charlesseymourjr

And yes… I’m using 2.5.1

I added the plugin to the wp-admin folder AND the wp-content/plugins/ since I wasn’t sure where to put it.

But after activating it, where do I see how to use it? I still only see the flash version which isn’t working for me in IE 6 or FireFox 2.0.0.14 using Windows 2000 Pro and IE 7.0 using XP Pro

Sure is frustrating. I’ve spent 6 hours studying documentation on the net about this.

Whoops… my bad. It was MUCH simpler than I thought.

I had put the address of the blog in as StageMagazineOnline.com before I had the Domain Name registered. Now that the Domain Name points to the correct subdirectory AND I’ve changed the address of the site to show LizSeymour.com, it works.

No extra coding was needed.

OY… it’s all in the details!

Thanks.

I keep reading that Authors and Editors SHOULD be able to upload, but the feature is not offered when I just created temporary logins at different permission levels.

Upload ARTICLES, yes. But not jpgs, etc.

Charlie

Every test I run does “or.”

So, if I have two reviews, Carousel and Sweeney, if I ask for Carousel+Sweeney I get both reviews instead of getting NEITHER review (since neither review has BOTH words in it).

Here’s a real example:

https://www.stagemagazineonline.com/reviews/?s=carousel vs https://www.stagemagazineonline.com/reviews/?s=carousel+players

Carousel is at Walnut Street Theatre and “Players” is for Players Club of Swarthmore. I have reviews for both on my site.

Note that when you use the first one, only the Carousel review shows. But use the second one, and Carousel PLUS Nunsense II reviews are shown. If this had been an AND statement, neither review would have shown because I don’t have any reviews with BOTH words showing. But this produced an OR statement, allowing reviews with Carousel OR with Players to show.

So this is showing the summation and NOT the intersection.

Any further thoughts?

Again, thanks for your thoughts on this.

Charlie

Oops…. maybe I should have tested this first.

Is there a way to say Carousel AND Walnut Street Theater so that BOTH terms must appear. I tried Carousel+(Walnut Street Theatre) and I tried Carousel+”Walnut Street Theatre” and the phrase acts like an OR statement and not an AND statement (if you know what I mean).

So… Carousel+Walnut shows me ALL the reviews with Carousel in them PLUS all the reviews with Walnut in them… as opposed to those that ONLY have both.

How do I do the subset (the intersection) that has BOTH Carousel AND Walnut Street Theatre listed?

The reason I like using the Search Terms and not the PermaLinks is because the searches are originating in my large website, run mostly by Drupal. It’s easy to say “go to my WordPress reviews software and look for the production named (and then substitute the Show_name from the MySQL database).”

I DON’T know of an easy way to automatically find the PermaLink once my reviewer submits the review to WordPress… OH, sure… I can have the reviewer submit the review, click on PermaLink, get the PermaLink address, and then take it back to my Drupal site… but I’m trying to avoid that if all possible. (I’m glad when my reviewers know how to write the review in Word and then copy and paste it to WordPress.)

So… with THAT additional feedback, other thoughts for me?

Thanks for your help.

Charlie

Hey, you’re terrific.

WordPress is pretty new to me, but the concepts of HOW it should work are not.

I think you’ve hit on it with the Plus Sign. Very helpful suggestion. Thanks!

Charlie
StageMagazineOnline.com/reviews

Hey… I’ll never take it wrong if someone is offering to help me. And thanks for taking the time to focus on my question.

But no, the answer didn’t do it. I must not have explained things clearly.

From OUTSIDE of WordPress, in my huge theater website, I list hundreds of theater productions. When I have a review (written and posted in WordPress) and mark my huge website that there is a review in WordPress, Members click a link in my website that says “Read a Review.”

Then, a new browser window opens pointed at WordPress with the search term already selected (in my example “Carousel”).

So when the Member gets WordPress opened on his computer, WordPress is already pointing at the Review.

Yes… there is only one showing, but that’s not my question.

Because if there were THREE reviews from various theaters all on their own productions of Carousel, THREE reviews would show because the search term was Carousel.

See what I mean?

So… other than using the PermaLink to find one specific review (and I could do that), is there a way to use more than one keyword in a search from OUTSIDE of WordPress so that when the program opens, it already has the specific review showing?

Is that clearer?

I do, however, like your thought about showing only the headlines and snippets… how/where do I change my search template to do that (assuming that also goes along with my first priority which was stated above).

Charlie