John

Trobee, Propel is currently undergoing a major overhall with an expected release date of December 1st. The new release will have much better support for comments. You can grab a copy of the unstable development version and keep an eye on the progress here: https://github.com/johnciacia/propel

homelancer.com, thank you. I will add this to the next update (hopefully within the next week).

Thank you. I will do my best to try and replicate this issue and fix it in the next minor release.

Could you maybe link to a screen shot?

Yes it is. I just tested Propel 1.7.2 on a fresh install of WordPress 3.2.1 with the twentyeleven (and no other plugins activated) and it appears to work fine for me.

If you are able to, try disabling all other plugins and use activate the twentyten/twentyeleven theme. If it works, try to narrow down which plugin/theme is causing the problem and I will try to assist further.

If that does not work, is there anything unique about your WordPress install?

So, jQuery now supports a custom CSS scope (which will rectify this problem). Since future versions of Propel will offer loading the jQuery UI styles from Googles CDN (which do not use custom CSS scopes), I’ve decided to not add a scope the themes that are bundled with Propel as it will lead to confusion. However, in version 1.7.1, I have built in support for users to use a custom CSS scope if they role their own theme.

I have done my best to described this process here: https://goo.gl/Ym74F

If you have any question or problems with creating your own theme, please let me know.

Ah, there is another jquery-ui.css being included after Propel’s which is causing the style conflict.

<link rel="stylesheet" id="jquery-ui-style-css" href="<url-removed>/plugins/quick-post-widget/css/jquery-ui.css?ver=3.1.3" type="text/css" media="all">

I’ll see what I can do about this – in the mean time, I’ve also tagged the other plugin author.

Er. yes, try now.

Well, the majority of the front end interface uses jquery-ui. It be possible that there is another plugin including the jquery.ui styles and overriding Propel’s styles or conflicting with jquery tabs. If you know how to open the JavaScript console, are there any errors?

The only other thing I can suggest without actually seeing the site in action, is to try defining your own styles in your themes style.css. Everything is wrapped in a class called “propel-status.” So you could try defining the styles of its descendants.

If you want me to take a closer look at it, I’d need to know your URL. If you don’t want to post it here, you can send it to me via my contact form here: https://goo.gl/dBWKc

Is there anything special about your WordPress install? Are you using WordPress multi-site? Custom directory structure?

When you choose a different option, does the value reamin changed in the backend? (ie: if you select flick and press submit, is flick still selected?)

If so, can you look at your front end source and verify that something like this is being included: /wp-content/plugins/propel/themes/flick/jquery-ui-1.8.6.custom.css?ver=3.1.3

If so, can you make sure that that css file exists?

(if you don’t know how to do the latter two, post your URL and I can check).

I would like to express my interest in this as well.

jremley, the latest release included a major overhall of the codebase, and I forgot to include the settings. I will push out a patch to fix this today or tomorrow.

Hi Spenser,
I just setup a github repo, message me on there and we can discuss this further.

https://github.com/johnciacia/propel/

I apologize for the tardy reply, but 1.5.8 should fix these issues.

Yes! I just committed the changes to the WordPress repository. It will probably take an hour for WordPress to realize there is an update and show it in your dashboard. The newest version is 1.5.7 – once you are on that version, let me know how it works.