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mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Bloody Antlers posted:

I've been looking for a plugin that allows my Wordpress posts to have a 'Story Highlights' widget like CNN has.

For example:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/cel...dex.html?hpt=C2

on the left you can see:

Story Highlights
* Spoiled twat gets arrested
* Some other guy in the car was arrested too
* The other guy could be her boyfriend
* This is news somehow

Does anyone know of a plugin that allows me to insert an object with such highlights into my articles or perhaps located on a sidebar?

Best way to do this would be to write a Custom Field, one of the more powerful ways Wordpress is extensible.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields

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mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Thirteenth Step posted:

I have a quick question. Is there a way that I can my last wordpress post on a regular webpage?

I have a regular landing page that will contain some information and some links etc, and I want to be able to have a small section near the bottom of the page which will have the title "latest from the blog!" for example, and for it then to show my latest blog post.

Is there some code floating around out there that will do this? Tried google but to no avail.

You could just call the wordpress posts loop and restrict the results to the latest post ( &posts_per_page=1 ).

mcsuede fucked around with this message at Aug 29, 2010 around 18:33

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Gyshall posted:

I've used Wordpress as a blogging platform before, but never as a CMS. What I'm interested in doing is setting up a small, three or four page site for a side business I have. I'd like to have it as simple as possible (no need for extra blogroll links or individual posts - just pages with a blurb for each service offered) and a simple JQuery slider for showcasing the different pages.

Any suggestions for themes or plugins for this with the latest version of Wordpress?

Honestly I'd just use Starkers, code the design up yourself, and use Nivo slider. I would have said just make a TwentyTen child theme but the way they used Featured Images in TwentyTen really fucks up Nivo slider's default way of working.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

tonelok posted:

I never looked at any widgets, but Custom Fields + this widget would do exactly what Bloody Antlers wanted, without having to modify any code in the sidebars:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins...m-field-widget/

Works great and you can do it on a per-post or per-page basis while not loving with anything else.

drat, that's pretty slick.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

tonelok posted:



http://www.informationweek.com/news...Hosted+Software

Microsoft announced they are going to migrate their Windows Live Spaces users over to WordPress.com:

It's an amazing achievement for Automatic, Matt has to be running around smiling right now. Microsoft in the last year had already done a bunch of Wordpress specific things (themes, plugins, heavier integration with Live) so it's not a HUGE shock but it's still an extremely significant moment for Wordpress. It really shows how authoritative an open source project can become when it's dev team is managed well and public contribution is heavily encouraged and vetted.

It's also a huge win for GPL, and that's probably the most surprising part of this relationship.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

gwar3k1 posted:

Thanks, I'll look at both methods.

Edit: XWidgets requires zero thought. Need a widget on a particular page? Add an Xwidget. Brilliant!

The Genesis framework also just released a system for managing widget logic that is super clean and functionally similar to the ease of using the 3.0 menu system (developed by WooThemes).


I would go out on a limb and guess that the Genesis widget system makes it into core at some point.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Isn't buddypress becoming a core plugin? I really wish they'd get all that business sorted out, I've tried every forums solution for Wordpress there is and they all blow.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Abel Wingnut posted:

This is something I have yet to understand and have seen a lot of. Where are all these editable .php files? I've honestly looked through the entire dashboard and can't find anything. The only things in 'Themes' are Widgets, Menus, Extras, Typekit Fonts, and Edit CSS--none of which have anything to do with .php files.

Sorry for the stupidity.

Appearance, Edit.

Or just edit them locally and upload to your server, that's what I do most of the time. The Wordpress backend GUI editor is really poor* compared to using something like Notepad++. Dreamweaver CS5 actually supports Wordpress now too if you're so inclined.




*Seriously they need to do something about this. How hard is it to keep formatting and have syntax highlighting?

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

tonelok posted:

Just out of curiousity, what did you not like about SimplePress?

I couldn't find an example of it running live that I was impressed by, as shallow as that is. I've tabled the projects I had in mind that had forums for the time being, sort of hoping a Core solution is figured out while I pursue the million other ideas I'm working on.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

I'm also looking forward to the fact (hopefully) that once it's core it'll play nicer with multiuser installs.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

That's...that's not really how wordpressMU works. It's for entirely separate blogs. Any particular reason you're trying to use MU instead of just having authors and showing author posts on the author page and all posts on the main page, with any posts to a particular category shown on a category post page?

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

wwb posted:

So, we've got a few wordpress blogs strewn about the net. Looking to unify the hosting scenario, looking at running on IIS7 rather than something *NIX because we know IIS/Windows very well and know gently caress all about managing *NIX boxes. Is this a horribly bad idea?

http://www.microsoft.com/web/wordpress/

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

There's a well regarded Events Calendar for sale on CodeCanyon. Not sure if it has what you're looking for but it's worth asking the author.



Not quite sure I get the point of Post Formats in 3.1...seems like a functionality that already exists, just prepackaged somewhat in a Tumblr fashion? I really feel like they have a lot of work to do with custom post types and custom taxonomies before they're really useful to the non-programmer wordpress user.

mcsuede fucked around with this message at Oct 19, 2010 around 02:57

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Try this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins...ate-thumbnails/

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Serfer posted:

Thanks, I added some logic to the template to detect if it has a thumbnail, and if it doesn't, does it the old way, just have to teach the people in marketing how to use the featured image thing now (admittedly, a bit more complicated than the old way, but it's ok).


Won't work since the posts don't have featured thumbnails, but thanks regardless.

Ah, I always code my themes to use the first image if no featured is set as featured.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Good for him. I appreciate that Matt hires the best of the community into Automattic and they in turn contribute so much back.

It's an exceptionally unique and effective business model.

The downside of course being that since the guy has three names, he's probably a serial killer or deranged celebrity assassin.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Whoever managed/designs your company website should design your company wordpress theme to match, only makes sense.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Question for those using Widget Logic:

I'm wanting to show a particular widget on every subpage of a particular parent page (and on the parent), anyone have a string I could use for this? Hoping I don't have to make 18 billion widgets with is_page('x')...

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

? Just style up an html table. There's a bunch of plugins to pretty up tables but that's nothing you couldn't do on your own easily enough.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

http://www.noupe.com/jquery/useful-...tml-tables.html
Might be something here. Otherwise I swear I have seen an easy Ajax table plugin for WP somewhere...maybe CodeCanyon?

mcsuede fucked around with this message at Dec 6, 2010 around 04:16

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Use Yoast's SEO for Wordpress it has XML sitemap submission (this is probably what you're forgetting) built in and all sorts of good stuff. Way better than All-In-One.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

And get your client off GoDaddy, they're a terrible company and even worse host.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

I'm a fan of https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/like-for-tags/

Read the description though, it's functionally different from most Like plugins.

What specifically are you trying to do?

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

I loving hate "easy" hosting. 1and1, fatcow, etc...just give me a raw cpanel, add your host-specific stuff and the get the gently caress out of the way. It's one of the reasons I've moved a lot of clients over to HostGator.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

jackpot posted:

I've got someone who wants to replace her current (html) site with a wordpress site. Obviously you want to do this with as little downtime as possible, so should she (I say "she" but I'm sure I'm the one who'll end up doing the work) install wordpress in some random folder (site.com/testsite), get all the pages (contact, about us, etc) working, then just go into the WP prefs and change what directory everything points to (from site.com/testsite to site.com/)? Is that how it's usually done?

Or should I build the site at /testsite, export it, then build a new WP install at the root level and import my testsite into that?

I used to do the export thing, building offsite but it's a bitch so now I build live in a subdirectory and just repoint at the end. Plus you should always install Wordpress in a subdirectory anyway as exploit spiders look for site.com/wp/wp-login.php not site.com/randomname/wp-login.php

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Iron Squid posted:

Is there any kind of GUI for working with WP themes? Its a lot easier for me to visualize something if I am moving around an object than to edit a .css file. I'm guessing the answer is "no" but I thought I'd ask.

Welcome to the frustration of all web design, ever.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Holy crap Tweet Blender looks amazing and solves a ton of things for me, brilliant thanks!

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Here's a quick list of plugins I like for one reason or another (and in no particular order), in case it helps someone:

W3 Total Cache
Admin Flush W3TC Cache
CloudFlare (in combination with the CloudFlare service, obviously)
WP Smush.it OR CW Image Optimizer (Linux server only, uses littleutils)
WP-DBManager
Akismet
Use Google Libraries
Google Analytics for WordPress
ServerBuddy
Simple Image Size
Shadowbox JS
WordPress SEO
WP Original source
Redirection
Photo Galleria
MediaRSS
Clean Notifications
Bulk Change Attachment Parent
SEO Slugs
SEO Friendly Images
SEO Smart Links
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Reveal IDs
Disqus
WP-PageNavi
WP Google Fonts

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

To be honest I've mostly given up on child themes unless you're using a really solid framework like Genesis or WooThemes or Obox or Thesis. Making child themes for some off the shelf theme from themeforest or whatever is a waste of time as they rarely update the parent them and if they do, you can just fix the whatever minor issues crop up on your own.

The whole parent/child system needs a lot of work to actually be as useful as they intend. I don't see it happening.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

I am the only person who despises NextGEN Gallery? It's such a kludge.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

az jan jananam posted:

When themes offer SEO what are they really offering? How do they do the SEO they claim to do?

They're saying the theme code is compliant with on-page SEO best practices. Semantic code, etc. It's not always true, do due diligence, but it's not like it's hard to do either as WordPress core is very search friendly anyway.

Sometimes they're saying they have a custom backend for modifying your page titles and such but that's all best done in Yoast's WordPress SEO anyway.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

A billion times better, one trillion times better if you have a functioning brain and can write your own descriptions.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Okay I'm having an issue trying to run a slider and a lazyload plugin.

Here's the deal: slides in the slider that aren't the first slide aren't showing their images, as the lazyloader is hiding them and then not showing them when that slide switches to active.

The slider is jquery and so was the lazyload plugin, so I switched to a mootools lazyload to see if that would solve it and I still had the issue.

Surely someone out there has a lazyload solution working on a WordPress install that also has a slider?

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

You always want to resize your media for the situation, not try to resize it with markup. Doing it through the editor is fine.

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Dumb question but have you set up permalinks to something like /%postname%/ or /%category%/%postname%/ ?

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Freeze posted:

Currently they're set to "/%sample-page%/" under Custom Structure. This is the same setting she uses on her other Wordpress sites apparently.

edit: again, the permalinks appear to be partially working in that they generate the correct URL. It's just that the URL points to the home page instead of the linked page. I know the links actually work because if I return to default permalinks everything is fine...

I don't think /%sample-page%/ is a valid permalinks structure. Which is why you're getting redirected to Home. http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

Here are the valid structures:
code:
%year%
    The year of the post, four digits, for example 2004 

 %monthnum%
    Month of the year, for example 05 

 %day%
    Day of the month, for example 28 

 %hour%
    Hour of the day, for example 15 

 %minute%
    Minute of the hour, for example 43 

 %second%
    Second of the minute, for example 33 

 %post_id%
    The unique ID # of the post, for example 423 

 %postname%
    A sanitized version of the title of the post (post slug field on Edit Post/Page panel). So “This Is A Great Post!” becomes this-is-a-great-post in the URI (see Using only %postname%). Starting Permalinks with %postname% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons.. 

 %category%
    A sanitized version of the category name (category slug field on New/Edit Category panel). Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories in the URI. Starting Permalinks with %category% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons. 

 %tag%
    A sanitized version of the tag name (tag slug field on New/Edit Tag panel). Starting Permalinks with %tag% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons. 

 %author%
    A sanitized version of the author name. Starting Permalinks with %author% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons 

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

That would do it. Having WP installed in a subdirectory like that is actually best practice.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_W...s_Own_Directory

quote:

Using a pre-existing subdirectory install

If you already have WordPress installed in its own folder (i.e. http://example.com/wordpress) then the steps are as follows:

Go to the General panel.
In the box for Site address (URL): change the address to the root directory's URL. Example: http://example.com
Click Save Changes. (Do not worry about the error message and do not try to see your blog at this point! You will probably get a message about file not found.)
Copy (NOT MOVE!) the index.php and .htaccess files from the WordPress directory into the root directory of your site (Blog address). The .htaccess file is invisible, so you may have to set your FTP client to show hidden files. If you are not using pretty permalinks, then you may not have a .htaccess file. If you are running WordPress on a Windows (IIS) server and are using pretty permalinks, you'll have a web.config rather than a .htaccess file in your WordPress directory. As stated above, copy (don't move) the index.php file to your root directory, but MOVE (DON'T COPY) the web.config file to your root directory.
Open your root directory's index.php file in a text editor
Change the following and save the file. Change the line that says:
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
to the following, using your directory name for the WordPress core files:
require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
Login to your site. It should still be http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/
If you have set up Permalinks, go to the Permalinks panel and update your Permalink structure. WordPress will automatically update your .htaccess file if it has the appropriate file permissions. If WordPress can't write to your .htaccess file, it will display the new rewrite rules to you, which you should manually copy into your .htaccess file (in the same directory as the main index.php file.)

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

So I've got a bit of a situation I'm hoping someone can help with.

I'm working on a client's site that at some point in the past was transferred (badly) from wordpress.com to private hosting. The problem is that a bunch of the old posts still contain images that are externally hotlinked from the old wordpress.com site. Is there an easy way to scrape all those images, add them into the gallery, and relink?

This plugin is supposed to do exactly what I'm looking for but it doesn't function correctly (isn't adding the media into the gallery and isn't relinking correctly).

Any ideas?

mcsuede fucked around with this message at Oct 30, 2011 around 17:25

mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

I have a situation where on a client blog the floating bar generated by Digg Digg isn't working at all. It's showing up, you just can't click on any of the social buttons. Yet, the buttons it generates after the post work fine. The floating bar is working on other client sites with very similar setups. Can anyone take a look at it and see if I'm missing something obvious? Let me know here and I'll contact you with the url.

mcsuede fucked around with this message at Mar 19, 2012 around 21:33

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mcsuede
Dec 30, 2003

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
-Greta Garbo

Plugin author UI standards really need to be improved and enforced but it would be an epic task. You'd need to get hundreds (thousands?) of people in the community to do the policing through some sort of multiple stage verification system.

Not impossible, and needed, just epic.

I also agree that they need to prune but there are some really good abandoned plugins still in the repository that would get dropped if they did a blanked drop of anything that hasn't been tested with 3.whatever. Lots of old, small plugins work just fine and are very simple as they predate the crazy UI bloat/premium plugin/plugin development as a means of backlink building phase we're in now.

mcsuede fucked around with this message at Mar 19, 2012 around 21:38

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