Corey Salzano

Hennie:

Thanks for trying my widget. If you’d like me to have more time to work on plugins, start sending me money.

• Are you sure your server’s PHP installation has json and curl or wget installed?
• Are your tweets public?
• Do you know how many websites are running on the same server as yours that are accessing the twitter API?

Twitter limits the amount of times you can request their data, and once that limit is reached they stop fulfilling requests for as long as they want. If there are 100 other websites on your server all fetching twitter data, there’s not much my plugin can do for you.

Thanks for trying my plugin. The update notes clearly stated that you should back up your text file. Here’s what I wrote:

“This update makes the plugin more effective at preventing my name and phone number from being shown on random websites that people do not update. If you accept this update, backup your bottom-of-every-post.txt file so you can restore the custom message you now have.”

The first version of this plugin had my personal phone number in the text file, because that’s how I was using the feature. This was a huge mistake, and to this day I get calls from people who ask me how my information is showing up on their site! I seriously underestimated the amount of people that would install this plugin without reading any instructions. It seems that no one reads the update notes, either.

This pain was necessary–I don’t want my name and phone number on as many porn sites as it has been in the last year. I was willing to risk bad ratings from users like you who neglected to read the release notes I provide with each update.

mvaginger:

I am surprised to hear that you lost some posts because of my plugin. I have used this plugin to delete 30 to 50 posts a day for at least a month. Before releasing this plugin for others to download, I clicked the Clobber button for weeks and sent hundreds of posts to the Trash (instead of deleting without preserving a copy in the Trash) so I could examine exactly which ones were deleted during each test. I have spent a handful of hours designing this administrative page to save me time each and every day. (UPDATE: I was wrong about this: I tried clicking the button without checking any of the users at all, and no posts were deleted.) The administration page for this plugin creates a list of user IDs based on the check boxes you check. Then, those user IDs are used to delete posts with this code:

$posts = get_posts( array(
	'author' => $user_id,
	'posts_per_page' => -1,
	'post_status' => array( 'publish', 'inherit', 'pending', 'private', 'future', 'draft' )
));
foreach( $posts as $post ){
	$deleted_post = wp_delete_post( $post->ID, true );
}

Of course, none of this means much to you since it deleted your posts. I am sorry you lost posts because of my plugin. I am going to try and find out what kind of WP installation would cause every post in your database to match this criteria. I do not know at this time.

UPDATE: I confirmed that clicking the button without checking any users would delete all your posts, so I just published a version 0.121111 that fixes this problem. I added two layers of protection against this problem. The javascript does not submit an AJAX request, and the PHP code will not execute the delete post query without a user ID.

I think you’ll need to craft a query like this:
query_posts('meta_key=category&meta_value=3');

I don’t have any thoughts about child categories, but I did just think that what you want is a lot like the CrunchBase items that are integrated into the bottom of TechCrunch posts. Here’s an example post that discusses Stripe. Stripe is a company that has some CrunchBase content, so there is a footer on the post that shows some of that: https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/stripe-introduces-customizable-billing-interval-volume-purchase-and-invoice-flexibility/

Now, TechCrunch has recently relaunched the site, and this plugin is a few years old, but you might find something useful inside to adapt to your site: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/crunchbase-widget/

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/change-text-int-footer-depending-on-category

newmind4u:

Thanks for trying my plugin. I don’t think your change to the permalinks settings have had any affect on my plugin.

The t.co links show up on my site, too: https://www.tacticaltechnique.com/

If you used to see the actual URL that you tweeted in my widget, it is possible that twitter changed their API to provide the t.co links instead of the URLs that are visible on twitter.

Stig:

I am the author of the Recent Comments widget you are using. I am not familiar with Codestyling Localization, but I will try it out to see what happens.

Thanks for trying my plugin.

You can edit the message inside the administrative dashboard, too. WordPress has a “Plugin editor” under Plugins. You can choose this plugin at the drop down at the upper right, and then make edits to bottom-of-every-post.txt directly.

Version 0.120307 is out. Thanks for helping me fix this problem on day one.

You are right. Looks like I mistakenly put $instance[‘title’] instead of $instance[‘widgetTitle’] in two places on line 146. I can publish a fix later today. Sorry for the interruption.

Hey, I made this plugin. Thanks for trying it. The directory permissions on my site are 755, and it’s working just fine. Let me know if you are still having trouble.

Today, I published version 0.110801 to fix this problem. If you are still using my plugin, the update will reach you automatically. Otherwise, download the plugin at https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/latest-twitter-sidebar-widget/

Megan:

The plugin uses a .css stylesheet file. There are a few examples you can copy and paste into that file on this page: https://www.tacticaltechnique.com/wordpress/latest-twitter-sidebar-widget/#css_samples

Yes, everything is working fine except that date on the page.

I am a bit confused by your comment, “so people can’t easily go in and download them.” My users are getting the latest update with the notification inside their WP dashboards without issue, and clicking the download link on the plugins page is always returning the last version I have committed.

The page you linked says, “This lets your users easily grab the latest (or an older) version, it lets you keep track of changes more easily, and lets the www.ads-software.com Plugin Directory know what version of your plugin it should tell people to download.” I’m not sure how these things are not sufficiently happening now with the exception of “(or an older) version.” Perhaps older versions would be nice to access if my plugins were much larger projects.