[Plugin: Simple Facebook Connect] Questions / suggestions re new/dev version

So how do we fix this?

Use another plugin, perhaps. One that isn’t broken.

I’m not going to work around issues in other plugins. If the plugin developer wants to work with me to fix their plugin, I’m perfectly happy to work with them, but that’s it, really. Broken plugins are broken, and I’m not going to adapt to their brokenness.

@otto: please correct if I’ve misunderstood your latest reply to jpcutler85, who was referring to Mingle Forum: are you’re saying that Mingle Forum is broken and that there will be no workaround to make them compatible? I’m kind of confused, as earlier in this post there seemed to be a kind of collaboration with Mingle Forum’s cartpauj. Thanks.

I have removed Mingle forum because its just frustrating having to edit loads of code to get it to work with my theme and already installed and working plugins.

@dharma.arte: Mingle Forum is intentionally broken, as detailed in cartpauj’s post above. His “add a check in Mingle Forum to prevent the forum from showing up twice on the same page” is wrong and will never be correct. I will not be working around his code, and if he doesn’t want to fix the mingle forum code to work properly, then it will just stay broken.

The line “However, because of themes like Thesis, and other plugins that actually print shortcode content into the header” shows that basically he doesn’t get it. Processing a shortcode should *never* produce output. If the act of processing his mingle forum shortcode produces output, then he’s doing-it-wrong. Shortcodes are a form of filters. Filters are supposed to return content, not output it. If he has problems with it showing up twice on the page, then that indicates that he’s doing something wrong. It’s not the theme’s fault, and it’s not other plugin’s fault. The Mingle Forum code is doing it wrong and no amount of working around that will fix it.

Otto, I think you’re right. I took over Mingle Forum from the old WP Forum plugin and have been in the process of cleaning it up and fixing as many issues as I find. For some reason I thought an output buffer was being used in the forum but it doesn’t appear to be so. The next release of Mingle Forum should correct these issues with the proper use of a buffer. Thanks!

Just pushed the latest version of Mingle Forum. ALL shortcode output is now properly returned instead of echo’d with the use of the output buffer. The latest release of Mingle Forum also has some important security fixes as well so don’t hesitate to update.

Got it! Seems to work fine! Thanks!