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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [postTabs] Tabs Not Working After Update – ChromeThis plugin has been installed for a long time – and working – on a website we run. It stopped on update, and has not since worked.
It is not a browser issue: tabs work on your linked websites above fine.
The issue replicates on all browsers, and with all other plugins deactivated.
It might be a theme conflict of some kind, but not looking to change theme right now, so reverting. Just thought you might like to know that there’s something not quite working (we tried permalinks / without permalinks and toggling every setting to no avail).
Reverted.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate] Shortcodes Ultimate 4.4.4@akingsail – hand coding can be the way to go if you can handle it. We use shortcodes plugin where the person updating is less advanced, and it is largely successful. Recent upgrades have pushed the plugin around quite a lot. This was necessary in my view as theme compatibility (and compatibility with other plugins) will become an issue with shortcodes very quickly – particularly with premium themes.
Remember, with open source, sometimes we’re bleeding edge. Always worth being prepared to roll back, although updates will usually work if done sequentially. In particular, watch out if you’re on, say, version 1.2.3 and the new plugin when you login is 1.4.8 or something (i.e. a lot of versions between where yours is and where the new version is).
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: ability to search within a specific plugin support forum@celiamellinger This might not just be a search thing? As in, if support items could be filtered easily, you might not need a search at all! Just having a think how this would work best in practice.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate] Shortcodes Ultimate 4.4.4@akingsail This plugin has stopped working upon upgrade more than once – I would recommend you don’t upgrade in production website unless you are able to quickly troubleshoot your website. It is possible to update all your shortcodes on the fly, but this is a very advanced feature, which perhaps goes beyond what can reasonably be expected of a WordPress webmaster.
As a first port of call, I would recommend backing up and restoring your backup, OR, rolling back to the previous version of the plugin which WAS working.
Always backup before upgrading plugins because things CAN and DO break on upgrade.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate] Icons went away with last updateOkay, after updating, the icon styles have changed quite a bit.
Quick fix is as follows:
If you had, say:
[list style="check"] ...This would now be:
[list icon="icon: check" icon_color="#67af2c"]...Note that the colour now needs to be added on a case-by-case basis, but you have more icons to look through and select.
Also note that icon selection isn’t working (for me) in some browsers – Firefox – but it does work in latest Chrome.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate] Shortcodes Ultimate 4.4.4@lisa – yes, that solution tends to work.
+1 for “Compatibility Mode” going from unchecked to checked on upgrade.
@myhero If you already used compatibility mode, and you prefixed with “gu_” this recently changed to “su_” which might also be your problem? There is a functions.php fix for this, but you could also find and replace gu_ with su_ site-wide.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate] ColumnsThat code is from a version previously. last=”1″ is (was) for the last column in a row. I have found that the new version needs last=”1″ in order to work as desired in a number of instances.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate] Problems after latest upgradeAlso, in addition, note that as mentioned above, some versions of Firefox don’t like the icon select tool, though Chrome copes with it fine. If you’re not seeing icons to select, try another browser.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate] Problems after latest upgradeSo if you had a list with icon styl “check”, like this:
[list style="check"] <ul> <li>some item</li> </ul> [/list]It will now be:
[su_list icon="icon: check" icon_color="#67af2c"] <ul> <li>some item</li> </ul> [/su_list](note the new color select option I have chosen a green for your “check” symbol!).
The update is an improvement, just a little bit of effort to convert it all. MySQL can be used to find and replace any shortcodes you’ve used across multiple posts / pages using the code here.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate] Problems after latest upgradeCouple of things happen on this upgrade:
Compatibility mope goes to “on” – to fix:
Either a) visit settings to uncheck this option; or
b) Convert all your shortcodes to compatibility mode (prefix them with “su_” i.e. [list] becomes [su_list] – this can be tedious on a big site, but you can do a replace if you are confident with SQL.ALSO, icons have changed. If (like us in places), you used [list] with style=”SOMESTYLE” then this won’t be working any more. You’ll need to re-select your icons. Again this can be tedious. Also, I note that the selector doesn’t work well in some browsers, but this is a side issue.
Do you have any issues still outstanding? I have troubleshot a few on shortcodes ultimate today, following update.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: ability to search within a specific plugin support forumIf you do find this kind benefactor, please feel free to point him or her in my direction 😉
Seriously though, it is a good feature request. I’m keen to help where I can – @wpyogi, how might I go about chipping in from time-to-time with this type of development / assistance? Where would someone who was willing and (possibly – slim chance) able to assist get going?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: install errorWhat control panel does your host use? It might be possible to use a script to install wp – a number of hosts / control panels have them. This might prevent your issue repeating? If you are following the steps described, it should be working!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [wp-forecast] [Plugin: wp-forecast] without WordPressWordPress plugins require WordPress to work. However, there are several weather scripts you may embed in html websites. Try a google search for “html weather script” or similar.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Questions about the right hosting solution for my WP sites…I lost a little bit the thread of what the first question was, but, the “exact same time” is just that. The EXACT same time. At the same instant. Of course, if you don’t have the resources for this, your system will attempt to “queue” whatever request it is serving.
Now, in your example, it shows that the page loads in 0.339 seconds. Assuming client 1 and client 2 hit your website at the EXACT same instant (though this isn’t really possible in a world of infinite instants?!) then client 1 would be first served, then client 2 (if your system can only cope with 1-at-a-time. Client 1 loads your page in, say, 0.4 seconds. Client 2 loads it in 0.8 seconds. Both are tolerable.
In reality, client 2 would hit 1 second later and wouldn’t notice any difference.
Try looking up benchmarking tools, like apache benchmark (ab), to test your website under concurrent loads. There is another tool which I use that has gone from my mind, with a web-based interface. Use sparingly, and not on production sites, as you can break things!
No – this does not mean 15-25 concurrent visitors. I load your page in 0.4 seconds, and, presumably, I then spend 5 minutes or so loading NOTHING while I read your fascinating blog post ;). It DOES mean you’d only be able to handle that many concurrent LOADS, but these can (and will) be queued.
A minute system can handle 100 visitors over 5 minutes on WP.
Also recommend you investigate caching systems, like WP Super cache and/or W3 Total Cache, though note the latter is quite complex.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] W3 Total cache creates tens of thousands inodesSorry to dredge this post up after such a long time. I ran into this issue on a large website today. DB caching and Object caching can cause this problem.
Solution is to disable DB and Object caching to disk THEN delete all the contents of those files.
This can take a long time (we had 1,000,000+ to remove!). The following command in PuTTy (or similar) terminal might help:
cd [whereveryourwordpresslives]/wp-content/cache rm -rf db rm -rf objectThe above will delete the “cache/db” filer and all its contents and the “cache/object” folder and all its contents. This might take a LONG time if the folder and its contents totals 1,000,000+ 😉