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  • Can I retrieve them?

    Unless you have a database backup, no, you cannot retrieve them.

    Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: Image Headlines

    There’s nothing I can suggest aside from double-checking everything. The plugin isn’t lying… the PHP functions failed the is_writeable() check on the given directory, failed a mkdir() of that directory and failed another is_writeable(). If PHP can’t access the directory neither can the plugin. Try a different directory as a test.

    Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: Image Headlines

    Sounds like a permission problem on the image directory. Check those permissions for your cached images and on your cache folder.

    When you bump it makes me not want to tell you that you capitalized the ‘f” in “searchForm” in your CSS and yet it’s “searchform” in your markup. (In other words, spend more time debugging your CSS and less time bumping.)

    There’s a Batch Categories plugin that should help.

    Development of WPPM has been suspended. Indefinitely it seems. WPPM2 may be a gleam in DrDave’s eye, but there’s no timetable we’ve seen.

    Real spambots don’t wait for a response. They hit the form directly, send the request and they’re immediately hitting another server.

    Bump.

    If anyone has an iPod they could turn loose of, I’d be grateful. Or a pony. Always wanted to learn to ride.

    I’ve released a new version of the plugin today — version 1.18 — that adds support for adding words with apostrophes in them to the personal dictionary. Visit the plugin page to download this latest version.

    If you’re in The Loop, you can display that count with a simple echo in your template.

    echo $post->post_view_count;

    Open your header.php in your templates directory. Look for the code that looks like this:

    if ((! $withcomments) && (! is_single()) && (! is_page())) {

    comment that out and just put in this:

    if( 1 ) {

    Depends on the plugin but the simple answer is “quite likely.” ??

    But seriously, if you’re using plugins to, for instance, grab the most recent comments or perform other database accesses, that will obviously have an effect on performance. Using Textile or Markdown takes longer to process than rote HTML, so using those will cause more processing per request. All plugins add overhead to the processing of data, even little bitty seemingly useless ones. Some use more than others.

    EDIT: As Cypher said, plugins that are meant to affect the admin interface will have negligable effect on your users but may have some, simply due to the way the plugin architecture is structured. Any time there’s a request every plugin you have activated must be loaded and executed. In the case of admin plugins, they may not do much besides install filters to be run that won’t run for user pages.

    do you have MSN or can you contact me

    This is as good a place as any, and there’s the possibility that others can help here as well.

    The header is located in the index.php file.

    My guess is that you would modify wherever the <head> is then.

    Add some code to show the number of new posts and comments since your last visit

    You would put that wherever you want the “2 new posts and 13 new comments since your last visit” to show up, so it’s up to your where to put it based on your design. In the sidebar, at the top of the page, it’s your call.

    And what the heck does step #8 mean?

    Step 8 is for displaying an image instead of the text “NEW” next to new comments and posts.

    So the user or the plugin author should use IanD’s conditional code to stop the tag from borking the page?

    Almost. The user or the template author should use conditional code.

    Put another way, if you have to modify your template to get a plugin to work — like the spelling checker plugin if you want to add the spell checker to the comments section, for instance — surround any call to the plugin function with that conditional.

    There’s nothing I as the plugin author can do in that case to “protect” the user. If the user later deactivates my plugin or it gets deactivated unwillingly none of my plugin code is now available. It may as well not even be on the server. So there’s absolutely nothing I as that author can do at that point because all of my code is unused, hence the crux of the problem.

    There was talk on the hackers list about coming up with a way to add some sort of “protection” to the plugin system, but it all seemed like a duct tape kind of solution from the start to me and it never really went anywhere.

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