mikker

Hi Sebastian.

I use Theme Test Drive to do tweeks to a theme other than the one shown to visitors. I know you shouldn’t tweek on live websites, but this way it is so much easier.

As far as I can see, the hooks only deal with post formats. Or maybe I don’t understand the documentation. Could I use add_action( 'alnp_load_after_content', 'your_function_name' ); with a function that queries the database for certain posts with certain custom field values and have the query be used instead of next post.

In pseudo code:
$seriesname = get_post_custom_field(“series name”)
$newposts = get_post(custom_field_value = $seriesname)
while $newposts as $NEXTpost
echo $NEXTpost->link, $NEXTpost->headline, $NEXTpost->thumbimage

Obvously I could rearrange post’s dates and go that route, but I’d rather not, as this still would not give me the control I want in directing the user in the direction I want them to go.

Thank you Sebastian for a very great plugin.

Wishlist

A. The ability to control what get’s output, so it can take other input than next post. For instance custom fields. WordPress doesn’t have the best taxonomy support. I get around this by using custom fields to control the logic for post, where I, for instance ,have a series of photos that go together. They get the “series name” in a custom field, which I then query to output the thumbnails and links in the sidebar or below the image. Alternatively it could be able to load related posts. Next and previous is a weird way of browsing a site.

B. Better documentation of how to install this great plugin for particular themes. Or better explaination as to which divs we should select and why we should select them. Would it be possible to have the wordpress base themes as preinstalled templates, like for twentyfifteen?

Oh, and if you use Theme Test Drive, note that, for some reason, the Theme Test Drive plugin somehow chokes the output, when you are testing. I can see that the javescript fires, but nothing is output. If you use another browser, where you are not logged in, it works fine, so I hope this saves someone else a few hours and grey hairs.

Keep up the good work!

It’s giving you a “page 404” because it can’t find the page you are looking for.

In other words the page is missing.

Try and see if you can find the page or post in via the admin. Another thing would be to check your permalinks and maybe revert them back to the ugle way “?=123” and then back to pretty permalinks.

I just tried making a testblog on the same server, installed the plugin and low and behold it works there.

Why oh why wont it work on the real blog?

I’ve tried removing the traces of the plugin in the database, but something must be stuck somewhere.

Any ideas?

Hi Raj.

You are right and your solution is very good. I hadn’t seen the box due to having too many newsletter plugins installed for testing.

Thank you Otto.

And if others are wondering if you can change more things the answer is yes.

sfc_like_button(array('width'=>300,'colorscheme'=>'dark'));

will give you a dark like button.

Have you tried the Allow Categories plugin https://jameslow.com/2007/12/02/allow-categories/

Managed to get it to work now. It seems this plugin needs at few kicks to it’s kidneys sometimes. I’m not sure what I did tho’ as I clicked around until it worked.

It has to be the best backup plugin to date.

Is it possible for the media library folder to look at other folders at the same time? It would be nice to be able to upload images via other plugins and have them appear in the media library. I tried the above plugin and it works great. It would be nice though, if I didn’t have to copy (duplicate) images and use more serverspace than needed, and also not having to manually update the folders via Add From Server ever so often.

If you don’t mind skipping Media Library altogether I’d recommend PhotoQ .

Media Library doesn’t seem to integrate with other plugins, so you’ll have to choose and stick to your choice

It would be nice if the media library could watch, latch onto, make attachable or somehow integrate with the files/images from selected folders used by other plugins. For instance PhotoQ is great at uploading large amounts of images but I can’t see those images in the media library, so I can’t attach then (via Media Library) to a new post.

Hi Invisiontech.

Have you tried custom field template. You can make a quick edit template for custom fields, but you’ll still have to go through all 17K posts.

Miklas.

argh! same problem here. Anybody know where to get hold of an older working version. It looks like a great plugin.

I tried forcing some 404 on a testsite. The plugin does sends me emails but the links point to the theme’s style.css and foo.gif.
Great plugin, if only I could get it to work.