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@designbrein: From what I can surmise this could be an error when the Pinterest feed is empty, or if you have not specified a quantity of pins in your widget or template tag. Does this make sense? How are you using the plugin? As a widget or shortcode or template tag? And are you specifying a quantity of pins?

If you give me the URL for your site I can troubleshoot. Usually this is an issue with the theme CSS and can be fixed easily.

It looks like something changed in the timthumb.php file that allows it to connect to pinterest.com. Are you comfortable with editing the timthumb.php file? If so, look at around line 123 and make sure it reads as follows:

// If ALLOW_EXTERNAL is true and ALLOW_ALL_EXTERNAL_SITES is false, then external images will only be fetched from these domains and their subdomains.
if(! isset($ALLOWED_SITES)){
	$ALLOWED_SITES = array (
		'pinterest.com',
                'media-cache.pinterest.com'
	);
}

Let me know if this solves the problem.

Can you give me your website address so I can take a look?

Let me know where you have it installed and I can help you get it set up right. It’s likely an issue with the theme you’re using and easy to fix.

Unfortunately the title that comes from the Pinterest RSS feed is truncated to a limited number of characters, which is why it displays as such. Not sure of any way around this, but would love to know if you figure out how!

This is the first plugin I’ve created. It does not reside anywhere else. If you would like to edit, test, etc. I suggest you create your own version of the plugin because I don’t have time to continue talking about this back and forth like this or manage a long-term project.

I don’t mean to be rude, so please forgive me if this is sounding offensive in any way. I just cannot spend my time constantly answering questions.

If you want to spend your time working on adding these options and the documentation for them, be my guest. That’s the beauty of open source! ??

I don’t have the time to invest to add options that only one person (so far) is looking for, but you are more than welcome to go for it and I will upload your changes.

I see what you’re saying and I think it’s a great edit for your type of use. However, since this plugin was created primarily for use as a widget with smaller thumbnails it doesn’t make sense to create the extra load time by pulling in the larger images for most use cases. Isn’t it enough for you to add the code yourself since that’s how you want to use it? So far you are the only person who has asked for this type of functionality.

My apologies. I didn’t see a need for an answer.

I appreciate your suggestion but it’s not something I personally am going to take the time to implement, since the plugin is functioning fine the way it is currently configured.

I hadn’t noticed that the widget was working fine. That makes it more confusing to me as to why the shortcode would not be working, since obviously they use the same function. The fact that the error is related to the get_item_quantity() function makes me think it’s an issue with the RSS feed from Pinterest, but I can’t replicate the error you’re getting on your site so that is strange too. I wonder if it might have to do with the German version of WP?

I’m sorry I am not able to help more – this is very confusing.

The same shortcode works fine on my test site. What version of WordPress are you using?

Can you give me a link to your site where this is happening, and also the link to your Pinterest account?

I just took a look at your site and the plugin appears to be functioning fine. I see the images and the titles below them. Only issue is that it looks like you didn’t set the dimensions of the thumbnails, so they are showing up larger than your sidebar.

The images are floated left, so text-align:center won’t work. You need to center the entire list. Add this to your CSS instead:

.sidebar.widget-area ul.pins-feed-list {
  margin: 0 auto; /* centers the fixed-width ul */
  width: 180px; /* sets the fixed-width so it can be centered */
}

The width will always need to be the number of thumbnails per row multiplied by the width of the thumbnail + 10 (for the margins). So in your case it’s 3 x (50 + 10) = 180.

I always knew my high school algebra would come in handy someday! ??