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Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

arickmann — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:37:41 -0000

Can you paste the entire error in?

Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

arickmann — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:34:26 -0000

I wouldn't recommend bundling plugins in with themes. Technically it is fine, but if the plugin is updated to cope with a new version of WordPress anyone using the theme would be stuck.

Re: Replacing WordPress features

arickmann — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:40:19 -0000

Yes, in most cases that is exactly what happens, but that does assume that the core code is capable of being improved in the way you want and that it isn't the availability of the certain code to other plugins that you are improving.

Re: Replacing WordPress features

arickmann — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:41:18 -0000

I'm rather assuming that most people wouldn't use it because it contradicts the core. They might petition the core devs to include it, but I don't think they would use it.

I forgot to mention that thought when I wrote the post.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

arickmann — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:09:14 -0000

If it is only happening with that theme then either the theme is loading javascript that has errors in it or it is loading css that conflicts with the css in the plugin.

If it is happening with other themes as well then another plugin may be doing those things.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

arickmann — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:07:14 -0000

That is a problem with the WordPress widget system. Check out this post for information on how to reset all widgets to default status: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/03/03/wi...

Re: Fun with plugins

arickmann — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:05:34 -0000

Misionpilot, that wouldn't really be appropriate as this tool will not produce a finished plugin, only get it started.

It will add functions, but they will have placeholder code that will be an example of what the function does, but will not do what you want it to without further editing.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs: Retired

arickmann — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:36:34 -0000

Well, Widgets are being redone for 2.8. If they do a good job then I will look at what needs doing. If the widget system isn't significantly better then I may not do any further work on it.

Re: Adding settings to admin pages

arickmann — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:44:09 -0000

What I usually do is to make sure the plugin and all its functions are contained within a class and then assigned the values to the class so the callback function can access them by using $this->myVar i.e.

class myPlugin
{

private $myVar = 10;

function myCallBack(){

$newVar = $this->myVar;

}

}

Re: Easy Peasy Images Suggestion Roundup

arickmann — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:36:08 -0000

Dan, the functions within the loop depend on the $post global variable being set. If it is set then the function should work. However, the usual way is to create a new loop containing the posts you want, and then use it as normal.

This page should help: http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Lo...

Re: What would make a WordPress geek go to Habari ? - echo "hey, it works" > /dev/null

arickmann — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:39:53 -0000

I like the structure of it. For example, that the theme functions must be in a class. In particular I love how simple it is to discover things. When you need to know how to add a new post programatically you can just open the classes/post.php and the answer will be in that file. Once you understand how that works it makes developing much easier.

Re: Fun with in-context comments

arickmann — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:03:52 -0000

DU, I'm afraid there is no way within the plugin to do this. You would need to edit each post and select the question you have added.

Re: My theme project - Fun with Habari

arickmann — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:53:03 -0000

No, it doesn't do that.

My intention was that the theme should be purely presentational. It shouldn't add processing that is Habari's job to do. There is no reason why a plugin couldn't add the fields into the post, but I don't intend that to be part of the theme, except for bulk imports from Flickr.

Re: Six million ways to die: choose one

arickmann — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:42:34 -0000

No, for two reasons.

1) Have you visited habari-fun.co.uk?
2) While this may seem like one big plug for Habari, I didn't mention the name because it was meant to be one more comment in the ongoing debate about the general philosophy of WordPress. Identifying what other platforms do better and where the losses will come allows use to ask the question, do we care if developers leave WordPress? If they like something else better is it our loss? Are we comfortable that this or that group of users will leave or are they no longer the core market etc. I don't think it would be relevant to write a self-congratulatory post about how Habari is going to steal all the WordPress users, but it is reasonable to point out that WordPress may start to lose some.

Having said all that: good point.

Re: Six million ways to die: choose one

arickmann — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:33:45 -0000

That's true, I did just describe a lot. Very few of them are even close to being as usable as WordPress. All the fancy goodies in the world matter not a jot if the fundamentals aren't there.

For me the reason WordPress has done so well is because it is quite obvious how things work. It is easy to write plugins and themes for, doesn't require you to learn some excruciating template language; in short it is great for people to learn with. I learned my PHP by learning how to build on WordPress.

That really is the key to any platform that wants to compete. It must be similar enough to WordPress to be quite easy to use, it must take on those accessibility points, while doing all the other things as well. I would go so far as to say that right now, any platform that really wants to compete needs to use similar terminology and ideas to WordPress, for example, they must have hooks, and probably need to call them actions and filters.

A new platform must be WordPress with extras, without sacrificing a significant amount of simplicity, and that isn't an easy thing to do.

Re: Six million ways to die: choose one

arickmann — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:40:42 -0000

+1 to the monkey.

Re: Six million ways to die: choose one

arickmann — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:40:18 -0000

That's one of the key drawbacks of WordPress. It's history gives it flight but also drags it down. Something coded now that learns the lessons of WordPress can really improve things.

The important thing about X is whether, if all those features existed in one platform, you would switch?

Re: Six million ways to die: choose one

arickmann — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:40:43 -0000

Recent events would suggest otherwise.

Platform X is my own platform of choice for the comparison. It doesn't matter what it is so much as it matters that it exists.

Re: Fun with Categories

arickmann — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:20:06 -0000

Probably not. I didn't design it to.

Perhaps it might if you replace cat=1 with dualcategory1=1 and cat=2 to dualcategory2=2.

If that doesn't work though, then it won't work.

Re: The words that define your musical choices - Fun with Opinions

arickmann — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:19:57 -0000

That is certainly something I like, but actually most Hip Hop is outside my top ten.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs: Retired

arickmann — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:54:26 -0000

The tabs just contain the title the widget sets so you would need to edit the actual widget to do that.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

arickmann — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:09:34 -0000

Hmm, it has been a long time since I changed this plugin so I don't know why it promoted you to update it. The only thing I can think of is to reset all the widgets. If you add the following line at the top of your theme's functions.php file, refresh the website, and the remove it, it should reset all your widgets.

delete_option('sidebars_widgets');

Re: Post revisions: freind or foe?

arickmann — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:40:14 -0000

Thanks for the heads up on the mistype.

On the SQL front there are a lot of things I could do with SQL. I could write my posts entirely in SQL if I wanted to, but that would entirely defeat the purpose of WordPress wouldn't it?

Re: How modular should a theme be?

arickmann — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:38:23 -0000

Well, in fairness it does follow the WordPress model of wrapping fairly simply code in functions to create template tags. Is the_title actually any better than echo $post->title, for example.

That said, I have always felt it was a half-hearted attempt. Perhaps it does actually do what the majority want, which is to just output pages as a menu, but I want more, by default.

Re: Easy Peasy Images Suggestion Roundup

arickmann — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:00:01 -0000

No it will only show one. This is a replacement for the custom field technique not a replacement for the gallery shortcode.

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