tetontrekker

Thank a bunch!
I disabled the facebook photos plug in and it fixed my problem. Now I need to find an alternative to it. Bummer.

I stepped on a bunch of butterflies when I was in the learning process, I’m still finding dead elephants. I do need to go over my theme and pick at it.

Thanks again,
Julie

Hello!
Thank you for the reply. I’m sorry, Above I miss-wrote it is the button after you have pressed “page select” and checked boxes of the pages you want, the “done, close window” is dead. I can even get a menu when I right click on it. I tried it on Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome, and IE9. And on Mac OS X 10.6.8, Windows XP Pro, & Vista.

I usually use Firefox, I’m at work but will check out Firebug when I get home. Here is what I found…

from Google Chrome”

https://jhcband.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/jhcb/functions/theme-options.js?ver=1.0Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
admin.php:14GET https://jhcband.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/jhcb/functions/theme-options.js?ver=1.0 404 (Not Found)
admin.js:5Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'tabs'

From Firefox Debug

Timestamp: 4/30/2012 9:57:44 AM
Error: jQuery("#fwpgTabs").tabs is not a function
Source File: https://jhcband.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/facebook-page-photo-gallery/walleriboxlite/admin.js?ver=3.3.2
Line: 5

I hope this helps.
Thank you again,
Julie

@owcv
Use quote marks around your phrase i.e
“Jane Smith”

Do you have any idea how to limit the search to one field, or at least exclude the bio field? If we could exclude the notes and bio from the search it would be faster.

~Julie

@tmayombo

Sorry for the delay, last week was crazy and I have a piccolo solo in our upcoming concert so practice is a priority right now.

I have done both, I made my own blank template without a header or footer, and my own custom made page with minimal code to call information to a page outside the WordPress folder with include. The setup is like this:

My Website
->WordPress
->->wp-subfolder
->->wp-subfolder
->->wp-subfolder
->->custompage.php

The custom pages have minimum code to run WordPress. I found how to do that in instructions for making templates. The trick is the shortcode, two things to remember. You have to use PHP to run the shortcode and each plugin uses various scripts that have to be called. Participants Database, fortunately, runs with only the basics.

You can see some of my custom pages in action here:
https://www.jhcband.org/
The news ticker is more of a hack, it uses a plugin called “Scheduled Announcements Widget” then since I can’t write PHP in it and it will not read shortcode I had to create a separate page for the birthdays and use iframes to call it. (Otherwise this plugin was perfect for my needs) To get the birthdays I used a separate field for the birth month and birth day in the PDb. For the birth month field I used a dropdown with all the months and one “-” for people who do not want to be listed on the birthday list. Here is the birthday code:

<?php
$today = date("F");
 ?>
<div class="jhcb_birthday">
<?php
// Use shortcode in a PHP file (outside the post editor).
 echo do_shortcode('[pdb_list list_limit=100 filter="status=Active&birth_month='.$today . '" fields="first_name, last_name, instrument"]');
 ?>
</div>

From the main page on my site you can click Members & Contact us to see other examples of calling custom pages with includes.

The blank template I created is used for reports and are private, search templates using the search box on top of this page for how to start a template. The rest of the code is about the same.

Have a great day!
Julie

You are right, I tend to over think PHP. I’m trying to insert my own code into your single template. I read over the instructions again, I think I need to set it aside for a while then try again later to get out of the brain-rut.

Thank You,
Julie

@tmayombo,

I was having the same header error when setting up some nested plugins on custom pages with minimal WordPress code. I fixed it by moving my custom pages directly under the WordPress folder, I think I had some redundancy and this was my easy fix. It’s probably not the correct way to fix it but hopefully this will help you find a solution to your error.

~Julie

Em, I fixed it, see my post. ~J

@sev,

Em is correct. I also used some CSS to make the link look the same as regular text. First I surrounded the short-code with a custom class
<div class="jhcb_members">[shortcode]</div>
then used this CSS

.jhcb_members a:link, .jhcb_members a:hover, .jhcb_members a:active, .jhcb_members a:visited {
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#3e3e3e;
	font-family:Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;
	font-size:11px;
}

I hope this helps.
~Julie

Thank You.

Em~ That page is a hack that I’m still working on but have not had time to make perfect. I’ll email you tonight or in the morning. (I’m at work, my files are easier to access from my home computer). I’m a PHP newbie too, we could probably help each other. ~J

Em,

I don’t use the date updated in the front end, I just use it for reference. However I may change that soon.

I looked at how my list is sorting. My default order is last name but it gets ignored when I change the sort drop down. Because I uploaded my members in batches I can tell it’s secondary sort is the ID# generated by the computer (or at least that what it looks like).

I got some interesting results when I stacked shortcodes and had the filter and sort options on the top shortcode only. Musicians need to be displayed by section in score order. So I did a short code for every section and ordered each section by last name. When I tested the new functions on the top shortcode it filtered/sorted all the shortcodes on the page. I would find out if this is a bug before you exploit it though. ??

Here is a visible page with stacked shortcodes:
https://www.jhcband.org/members/

TTFN
Julie

I was having the same issue with sort and search, and a could others.

I left the page public so you can see it, there is no personal info on it.
Page: https://jhcband.org/wordpress/member-resources/search-members
Shortcode[pdb_list search="true" sort="true" CSS="jhcb_members" orderby="last_name" fields="first_name, last_name, other_instruments, status" display_count="true"]
Fields marked sortable in admin:

• First Name 1
• Last Name 2
• Instruments 3
• Birth Month 4
• Section 5
• Status 6
• Mailing City 7
• Mailing State 8
• Mailing Zip 9
• Date Updated (non displayed group) 99

When typed the above list I found/fixed my problem. Before I typed the list above, the fields I picked to be ‘sortable’ did not all show in the drop-down list, and the ‘sort by’ drop down list. When I started the list above and looked at the field choices I matched up display columns and numbered as above. This fixed the problem. When I had the display column set to zero it would not show up on the search drop down list. I’m assuming this is supposed to work this way. (cool function)

I would like to add to a wish list… At least one more search argument choice i.e. Search Status=active & Instruments=flute.

I tried to add filter=”active” to the above shortcode but when I pressed clear it ignored my filer and listed all. It was also doing something weird if I paginated the results, when I went to the next page it listed all and lost the search perimeters.

Thanks You,
Julie

Your update fixed it. I added my hack back in one function at a time and it did not break. Thank You.

watching this thread

Hello again, Thanks for the reply. I didn’t know I was exploiting a bug until it was too late. oops.

About images…

I checked all of the above. everything looks right. Today while I was out it occurred to me my hack may be the issue so I complete removed it. That made not difference. (Hack: from my original post to you on your website, I had copied the list class and tweaked it to fit one of my pages)

This is the what I put in the file upload location, the images were working before the update with this setting.

wp-content/participantsdb-uploads/

Today I tried
/wp-content/participantsdb-uploads/
./wp-content/participantsdb-uploads/
../wp-content/participantsdb-uploads/

none worked. The images show up in admin (the back end) edit screen. with the original setting. I’m stumped.

I see someone else is haveing this same issue. If you want to move conversation to that thread I marked it to notify me.

Thanks Again,
Julie