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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Plugin: Auto Delete PostsHoopla,
Thanks for the feedback about the changes suggested. I will make that change “officially” and release it. 🙂
As far as the trigger goes, that was one of the things I spent some time thinking about. In most cases I found that people usually set the deletion duration to be in the order of weeks, not necessarily 24 hours and so using the POST and EDIT actions worked well as long as they posted something in a couple of weeks.
In your case, requiring hard 24 hour trigger would mean that something like a CRON job would be necessary. I will look into this and get back to you.
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Plugin: Auto Delete PostsSorry for my late arrival. I was out of the country for the latter part of July and couldn’t check on the website. But I’m back now and will get back to working on this plugin to fix the issues mentioned here. 🙂
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: <!–more–> TagsEdit your themes index.php and look for the call to “the_content()”, the MORE text is an option to this function call.
You can change the default to whatever you want there.
And my mom is not ugly! 😛
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Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Can someone explain RSS to me like…First, the error on your website is related to the fact that the word “feed:” has been added to the actual RSS feed URL. This is a future standard that will work at some point time, just like “mailto:” works right now. To fix this, just edit your footer.php or sidebar.php or whatever your RSS feeds appear and remove the “feed:” portion of the URL.
RSS is the mechanism by which you syndicate content on your website to the world. You can syndicate an excerpt or the entire content. You have that granular control.
People can write websites that “suck” the RSS feed from various other websites and show their contents. Bloglines, for example, is a web based reader does exactly this.
When people talk about a “reader”, they are talking about programs like Sharpreader, Firefox and others. Check this list to see other readers for other platforms.
What you would do is download one of these programs and then enter the FEED url, in WordPress, it could be http://<yoursite.com>/feed/rss2 into the program. It will then go and take that XML output you see in your browser, intrepret it and show you the website’s content.
This way you can take a single program and put in the feeds of all the websites you usually frequent, Slashdot, Yahoo News, Gizmodo, WordPress Dev blog, your own blog, your friend’s blog and so on.
This will allow you to keep up to date with all the contents on these websites without having to actually visit them with your browser.
All WordPress blogs have RSS capability by default, you do not have to do anything. If your blog is of interest to readers, they might just subscribe to your feed to keep up with it rather than visiting your site.
I hope I’ve made things a little clearer.
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Auto-delete a post after a given date ?Nice idea, that shouldn’t be too hard to make. Next version. 🙂
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: too many links make wordpress angry!!By links I take it that you mean URL’s within your post. I’ve made posts with much more than 4 links and have had no problems. WordPress largely just takes your post, ensures it’s XHTML valid, adds the necessary <P> where appropriate and stores it in the database.
It does not do link checking to my knowledge. The only reason posts can take forever to be saved is if you have a large number of sites that you PING after you post/update/edit on your blog. So go to Options->Writing and see what Update Services you are pinging.
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Auto-delete a post after a given date ?Here is the plugin that I spoke of. Please give it a shot and see if it works for you and also if there is anything more specific you want.
Grab the plugin here
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Display error message from within pluginGood question, I’d like to know as well.
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: **********Codex is Down…..and then we’d put up another button saying STFU and we’d be all set..:-D
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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Files are missing.While you are waiting for your webhost to respond, if you feel adventerous, you can try installing WP yourself.
It should take only a few minutes in most cases.
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: **********Codex is DownI say we put a button up on this forums page that shows the status of the codex so we don’t have to make forum posts about it’s service. 🙂
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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Files are missing.It’s strange that Fantastico would not install the application properly. You could grab a copy of the latest WP from http://wordpress.org/download and then upload whatever is missing.
You could also re-do the installation to see if it’ll fix it. Also talk to your web host to let them know that their installation of Fantastico might be broken, so they can fix it and not have others suffer the same fate.
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Weird Plugin AdminYou are reading the fields incorrectly, in that you are reversing the meaning.
As of WP 1.5.1 or so, any Plugin that is activate will be bolded and possibly have a green background. This means that the plugin is activated. The “Action” field indicates what you could DO with the plugin, if it isn’t activated, you can Activate it and if it is already activated, you can Deactivate it.
The current status of a plugin is determined by it being bold or having a different background color. If a plugin has neither, it is not activated yet.
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Auto-delete a post after a given date ?Working on a plugin for this feature right now, but seeing as I surely don’t want to use it I had a question for Lio.
Would you be restricting the deletion of posts to a particular category or all categories? Are there going to be posts that will be there forever? Currently, I’m implementing the plugin to simply delete all plugins that are older than a specific date in all categories.
It will delete all the comments associated with posts as well.
Is this what you would like?
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Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Paid subscriptions experience ?WordPress at it’s core is a blogging software, how you blog and what you blog about is your perrogative. As is, how you control access to it. There is very minimal user and user-level support, but nothing extensive akin to a subscription service.
That said, WP lends itself to be molded into whatever form you wish to give it, but it will definitely require some hacking on your part to implement some of the things you want.
Certain simple things like ensuring a user is logged in before viewing paid content is easily implemented, but subscription management is something you’d have to implement.
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