ZainB

Hi John,

How’s things? Hope you’re well…

Anyway, like Su, I’m also experiencing a problem with certain fields not working properly. I can confirm Su’s observation that Post Title and Post URLs with “no limit” will not work under any circumstances.

Would be great if this could be fixed.

Cheers,

Zain
PS: Su – thanks a lot for doing a very detailed test and analysis. Using the limit as 100, I was able to achieve what I needed to do for 61 pages and change the post titles and urls accordingly. ?? Good job!

Just found the disable custom formatting option. Seems to do the trick…

Hi bretonargentin,

I’m using 3.7.0 as well – this code won’t be in your file (as it’s a tweak I made so the tabs would close!).

Anyway, just to clarify, it may look like you already have this code but actually, it’s the part after line 23 that you need to make.

Lines 18 – 24 will look like this:

if ( spoiler.hasClass('su-spoiler-open') ) {
    if ( !isAccordion ) {
        content.hide(200);
        spoiler.removeClass('su-spoiler-open');
    }
 }
 else {

You will need to change lines 18-24 so that it now reads:

if ( spoiler.hasClass('su-spoiler-open') ) {
    if ( !isAccordion ) {
        content.hide(200);
        spoiler.removeClass('su-spoiler-open');
    } else {
        spoiler.parent('.su-accordion').children('.su-spoiler').removeClass('su-spoiler-open');
        spoiler.parent('.su-accordion').find('.su-spoiler-content').hide(200);
    }
 }
 else {

As you can see, I’ve just used the same code to close but this time what is does the function checks to see if it’s already open.

Like I say, it seems to work for me.

Good luck!

Cheers,

Zain

I’ve been doing a bit of reading up and ideally it would be great if the Tab functionality was also “Accessibility” friendly. Not many people develop sites or plugins with visually impaired users in mind!

For people who use Screen Readers like Jaws, new functionality like the Tabs and other jQuery wizardry can mess things up. Anchor elements that are empty (use the # link) convey no useful information. So for normal sighted people, the visual aspect of jQuery is great… but for visually impaired people, this usability sucks…

Anyway, here’s a really cool article of how to create jQuery Accessible Tabs… And “yes” it does also do that opening tabs through links thing I was looking for. ??

https://blog.ginader.de/archives/2009/02/07/jQuery-Accessible-Tabs-How-to-make-tabs-REALLY-accessible.php (main article)

https://blog.ginader.de/dev/jquery/accessible-tabs/ (examples)

https://blog.ginader.de/dev/jquery/accessible-tabs/simple-linked-tab-links.html (opening tabs using links and anchor #links)

Hope this is useful… (and gets put into the next version!).

Cheers,

Zain

Hi bretonargentin,

Try this… it seems to work (although I would really like to see it in the actual plugin!):

1. Go to the "wp-content/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/js/" folder
2. Important: Back-up the "init.js" file
3. Open the "init.js" file in your favourite HTML editor
4. On lines 18-23, look for the following block of code:

   if ( spoiler.hasClass('su-spoiler-open') ) {
       if ( !isAccordion ) {
           content.hide(200);
           spoiler.removeClass('su-spoiler-open');
       }
   }

5. Just after the } on line 23, add the following code:

   else {
       spoiler.parent('.su-accordion').children('.su-spoiler').removeClass('su-spoiler-open');
       spoiler.parent('.su-accordion').find('.su-spoiler-content').hide(200);
   }

6. Save the file
7. Test the open and close.

That seems to work for me. You may want to test the “Spoiler” functionality to make sure it works the way you want it to as well.

For my purposes, I only use the accordion and this tweak works okay. I hope that helps solve your issue.

Remember: The only downside is, you must backup these changes… because if the plugin is automatically updated, then you’ll lose the changes you’ve just added.

Hopefully, this change will be added and updated in the next version of the plugin… fingers crossed!

Cheers,

Zain

Hi Ken,

If you want to add any shortcodes to text widgets then just open your theme’s functions.php file and add the following:

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

That will enable you to display any shortcode in the text widgets.

Hope that’s helpful.

Cheers,

Zain

Okay… is this helpful at all?

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/get_children#Show_the_first_image_associated_with_the_post

This function is supposed to be able to pull back the first image of a post. So, in theory, you pass it a Post ID and it will grab the image.

After that, wouldn’t it be a case of creating another function that loops through the IDs and outputs the code for

1. the links (post ID) and
2. the first image associated with each post ID?

It would be great to have the Shortcodes Ultimate plugin jCarousel functionality able to link to posts/pages.

Cheers!

Hi testuserfay,

I think the colour of the tab text being white may be something to do with your theme. The theme I’m currently looking in the text appears grey, so I can see the text for the tab against a white background.

Anyway, in terms of changing the styles for the SU plugin you can try the following:

1. Go to: “Settings / Shortcodes” on the left navigation to get to the Shortcodes Ultimate settings.
2. Click on the “Custom CSS” tab.
3. If you’re not sure which code to use, click on the “See original styles” link (open a new window with CSS)
4. Copy the part you want to change (*see below)
5. Go back to the “Custom CSS” tab and paste in the code.
6. Make your amendments.
7. Click on the “Save styles” button.
   Your styles will now be saved.

*The CSS code you’ll need to look for and change will be:
.su-tabs-style-2 .su-tabs-nav span:hover (when you hover over the tab)
.su-tabs-style-2 div.su-tabs-nav .su-tabs-current (the active tab)
.su-tabs-style-2 div.su-tabs-nav span (non-active tabs)
.su-tabs-style-2 div.su-tabs-pane (the main content area)

Changing those CSS styles seem to work for me.

Good luck with it. I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Zain

*correction – “At the moment, I’m using the shortcode:” should read “I’d like to use”.

Hi Sheila,

With WordPress it’s possible to give any page/post a unique (or secondary) style… as long as the theme you’re using adds a CSS class with the page ID in it. If you know how, then you can use this knowledge to tweak this awesome plugin (or any style!).

Have a look at the code for your Domestic Violence page, you’ll see that the <body> tag has a class of pageid-86. For your Mission page, the <body> tag class is pageid-35. Each page on your site will have a unique class that you can use to make fine tuning adjustments (or secondary menus using the Shortcodes Ultimate plugin).

With a bit of CSS magic, it’s possible to now tweak the menu for just one page. Here’s a quick CSS example you can try to change the pull-menu for the Shortcodes Ultimate plugin:

.pageid-86 .su-pullquote {
border:#7ABFE9 solid 1px;
background-color:#FBE7A0;
margin-top:5px;
padding:10px;
/* Add whatever CSS you want - add this to your custom-code/style.css file */
}

What this says is basically: “use the su-pullquote on pageid-86”. If you were to change .pageid-86 to .pageid-35, then you’d affect *just* the Mission page (id 35).

If you want both pages to have this style (but no other), then use:

.pageid-35 .su-pullquote,
.pageid-86 .su-pullquote {
/*add whatever CSS you want*/
}

Note the comma after the first line. You can also add more (as long as you have the comma!). The last line *DOESN’T* have a comma.

Now you can create those secondary styles for the SU plugin.

Have fun with the CSS! The only limit will be your imagination… ??

Cheers,

Zain

Hi Helen,

I was looking for the same thing and just read on another thread that this can be found on the Modules section.

Under the WordPress area, you can click on the “CSV” or the “XML” option.

Importing either the CSV or the XML redirects can be found under the Option section.

I’ve not tried this out and just about to do this myself.

Good luck with exporting and importing.

I dunno… personally, I think the Twenty Eleven is actually quite nice for a default theme. There are lots of other themes out there which look better but I think the whole point about Twenty Eleven isn’t really to compete with these. Although I do take your point about Matt’s photos… you’d think he’d have a blog to put these on… ?? (saying that, at least he’s chipping in with the project – maybe in future people will get to vote on what photos get used as default. Just an idea!).

From a design perspective, whitespace makes things easier to read. Less clutter, more focus on the content. I know that’s not how people end up with things on their sites (with widgets, banners, buttons, adverts and a whole bunch of stuff). Looking at it objectively, it’s nice being able to focus on the content.

If anything, I tend to use Twenty Eleven as a guide to building my own theme. In terms of code, it’s got some nice functionality that can be re-purposed to build something better. It’s a “showcase” theme that demonstrates what can be done – how you style it from there (with css, widgets and plugins etc.) is where the flexibility comes in.

For people who don’t know how to activate a new theme, it’s good that they have something that is easy enough to set up without being complicated.

It’s worthwhile remembering that some of the really cool themes tend to use a lot of scripting and styles which can also lead to problems with plugin conflicts and things not working. They usually have really complicated setting screens too. Who needs the hassle? It’s good to have a theme that does the job and is simple to use as a backup.

Yeah, it would be cool if the Twenty Eleven was super cool looking… but, as anyone who build their own knows, that would take up a lot of time to do. There’s the maintenance and the compatibility with releases… Who’d look after it? Well… there’s a bunch of people who give up their time to make a difference and contribute. If you want it to get better, why not do the same?

If you’re experiencing problems with the Media Uploader and HeadSpace2/HeadSpace SEO, then a temporary fix can be found here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/version-30-tags-acting-funny

Basically, the suggestion is to go into Settings / HeadSpace / Page Modules and disable Tags from the “Simple” area.

I’ve tested this solution and it seems to fix the problem for me. Ideally, it would be better if Tags also worked.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Zain