CG-FlashyTitles: sIFR 2.0 for WordPress…

You’d have to ask at the main sIFR support forums. It would likely all be in the JS, and you’d have to have multiple versions of the SWFs. I think sIFR 3.0 is planning to take advantage of flash8 stuff… Then again, I’d generally say sIFR probably isn’t a good thing to use for ‘small text’. ??

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Thanks for the pointers – I’ve been scouting about for an idea of when v3 will be out as it should do everything I need it too – hopefully it will be in the next few weeks otherwise I’m going to have to resort to my infamous cut&hack programming technique ??

I did ask on the sIFR forum already – they said:

“Only non-IE browsers expose the Flash version in sIFR right now. You can use that value and some JavaScript to make it work. See the wiki for more info on these properties.”

So I’ll probably try the wiki next!

hey…after intstalling the plug-in everthing seems fine. but i cant see the flash samples in my admin panel…any idea(s)?

This is happening to me too. Anyone?

If you can’t see the flash in the admin panel, 9 times out of 10 it means you have an ad-blocking or flash-blocking thing active in your browser. At least, from the few cases I’ve helped debug.

Let me know if that isn’t the case. (feel free to use my website’s contact form to get to me direct).

Update: monkeypup’s problem was that the /sifr folder wasn’t uploaded to /wp-content (making /wp-content/sifr).

If you can’t see stuff in the admin panel, Firefox’s developer toolbar can View Javascript for the page — and you should see sifr/sifr.js, and it should be javascript (and not HTML or error page or something like that…).

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my trouble is that it is blank n my site. i have it set to use h1 but it shows nothing only blank. please help.

Wow. you are running a TON of JS on your site — in fact, probably some duplicates.

Anyway… Hard to tell what might be going wrong. You see it in the admin interface, but not the site? It’s possible some other JS is interfering, or your theme doesn’t have the proper header and footer hooks so sifr code isn’t auto-inserted.

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Yep i just verified what you said it is in the js code but i do not know exactly where. I may have to find an alternative maybe by hardcoding SiFR into the theme if at all possible ugh.

make sure you have the sifr folder in the root plugin folder (not inside the flashy titles folder). that was my problem.

no the problem i am having is a code conflict

Well, so long as the replacement style stuff is in your page header, and the replacement call is at the bottom of the page, it really should work. However, if EITHER of those two AUTO-INSERTED (by >me<, not sifr) pieces are missing, due to the theme not calling the header and footer actions, then it won’t work.

Aside from that, if it really is a JS conflict of some sort, firefox gives you a pretty good read on JS errors on a given page, just scan through it for anything obvious. Other than that, try turning OFF other JS features, and turn stuff back on bit by bit until sifr fails. Then, post that info to the sifr forums or to the forums for the conflicting script…

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Does this plugin work in WordPress 2.0.3?

I’m having a few problems but not sure what the cause of the problem is, yet…

“Unable to open file (blahblahblah/cg-flashytitles.dat).”

Also the swf previews are not showing in the admin panel?

– It worked in 2.0.2, haven’t grabbed 2.0.3/4 yet. I can’t think of what it’d affect immediately.

– if it can’t open the file, check that wp-content is writeable (needs to be for this), and if you already had a cg-flashytitles.dat there make sure its perms didn’t get messed up. Delete it if need be (and you don’t have much in it…).

– previews not showing in admin panel is either sifr subdir isn’t in the plugins dir, or swfs are being disabled by flash/adblocking mechanisms — usually.

– oh, and CG-FlashyTitles 3.0a is coming… with better formatting/fitting, the ability to do dropshadows, glows, bevels, and other effects (well, on client machines running flash player 8, that is!).

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great! looking forward to flash 8 support ?? ?? ??