ghimmelein

Thank you, I will give it a test drive over the weekend.

Since different plug-in authors have different methods: How would I go about to add a German translation to Consistency?

For Swiss German writers, the reverse might be useful, i.e. converting all ? into ss, because AFAIK they don’t use ? at all.

For German Germans, converting between ss and ? may cause problems. An example: “Ma?e” and “Masse” are both correct, but the meaning is completely different: The first word is the plural form of “Ma?” (measure), the second one is a singular and means “mass”. Of course, they are also pronounced differently — German can be weird.

So you would have to be very careful to limit the conversion algorithm to words which can’t be written either way with different meaning. This is not to say that the idea couldn’t be convenient: for instance, “da?” should also turn into “dass” — the former is “Old German” style from before 1996, the latter is the current spelling of the word.

Thinking about it a bit more, I think you’re opening a real can of worms here. Whereas I, for one, would love for something automatically transforming “deja vu” into “Déjà vu” without having to bother looking up the proper placement of the accents, I think these conversions may go beyond the scope of your plug-in.

Hey, I’m still here. ??

Yes, of course I can provide you with information on German quotation rules.

Generally speaking:

Single quotes start with a bottom single quote mark and end with an upper single quote mark, like this: ?This is a single quote, used for thoughts and nested quotes.‘

Regular quotes start and end with double quotes, lower at the beginning and upper at the end, like this: ?This is a regular quote.“

Punctuation can occur within and outside of quotes, depending on whether the punctuation is part of the quote or not.

• Franz sagte, ?das ist aber bl?d“, und schmollte.
• Franz sagte, ?das ist aber bl?d!“, und schmollte.

German also allows for book-style quotes, where ? and ? are used instead of ? and “ — you might recognize this from the French guillemets. In this instance, single quotes are displayed as ? and ?.

• Franz dachte, ?Das ist aber bl?d?, und schmollte.
• Tina sagte, ?Franz hat gerade ?Das ist aber bl?d!? gesagt?

(Note that the Swiss use the guillemets in opposite direction, i.e. ?This is a single quote.? and ?This is a regular quote?. You therefore might want to differentiate between de_DE (Germany), de_AT (Austria) and de_CH (Switzerland).)

The German Wikipedia article on quotation marks may be of additional help.

Sidebar: In the meantime, I have found out a workaround for the problem which led me to your plugin in the first place: The auto-generated WordPress curly closing quotes infrequently ended up at the bottom, i.e. a quote started and ended with quotation marks at the bottom, which is wrong in so many ways. What should look like this: ?Quote“ ended up looking like this: ?Quote? — hideous.

For anyone else struggling with that problem, the solution is to make sure that if you link to something within quotation marks, make sure the quotation marks are within the link, not outside.

I sent you an e-mail with the URL. Thank you for your help.

Wow! Didn’t expect such a fast and helpful response! Thank you!

The container class used by AddToAny is called “addtoany_share_save_container”. The images themselves are SVG paths.

This, for instance, is the Facebook icon:

<svg focusable="false" aria-hidden="true" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path fill="#FFF" d="M17.78 27.5V17.008h3.522l.527-4.09h-4.05v-2.61c0-1.182.33-1.99 2.023-1.99h2.166V4.66c-.375-.05-1.66-.16-3.155-.16-3.123 0-5.26 1.905-5.26 5.405v3.016h-3.53v4.09h3.53V27.5h4.223z"></path></svg>

I tried adding an adapted form of your code to the JavaScript segment of the AddToAny settings:

if ( jQuery('.addtoany_share_save_container img.warning-cacsp-img').length ) {
 jQuery('.addtoany_share_save_container').html('<a href="#cookiesAndContentPolicySettings">Please check your cookie settings</a>');
}

but that doesn’t do anything (it did not even crash the site).

I presume I am doing it wrong. ?? Any additional ideas?

The plugin description indicates “Float Menu is a free WordPress plugin” – that’s literally the first line of the description. It is neither described nor tagged as a demo.

It is listed as “Float Menu,” but it installs as “Float Menu Lite.”

The free version is so limited that it doesn’t really let me try out most of its functionality. This doesn’t inspire me to buy the Pro version.

@qumos Glad to see you are planning to update the plugin soonish.

If I can make a couple of suggestions for an image button feature:

• accept SVG images and offer a parameter to override their color
• offer a width parameter for the button to scale the button

Open your homepage in the WP editor, whether it is a page or a post.

Scroll to the bottom, until you get to “General Settings.” Next to “Sidebar layout”, select “Full Width” from the dropdown menu.

This should result in the change you want.

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by ghimmelein.

I never said it was WP’s fault.

The miscreant .htaccess was a leftover from a previous static site.

Welp… I contacted my hoster (Ionos) and their support representative actually found the problem (and fixed it, too).

Spoiler: Manually updating or reinstalling WordPress wouldn’t have helped at all.

The problem was that I had a .htaccess file in the root folder of the server, and another .htaccess file in the folder of the WordPress installation.

The .htaccess file in the root folder contained one fatal line: “Options Includes FollowSymLinks“. And that’s what killed WP’s search feature.

Ever since I’ve renamed the .htaccess file from the server’s root, the search feature works. (Yay!)

I enabled error checking via php.ini and there are no errors.

Search is just not working.

Not sure whether it ever worked. I.e. I just tried it out for the first time and search didn’t work.

Is there a log file I could look into?