Dave Doolin
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Did you figure this out?
Adam, did you get any resolution on this?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [hRecipe] [Plugin: hRecipe] free text inside recipe photositemprop is a schema attribute, not part of a microformat. What you want is class=”photo”.
Note you will have a list of class names most likely. Just add photo to the end.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [hRecipe] [Plugin: hRecipe] free text inside recipe photos@pro99 – Photos are easy to add on the HTML editor side. Google has a excellent example of how to add the correct class. Note that the markup added by WordPress will be slightly different, the “photo” value for the img class attribute is only what matters.
When I figure out an super simple way to add photos during recipe entry, I intend on adding that capability. Every way I have looked at so far adds a lot of complexity to the programming, the user interface, or both. I do have my eye on it though.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [hRecipe] [Plugin: hRecipe] free text inside recipe photos@pro99 – Please read Google’s guidelines on how microformatting and schema are assessed. The hrecipe plugin implements a subset of Google’s requirements *exactly.*
Thus, you are absolutely correct: text outside the enclosing div will not assumed part of a recipe, and won’t be shown as a recipe. It will, however, be shown as part of ordinary search results, provided your blog ranks.
If your blog doesn’t rank, no recipe plugin is going to help you, Google states that quite plainly. The markup is to enhance the results, not to determine ranking.
Whether your entire blog post should be considered as part of a recipe is a matter of opinion. I use the “index card” rule; a recipe should more or less fit on a 3×5 index card. Other people may have other opinions. Note that my opinion is shared by Google. If you were to ask a specialist in semantic technology/web, I’m pretty sure most of them would agree as well. If you’re chasing SEO, all bets are off.
Also, parsing existing recipes is very hard to do with a computer. You can find various discussions of this on line. My recommendation is to outsource the data entry for existing recipes, then tweak the results yourself.
Feel free to contact via the hrecipe.com website or via email.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [hRecipe] [Plugin: hRecipe] Stopped working after updateUpdate: July 23, 2011:
* hRecipe works correctly in WordPress 3.2.1 on my locally hosted testing installation. This installation has several dozen plugin, including several recipe plugins, and as many of the “trouble” plugins mentioned here in the forum as I know about. Anyone with conflict trouble, let me know, I’ll install the various perps and see about coding around the problem.
* Version 0.6 is underway. Again, not much front end difference, but the back end is cleaning up nicely. It’s more WordPress compatible than ever before.
* 0.6.1 is likely to see all the Javascript rewritten as jQuery anonymous closures. This will render hrecipe’s javascript 1. testable, and 2. bulletproof. If you’re hot about Jasmine, ping me.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [hRecipe] [Plugin: hRecipe] Stopped working after updateOk, you should be able to:
* Deactivate hRecipe 0.5.9.0
* Delete hRecipe 0.5.9.0
* Plugin -> Add New -> hRecipe 0.5.9.1
* Activate hRecipe 0.5.9.1And it should work now.
Apologies for the hassle. I put a check against this blunder in my release checklist. Which is growing ever longer.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [hRecipe] [Plugin: hRecipe] Stopped working after update@jr –
I found at least one problem, which is a total blunder on my part.
Will be a few more minutes, I need to add some process to my release checklist. This blunder is systemic. If I don’t add it I’ll do it again.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [hRecipe] [Plugin: hRecipe] Stopped working after update@jr –
I’ve had one other report of this as well, but I haven’t been able to replicate the issue on WP 3.1.2, 3.1.3, or 3.2.
I’m around all day today, watch this space, should have it figured out soon.
Also, feel free to ping me through the hrecipe website.
[Update: the fix is in, probably be about an hour before it shows in the plugin updates.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [hRecipe] Separating content to display in different areas.Two things:
– What you want is totally doable, it’s just a matter of programming. That said, there’s a couple of key steps I would need to write some proof-of-concept code for, which takes some time. What I might do in the mean time is add an option for block element, allowing you to choose between <div> and <p> internally.
– Your example doesn’t validate as a rich snippet: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fculinaryculture.com%2Frecipe%2FBahn_Mi-by-Mischa_DeHart%2Fr%2C4D&view=
Not the end of the world, of course, but some testing on that structure would need to be done as well. I won’t knowingly ship an hrecipe which doesn’t emit a valid rich snippet.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [hRecipe] Separating content to display in different areas.If you want to reorder the elements, that’s pretty simple.
It wouldn’t be that hard to write a new handler for the entry form, create an option to choose handlers, then do what you want with the recipe data. I might have some time for in a week or two, let me know what you think.
Also, if you could describe in detail what you want, that be very helpful as well.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [hRecipe] [Plugin: hRecipe] Inserting a recipe@2porter –
* The 0.5.8.4 release has a little bit of padding around the hrecipe section to help IE users. This should also help other people get the hrecipe positioned a bit better.
* postboxes issue is fixed.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [hRecipe] [Plugin: hRecipe] Inserting a recipe@2porter – Excellent! This is extremely helpful.
1. I’ll have dig into the IE issue. IE is *always* a problem to support and typically requires special handling. WP is usually pretty good about it, one of the benefits of WP to be sure.
2. I’d like to release again soon, but not too soon, as I’ve put out a bunch of incremental releases one after another. If you like, I’d be happy to zip you up the development release and email it to you. Actually, you can pull it down from github anytime you want as well: https://github.com/doolin/hrecipe The download button is upper middle right on the page.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [hRecipe] [Plugin: hRecipe] Inserting a recipe@2porter – quick followup – I’m going to put some whitespace around the recipe on the next release. That might well help you out.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [hRecipe] [Plugin: hRecipe] Inserting a recipe@2porter – I just checked, and have no problem with inserting a recipe anywhere into the blog post or page with either the visual editor or the html editor.
NOTE: if you use the visual editor, you MUST take care where your cursor is traveling when you continue to add text to your blog post. The visual editor is very easy to use, but it does strip a fair bit of power from you, the user, to achieve that ease of use.
Also, and I’ll write about this a lot in the near future. Rich snippets are like SEO, except they’re there own thing. If you’re a blogger, you have had to learn at least a little bit about SEO to reap the benefits. Rich snippets are like that. You don’t need to know much, but if you know nothing at all, your options will be constrained.
Another way to look at it: you can deal with rich snippets by 1. spending time actually learning the technology (it’s butt simple, really, it is), or 2. you can spend that *same* time learning a user interface to that technology.
Again, I’ll be writing a lot more about this over the next few months. Rich snippet technology isn’t difficult, and it’s every bit as important in the long term as learning simple SEO.