Bubbles

Same here. I see the plugin hasn’t been updated in 8 months… here’s to hoping the author sees we’re using it and gets us an update!

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Thank you for your plugin. ??

Thank you, @hardeep! I did think of that CSS trick… I want the left right nav arrows though. I just don’t want them to dance all over the screen. ?? It sort of makes me crazy.

But I do thank you for answering.

Thank you for the response, @saurabhd. I’m not seeing that there is such a setting in the prior version of your plugin. Regardless, we didn’t delete the plugin. We didn’t even deactivate it. We had WP 4.7.5 with your prior version plugin, then WP was updated by our host to 4.8, and the testimonials were gone – so I don’t believe that setting would’ve been relevant.

With some juggling of backups and restore, we have the testimonials now and the OLD version of your plugin with WP 4.8. On our widgets, however, they show all testimonials instead of rotating them. If we upgrade to your latest plugin version, we lose all of the testimonials.

Weird, right?

We tried updating the Testimonials Widget plugin and leaving WP at 4.7.5, and this also deleted all testimonials.

We have backups and can revert the plugin back a release also, but we’d really like to update both WP and the plugin and not have to recreate all of our testimonials. If anyone can help, we’d surely appreciate it.

Thanks for that lesson in forum etiquette, @roman, but I was indicating what I did to fix the problem about which OP posted and I also had, in case anyone else came here looking, and since it was beyond the scope of your support policy. Creating a new thread wouldn’t serve that purpose.

And since the original post was beyond your scope, I didn’t imagine it would do me any good to ask about fixing the search/read more issue in a new thread — that was just a random comment. Now, if I came back here to say that the functions.php add noted above was also the fix for the search/read more issue, then that would be off topic. So I won’t do that. ??

I realize this is an old thread, but newer threads are being pointed here, so … read more:

Per this: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Excerpt

I added this to the theme’s functions.php file:

function new_excerpt_more( $more ) {
	return ' <a class="read-more" href="'. get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) . '">' . __('Read More', 'your-text-domain') . '</a>';
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more' );

Then I added this to the theme’s content.php file in the appropriate place: <a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>"> Read More...</a>

The “Read More” tag is basic functionality for any WP theme. I’m disappointed to see the theme’s developer say – paraphrasing – “It’s not my job.”

Otherwise, I like the theme pretty well, although now I get to figure out why “Read More” works on pages in Search but not posts.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Bubbles.

No, sir — I don’t use cloaking at all.

Settings are: Links enabled on any page or post, no limit as to the number of links on a page/post, target is new window, links are no follow, and I have one class set just to bold the links. ??

The purpose to redirects in my .htaccess — outside of what I have set in the plugin — if it matters or is of interest, is to enable link creation on the fly. So “my-website.com/product” goes to “this-website.com/product” and “my-website/search/this-term” goes to “this-website/search/this-term” and there is some tracking code in my links too, to see which social media site is getting hits.

In order to achieve this, I learned that I have to turn on the RewriteEngine in .htaccess first, apply above rules, and then run the WP rules. if the order isn’t what I have, either WP doesn’t work or my on-the-fly links don’t work. Does that make sense; am I explaining well?

I guess to be technically correct they’re not redirects; they’re rewrites, and I’m pretty sure I shouldn’t use those terms interchangeably. ??

Hi Lucian!

Thanks so much for the quick response! Apology not necessary, but I appreciate it. ??

Modifying my Permalinks setting breaks the site (error code 500) and doesn’t save the new setting, but my .htaccess file remains untouched. It’s obviously trying to get to my .htaccess file though, so you’re probably right about the rewrite flush. My .htaccess is mostly rewrite rules, and they run before the WP rewrite, so apparently that IS the issue.

That said, your plugin may not have technically modified the .htaccess file, but if it invokes something which does, then it’s your plugin that’s doing the thing I’m talking about. ?? No need to discuss semantics anymore though, since I did get it all to work and your soft flush seems a good work around. Hopefully anyone else experiencing such a problem will have this for reference.

Again, thank you. LOVE the plugin!

Thank you for the response!

Feeddback: I’m not a fan of subscription-based pricing and had I not had a rush request from a client, that would’ve been a deal breaker for me because I presumed I had to cancel the subscription. That puts the extra steps on me.

I basically like the plugin and appreciate that it’s a good deal for the amount of work that went into it.

Two comments/one question: (1) The back end interface is a bit confusing. You explain somewhere the difference between Galleries and Albums, but I don’t see that information in the interface anywhere (and I can’t even lay my hands on it again right now). (2) The filmstrip movement feels clunky. Is there a way I can make it smoother easily? (I haven’t had/don’t have time to look through the code and figure it out myself right now.)

One more question — if I need the paid version, will I have to deactivate free/install paid or can I just plug in a license key? Don’t want to do a bunch of work, only to have to start over again.

Thanks!

Thank you, @thefayth, for sharing that information!

I didn’t explain why I made that original post up there very well. “… the plugin breaks the remainder of the page’s code …” is feedback to the plugin author. I feel that a plugin written for the purpose of displaying RSS Feeds should be written in such a way that if the feed breaks in some way, the remainder of the page still loads. That would be the best user experience, under those circumstances.

In this particular instance, the reason the plugin wasn’t working was, as you say, a Zazzle issue — they converted from http to https for their feeds (and it was nice of someone to do the troubleshooting and post that in the forum — https://forum.zazzle.com/tools/zazzle_affiliate_helper_jan_27_2017). I and others modified the plugin to use https instead, and that got most of us up and running.

Is your subscription service Easy Product Displays? Last I checked, the service IS great, but once a feed is pulled into EPD, the actual content is copied/pasted onto a website. What I like about Ilene Johnson’s plugin is that it pulls AND displays the feeds using shortcode into the site. It’s less maintenance, when Zazzle does its part.

Again, thank you for taking the time to share that link — there’s a good chance, with WP plugins for Zazzle being few, far between, and rarely updated, that it’ll be very helpful to others seeking solutions!

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Thank you, for letting me know and the fix!

Thank you, Andrei.

FYI, I posted here also, for the other plugin involved.

What I did in the meantime is make one menu item — Return to “Members Only” Section — which links to same page, no matter their role. On that page, some PHP code determines their role and shows them the Role-appropriate links.

For everything else, If Menu is perfect, and I’m very happy with it.

Thank you, again, and no need to apologize — none of us should expect support on plugins provided for free. I appreciate that you’re looking into it at all!

No rush, and safe travels!