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Does anything happen when someone puts up a bug ridden “plugin” here ?? Does it get taken down?

Also, I see for certain plugins, though they most certainly do not work as “advertised,” the “doesn’t work” button on the plugin page also seems to be disabled, and giving it a star leads to the bb error page.

Good lord, charge some money and provide some service for chrissake. This freeware and deaf/dumb/blind forum service proves the adage you get what you pay for — in this case, nothing!!

For some reason, it has started to work, but seems to max out at 20 “pages.”

After doing 20 pages at a time a few times, it seems to start adding deleted pages back in and assigning them higher page ID numbers!!!!

After shoveling the sh*t in this way for an hour or so, I finally deleted the 600 plus pages, but this plugin is sick with bugs.

Does anything happen when someone puts up a bug ridden “plugin” here ?? Does it get taken down?

Also, I see for certain plugins, though they most certainly do not work as “advertised,” the “doesn’t work” button on the plugin page also seems to be disabled, and giving it a star leads to the bb error page.

Good lord, charge some money and provide some service for chrissake. This freeware and deaf/dumb/blind forum service proves the adage you get what you pay for — in this case, nothing!!

Many thanks, Ipstenu, for the helpful answer.

Sorry, I was just coming from a pair of wise ass threads when I got here to make this post. Should not assume guilt by association.

That said, the time it must have taken you for the “wise ass answer” above is not a little scary . . . and does no one maintain this codex glossary, such that a term like microformat is not in it ?

Anyone else on this?

This is crucial.

been there. a few terms found:

BUT MICROFORMAT IS NOT ONE OF THEM !!

Is everyone here at WP a wise ass???

That email notification has to be clamored for is simply disgusting. Is there something seriously wrong with these owner/controller people? WP has been around how long? Forums are its only support?

Is a forum even a forum without email notification?

Really, really sick.

Let me chime in on this request, or if you’ve found a solution, Paul, please let me know.

I’m evaluating WP and the first issue I see is that there will be no way to search across all files on the server, including all static/generated WP “pages” and all other .html pages which comprise the site.

We’d need a separate search engine for .html files, the WP search engine for WP “pages” — this is a usability nightmare. And as a practical matter, is there even a way to put a third-party search engine’s search box within a WP template??

Right now it looks like WP is all or nothing. Either every iota of content is WP generated and WP searchable, or forget WP.

We may just have to forget WP for this reason alone.

mb,

I’ve had a wp.com-ware “site” to try since Monday (https://greyingmantis.wordpress.com), but I am sure it is vastly more restrictive than the wp.org-ware. Yes, there are a few clunky “widgets” without which you could do absolutely nothing with the side column(s), but there is apparently no such thing as a “template,” only “themes,” and it’s anyone’s guess where your nav will end up from theme to theme, or whether it will be visible at all. Also, no way I can see to put nav on a “page” that is not on every single page via the “theme.”

The desktop option is very, very tempting, but this is for work and IT here ties these machines up every which way re: installations. I have a tentative promise they will install wp.org-ware on one of our staging servers here sometime next week (will believe it when I see it). Thanks for the heads up on xampp though, had no idea a fake server were possible on PC apart from IIS.

Yes, thanks, I was looking over some site samples before seeing this, and from my newbie lens NONE of the wp.org-ware sites would be possible as wp.com-ware sites. Even the wp.org codex page (https://codex.www.ads-software.com/New_To_WordPress_-_Where_to_Start) has a grey content box of links and some other nifty layout features apparently impossible in wp.com-ware.

I’m really not looking for the world here ?? Really, just the ability to have one “page” with different nav from another. We wouldn’t be having any “blogs” per se, though we can call our 20 or so guides “blogs” if that makes a big difference in the functionality and layout available to it.

Yes, may end up with “for dummies” or something like it. Codex is a tough read ??

Appreciate all the help.

regards,

Steven

Part of the problem, regretably, I don’t have a server yet on which to have WP installed to play with it. Instead, the only thing I have to play with and go on is wordpress.com-ware, and it is becoming increasingly clear that www.ads-software.com-ware is radically different.

From what I can see in wordpress.com-ware, there is no way to apply a template to a page, or a theme for that matter. You pick one and that rules all pages. Or what am I missing? I’ll put the question to them, but I was scouring the interface for some way to customize the nav on individual pages and could find none.

I could use a bunch of urls to www.ads-software.com-ware sites, especially if any have anything resembling a user guide. If I can see it done and show it to others I can get some buy in. Hard to do that with the WP documentation, even if I could find the right topics.

Looking forward to your links.

Steven

J/92 — awesome, and 12 minutes from the marina, sailing as it should be. I’m jealous ??

Re: “WordPress also has “Pages” and a Page can be set as the landing or opening page, so you might not need to have any html stuff for the separate user guides. Just drop the user on a Page that has a quick overview and home page – ”

I got that far, but the problem is one template rules all the pages, and what do I do with the navigation for the guide? Can’t put it on the side column, can’t put it within the guide’s content “pages” either. That’s were the multiple installations come in. How would WP multi-user differ from multiple installations of regular WP?

Multi-user would be promising if each could have a different side column navigation, then each guide could be set up as a “user” and main user can link to the other users? Hard to know without trying it out. Is there a multi-user site you can point out for me to look at?

Or is there some way to have parent/child templates as well as parent child pages, so it can have its own navigation?

At some point I have to ask, why not just build what you want in HTML, and forget about trying to muscle WP into something it isn’t. But it’s a damn shame. With a little tweaking WP could be re-designed as a world class Help Authoring Tool (HAT) and blow the big players right out of the water.

Many thanks for the urls.

Steven

Great thanks, Saildude! Yes, it does indeed help. The multiple installations in particular would seem to solve a bunch of problems.

For instance, why not have an installation for each of two dozen user guides? as well as one for general content, perhaps prefaced by a custom HTML home page? That way the side navigation ruled by the template can be customized for each guide, and they can all enjoy the feedback and other features of WP. Hmm, you’ve got me cooking now.

This also solves the search problem, or would if there were some way to remove the native WP search box and replace it with one with searches everything on the server, or at least a way to remove it and create a custom search page with a third-party engine that will search the whole server. Ideas anyone?

What and where do you sail by the way? I trailer a 20′ paceship, formerly out of Newport RI now out of Lake champlain NY/VT.

regards,

Steven

Were this better placed under “Advanced Topics” or one of the other forums here?

I notice (belatedly) that most of the subject lines in this forum reference a particular plugin.