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jerryzurek on EditFlow acting crazy

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:18:25 +0000

Not sure if anybody checks this any more, but EditFlow has been great until today. One reporter has nothing but white space on the right where EditFlow should be. Another can only Submit for Review but the established stages of the edit flow process are missing. Another can not pull down her EditFlow choices. I cant figure out where to begin to fix this.

CMLife on A reliable Related Posts plugin

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:47:32 +0000

Meant to bring this up much sooner, but forgot about it.

Awhile back, cm-life.com ran a Related Posts plugin that would return five similar posts with each story. But we deactivated the plugin because of how much memory it was taking up, causing the site to slow down and even go down at times.

Anyone know of a plugin that works well and doesn't take up so much memory? Would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

-Brian Manzullo

Daniel Bachhuber on Incorporating a default thumbnail

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:37:58 +0000

If you're referring to the thumbnails on your homepage, then it's going to be in home.php (or includes/default.php). If you want to do this for the category pages as well, it'll be in category.php as well. You're welcome to continue the conversation here or we can go to the Google Group

Greg Wilcox on Incorporating a default thumbnail

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:46:14 +0000

Is it under thumb.php? Also, if its easier for you to discuss this in the google group we can do that, but whatever works best.

Daniel Bachhuber on Incorporating a default thumbnail

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:22:19 +0000

Probably the best thing to do would be to have the theme display the thumbnail if there wasn't an image associated with the post. There are two advantages to this: you can have the sample thumbnail display by default, which wouldn't require any additional work, and you can change the default thumbnail for all of the posts in one go if you need to.

If you can find the code for displaying the image in your templates, I can show you how you might modify it.

Greg Wilcox on Incorporating a default thumbnail

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:26:23 +0000

Simple problem here. It's just for articles that are without a picture. It looks better if they have a default thumbnail. The thing is that it gets old uploading the default thumbnail everytime off the media library, or having to back-track on it to locate where it was previously uploaded. What is the best way to do this? Would uploading a default thumbnail to an FTP site and linking it there with the same address be a better option?

WPHReditor on Request for informatino on helping development efforts

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:00:55 +0000

Dear Mo,

I just wanted to let you know that I got your email and replied - I'm just not sure if gmail threw it in the spam bucket or not(it does that sometimes).

If it didn't go through, I would be happy to resend or post here.

Cheers!

Mark

WPHReditor on Request for informatino on helping development efforts

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:14:55 +0000

Dear Mo,

Thank you for your reply. I think that's getting closer, but here the situation:

I have over 100 authors, divided into 4-5 groups. They submit articles(posts) and then they need to be reviewed by an editor assigned to their group.

What would REALLY be incredibly helpful would be if any posts made by an author assigned to a given group were automatically forwarded to the editor(s) for that group, or a link to the post anyway, so that the editor could then provide feedback for each post and decide whether/when to publish.

The reason this needs to be automatic/compulsory is because it would be very easy for the authors to forget to check off the box for their particular editor, and then we would never know they had submitted it on time. This is important(for us) because students get dinged on their grade for being late.

Basically all we need is for any post(s) submitted by a member of a given group to cause email to go out to an assiciated group(or individual) automatically.

Does that make sense?

Thank you so much for all your efforts - I will make it a particular point to credit you and your folks for all your hard work!

Mark

Mo Jangda on Request for informatino on helping development efforts

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:23:24 +0000

Thanks for your feedback Mark, and glad to hear that you're finding Edit Flow useful.

Automatically assigning users and usergroups to posts is definitely something we want to see in the plugin and have it's fairly high priority at this point. The way we see it working is that you will be able to specify which users/usergroups should automatically follow posts based on the category it is assigned to. For example:

You may want to associate the "Senior Editors" and "Photographers" usergroups to the News category. That way, when you add a post "Hello World" to the News category, "Senior Editors" and "Photographers" automatically get added to receive notifications.

Does that make sense? Or is there a different approach you'd like to see?

As for timeline, I'd say that this will likely be done for our next major release, which should be 2-3 months from now.

WPHReditor on Request for informatino on helping development efforts

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:48:09 +0000

Hello,

My name is Markus Wells and I am the editor at large of World Poverty and Human Rights online located at http://wphr.org. I want to first thank the creators of Edit Flow for providing a very much needed addition to the wordpress universe, and allowing me to manage my posters' submissions a little better.

I'm not much of a coder, but I am kind of desperate to get the finer-grained email controls idea that has been discussed up and working, and was wondering if anyone could help me get started working on it, or would be interested in working with me.

Right now I am getting dozens and soon hundreds of student article submissions, and I REALLY need to be able to make sure that certain people are notified when they are submitted, updated, or commented on by editors. Right now it can be done if the submitter checks off a box for notification, but human error means some will forget to do this or not know about it. As this is in an academic setting, if notifications aren't sent to the right parties automatically, it can result in student complaints, missed grades, etc. etc.

Anyway, the bottom line is, you can't imagine what a HUGE help it would be to have this in place, so I'll do whatever I can to help make it happen. The problem is, the term "Poverty" is part of the site's title and focus, and unfortunately, "there just ain't a whole lot of money in poverty" – or I would just pay a good php coder to do it for me.

Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated!

Mark

mrivera915 on Webdev Ideas

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:37:49 +0000

joey said:Article pages should have a summary, art, and hed at the top. E.g CNN or Arstechnica

The summaries on archive pages should always have "read more" links at the end of the summary.

CMLife on Fixing category pages to look like home pages

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:48:40 +0000

Daniel,

Thanks for the response. I seem to have that part of it working for the blog posts, but there's two problems so far (Forgive me for now having photos at the moment, I can get those up later):

1) The featured slider is not showing featured posts under a particular category. I tried inputting code and the slider just comes up black. By looking at this line, it looks like there's a place to input a category, but it doesn't work when I try it:

$the_query = new WP_Query('cat=' . $ex_feat . '&showposts=' . $featposts . '&orderby=post_date&order=desc');

Anything I'm doing wrong, by chance, or should I try the code you gave me, Daniel?

2) The formatting isn't coming up right - div class "col1" is going all the way across the page instead of staying on the left side. So the sidebar is showing up below everything. Not sure why this is happening, I can toy with this a little bit more and see if there's a problem.

Thanks for the help, I appreciate it!

Daniel Bachhuber on Fixing category pages to look like home pages

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:28:06 +0000

Excellent question, and it's coincidental that I was just working on something like this.

The way that WordPress displays content on a page is by using something they call The Loop. Normally the loop displays the most recently published posts. What you want to do, however, is limit those recently published posts to a particular category. The way that you'll do this is by creating a new query object like this:

$recent = new WP_Query("cat=XX&showposts=YY");

Add your category number where 'XX' appears and the number of posts you want to load where 'YY' appears. You can then loop through those posts with the same style loop as you had before, only this time it's using your new set of data:

while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();

Does that help out?

CMLife on Fixing category pages to look like home pages

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:12:13 +0000

Hey guys,

Perhaps this question has been asked before; I apologize if it has.

I'm interested in making my sub-category pages (i.e. cm-life.com/sports) look like the Home page, but with only sports posts. Right now, if you go to cm-life.com/sports, it's basically a blogroll of the latest posts. I want the home page look to it, featured slider and all.

The part I DO know how to do is give it the home page look - by making new category-xx.php's to correspond with the particular category and copying/pasting the home page code instead of a category list. What I DON'T know how to do is make it show ONLY sports posts. Anybody know what coding I would have to throw in to make this happen?

Thanks!

-Brian Manzullo

arobinsonwku on Hot Tagged Topic bars

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:08:37 +0000

I just wanted to add to this for anyone else interested in doing something like what we did that we have already started to see results. Those links have been clicked on close to 300 times since Sunday.

We don't have a scientific way of determining what's up there, we just kind of choose. Like I said though, it's been very effective.