cyberguy

The RSS plugins I have used so far have been for simple textual feeds.

An Amazon RSS feed would have image URLs enclosed. You would also want to modify the destination URL to include an affiliate ID.

I installed 1.5.1 and the indenting wasn’t working. I copied across the list_cats code on the kahsoon site, but made a mistake and omitted one of the arguments.

Big Mistake.

All manner of very weird things started happing. Categories dissapeared. Categories were being displayed with 0 entries, etc.

Note: If copying code across from Kahsoon, double check that it is accurate before running.

No, v1.1

Using the plugin located at https://ryanduff.net/projects/wp-contactform/

Issues Resolved.

Some XHTML violations were detected during a validation check I did with the Firefox web developer plugin. Some of the errors were from popular WP plugins.

1. Modified the #hack positioning so the white line is made invisible on the page in FF.
2. Noticed that in the Kubrick CSS, it mentions that certain styles are simply ignored by IE. This is why I had bullets in IE (the list item default), and a double arrow in FF. FF is correct, not IE.

Extra line breaks in FF only caused by unnecessary DIV tags auto. inserted by the Mudbomb wysiwyg plugin. IE ignores this. I simply switched off the plugin to modify the HTML directly and remove the DIV tags.

4. Layout looks good in IE, less good in FF, probably due to FF “better” handling of positioning. I want to be able to say “If you are rendering in fire fox, modify central column width by X”. Don’t know if this is possible/advisable. My philosophy is to optimise for the majority of my audience, and this happens to be IE users.

Issue Solved.

Plugin Gif images moved from the root dir to the plugin dir. The plugin looks in the plugin dir first for the images. If not found, it looks in the current dir.

OK.

I don’t know CSS very well yet, but it looks like I’ll need to learn if I want to get cross-browser compatibility working.

I can deal with 1 & 4. The #hack is something to do with the navigation bar. I copied this off another site somewhere.

3 is a new one. Having Googled this term, I see it is a Mozilla ad filtering plugin. But it doesn’t seem to be doing a terribly good job. Rather than hiding the ad, it just makes it look ugly, which is probably worse that leaving it alone.

Still no idea how to solve 2. Why would the Kubrick CSS take over in firefox only? An example/further explanation would be useful.

Cheers