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Correction about problem 1: You do can add a link in the author or source links. Write the entire link there, as in: <a href="link to the goes here">source goes here</a> and leave empty the url fields in the setting page. I could make it easier by adding a “link” button to the source or author fields in the next release.
This should further clarify the other problems, since this is the only way to have a specific link for every single quote source or author.

Hey scarlettibis.

Problem n.1: No, you cannot make a link in the source or author fields. Only inside the quote field. Links to sources or authors are possible only following a general pattern using the settings page.
Anyway, if it is not too hard to implement there is no reason why this function should not exist. I’ll consider it for the next release 1.7.2.

Problem n.2: Probably the settings page is not very clear. Anyway, you don’t have to add the “a href” or anything like it to the field on the left. Use instead only the fields on the right (those under which is written “you can link…”) and only by adding the URL and optionally the variables. All the rest will be done automatically.

Problem n.3: Your example obviously can’t work because of the apostrophe which cannot exist in a URL. There are forbidden characters in a URL that may be generated by the %SOURCE% variable and I hadn’t considered this. This is actually a bug and I will solve it with version 1.7.2, and thanks for pointing it out.
That said, http//%SOURCE% would not work anyway. Consider those two examples with google and wikipedia I have written in the page. It must be a proper link, something at least like https://%SOURCE%.com or https://somedomain.com/%SOURCE%

Hope this clarifies your questions…

Hi, I am the author of Stray Random Quotes. That particular feature works without a problem on my end. Maybe you are writing the link wrong? could you give an example of a link to an author as you wrote it down in the settings page?
thanks

p.s. If everything becomes a link after the link (when you put a link inside a quote) it means that the link tag is not closed. A link starts with a <a href= and ends with an </a>. When you create a link, make sure you have selected a piece of text in the quote before you click on the “link” button.

Hi, I am the author of the plugin in question… I am looking into the problem… It certainly depends on how the page navigator in the management page behaves, it does not affect your quotes or anything (the quotes do not disappear, something goes wrong when the plugins tries to show them in the page). Can you tell me if before having this problem you changed any of the options in the options page, in particular the management page options? Also, how many quotes do you have roughly?

I figured that the reversed posts are caused by a bug with mysql 5.0.51.

Hey PSHERO, I had come to the same solution, but it doesn’t work for me. It returns the posts in REVERSED order (earlier first). I can’t figure out why.
I tried to do $query->set('order','DESC'); but somehow that was ignored…

A different method of exclusion is detailed on this codex page: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Custom_Queries
but incredibly that method gives the same reverse results to me.

anyone?

It is a big problem with this method.

* if you display say 10 posts in home page
* and all but one of them are of excluded categories

you will find yourself with only 1 post in home page!!!

=> the exclusion should happen at sql level.

I could write the SQL and put it in a function, but to what action should I hook it?

see, tonight I updated one of my plugins (lighter admin menus) from 2.5.2 to 2.5.4. On my blog it’s still 2.5.2: but I am not being notified at all!!

I mean, what exactly are the requirements to get your plugin upgrade to be notified by wordpress?

No unfortunately it is not because of that, I have a test blog where I manipulate my plugins. My official blogs are never notified of the news.

I resolved this by declaring $wpdb global. The new version of the plugin is out and working.

so anybody has any idea? basically next/previous post link are not capable to exclude categories, that’s the gist in case you missed it…

filosofo, I know. That was just sloppy copy and paste from the function, my bad.
I am actually a plugin developer so I know a little php.
Don’t just assume it is a mistype or some basic misunderstanding we are talking about here.
Have you tried the function? Have you found the exclusion of categories working?

just click on the comment title.