Eric Mann
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Publication Archive] Activation – critical error@mwro – What other plugins are you using? I just did a clean download of the plugin from the repository and installed it on a clean version of WP without reproducing the error.
However, looking at line 4 of that file, I see what might be causing your issue. I use a lot of PHP5 syntax in my plugins, and line 4 is a “public static” variable declaration. If you’re not running PHP5, your system might have problems with that.
So here’s what I recommend:
- Check what version of PHP you have installed using
phpinfo() - If you’re already running PHP5, come back here and let me know so we can try something else.
- If you’re not running PHP5, work with your host to switch over.
Remember, WordPress will be dropping support for PHP < 5 with the next release due later this month. So an update to PHP5 is something you’ll need to do anyway just to keep up to date with WordPress.
@chrisj1963 It has come to my attention that Google Reader Dashboard is indeed broke due to a change in the way Google accepts authentication. A fix is forthcoming with the next version.
OK, I’ve finally been able to reproduce the problem, and it will require a substantial rewrite of the code.
Some time ago, Google introduced OAuth for its API. For a time, they were allowing users to use the old authentication system without any problems. I was counting on that while I took some time to rewrite things to use OAuth … unfortunately that seems to have caught up with me.
Google Reader Dashboard will not work with the current Google setup because they’ve changed the way their authentication cookies are stored. I will have an updated version released as soon as I can.
I just updated to version 2.2. This version introduces filtering based on categories (add categories=’category-slug-1, category-slug-2, etc’ inside your shortcode to activate the filter) and pagination so you can show more than 10 publications.
Version 2.3 will add sorting and further meta data as requested.
@brenttward The version I’m working on now (the next release) allows you to filter by category. I’ll release it once I finish the pagination bug I’m still ironing out (the system is capable of storing more than 10 files but can only display 10 at the moment).
The next version will include some advanced meta information as requested above, and I’ll try to work in sorting as well.
If you want to stay up-to-date with development, the live, untested, unstable version can be found on GitHub.
@ptroxler – I think that’s a good specification to start from. I’ll work it in to version 2.2, but I’ll leave the meta list filterable so you can adjust it, add to it, remove from it, etc if needed.
Managing internal resources (like self-archived posts, pages, and other CPTs) will be something I’ll have to look into for later.
But my hope is to get version 2.2 out within a week. It will include the pagination fix so you can have more than 10 publications, allow you to filter by placing a list of category slugs in the shortcode, and hopefully support most of the Dublin Core meta.
@chrisj1963 Can you provide a screenshot of your dashboard? If you have unread items in your Google Reader account and you’re logged in, it should be working …
@giapet – What other plugins are you using? Version 1.1.0 was tested to work just fine with WP 3.1.1 …
@lifestylehunters – It very well might have been a problem with the theme, but since you took the banner down I can’t be 100% sure. Still, there is an update coming soon that uses different JavaScript that should be more stable in IE. When the update comes out I would encourage you to give it a try and see if things work a bit better.
@ptroxler – This plugin is meant for managing external, downloadable resources like PDF documents, Powerpoint presentations, and the like. It’s a fork of an earlier version that was abandoned on Google Code (http://code.google.com/p/wp-publications-archive/).
The limit to 10 publications was due to development time constraints and will be lifted in the next version. Basically, it was a question of releasing a version as it stood or taking another month to short out bugs in the pagination system. I elected to release it as-is because people wanted it then.
Custom lists will also be available in the next version through filters. This was another feature request that’s just being polished.
Though I’m curious, what meta data would you want added and displayed? What would you want listed for a single post view?
If you feel this plugin is a wasted of time, please tell me what it would need to add to be useful for you.
Not sure what’s going on, but I’ll see if I can reproduce it and fix the problem.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [JS Banner Rotate] [Plugin: JS Banner Rotate] Images not rotatingThe plugin attempts to add a
<script>block usingwp_footer()to actually defineimgfadein a way that can be used by the scripts in the header. I don’t see that code on your site, so I suspect your theme does not have a call towp_footer()in the footer.2 months and no reply because I wasn’t aware of the thread. However, this shortcode filter addition has been requested elsewhere and is on my to-do list for the next release.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Twenty ten theme malfunctions with IE 6I know but cant help if some people have failed to update.
That’s a problem most of us have. But to save on sanity (and considering the fact that Microsoft is already previewing IE10), the majority of us have stopped supporting IE6 altogether. Microsoft encourages updates, and future versions of WordPress will stop testing for the old system pretty soon, too.
So while my first recommendation would be to advise these patients to update to IE8 (which works fine on Windows XP and is, in fact, the browser recommended by Microsoft, I recognize that might be impossible for some of your users.
But please also understand that the developers of TwentyTen aren’t going to go back and build out support for IE6. Your safest bet would be to create a child theme for TwentyTen that uses conditional comments to load an additional stylesheet for IE6.
You can probably track down the lines of CSS causing problems for IE6, then just override/remove them in your conditional stylesheet to make things work in that browser. Just remember that you’ll never get the IE6-compatible version to look/function exactly the same as the normal version.
There’s a good tutorial on IE conditional stylesheets here.
And here is the “Universal Internet Explorer 6 Stylesheet” that might solve some problems, too.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Dashboard via Different Domain Name?Well. You could TRY changing WordPress address (URL) to ‘secretadmindomain.com’ and then keep Site address (URL) as ‘publicdomain.com’ but I have no idea if that would work at all.
When I first started using domain mapping, that was the exact situation I had. My sites’ WordPress Address were along the lines of
http://dashboard.domain.url/SITEbut the Site Addresses were along the lines ofhttp://SITE.org. The frontend only ever used the site address, but the admin screen was accessible from the WordPress Address.The biggest consequence was with attached images. If you uploaded an image, the WordPress Address was hard coded into the URL (
http://dashboard.domain.url/SITE/files/2011/05/image.jpg). But you can substitute in the correct URL without any problems (http://SITE.org/files/2011/05/image.jpg). - Check what version of PHP you have installed using