jeremy2805

Hey Josh,

Just wanted to say thanks. In the end I put an action just before the switch in SendPress_Public_View_Post::html which I use to squirt out a cookie from my theme.

A hook where you recommended, however, would come in very handy too.

I’ll mark this as resolved now, but if you put the hooks into a future release, I’d appreciate it if you’d reply to this. Otherwise I’ll be stuck at the current version of Sendpress…

Many thanks.

Thanks, but I don’t really have a very big window. Time’s a bit short.

Could you just point me to where I can cut a hack?

I created a page containing just an unsubscribe shortcode (nasty hack solution rather than a proper one). The link in the email points to that page, but when I put in an email address and hit unsubscribe, I just get a ‘Whoops, we couldn’t find that page’ message.

Any ideas…?

Sorry. Tried it. Couldn’t find the necessary documentation (community support = the blind leading the blind) Ditched it and moved onto something that is working just fine.

I’m amazed at how many developers think that:

a) I’m interested in their feedback on my feedback, and
b) Expect me to battle through the source code of plugins trying to figure out how to use a plugin.

IIRC, I pimped a function from another plugin and got what I wanted. It took me an hour, compared to the half day wasted trying to figure out how to use s2Members. As a developer with hundreds of sites under my belt, I’d suggest that the issue lies with s2Members. I won’t give it another chance.

No. Life’s too short, not to mention my development timescales.

The solution that worked for me was to bypass the shortcode by sticking this in the template file…

<?php
	echo owl_function(
			array(	category => "slider",
				singleItem => "true",
				autoPlay => "true",
				stopOnHover => "true",
				navigation => "true",
				navigationText => "<,>"
			)
	);

	if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
		the_content();
	endwhile;
?>

As an aside, I think the Owl Carousel might screw up the loop because when I first did it, the call was just above the_content and it didn’t output my page content.

I’ve had this issue on a fresh WordPress install on a new VPS (Minimal CentOS.) I checked that allow_url_fopen and curl_init were enabled:

if (function_exists('curl_init')) {
	echo 'curl_init exists';
} else {
	echo 'no curl_init';
}

if( ini_get('allow_url_fopen') ) {
	echo 'allow_url_fopen exists';
} else {
	echo 'no allow_url_fopen exists';
}

Turns out that WordPress needs bindutils in order for the Add plugin screens to work:

yum install bind-utils

Hi Aashish,

Thanks for that. What I think you’re doing is adjusting the search query, whereas what I wanted to do was to change the behaviour of the search results. However, you got me thinking that I could stick a filter on the permalink function like so…

function dino_link_permalink($url) {
	global $post;

	if ($post->post_type == 'simple_link') {
		$dinoterms = wp_get_post_terms( $post->ID, 'simple_link_category' );

		return esc_url( '/simple_link_category/' .$dinoterms[0]->slug. '/' );
	} else {
		return esc_url( get_permalink() );
	}

}
add_filter('the_permalink', 'dino_link_permalink');

Which works great, with no need to create a search template. Gotta love these filters.

Many thanks.

Hi Mat,

Oh great. That should work a treat. I’ve already pretty much of written the template – it’s just getting it setup so that I can use the archive mechanism.

Many thanks for your help.

Hi Mat,

Other than breaking the upgrade path, what would be the implications of me making the post type public and creating my own simple-links archive template?

The solution you outline does not allow my client to add link categories via the dashboard menu editor. I could kludge it via a redirect, but that would rather dent my SEO efforts.

Many thanks.

Probably not the best way of doing what I wanted but without advice, the best I could come up with. The plugin could certainly do with some additional hooks…

`add_filter(‘simple_links_widget_output’,’change_widget_output’, 0 , 4);
function change_widget_output( $output, $links_object, $instance, $args ){
global $post;
$dinocompanies = get_field( ‘linked_companies’, $post->ID );

$dinosintersect = array_intersect_key ( $links_object->links , $dinocompanies );
$links_object->links = $dinosintersect;

if (count($links_object->links)) {
$dinooutput .= sprintf( ‘<h4 class=”simple-links-title”>%s</h4>’, ‘We recommend’ );
}

$dinooutput .= $links_object->output();

foreach ($links_object->links as $dinolink) {
$needle = ‘showlistingbutton”>’;
$newneedle = ‘showlistingbtn”>web_address. ‘” target=”_blank”>’;
$pos = strpos($dinooutput,$needle);
if ($pos !== false) {
$newstring = substr_replace($dinooutput,$newneedle,$pos,strlen($needle));
$dinooutput = $newstring;
}
}
return $dinooutput;
}

Yes, repeated calls to easy-modal.com on port 80 on plugin activation.

Since reading about CryptoPHP, I now test all plugins for unnecessary or suspicious network calls before adopting them.

Seriously? Do I have to pull my Little Snitch records? It does try to phone home and I won’t use any plugin that does so without an obvious reason (i.e. making use of a cloud service.)

It may be ‘allowed’, it may happen under specific circumstances, but it is IMO wrong and dangerous.

Calling me a liar and then attempting to justify the behaviour isn’t particularly polite, either.

I have a site running this one:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/facebook-page-publish-2/

It works OK. Not as tidy as the JetPack mechanism, but might fit the bill if you’re in a hole.

Well since nobody came up with any suggestions, I did it by creating a single-feature template file, including the code for a sidebar that contains posts in the matching category (using Grid FX).

@brandon,

Thanks but I think I sorted it. Updated to the latest version of Jetpack (3.1.1), then removed and remade the connection with Facebook, and it seems to have accepted it.