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Next generation is out already: https://bit.ly/uQM8FT

In fact the errors are not with Sliding Notes but with what content you put inside. W3C is pretty anal on containment rules, and WordPress has it’s own constrains. (I’ve written elsewhere about this.) Sliding Notes do the best they can to correctly render ANY content that you put inside, such that it looks good on screen, for the actual visitors on which your website success depends – even if that inserting that content into a note would violate W3C containment rules.

Bottom line: This “issue” is not an issue with Sliding Notes, and can’t be resolved on Sliding Notes’ end. If W3C purity is imperative to you, and you can’t simplify your note content, I recommend you try to find another solution.

Thu plugin does work for me with twenty ten. If it didn’t work for you, perhaps it’s a conflict with another plugin then.

Maybe with the next generation of Sliding Notes (which is coming soon to a theater near you ;-)) the conflict will disappear.

It is not the plugin that is broken, but most probably your theme.

See this post for a possible fix to your problem.

PS
Don’t forget to change your vote from “Broken” to “Works” after you applied the fix.

“I was just surprised that data wasn’t put together in a cron job or when the post was created.”

If the plugin would build the TOC when the post is stored, it would have to store that data somehow. Modifying the post before it is stored is problematic in a whole bunch of ways. Hence it would have to store the data in extra database storage, but then it would have to perform an extra query at post render time to retrieve that data, and that would add to CPU load even more. (Database queries are usually amongst the most expensive in terms of performance).

The plugin needs to first collect the headers of the post before it can display them in a freely positional toc box. Hence it queries the post/page content unconditionally, but only in singular view (when there’s only a single post/page shown).

There is no other way. Even to scan the content for a “[toc]” shortcode first, it would have to query it nonetheless.

However, the plugin does not do any extra database queries. It processes already retrieved content, so it should not really create any significant overhead in terms of CPU load.

On the other hand, I see little sense in reducing CPU load by all means, “out of principle”. If you have enough CPU power, it would be a waste not to use it. (The opposite extreme is, to reduce CPU load by 100%, you’ll have to stop using the computer.) In my experience, today’s servers all have plenty of CPU power to cope with a couple of dozens, or hundreds, WP plugins.

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Hey, I didn’t expect a donation, if that’s what you assumed. ??

Yes, I found it strange that you repeat issues from other threads and specifically point out that “the author is not currently offering support” (which would have been perfectly clear from the other threads, too). It made the impression as if you were “disappointed” for not getting free support to aid a for-profit project of yours, which just felt… not right. But I was obviously misled by you talking about a “client’s site”. Never mind.

I think it’s great that you make donations on a regular basis. It is common consensus among open source developers that the donations they receive are far below the effort they put into their open source work. It’s good to know there are people like you who help raise the standard.

Nonetheless, what you call “issues” with my plugin, are either deliberate decisions (like where the series listing goes, which you are free to dislike), or most likely theme issues (like the “takes over the excerpt text” thing, whatever that means, that obviously does not manifest on other sites, or it would have come up much earlier). So while it sounds very innocent that you are “just letting everyone know what’s up”, it really is disinformation.

A friendly advice at the end: You would very much increase your chances of getting your issues solved (by whomever) if you described them more accurately. (It will also show that you respect the supporters time – so they don’t need to spend it on guesswork.)

Digigirl, you are definitely free to choose whatever plugins you like. I wonder though what open source support is worth to you, especially when you are using a plugin in a commercial project of yours, like it is the case now?

Do you have any idea about the effort it takes to track down and fix an issue, especially when its description is as imprecise and unreproducible as your 1st one here? (Hint: Have a look at my own category listing and you’ll see that there is no issue on my site. But most of the time the “issues” reported to me are really issues with themes and/or other plugins anyway. *sigh*)

Wow, so I had a solution to your problem before you even had the problem?!?

Am I good or what? ??

Sorry about the commenting problems. I have tackled the issue and apparently solved it. You can contact me at my website now.

At the moment my spare time is reduced to an extent where I cannot provide free technical support. Sorry.

Sorry about the commenting problems. I have tackled the issue and apparently solved it. You can contact me at my website now.

At the moment my spare time is reduced to an extent where I cannot provide free technical support. Sorry.

Sorry about the commenting problems. I have tackled the issue and apparently solved it.

Unfortunately, I have little time left at the moment to work on this plugin. However…

can we somehow pool some donations together to convince you to implement that feature?

I’m sure that would help shift my priorities. ??

I get from your post that you’ve been through a lot of trouble, but I don’t get what your issue is in the first place ???

Please specify expected and actual outcome.

Does the plugin homepage mention a shortcode? Nope. That’s because this plugin doesn’t provide one (yet). Instead, as the post you are referring to here thoroughly explains, I decided to enable collaboration with another plugin, Serial Posts, which provides a similar shortcode. (I can’t say though whether their shortcode fits your purpose or not.)

I plan to add several shortcodes in a future version of the plugin. When this will happen depends on what my time permits (which is very scarse these days).

PS
Sorry about the “false spam postives” annoyance. I had high hopes with NoSpamNX, but it obviously does too much of what it does :/