Lynn

Puanthanh,

A new version of “One Quick Post” was made available yesterday 10/29/2010:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/one-quick-post/

The forms creation page is still completely incomprehensible, but maybe it will solve the problems you were having. I got a form to show up, but I can’t figure out how to modify it.

Does anyone has a ready-made form for this? Or any insight into how to use the Form admin?

TDO Mini Forms lacks documentaion on many things, and especially troubleshooting because it is a very troublesome plugin. 404 erros for example. Still trying to fix those. I can create form, but it doesn’t load the image uploader, the Captcha image, and you can’t submit a form. The 404 error messages appear when configuring, too.

spotcream,

Thanks, but your solution didn’t work for me. I read somewhere to put
allow_url_fopen = On
allow_url_include = On

into a php.ini in my root directory. I did that and followed your idea to put it into the TDo plugin directory and also under it’s admin directory.

WP 3.0.1
TDO Mini Forms 0.13.9

I still get file not found 404 errors but I can see the files and open them in an editor on the server via my server control panel.

I can’t get One Quick Post to work either. I am trying to use it for guest submitted posts. I am using WP 3.0.1 which the latest version (0.13.9) says it is compatible with.
And the Forms creation admin is phenomenally bad.

TDO Forms is pretty bad, but if you can get it to work it is pretty robust. I get permission errors when I try to configure it no matter what permissions I set. I have made it work in earlier versions of WP, but not WP 3.0.1. https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/tdo-mini-forms/

I would love to find a good plugin for user-submissions that did not expose them to the WordPress backend. I don’t think that One Quick Post will be it.

I haven’t received or seen any news on this. But it is still working for me. I wonder if there are permissions issues. . .? Most of my stuff in that plugin directory is set to 755 or 754.

Thanks, ipstenu. I am amazed this wins on usability tests. Not one of the WP users who I know, at any level, likes the left/vertical menu. I used to manage a usability testing group and it really just blows my mind that this menu was a winner. Maybe they were comparing it to the icky old WP menus and not to Ohz’s Admin Menu. Or all of the users were left-handed ??

Anyway, since posting that I found this beautiful alternative:
Fluency 2.3 by Dean Robinson
https://deanjrobinson.com/projects/fluency-admin/
It is still a vertical menu on the left, but you can hover over a top menu item to see the submenus. No need to scroll forever and click a top item to see the sub-items. It’s elegant and is working like a charm with WP 3.0.1.

And when WP 3.1 is released a new version of Fluency will have the option to display the menu at the top as a horizontal drop down:
https://deanjrobinson.com/article/new-fluency-admin-feature-drop-down-menus/

Dean’s own blog is also terrific. When he gets to the horizontal drop down version of Fluency it will blow Ohz Admin out of the water.

In any case, i don’t need to bother the WP folks anymore.

Thanks again.

“Same problem. Tried renaming .htaccess — still gives long vertical menu. I tried meldominguez’s deactivate/reactivate one-by-one troubleshooting technique — still does not work.”

Same here.

Version 3.4.5
WP 3.0.1

Oops. Forgot to add to my post above that the Ohz admin menu is terrific and would solve the problem IF it worked in all cases. Like many plugins, it can have incompatibility issues. I am trying to work some out even now. Relying on a plugin to deliver a reasonable scenario that could be built in is risky because of those WP to plugin and plugin to plugin compatibility issues.

“Significant thought and testing went into the decision to change to a left-hand menu in version 2.7”

I hope that this will be user-tested again.
When you have plugins that add items to the meu, you have to scroll pretty far down to get to them.

I don’t understand why horizontal navigation couldn’t be built in as an option so that we can choose, and the explanation that the idea was to “make WP of a web application and less of a web site” isn’t a very user-oriented rationale. I think what users want–and especially my clients who are novice users but can handle WordPress basics on their onw–is something easy to use. They really don’t care if it looks like a Web app. Having to scroll down, reach over to the left of the page, and then expand a menu to see the selections under it is not their (or my) idea of easy to use.

Just my 2 cents.

I was missing the icons, too.

WordPress 3.0.1
Sahre and Follow Version 1.21.6
Theme: The PaperCore by Pexeto

I had installed the plugin using the Add Plugins auto installation and then had upgraded from WP 3.0 to 3.0.1 some time after that.

I deleted the Plugin from within WordPress. Then instead of using the auto-install, I downloaded Share and Follow, unzipped it, and uploaded the share-and-follow folder to wp-content/plugins using an FTP program. The icons appeared after that. And all of my Share and Follow settings were intact, too.

Wat was truly odd before I tried the fix described above was that when I copied the URL to any of the icons and pasted that into a browser I got a File Not Found error even though my FTP program and server Control Panel’s File Manager indicated that the icon files were indeed there.

Anyway, given my configuration as listed above, deleting the plugin from within WordPress and then uploading it via FTP solved the missing icons problem.

Cynderella,

I said in a previous post:
I AM USING THESE MODIFICATIONS TO Version 0.8.6.1 Beta of Business Directory (https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/business-directory/). NOt sure if you are using the same version or are using 0.8.5?

I also see a line with double slashes in your source code:
<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’https://businessdirectorylistings.net/wp-content/plugins/business-directory//main.js?ver=3.0.1′></script&gt;
I can still read the file in Firefox and Safari, but I really don’t know if all browsers/servers are as forgiving?? Might not be relevant, but just something I noticed.

I also tried to read your Business Directory plugin config file, but got this error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_option() in /home/bestva/public_html/businessdirectorylistings.net/wp-content/plugins/business-directory/config.php on line 5

Wish I could be helful here. All I did was take the hotfix (https://gist.github.com/281865) referred to above by everdawn and make that snippet easier to use w/o having to hunt through code and risk pasting errors. I do see on another thread that someone suggests just fixing a variable in the 0.8.5 functions.php file to handle an array:
—-
from a comment about 0.8.5 beta on https://businessdirectory.squarecompass.com/2010/new-version-released-v08-5beta/:
The issue people are having with phone numbers and other contacts not showing is a BUG in the way the fields are referenced.

The 0.8.5beta is using $l->company_url format which is not correct as the $l is an array, not an object.

$l[“company_url”] is the correct format. Lines 251 – 256 of Functions.php is where this code needs to be changed.
—–

It has been a while since I worked with this plugin and I don’t have time now to mess with comparisons between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6.1, but maybe IF YOU ARE USING 0.8.5 the change from $l->company_url $l[“company_url”] will help you ? ? I’d just be sure to backup the functions.php file before messing with it.

starvinartist,

I am happy to hear that.

Lynn (arstmo)

Same problem here.
I never set Page Link To when I created the gallery, and then all of a sudden my lightbox links for the gallery stopped working and instead clicking on each thumbnail took me right back to the same pace. So I looked at the gallery in Manage Gallery and saw that Page Link To was set to the very page where I was displaying the thumbnails.

I tried:
Setting Page Link to “Not linked”
Updating permalinks
Creating a new gallery
Empying the browser cache
Resetting the Effect to something other than Lightbox, then setting it back.
Searching the database for anything on the page or in that gallery that indicatd there was a Page LInk To set. Nothing there, and in fact when I display the page and view the source I see that the image is set to display its larger version in a lightbox.

None of these worked, reinforcing an already dim view of this plugin. It has so much going for it, and is yet so very bad. For example, anytime you change an image or thumbnail size on any one gallery, that is then the global size. Give me a break!

I did not want to fix the code I tried to enter so I created a text file.

Look at/use this instead: https://www.dawg-demo.com/dawg-design/functionsFix.txt

It’s a plain text file.

It’s easy to get a character wrong (like your $ error) when cutting and pasting. So I am including a section that might be easier to copy and paste. It was in this section that I made the hotfix changes described above. I include everything between the commented title for the Listing section, down to the next commented title. You can search for
* Listing/Searching Functions

and
* Managing Functions

in your file to perhaps more easily find a section to cut out and replace with the code I have below.

NOTE THAT I AM USING THESE MODIFICATIONS TO Version 0.8.6.1 Beta of Business Directory and the section below needs to go into wp-content/plugins/business-directory/functions.php

[ pasting code here doesn’t work; see my next post ]