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matthias — this is a very interesting solution and certainly does let you have dynamic content from any ole’ HTML page, but my newest issue is that i’m trying to run this performancingads plugin that is calling PHP. the obvious solution is for *them* to just code a javascript version. still, im bitching and moaning and trying to find a workaround. lol.

the iframe would work with the plugin if i made a wordpress-created page, but the problem with that is that it would load the WHOLE SITE in that iframe to enter the wordpress loop to get that page.

if i make an ads.html file or something outside of wordpress, it would look right, but i’m fairly certain I couldnt then use it to call a wordpress plugin – as the HTML file is outside of wordpress and the call probably wouldnt make any sense to mysql.

here’s my original post on it. if you have any ideas, it would be terrific. lots of people are making pretty decent money on this network so far.. and i’ve love to sign up.

seriously — isnt pretty much everyone running some kind of cache? you think they’d consider that.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/194681?replies=1

This is possible. I have restaurant reviews categorized by state and then by type (I’m running 2.6).

Say I want to create a category Italian (which I have elsewhere, obviously) in a state I haven’t covered yet, say New Mexico.

I’d create a new category called ‘blahblah’ with a slug of italian-new-mexico. it’s the SLUG that counts, not the category. after the category is successfully created, you can then go in and rename it ‘Italian’. you must have a unique slug.

It will work. I have an Italian category in NJ, PA, DE, etc.. It’s not a big deal. Only takes a few seconds longer than it would if it were smart enough to only look at the slug.

That worked like a charm. Thanks! Here’s the code I ended up using. There’s a lot of others out there, like you said.

<SCRIPT language=JavaScript>
/*
 +---------------------------------------------------------+
 | Ad Simple                 Copyright www.YugDesign.com   |
 +---------------------------------------------------------+
 | This program may be used and hosted free of charge by   |
 |anyone for personal purpose as long as this copyright    |
 |notice remains intact.                                   |
 +---------------------------------------------------------+
*/

var img_width = "468";
var img_height = "60";
var img_title = "Click Here";

var ad=new Array()
//insert here your images src
ad[0]='https://www.site.com/image1';
ad[1]='https://www.site.com/image2';
ad[2]='https://www.site.com/image3';
ad[3]='https://www.site.com/image4';
ad[4]='https://www.site.com/image5';

var links=new Array()
//insert here your links
links[0]='https://www.links1';
links[1]='https://www.links2';
links[2]='https://www.links3';
links[3]='https://www.links4';
links[4]='https://www.links5';

var xy=Math.floor(Math.random()*ad.length);
document.write('<a href="'+links[xy]+'" target="_blank"><img src="'+ad[xy]+'" width="'+img_width+'" height="'+img_height+'" alt="'+img_title+'"></a>');
</SCRIPT>

Otto, thanks! Any suggestions on a java-based ad rotator? All the ones I can find here are calling PHP. Any downside to using Java besides that a few browsers might have it disabled? I imagine it’s considerably slower than PHP?

I was thinking — can I just try to fit the call in the index template file? After all, that isnt entirely static – it has to display the newest posts? I tried putting one of the PHP calls prior to the get_header function, but although the ads loaded, my sidebars didnt for some reason.

Thanks for your help. You do a lot for the WordPress community and we thank you!

gamerz – tried what you suggested and it worked in regards to my issue with postratings; manually installing the upgraded version (and not using the autoinstall) corrected all of the issues.

i also notice my site is running much quicker after 1.31 than it did with 1.30 (on 2.6). is there any change in the plugin that could account for it?

i noticed that my site went down about -100- queries after the upgrade?

i’m going to donate a few bucks next week for your hard work! =)

You’re not running bad behavior, are you? If so, see my thread a few months back:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/170153?replies=3

just saw this in another thread. looks like exactly your problem; permalinks. they’ve got a couple of workarounds:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/189058?replies=1

looks like something with your permalinks. did you see the URL that the 404 pages show?

https://www.vastreality.com/index.php/profiles/

in most cases, it should just be https://www.vastreality.com/profiles/

check your permalinks settings in the wp admin and try resetting them to the default ‘ugly’ ones to see if that works. if all else fails, back up your old .htaccess, make a new blank one (that’s writeable), and set wp to try to do ‘pretty’ (/%postname%/) permalinks again.

let me know if this helps.

Gamerz – I think there may be a bug with the latest release of WP-PostRatings. I updated it automatically through the plugins section of WP 2.6 to version 1.31.

Here’s what happened after the upgrade from 1.30 to 1.31 in WP 2.6. When checking out my homepage, I noticed an entire widget section was blank where the ‘Most Rated’ PostRatings would be. I went to the widget section and noticed that a non-functional ‘Most Rated’ widget was more or less ‘frozen’ in the ‘drag and drop’ area with no way to remove or replace it. Unable to really do anything, I disabled the PostRatings Widget plugin. My theme’s default widgets showed up. Good so far.

I re-enabled the widget plugin and the same symptoms were back. Essentially, you’re unable to select either the ‘Most Rated’ or ‘Top Rated’ widgets *OR* modify/remove/relocate any existing PostRatings widgets that were in place prior to the upgrade.

Here’s a screenshot:
https://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=wmm29dtedxm&thumb=6

Upon trying to add another widget (say a text widget), the PostRatings widget axes anything you try to add and save – only showing the screwy, non-functional widget. Notice in the screenshot that it says I’m running 3 widgets in that sidebar, but the only one visible after the upgrade is the non-functional PostRatings one.

I don’t know if it’s ‘critical’ per se, but it does severely wreck the widget side of the plugin. For now, I’m going to find a backup and roll back to 1.30 until you can take a look at this.

Thanks!

jabecker – do you have a hack for 2.6 yet? i upgraded today and totally forgot that it would nix your terrific work on the 2.5/2.51 backend.

thanks! we all appreciate your hard work!

wp-guy, thanks. i just used your modified code and it worked great. =)

i use the same plugin without the problem you have, but all the same, you can always go into your web host cpanel/plesk backend and do a simple redirect:

redirect: https://yourdomain.com to https://yourdomain.com/index.php ?

interesting that my plugin version is 3.3.1. it doesnt show an update available. maybe you can try to roll-back to 3.3.1 and see how it goes?

use the latest firebug (with firefox) and pinpoint the CSS that’s causing the problem. this kind of stuff is almost always CSS.

seems to work okay for me in FF3. could it be a browser issue? good luck!