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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: A voting system other than wp-polls?There’s Democracy 2, http://blog.jalenack.com/archives/democracy/
Democracy 2 allows only one active poll at a time, and AFAIK it does not provide poll scheduling. It allows one to disable IP-logging, though.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Themes menu lists a recursive subpage and an “” subpage!My previous post is nonsense. The presented “solution” does not work. After finding a solution, I mistakenly posted the wrong text here. Sorry for that…
So, let’s document this properly:
Solution:
1) This is expected behaviour. The subpages list in the Chameleon theme does not list the subpages of the current page. It lists the subpages of the TOP page, thus creating a kind of “submenu”. This is actually far better than what I tried to achive. Nothing to fix.
2) To prevent attachments from messing the subpage listing logic, I added this: AND post_status = ‘static’
to here:
“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_parent = ‘$parent_id’ AND post_status = ‘static’ “
in functions.phpThis fix works on WP2.0 in our blog.
ps. This does not work in WP2.1+
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Flash animation visible in Firefox, white in IEI wish there was a perfect standard for everything in life so these types of depressing cross-standard fights don’t happen
I agree. But… less seriously:
Another wish might be a global standard language (spoken)… and an ISO religion. I fear though, that the fight never ends… There will allways be competing standards as long as mankind exists.
ps. Sorry, this doesn’t belong here, but I just couldn’t resist 😉
Isn’t there an 0.9 beta already? It would be wise to use that instead of 0.81 stable. An incompatible stable version certainly has errors. A beta *might* have errors. The choice is obvious.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: .htaccess problemHave you tried .htaccess based rewrite rules (and Apache mod_rewrite)?
You would probably need to map each and every page to a new address. It might be an awfull lot of work… Don’t ask me how. I have not used rewrite rules that much. Can’t help. The web is full of documentation.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Difference between blog and discussion forum?And yes, on discussion forums anyone can open a thread. In a blog you can only comment on an existing post (if allowed).
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Difference between blog and discussion forum?An addition: Not all blogs allow commenting. A blog can also be a means of one to many communication – such as information blogs (virus lab blogs, upcoming event blogs of organizations…).
Posts in discussion threads often refer to the previous post – hence discussion. Comments in blogs often refer to the original article – hence commenting, but not really a many-to-many discussion.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Copyright infringment – article stolenI don’t have a strong opinion in this case, but I can provide two opposite views on this:
1) Copying whole articles, even with author data and links, can be problematic. An example: Google got sued (and convicted) for that in Belgium recently. Money / big business was involved, and the authors (newspapers) wanted to protect their business. Blogs may not be equally important sources of income as news are to newspapers, but advertizing does occurr in blogs. This suggests that some care must be taken while making citations. Copying a shorter amount and including a “read more” link is nicer, especially if one does not ask for permission (the safest way to use citations).
I can understand the original authors feelings. It is much more fun to be asked for permission (and grant it – if possible) than to find that somebody just copied the article. Some people might actually feel bad about that. Especially, if they suffer consequences from this copying. This also explains the rather strong subject to the post.
2) Looking at this from the other point of view, it is also easy to understand that contacting you directly would have been nicer. Mistakes do happen, and it is not nice to find such accusations on the web. The original post also does not have any copyright notices, so inexperienced people (or people in hurry) could mistakenly believe that the article is automatically in the public domain. Obviously it is not, but nowadays, when Linux is free, OpenOffice is free, Wikipedia is free and so on and so on, and so many people steal music and movies, the idea is not far fetched. Copyright notices should be used more. I don’t blame the original author. I just try to understand why this could initially happen.
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Hmm… Maybe there should be some blogging etiquette linked in the WordPress dashboard? I have sometimes found myself thinking really hard about copyrights. What can I copy? When? Where? How? Can I link? Embed? In what country? It’s a mine field…Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Complete newby questionYour theme contains two parts:
1) The theme files that define the looks
2) Optional plugins, that offer some special new functionalityThe theme files must be uploaded to wp-content/themes
and the optional plugins (to be used with/in the theme) can be uploaded to wp-content/pluginsAfter this you should
a) go to presentation menu and activate the new theme, and
b) go to plugins page and activate some of the new pluginsForum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Flash animation visible in Firefox, white in IEBut I DO see the animation now in IE! No white box. No IE plugin uninstalled. No javascript used.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Flash animation visible in Firefox, white in IEI happened to find this page, too: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Embedding_Flash
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Flash animation visible in Firefox, white in IEThanks for the hint. I completed the url as suggested. It works now 🙂
Firefox seems to be using the <embed></embed> while IE uses the other (object) tags. The embed tag had a complete url. The url to the flash file in “movie” was incomplete. Hence, IE could not find the data.
I included the full url like this: <param name=”movie” value=”http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/mybanner.swf “></param>
I also closed both the parameter tags with </param>
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Is WP for me, a non-blogger?“Google Notebook? http://www.google.com/notebook/ and its firefox plugin.”
You might also want to study the Google privacy policy in detail before using their products, and listen to those that are paranoid about Google. It may be healthy. It may not. (yes, I use Gmail)
And oh, remember that any “when law requires”, really reads “when a law in any country requires”. Sleep well, Google is good.
Hehe, I sound like a paranoid 😉
With WordPress you are in control of your privacy.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: How to add and display location metadata?This is partially described in the codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields#Displaying_Custom_Fields
But how do I include these custom fields in RSS feeds and how do I search custom metadata?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Registered Only Plugin ProblemOne untested idea:
Open the php script in a proper text editor. Look at URLs. When you find one, that looks like pointing to the admin interface, then change it to point to the front page.
If you have bad luck, this is a built-in feature of WP, and you need to edit the core WP files.