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I'm going to hope that no one had comments before because the site came up too slowly on it's previous hosting, LOL 🙂
The hosting situation is resolved, it's on a much beefier server and the site comes up much faster now. I also had to replace the plugin I used to generate featured posts tiles on the front page, but the header image solution still eludes. I may ask about it on the Appfinite forums, or see if I can come up with a better search phrase for a tutorial for switching header images.
I also ended up switching to Sandbox Featured Content Widget, because it excludes Subtitles while GFWA does not.
WordPress / Genesis Site Design & Troubleshooting: A Touch of Summer | @SummerWebDesign
Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkNovember 13, 2014 at 5:08 pm in reply to: stripslashes error with Genesis 2.1.2 and child themes #131469SummerMemberActually, in my searches, Genesis generates this error with a handful of other plugins, going back over a year... looks like starting with Genesis 2.0, perhaps? It doesn't seem to be a PHP 5.3/5.4 thing, it seems to be a custom fields thing within those plugins, but I'm not sure exactly why some custom fields trigger this error and some don't.
And both of those plugins were updated earlier this year, so what's your definition of recently? 🙂
Those plugins are very important. Since WordPress does not as yet provide a way for guest authors to have bylines without giving them accounts, these two plugins provide an invaluable service. I'm running several sites where without those plugins, I'd have WP accounts lying fallow for years with who-knows how poor a password on them, and I'd rather not have them be a vulnerable point of attack. I even have a couple of accounts from people who have passed away in the interim, so not having an open/active account for them would be a good thing to transition to.
It wasn't until recently that WP added the "No Role for this site" to lock out accounts, but not having the account in the first place while still allow me to provide them with a byline is even better.
The Genesis Slider and Genesis Responsive Slider plugins haven't been updated in well over 2 years, so the "well the plugin hasn't been updated in 2 days, so that's the problem" stance doesn't and will never fly with me. There are a lot of Genesis plugins that haven't been updated since before 2.0 came out... but I don't see people flocking to disavow all of those yet.
SP support said they would pass it on to the devs for evaluation, so maybe there's something more to this. And the only workaround is the core hack, but since I did it one site without incident, the other two will soon undergo similar surgery.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkNovember 12, 2014 at 10:58 pm in reply to: Lifesyle Pro/WordPress: Embedding Youtube Video Problem #131367SummerMemberTypically you just paste the video URL into the body of the post, no need to use the insert link button.
Are you pasting the full playlist URL, or are you pasting just the URL for the single video?
If the URL has parameters beginning with ampersands in it after the actual video ID, then you need to remove that from the URL to get just the single video.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkNovember 12, 2014 at 10:54 pm in reply to: stripslashes error with Genesis 2.1.2 and child themes #131366SummerMemberI'm almost certain that Co-Authors and Genesis Co-Authors are in play here, but the fact that these same plugins have worked for several years on these same Genesis sites until various combinations of updates to Genesis 2.1.2 would seem to suggest a change in Genesis behavior somewhere, or perhaps on an outside change, in PHP version/behavior.
On a whim, I downgraded kickassmysticninjas.com to Genesis to 2.0.2, and the error still happens. So it happens on a site running on WP 4.0 with Genesis 2.1.2/2.0.2 with an xhtml child theme, and it happened on a site running WP 4.0 with Genesis 2.1.2 with an html5 theme (it did before I hacked it).
It does not happen on a site running WP 3.9.2 with Genesis 2.1.2 with an xhtml child theme.... and all these sites have Co-Authors Plus and Genesis Co-Authors Plus, so it seems there's something different in WP 4.0 that triggers this and tracking it down is a little bit beyond my PHP skills.
and the plugins in question are already up to date.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkNovember 7, 2014 at 10:52 am in reply to: How to Prevent Automatic Selection of Featured Image? #130814SummerMemberActually, this is a known "quirk" with Genesis, going back a few years and behavior that goes contrary to default WordPress behavior with fallback images, and it wasn't until Genesis 2.0 that a filter was added for people to control this behavior.
See this thread for all the long, technical details: http://www.studiopress.community/topic/no-need-for-featured-image-in-pro-themes/
and yes, I did write that plugin, but it's something I've just been using for myself now and again.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberIf it helps, the Subtitles plugin does include the subtitle in the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified, as I discovered to my surprise earlier today 🙂
This was using Epik, so it does work with Genesis child themes, and yes, they do provide a way to turn that off, based on location.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberI took the code you pasted in the first post in this thread (although it had bad quotes in it and I had to fix that), and created a test post on a demo site I have running News Pro, and the video shows up just fine, in the dimensions specified in the iframe parameters:
http://demo.atouchofsummer.com/2014/10/video-embed-test-2/
Then I switched it to Magazine Pro (what it's still running now, but the widgets are out of place, obviously), and it's still just fine.
I don't think the problem is with Magazine Pro... there has to be something else in your site, another plugin, or conflicting code, that's causing the issue on your site.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMember@Tom, hadn't thought much about it, actually. The "shop" we used to have set up on a subdomain doesn't exist anymore, and my plan was to replace it with an Amazon aStore, just to simplify things.
Given all the security issues that have popped up with SSL this year (what, 4 of them so far? 5?), I'm in no rush to force users of any of the podcast websites to go SSL because... why again? To me, having one less thing to worry about because of a hole no one's found yet is more important to me (don't get me started on having to repeatedly rip out timthumb from theme packages after they'd upgrade and keep that in there, despite the security concerns there).
Earlier this year I was told the Heartbleed hole had been patched on the server (the old one I'm moving everything off of), then during an awards ceremony at Dragon*Con this September, people started tweeting to stay away from that website (not my site, but a different site hosted on the same server) because of Heartbleed even though the site wasn't actually using https for anything.
There aren't enough expletives in the human pantheon of languages -- active, dead and fictional combined -- to describe how spitting mad I was that night 🙂
So no, I'm in no hurry to jump on the SSL for everything bandwagon, no matter what Google's trying to force everyone to do (ie, make it easier for them to store data they can backdoor read and analyze) 😉
I hope I'm just joking about that last bit...
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberYou're gonna make me cry, Brad 🙂
So, who should be avoided at all costs, besides GoDaddy? And what are your requirements/guidelines when you say "managed"?
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberSame for me with WP Spamshield... I've gone from needing to moderate a couple hundred comments per day across 3 sites, down to maybe 5-10 comments a month total across those same 3 sites, and WP Spamshield stats say that one of those sites is still receiving 800 spam comments per day that I NEVER see.
It's a beautiful thing.
I'm also testing out Zero Spam alone on one site, and so far so good. Can't hurt to have a backup where spam is concerned.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberDeactivating Akismet does not clean up the histories in the commentsmeta table. The only way to keep it in check is to either manually run that SQL command every month or two, use Akismet with the WP Conditional Captcha, or replace Akismet entirely.
I started learning about this cleanup journey 2 years ago, when I realized I couldn't move a site because the database was too big to import into the new location (without using FTP and mysql from the shell), and I began looking for reasons why. The site I mentioned was getting several hundred real comments and several thousand spam comments per week, with spam spikes as high as 2500 per day during peak spamming holidays (or something).
Unfortunately, other than blog posts about how to fix this issue, not many people seem to care, and most of the rest continue to sing Akismet's undying praises that it can do no wrong. Beg to differ 🙂
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberAkismet has been less than useless for me since version 2.5, when they added commentmeta histories that it never cleans up, despite the assurance in the old description that it does (the newer descriptions no longer have that claim). I didn't discover how huge a problem this was until version 2.5.8 or 2.5.9 however, when I discovered on one of my busiest sites that the commentmeta table alone had grown to a little over 50Mb in size.
See http://crunchify.com/akismet-and-wp_commentmeta-how-to-clean-up-comment-meta-in-wordpress-database/
And to date, it still doesn't clean up after itself, and one might think they've given up trying to make it do so, except there's a plugin called WP Conditional Captcha that enhances Akismet's findings, and has an option to disable Akismet's feature for creating the comment histories.
Akismet is still needed to prevent spam on Gravity Forms submissions (but I will gladly jump in line for any GF anti-spam alternatives that come along), but on sites where I'm not using Gravity Forms, I have switched a number of my sites over to using the WP Spamshield or Zero Spam plugins, and if I can, on new installations I delete Akismet so those comment histories never begin to collect.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberI've been going through old posts and updating the iframe embeds with the newer builtin embeds that WordPress uses. I've even been removing some standalone self-hosted videos from a podcast plugin workaround that I'd implemented and am replacing those with embeds using the [video] shortcode.
I guess it's lucky timing that now it's become an immediate necessity that I update those embeds, since recent updates to 64-bit versions of Firefox and Chrome will no longer play .mov files. Couldn't figure out why until I stumbled across discussions in the Apple Support forums. I've been converting .mov's to either .mp4 or .m4v all week :/
Oh, and the WordPress embeds are awesome for embedding Tweets, too!
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberWhen you do a view-source of any of your site's pages, do you see the GA code in your header? Can you provide a link to your site?
I haven't had any problems with Genesis xhtml or html5 themes and the new Universal Analytics codes, not that I've come across as yet.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSeptember 24, 2014 at 10:16 am in reply to: Do You Ask Clients to Purchase Framework and Theme? #125548SummerMemberIf I'm not going to be doing site maintenance for them after doing the site, then I insist that they purchase a Genesis license and the child theme themselves. Same for Gravity Forms, or any other premium plugins I have developers or unlimited licenses for.
If they want me to continue to do site maintenance, different story... and if in the future they no longer want to continue with my maintenance services, I make sure they know they need to purchase their own licenses beforehand, or help them transition to alternative plugins (yes, I have had to switch a couple sites from Gravity Forms to Ninja Forms, but that's what the client wanted).
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberMy first "go-to" shops to look for 3rd party child themes are Themedy and Appfinite. Just my 2c 🙂
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSeptember 13, 2014 at 3:35 pm in reply to: Seeking recommendations for an events registration plugin #124276SummerMemberI just read about a new one via wptavern.com called OpenTickets... maybe that might fit your needs? I'm guessing since it's based on WooCommerce that Paypal integration is available.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberGlad I could help!
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberI've been using WP almost exclusively for 9 years, and I still dabble with using Drupal (not as much though), and I know the Drupal thing you're talking about, about removing stop words like "to", "and", "for", etc, and no, WP does not and never has done that.
I have plenty of posts from some of my oldest sites as examples 🙂
I just recently converted a site from Drupal to WP, and I had to adjust all the permalinks after the WP conversion to match the old ones by removing those words on about half the posts.
I thought Yoast has an option to do that for slugs (not sure if it's part of the base plugin or an add-on), but it's definitely not something I've ever seen in WP core by default.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberAre you moving your site to the test URL or are you just trying to make a copy of your site to use as a development site, then move everything back? That was a little unclear 🙂
Anyway, I've used WP Migrate DB to make a copy of a live site for a dev site, and I've also used it to copy the finished dev site to the new live site.
It only copies over the database, but it changes the URLs and the file paths to match. Copying wp-content/uploads will never affect the content in the database (posts, pages, categories, tags, comments), and with this plugin, you'd have to copy wp-content over to the new dev site anyway.
Copying to the new site also wouldn't overwrite what you already have on the old site at all, unless both WP installations are using the same physical file locations?
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