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# Drding

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## Forum Replies Created

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Simple Custom Post Order] 2.6.0 still not working properly](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2-6-0-still-not-working-properly/)
 *  [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [2 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2-6-0-still-not-working-properly/#post-18842411)
 * Unfortunately I’m starting to believe this plugin has been mostly abandoned. 
   
   So first off, the current support forum is over here now: [https://colorlibsupport.com/](https://colorlibsupport.com/)
   That being said, if you go there, SCPO doesn’t even have a category. Any posts
   about it falls under “Other” and 99% of those posts have no response from the
   developers. Which looks to me like it’s no longer a priority to them at all. 
   For a temporary not particularly great fix, roll back the plugin to the 2.5.10
   version if you still have access to the files.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Ninja Forms - The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You] Form not displaying after latest plugin update](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-not-displaying-after-latest-plugin-update/)
 *  Thread Starter [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-not-displaying-after-latest-plugin-update/#post-13362179)
 * Apparently it has to do with the latest WP update (5.5) depreciating the old 
   jQuery version it used to use (1.14? I think). Which is breaking a lot of plugins
   and themes. In my case it’s the theme we’re using on the site. There was a JQ
   migration plugin suggested in an article I found as a temporary patch which got
   the form to display again: [JQ Migrate Helper](https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-jquery-migrate-helper/).
 * [@livonu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/livonu/) Thanks for the suggestion!
   I’ll have to try that out later this evening as I don’t want to mess with the
   form during prime usage hours. But I’ll report back if it works without the JQ
   plugin.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Simple Custom Post Order] Dashboard Display Issue](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-display-issue-2/)
 *  Thread Starter [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-display-issue-2/#post-12556834)
 * Excellent, thanks Mihaela!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Simple Lightbox] Getting Simple Lightbox Working With Featured Image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-simple-lightbox-working-with-featured-image/)
 *  Thread Starter [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-simple-lightbox-working-with-featured-image/#post-12534688)
 * Worked perfectly! And thank you so much for adding that to the docs!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Contact Form 7] Character countdown not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-countdown-not-working/)
 *  Thread Starter [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-countdown-not-working/#post-9237630)
 * Got it! I took another look over your troubleshooting/FAQ and discovered I was
   missing `<?php wp_head(); ?>` before my closing head tag. After adding that the.
   js loads and the character display is counting down.
 * So if anyone else is coding their own theme and having this issue double check
   that you have `<?php wp_head(); ?>` before your `</head>` along with a link to
   the latest jQuery library in your header.php file. And also have `<?php wp_footer();?
   >` after your `</html>` in your footer.php
 * And just for the sake of reference (in my case) I’m including my form via a short
   code IN my theme like this:
 * `<?php echo do_shortcode( '[contact-form-7 id="8" title="Application Form"]' );?
   >`
 * Your form id number and title are going to be different of course, but that’s
   the call to it.
 * Thanks for all your help [@takayukister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)!!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Contact Form 7] Character countdown not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-countdown-not-working/)
 *  Thread Starter [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-countdown-not-working/#post-9237490)
 * Small update, I added `<?php wp_footer(); ?>` to my footer.php thinking it was
   that, but no luck. While I do see some of wordpress’s main .js files loading 
   now down there, CF7’s is still not.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Contact Form 7] Character countdown not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-countdown-not-working/)
 *  Thread Starter [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-countdown-not-working/#post-9237470)
 * You know what, the js file isn’t loading. Even when I’m calling to the form via
   do_shortcode. The form itself is loading and I can fill it out and receive the
   form data in an email.
 * That is really weird. I mean I could just put a link to the js file in my header.
   php, but I wonder why it’s not being loaded in there automatically. I’ve used
   CF7 before on other themes I’ve built.
 * Do you know offhand what might be causing it not to load in? The theme itself
   is pretty basic, not a lot to it. CF7 is actually the only plugin I have installed.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Contact Form 7] Character countdown not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-countdown-not-working/)
 *  Thread Starter [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-countdown-not-working/#post-9235420)
 * [@takayukister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * I’ve done a little debugging and I think, my issue might be how I’m calling to
   the contact form.
 * At first I was placing the short code in a post and then calling to that post
   in my template via:
 *     ```
       <?php	
       $my_postid = 8;//This is page id or post id
       $content_post = get_post($my_postid);
       $content = $content_post->post_content;
       $content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);
       $content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);
       echo $content;
       ?>
       ```
   
 * Next I tried just calling to the form’s short code directly in the template with:
 * `<?php echo do_shortcode('[contact-form-7 id="5" title="Application Form"]');?
   >`
 * With both of those, the counter is not working. So I guess the question is, what’s
   the best way to call to the form in a template? I’d like to have the form on 
   my main index page (it’s a one page website) and not on its own page. Any advice?
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Contact Form 7] Character countdown not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-countdown-not-working/)
 *  Thread Starter [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-countdown-not-working/#post-9229737)
 * Sure, is there a place I can email a link to you? It’s currently on a private
   server as it’s still a WIP, and I’d like to not post a link to it here.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Youtube Channel Gallery] Not updating !?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-updating-11/)
 *  [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-updating-11/#post-5274313)
 * Hey Paravia,
 * Don’t know if this will solve your problem, but I was having the same issue and
   this thread helped me. Check out the very last post in it: [[link]](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/playlist-changes-not-updating)
 * I’ll have to wait and see if my gallery updates when the playlist does, but it
   did update to the latest video when I added the mentioned attributes to the short
   code. So, we’ll see.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Magic Fields 2] Referencing a post with custom fields on a page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/referencing-a-post-with-custom-fields-on-a-page/)
 *  Thread Starter [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/referencing-a-post-with-custom-fields-on-a-page/#post-5097011)
 * Hunk thank you **so** much, those work perfectly on the custom template pages!
 * This has been driving me nuts for weeks. Awesome plugin by the way, thanks again!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Get featured image via post ID](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-featured-image-via-post-id/)
 *  Thread Starter [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-featured-image-via-post-id/#post-4331708)
 * Hey Alchymyth,
 * I ended up working out a solution using wp_get_attachment_url. I really wanted
   to try and get the post and use it in a image tag.
 * Here’s my end result:
 *     ```
       <?php query_posts('p=10'); ?>
       <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
       <?php $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), 'single-post-thumbnail' ); ?>
       <img src="<?php echo $image[0]; ?>" id="image1" />
       <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * Works pretty well
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Tricky layout with targeted menu and iframe](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tricky-layout-with-targeted-menu-and-iframe/)
 *  Thread Starter [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tricky-layout-with-targeted-menu-and-iframe/#post-4032020)
 * Hi Andrew, thanks for the suggestions!
 * What I ended up doing was using that plugin I mentioned above and then looping
   the pages with a category now added to them. I was able to then code the target
   in myself like this:
 *     ```
       <div class="castmenu">
       <ul>
       	<?php if ($new_query->have_posts()) : while ($new_query->have_posts()) : $new_query->the_post(); ?>
       <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" target="biobox" class="static"><span class="castthumbnail"><?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?></span><span class="charactername"><?php the_title(); ?></span></a></li>
       	<?php endwhile; else: ?>
       		<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
       	<?php endif; ?>
       </ul>
       </div> <!-- end castmenu div -->
       ```
   
 * “biobox” in this case being an iframe. So the above code loops page titles and
   their permalinks, and then opens up said pages in the targeted iframe.
 * And since it’s looping that category, any new pages added to it will be therefore
   added to the menu.
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Tricky layout with targeted menu and iframe](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tricky-layout-with-targeted-menu-and-iframe/)
 *  Thread Starter [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tricky-layout-with-targeted-menu-and-iframe/#post-4031866)
 * I wish I could, and I’m working on the site locally right now.
 * I did manage to find a plugin that can give pages categories. Do you know off
   hand how to loop page titles by category in order to create a list of them?
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Seriously Simple Podcasting] Adding the player to a different page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-the-player-to-a-different-page/)
 *  Thread Starter [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-the-player-to-a-different-page/#post-3784458)
 * Hi Hugh,
 * I came across that thread myself but didn’t really understand the section where
   you mention how to call the player.
 * Like for example, where exactly does that bit of code get placed? Like is it 
   enclosed in a php tag and placed where I want the player to show up?
 * UPDATE: Apparently it is just as simple as dropping it in a php tag. I tried 
   that before but was having no luck, tried it one more time and it worked. No 
   idea what the difference is but I’m glad it’s working now.
 * Thanks Hugh!

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