planetMitch

Adding my tiny voice to the ‘bring back the old uploader’ chorus!

It wasn’t broken – worked pretty well.

When I want to upload an image, I don’t want to see the other media. Yes now I know I can drag and drop anywhere – but it is just intuitively wrong the way it is designed. Nobody’s going to figure that out without reading.

Second, I used to select the default title and option-drag it to the ‘description’ field… now, the window thinks I’m dragging an image (and sometimes locks up). The only solution is to copy/paste – which is doable, but certainly not as efficient for me.

Third, the idea that I cannot just paste a URL into the “link to” field without grabbing my mouse and selecting “custom URL” is absolutely insane! Yes, I realize that after I select ‘custom’ once, then that becomes my default on the next image, but if I don’t want a custom url on that next image then I have to specifically select “attachment URL” – which was inserted by default but why do I have to re-select this silly silly dropdown?

who are the people who are designing this? No offense, but this is such a backwards step in my processes to get images uploaded it is just crazy!

PLEASE BRING BACK THE OLD UPLOADER!

@webtaurus @amandascookin – thank you so much for the drag&drop featured image plugin reference! SO much better than the unfortunate new way of uploading in 3.5!

Well

turns out one of my plugins shut down the email system!

had my host (@hostduplex.com) check things out and they figured it out

if you ever need hosting – they get my highest recommendation!

I’m getting these messages, but it is running and adding posts.. I’m just ignoring them

Zack, I can get you a login to mine as well – happens every time I try to move a post from the ‘unscheduled’ toolbar [email protected]

Note – this is now happening on one of my other blogs – so I’ve got two blogs stuck in this mode ??

I too am having this problem

i haven’t been in the calendar on this site in a few weeks (i normally schedule about 2 weeks out). My assistant creates draft posts and then I schedule and approve.

All the posts are sitting in the new drafts sidebar on the right, but when I drag them out to a date, I get this error.

Happens every time

Marcus

just wanted you to know I appreciate the options in the calendar format to change the calendar items in the feed. Worked like a charm… tho I did end up with items that said DQUOTExxxxDQUOTE when I had a title like “xxxx” (changed to single quotes and that worked fine)

Marcus

I run a blog about cameras that shoot video (new breed called HDSLRs) – my calendar shows when I’m going to be doing podcasts live as well as training events and meetups where people are going to be getting together.

Any chance of fixing the things I noted above that are showing up in the .ics?

oh, if it helps, here’s my .ics file

https://blog.planet5d.com/events.ics

Marcus

yes, the timezone is set in my blog. That’s not the problem.

when a user comes in to the form to create an entry and to put in the time, they don’t know what timezone my server is set to and therefore they can’t set the time correctly. I’ve had someone come in and enter an event for somewhere in europe and the server timezone is set for central time USA. I think the solution needs to be a dropdown for them to set the timezone of the event.

also:

There’s also still a problem with the titles (I mentioned this a long time ago on your forum) that come thru on the events.ics – the titles have the city and the date and time appended (and the city has an extra ‘\’ on it. – none of that needs to be in the title please.

Here’s an example: https://skitch.com/mitch/fwuai/ical – in this example, the title of the event is “event cinema workshop – edited’ and all this extra stuff is put in the title automatically in the .ics

Hi Guys!

this seems like the right place to ask this since you’ve already covered the timezone question (which I still don’t think works).

I have events that I put in a location called “Internet” because they’re live shows I’m doing on UStream – when I put in the time based on my own time zone (which is what the server is set to), when people request the events.ics, it gets converted to the proper GMT.

But I’m also using the new beta where the users can submit their own events and they could be anywhere around the world. They would have to convert the time to my timezone when they enter the time.

And I don’t want to change my server time to be GMT (which I think could be a potential solution). That would be fine if all I did was to have these universal events.

It would seem to me that the best option would be to give them a drop down for them to select the timezone for the event. This dropdown would also be added to the management side of the event creation and maintenance please.

Adding a drop down and making the plugin handle all the conversions would seem to make the most sense. This is what I had to do when I was developing a scheduling system a couple of years ago. The users couldn’t be trusted to figure out what the right GMT was for an event. but they could specify the local time quite easily.

Thanks!
planetMitch

Thanks for posting this thread… I’ve been spending quite a bit of time trying to debug this… never would have thought to not be logged in!

Marcus – please do include a bit more info on that!

nobody? (Bump)