a “Requests and Feedback” category and don’t check it… anyway thanks for the heads up.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: 2.5 bugs and design problemsI see your point but you speak as a webdesigner. If there are a bunch of buttons in the editor by default why not include the precious font size for all of us common mortals and only then let the more advanced user decide? 😉
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: 2.5 bugs and design problemsDESIGN:
How is it possible that WP2.5 doesn’t include a font size button by default?
haochi
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Posted 5 days ago #Wow, I didn’t even notice there’s no button for font size in the editor, oh well, you will just have to do it the old school way.
<span style=”font-size:10pt”>YOUR TEXT HERE</span>
Of course, you can also edit the default configuration of the editor. Open /wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php with a text editor, find $mce_buttons and add fontsizeselect into the array.
$mce_buttons = apply_filters(‘mce_buttons’, array(‘bold’, ‘italic’, ‘strikethrough’, ‘fontsizeselect’, ‘|’, ‘bullist’, ‘numlist’, ‘blockquote’, ‘|’, ‘justifyleft’, ‘justifycenter’, ‘justifyright’, ‘|’, ‘link’, ‘unlink’, ‘image’, ‘wp_more’, ‘|’, ‘spellchecker’, ‘fullscreen’, ‘wp_adv’ ));
(the above code placed the font size selector after the strike through button)
There’s a list of buttons you can add to the editor, and you can find the list on TinyMCE’s website.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 2.5 font sizethanks a lot for your help haochi, should try asap.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: systematic image upload errorvanettda,
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Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: 2.5 bugs and design problemsDESIGN:
As stated here WP will limit your maximum image width no matter how huge your theme is and there’s no way to change that max width except by re-coding.Should be a dashboard setting.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Image sizetechnabob,
the only ugly thing into it is that the width limitation shouldn’t be there in the first place, or being there it should be possible to change via dashboard… huge feature flaw.
changed the media.php file and it worked fine.