Will Zachmann

Alas, I still have not yet been able to free up enough time to plunge into actively trying to fix and support this plugin! I have not given up on it, but have really done nothing yet. Still, since no one else seems to be interested to try to continue to support it, I will do the best I can as soon as I can. Stay tuned . . .

*;-)

hotspotdesign,

Please send me (by reply here or to [email protected]) a copy of exactly what you are trying to use in the short code and, if possible, what you are winding up with in the post when trying to use it. I’ll try to figure out what the problem is.

FYI, I haven’t really done anything yet, due to pressure of other work, but should finally be able to get up-to-speed with the code over the next week or two. My first priority will be to correct the problem with the short-code insert no longer working in the editor.

Ah! Indeed it does not! I’ll fix that as soon as I am able to pry enough time free to figure out what’s wrong and what needs to be changed to correct that.

For the moment, though, folks can still make it work by simply typing in the square brackets and the appropriate name. That still works just fine, it seems. But I’ll get the automatic insertion fixed as soon as I can.

FYI, because I have been extremely busy with work for various clients and with preparing my US Federal and State income taxes over the past couple of weeks, I have not yet been able to get caught up learning the details of Marcel’s (quite excellent, by the way) code for this plugin. I expect to be able to do so, however, over the next few week and to work out some priorities for further development and maintenance of this very useful plugin.

The site I refer to, by the way, has Tiny MCE Advanced installed.

Marcel, I am not at all clear with what it is that you say is not working. I’ve just (re-)checked one of the sites where I’ve got the plugin installed and, so far as I can tell, everything is working just fine. Can you please tell me exactly where you see something that is not working correctly?

I am pleased to be able to step in and lend a hand, taking over ongoing support and development for Marcel’s excellent plugin! As Marcel said, it will remain open source under the current license, without charge, and recognizing Marcel as the original author who has, in fact, done 100% of the work so far. It will be a long time before my contribution will be even a small fraction of Marcel’s. But I do want to make sure that Shortcode Exec PHP continues to be supported, updated, and enhanced.

It will take a little while before I am fully up-to-speed with Marcel’s code, so please bear with me for these first few weeks. But if anyone has any issues, ideas for new features or capabilities, or other suggestions, please feel free to let me know. I will do my best to get good recommendations into the dev pipeline as soon as possible.

Thanks for your concern, Marcel, but my email address is already in so many public places that a little more spam from here will barely be noticed! *;-)

In fact, though, I’ve got some very good spam controls on my incoming email and very little ever actually gets through any more.

Marcel, I would be happy to take over support (and further development) of your Shortcode Exec PHP plugin if you are willing to have me do that. You can reach me via email at [email protected] to discuss this possibility. I find your plugin very useful and would like to assure that it continues to be developed and supported. Thanks! will

Anubhav, what I have done in this case is to combine the use of Otto’s PHP Code Widget with a feature specific to Sayonton Sinha’s Suffusion theme – his “Ad Hoc Widget” areas by 1) writing my PHP code and putting it in one of Otto’s PHP Code Widget’s; 2) dropping that into one Sayonton’s Ad Hoc Widgets; and then 3) dropping the short code for Sayonton’s Ad Hog Widget that has Otto’s widget in it into the contents of a page.

This does have somewhat the aspect of “counting a herd of sheep by counting their legs and dividing by four” to it, but it actually works just fine. To be sure, a cleaner approach would just be to write custom pages with the custom PHP code in place of the normal ‘loop’ and I likely will re-factor this site that way eventually. There may be some other gotchya’s lurking in it as well though I haven’t stumbled across any thus far.

You might look at the code in Sayonton’s theme that implements his “Ad Hoc Widget”. I expect that could be adapted fairly easily to some other theme, but I just have not had time to get around to examining it yet. So much to do, so little time! *;-)

All the best,

will

Otto, why is that (i.e. why would it be “entirely inappropriate”)? I actually seem to have got it working (so far, at least) by simply dropping my PHP code into an instance of your PHP Code Widget which I have placed inside one of the “Ad Hoc Widget” areas of Sayonton Sinha’s Suffusion theme (which “ad hoc” widget areas can then be placed anywhere, including in pages and posts, using a shortcode).

Now I have not yet included code to read the GET or PUT parameter (or session) data, but so far it looks like I will probably be able to do that. Is there something I am missing here? Some security or other hazard I am overlooking?

Thanks!

will

Oh, and just in case it might be relevant, the theme I am using is a Genesis child theme.

By the way, there also seems to be no problem with WordPress writing the .htaccess file when I try to enable permalinks, either. Turning on permalinks results in the following being put into the .htaccess file in the sub directory where WordPress is installed:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wpsubdirectory/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wpsubdirectory/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Just on the hunch that it might be a problem with the sub-directory position, I tried putting a copy of the .htaccess file in the Apache root directory, too, but that did nothing noticeable to fix the problem.

All the best,
will
William F. Zachmann
Canopus Research Inc.