Scott Anderson
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Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Remove Broken Images] Change your TitleSince you’ve now permanently harmed my plugin’s standing with a 1-star review, would you mind doing me the favor of explaining exactly what the problem is that you’re experiencing so I might be able to improve the plugin? Thanks.
No problem… sorry again that I couldn’t find a satisfactory solution!
Unfortunately all of the relatively obvious paths to work around this do not seem to be working. Judging by the support forums it looks like Advanced Excerpt may be abandoned. I don’t think it’s feasible for me to spend any more time trying to solve this problem since it is definitely being caused by that plugin and not a bug in On This Day itself. I’m sorry.
I see that Advanced Excerpt is using
remove_all_filters()to override any other filters on the excerpt. In my opinion plugins should never do this because they are bound to cause problems with other plugins.The function where that’s happening already has some built-in exceptions for common plugins like WooCommerce and bbPress, and the plugin has a settings page that allows you to exclude it from certain other places. (In other words, the developer of the plugin seems to be aware of how disruptive it can be.)
I can have a look at the Advanced Excerpt plugin and see if I can identify the cause of the conflict. It might be something I can fix on my end, but I can’t say for sure at this point.
I’ve just installed Advanced Excerpt on my blog and confirmed that it is causing every excerpt in the On This Day widget to be the same as the last post in the main query loop.
- This reply was modified 3 weeks, 3 days ago by Scott Anderson.
Hi, I see the issue you’re describing on your home page. Do you happen to have any custom code running on the
r34otd_excerptfilter? That seems to be the only way that this could be happening, since On This Day has its ownget_posts()query and is never interacting with the$postvariable from the main query loop. I tested my own blog with the Twenty Thirteen theme just to make sure it wasn’t something in the theme, and I did not experience the issue.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [On This Day (by Room 34)] Posts from just one categoryPurging the cache daily should work. You’ll just want to make sure the timezone is set correctly.
A couple of things to note:
If this is using WP-Cron (the default) any times like that are only approximate. Websites can’t arbitrarily run code on their own; they can only run when someone requests a page. (WP-Cron runs at the end of a user page request and fires off any tasks that have come due.)
If you’re doing this with a “real” cron job at the server OS level, you’ll want to be sure the server’s timezone is also set correctly, or adjust the timing of the cron job accordingly.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [On This Day (by Room 34)] Posts from just one categoryAt this point the plugin is not designed to handle caching plugins very well.
LiteSpeed has a feature called ESI (Edge Side Includes) that lets you selectively exclude portions of a page from caching, but I’m not sure how easy or difficult that is to set up.
I may be able to bypass that by using AJAX to load the On This Day content. I’ll investigate how much work it would take to get that added. My much more widely used ICS Calendar plugin has AJAX loading, so I can probably pillage some of that code to get it working without too much effort.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [On This Day (by Room 34)] Posts from just one categoryThere are two date options: showing posts that were made on today’s date in previous years, or — when you’re on a single post page — other posts from that post’s date (in the same or other years). There’s not an option to display posts from an arbitrary date.
Yes, you can control how many posts display.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [On This Day (by Room 34)] Posts from just one categoryHi, thanks for your interest in the plugin!
Yes, you can restrict the list to posts from just one or more specific categories rather than the entire blog. That’s under the Additional Options toggle in the widget configuration.
Well, that’s frustrating! Please feel free to email info at icscalendar dot com directly. Even though your client decided not to use the plugin, I’d like to continue investigating the issue if you don’t mind. Thanks.
Hi… I’m the developer of the plugin. Unfortunately the admins of the support forums have decided to reclassify my real account @room34 as a company account (it’s not; I’m a freelance developer) and as a result I am currently unable to post in the forums — even to respond to support requests for my own plugin. (Yes, it’s as Kafka-esque as it sounds.)
I will need some more specific information to provide support for this issue. Please use the official support request form on the ICS Calendar website and I will follow up with you directly. Thanks.