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In reply to: [jQuery Responsive Select Menu] Suggestion, add dynamic menu classesIt’s actually straight up scss, pretty simple too.
Not sure if it works on < IE 11 (and frankly, I don’t care), but here is the gist of it.
Note: This is styling before I have cleaned anything up and mode it look pretty, so don’t be shocked at how fugly it is.
Normally I would target the select element, but this plugin is interesting in the fact that if I try to target select, I simply can’t with any degree of certainty, whereas I can target the .jquery-responsive-select-menu class and make it work, so in the interest of time, that’s what I did.
I’m sure I can probably go back and figure out all of the quirkyness and document it, but at the moment I’m on a schedule, so I don’t have time to be screwing around with trying to sort things out. When i have some off time I’ll go back and make it better.
Well, as I understand it form wp’s docs, it essentially adds it to head, which are simply a less evil (but still evil) way of adding inline styles.
In my experience, inline styles added with jquery involved tend to be extremely difficult to override, because they get added in a non-standard way.
Regardless, enqueue styles is definitely the way to go, that way you have a proper stylesheet that is being loaded in, instead of them being added in the markup.
Here are a few resources that should help explain things a little better (cause my explanations fail):
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_stylehttp://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-properly-add-javascripts-and-styles-in-wordpress/ << sort of explains it
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In reply to: [jQuery Responsive Select Menu] Suggestion, add dynamic menu classesAwesome! Thanks 😀
The reason for the class is that with css/scss/sass, you can’t target a name (believe me I tried everything I could think of).
I gather that in jquery you can target elements using their unique name, but I wanted something where I could specifically refer to a single menu out of a bunch on a page.
For mobile, I prefer to use dropdowns for the menus as they are honestly just plain better experiencewise. The problem is, they are fugly, so I have been messing around with ways to style them up and if you look in the other thread, I posted some screenshots of what I’ve done with them.
I was targeting that specific element and could not override it, even with important. I spent an hours screwing around trying to figure out how to get around it.
You have to remember that the way you remove select dropdown buttons for IE, is the make the select element something like 120% wide and a containing element 100% wide with overflow x hidden.
That way you can do neato things with select menus like this:
http://i.imgur.com/LcbEKjr.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/vvSjqpA.png
http://i.imgur.com/y31LiuK.png
Additionally, the end user can set those rules himself, and end user flexibility in this case is much better than reduced functionality due to inexperienced users.
I would not have been so annoyed with it if I could have reliably overridden it, but try as I might, I could not.
Another point is that when you are adding these styles, you are essentially adding inline styles, which is ugly and messy anyway. If you want to style them, then to do it correctly, you should really be calling a stylesheet and doing it that way instead of inserting them inline.
For me this is a ridiculously useful plugin, but at the moment I’ve basically had to locally fork it, which is less than ideal 🙁
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In reply to: [WooCommerce] Using WooCommerce for event / course bookingsWhy hasn’t the buy link been activated yet? I’m really looking forward to this!
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] Feed loading really slow (Even though it's cached)Oi yeah, thanks for the heads up. That got me looking deeper into it, and yeah, that feed is royally boned. I dunno why chrome actually displays it. I guess it’s just very forgiving. FF is like lolNOPE.
Thanks for dealing with me and all my silly issues 😀
Without that feed gumming up the works, the pageload is practically instant.
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] Feed loading really slow (Even though it's cached)Ok, utilizing the latest beta that you just provided me, I have been able to narrow the source of the issue to this feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Zero-kNews (the original source feed is: http://zero-k.info/News)
If I remove it, the page with the shortcode on it loads all feeds instantly. If I re-add it, everything gets really slow, including pagination, unless that page doesn’t have one of the items from that feed on it.
This feed has 75 items on it, and I wouldn’t think that that would cause an issue because I have the plugin to only grab the last 20.
I was under the impression that the content of the feed was being cached as well in the db (cached by way of “auto-fetch on a schedule). Is that not the case? Because it seems to me that the feed being slow shouldn’t matter to the plugin if all the data it needs is in the local wp database.
I feel like I’m missing a fundamental point here.
I could use autoposting, but then it wouldn’t link back to the source automagically when clicking on the title, and a bunch of other behavior that I want the shortcode for, and if I remove a feed it could get messy, etc etc.
Another point of contention, is that I’m running most of these feeds through feedburner in an attempt to have google sort out any issues caused by the feeds themselves. What is so special about this feed?
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] Any eta on the new version?Nope, I’m using 2.68 🙂 It’s really good and I lurve it, just the news page loads super slow. I think it’s because one of the feeds takes forever to give it up.
So my thinking is that if the feed is being cached in the wp db, then other than initial grabbing of the feeds, it should be super quick when pulling it from the wp db.
Lurve me sum shortcode 😀
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] Any eta on the new version?No, what I mean is that everything works perfectly, but as I use the shortcode, it is still pulling all the items from the feed on each pageload, and at least one of the feeds is painfully slow, resulting is long page load times.
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] Any eta on the new version?I’m actually running a bit older beta version where everything was working beautifully with the exception of feeds being pulled from the db. So yeah, I like betas, hit me 😀
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] Feed loading really slow (Even though it's cached)Yeah, I didn’t want to do that simply because of upgrading woes.
G+ is there? Oh. Derp. Might wanna add a mention of it in the shortcode settings page 😀
Thanks much
Text box for html elements would be bouse. 🙂
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] Feed loading really slow (Even though it's cached)A and C confirmed. I’m willing to take your word for B atm 😀
2 things… One of which is mainly a feature request:
Are the feeds being pulled and displayed from the DB now as opposed to pinging the actual feeds?
I would muchly appreciate it if on the social stuff you would add a google+1. 🙂
Edit: Just found another thing… In limited HTML, could you add support for lists?
Thanks much. God this is just getting better and better and better 😀
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] Feed loading really slow (Even though it's cached)The way he is doing it in the beta is actually quite robust. Patience, grasshoppa!
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] Feed loading really slow (Even though it's cached)Oh, found another possible bug, when uninstalling the plugin, it doesn’t delete the feeds or the feed items from the db. Is that intentional?
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In reply to: [WP RSS Multi Importer] Feed loading really slow (Even though it's cached)This is my feed list:
The Spring Project
http://springrts.com/phpbb/feed.php?mode=newsConflict Terra News
http://rss.moddb.com/games/conflict-terra/news/feed/rss.xmlEvolution RTS News
http://feeds.feedburner.com/EvolutionRTSGoogleplusThe Spring Project on Google+
http://feeds.feedburner.com/thespringprojectZero-K News
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Zero-kNewsThe Cursed News
http://rss.moddb.com/games/the-cursed/news/feed/rss.xmlAdditionally, even though I have the option checked to not strip out HTML, it is still being removed.
The shortcode I am using is:
[wp_rss_multi_importer hdsize=”24px”]I don’t want autoposting because I want all these to link back to the source. The whole point is that I can aggregate the items from a bunch of different projects, and they just make posts on whatever medium they use, it gets pulled into the main project site so that people only have to go to one place for project news, and if those people want to read the full article, they do so at the original source 🙂
(Autoposting is a sweet feature though 🙂
