Comments on: AWSOM News Announcement 1.5.1 now available

By: Nick Nielsen

Nick Nielsen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:26:11 +0000

A further update – if you enable php this filter hack doesn’t work any more – and there I am lost – actually it doesn’t matter, I did a quick brush up on relative links and permalinks (which is all I wanted the php for) and disabled it again. But I cannot work out where to put the filter on the output if php is enabled in the news posts.

Anyway it is doing just what I wanted – thanks !

By: harknell

harknell — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:18:41 +0000

BTW, thank you for the tip on multi-language support. I’ll try to see if I can add that in somehow in the future. For the moment hopefully people can follow your advice if they need to add it in.

By: harknell

harknell — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:17:20 +0000

Actually, the duplicate tinyMCE is on purpose. If you notice the one in my plugin has more features enabled and also has specific Safari browser support built in. Also, I used to actually use the built in one, but WordPress did something and broke compatibility so it wouldn’t work anymore. Mine only launches when you load the news plugin admin page so it doesn’t actually add any overhead generally.

By: Nick Nielsen

Nick Nielsen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:25:54 +0000

A tiny thought -
Is there any way of pointing Awsom News to the TinyMce that is already in the WP package ?
It seems kind of strange having 2 (quite weighty) instances of the same code on the same server…

By: Nick Nielsen

Nick Nielsen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:10:44 +0000

Thanks for a quick reply !

I was using an example from the changes I had to make for NextGen. The problem was how to get News Announcement to output in one of the two languages, but not both ! (Bilingual plugins work by putting each language input between tags and then filtering them)

Actually I found it for myself which never fails to surprise me ! I got there by looking for instances of HTML which resembles the output in Firebug…

Line 151 of your code needs to look like this for lang switcher (or lang switch, I’m never sure of the name) to work:

echo apply_filters(‘the_title’,$displaynewspost);

the terms vary a little from one multilanguage plugin to another and I’m not sure of the compatibility between them, but this may help other users in a similar predicament

I also did the same with line 273, but it doesn’t appear to have much effect

By: harknell

harknell — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:12:31 +0000

Hi Nick,
I’m not sure exactly what you are looking for. Do you need help with NextGen Gallery? Or is this related to AWSOM News Announcement?

By: Nick Nielsen

Nick Nielsen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:36:15 +0000

A very nice plugin which I will use in my new theme.
I do have one problem, however: my site is trying to be bilingual and for this I use a plugin called langswitcher
I need to find where in the code of your plugin to place a php phrase such as this :”echo apply_filters(‘the_title’,$image->alttext)” – this is to get NextGen gallery into bilingualism – I think the first variable is a langswitcher variable, the second is the data to be output.

Please help, so I can get the whole thing on line !

By: Don

Don — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:53:57 +0000

Disregard my request, my system was hosed somewhat, now working right. :) Thanks!!

Don

By: Don

Don — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:51:25 +0000

Great plug in, but it doesn’t work with 2.8 now. Any chance you can bump this up in your priority list and get a fix in for it?

Hope so!!

Don

By: harknell

harknell — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:58:30 +0000

Hi Jesslyn,
First for the News Plugin:
To disable display of news simply turn each news post from active to “no” (go and click the edit link next to the news post from the admin page, or click the “edit this news post” link while logged in and viewing the page). This will then no longer display the news post, and the news area will collapse and not be displayed.

For the Archive plugin:
I’ve been thinking about making some updates to the plugin, so I might be able to add in a widget version….however, there are other widget versions of archives that work sort of like mine, but just as a widget. I made the plugin to allow this to be done anywhere. While I’d love you to use my plugin, you might want to see if there’s a current widget version of an archive that you can use for now.