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Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: WordPress 2.5 Widget Interface – I don’t like itGive this idea some love to show that we’re serious about the problems with the new Widgets interface.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Requires signup to a commercial service?It works very well, if you agree to activate it by registering.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Requires signup to a commercial service?The download Otto42 linked to above worked. But there has been an update of the plugin for WP 2.5 so that it now requires registration even to work (not just to download). The Settings page displays the following message:
“Please register the plugin to activate it. (Registration is free)
In addition you’ll receive complimentary subscription to MaxBlogPress Newsletter which will give you many tips and tricks to attract lots of visitors to your blog.”What I don’t like is that this condition is not mentioned anywhere. Not on the WP Plugins page, not on the download page of the MBP website itself. I find that bordering on the misleading.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: WordPress 2.5 Widget Interface – I don’t like itkr8tr said it very well:
A perfectly functional (and very simple) interface was completely abandoned in favor of a very busy, very dysfunctional interface.
Measuring by the number of complaints, this is one of the changes that definitely should be reconsidered.
Otherwise I am quite content, by the way. The overall interface has become a lot neater.
Forum: Developing with WordPress
In reply to: Locking or Hiding Areas of AdminYou are looking for Custom Admin Menu for WordPress.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Requires signup to a commercial service?Thanks, andrewpeacock, for clarifying. Let me make clear that I’m not shocked by people who try to ‘SELL’ plugins.
I intended to append a question mark to the title of the topic — reading the other replies, ‘shady’ was definitely not the right word for Aweber. I cannot edit my own OP anymore; Otto42, could you perhaps change the title of the topic into “Requires signup to a commercial service”?
My main issue however was (and still is) with the text of the confirmation mail, which appears to imply more than just signing up to download a plugin (“Click the link above to give us permission to send you information.”) That text, coupled with the fact that the confirmation link led to a commercial service, just didn’t give me a perfectly secure feeling. Which is why I posted here for clarification.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Bizarre Akismet ProblemAre you *sure* you are manipulating the right files in the right folder?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Sub-categoriesPlease post your solution to make the forums a more helpful place!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Post Image – does it expect every post to have an image?Follow-up: a temporary solution is to specify a default image. Then the empty
<img>elements are gone, obviously. However, that’s not what I need; for some posts I’d like to have a picture, for others I don’t.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: First post image before post title?Try Post Image.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Navigation: Current Category HighlightThis is a problem for me too, and I have found no solution although I thoroughly searched and read through a lot of topics.
So to sketch the problem for onlookers, this is about the output of
wp_list_cats. Currently,class=\\"current_cat\\"is only added when browsing a category archive. When viewing a single post in a category,wp_list_catsprovides no way to style the category the current post is in differently. It would make overwhelming sense, however, if the current category would getclass=\\"current_cat\\"in that case too.Anyone who can hand me a solution deserves eternal praise, ’cause this problem is really maddening! (The solution given by peterschink above holds only for archives; I believe this was fixed in 2.1 anyway. The problem stays for single posts (and maybe also subcategories, haven’t tried that).
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Changing default font tags in visual rich editorIn WP2.1, hit ALT+V (IE) or ALT+SHIFT+V (Firefox) to toggle the Advanced Toolbar in the visual editor and use the ‘paste as plain text’ or ‘paste from MS Word’ buttons to clean up text from Word.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: category URL without “category” in itThis comes up surprisingly often. So often, in fact, that it may be worth considering whether it wouldn’t be better to make example.com/categoryname the standard case, and to restrict the creation of page (or post) titles synonymous to category names, or at least provide an option to do so.
Anyway, a rather ugly (but functional on small-scale sites) workaround I use sometimes is to actually create a page at that location and to create a custom template for that page which basically says ‘include posts from cat X’. Obviously, it doesn’t change the output of any
wp_list_cats-like functions (i.e. those will still include the category prefix unless you hack classes.php as detailed here); but for a limited number of categories (and for those who don’t like to hack core files), it works quite well.