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The “train to be a CNA” website doesn’t exist. Did you mistype the URL?

For that reason I haven’t actually seen the problem, but it seems like the Single Post template page may be missing a <?php get_sidebar(); ?> statement.

It works fine for everyone, admin or not. Check your configuration: you may have set “Who can switch themes” or “Who can see the widget” to only admin.

If you’re confident enough with editing the plugin directly, you can alter this yourself.

You can do this by using the WordPress plugin editor (Plugins -> Editor -> select Trackable Social Share Icons from the dropdown menu). If you do this, make sure that [wordpress directory]/wp-content/plugins/trackable-social-share-icons/index.php is writeable (chmod 666).

Change this line:
'email.png' => array('url'=>'mailto:?subject=Check out %url%', 'popup'=>'false'),

to something like this:
'email.png' => array('url'=>'mailto:?subject=News article&body=Have a look at %url%', 'popup'=>'false'),

However, I wholeheartedly agree with you that it should be possible to customise the settings a little more. Examples:
– In the icon + text option, the text should be customisable: so instead of just having “Facebook”, you should be able to write your own text like “Share on Facebook”.
– The output of the Twitter button ought to be customisable: so instead of just having the format This is the title of the post https://www.thisisthe.url/of/the/post, you could have This is the title of the post – https://short.url/123456 (via @sitetwitteraccount).

Most of these sorts of customisations can be done if you’re comfortable with editing plugins manually, but it would be useful to have these as actual features of the plugin itself.

This is easily fixable, by the way, in case anyone was looking for a quick edit. Something like replacing these lines:

if($page_url == $suggested_url) {
	$page_title = the_title_attribute(array('echo'=>0));
} else {
	$page_title = get_bloginfo('name');
}

… with the markup here will do the trick. (This isn’t the most efficient or beautiful way of fixing it, but I’ve done it that way just so I can see more clearly what I’m doing.)

Yep, getting rid of that abominable pop-up ought to be your number one priority. Gimmicks like that instantly make me hate the person who added them, and I’m 100% certain that many others feel the same way. Put a sign-up form in the sidebar if you must, but don’t assault the reader with that nonsense.

As for your question, I’m one of those people who reflexively looks around for a “View as a single page” link whenever I come up against a paginated article. Long articles are fine. If you must paginate, use an Ajax loading method so that the reader doesn’t have to navigate to a new page to read the next part of the article.

If you omit a poll ID, the most recent poll will automatically be selected.

In other words, use <?php get_poll(); ?> if inserting the poll into a template, or use [poll] as the shortcode.

Thanks Victor, will have a look now.

The website is definitely down. I’m getting 403 errors on the Profprojects.com site just like afmastro.

I notice that the plugin has been updated recently, but I don’t like “flying blind”. I’m sure I’m not alone among web designers in saying that I won’t consider using a plugin of this nature if the developers aren’t maintaining a website and there are no screenshots available.

As far as I can tell, W3TC appears to treat the external page just like any other page as far as caching/minifying is concerned.

To be honest, this one kind of fixed itself. I don’t think it’s a problem inherently in the plugin: I suspect it was caused by the interaction of the plugin with some in-built caching settings in my hosting. The issue disappeared for our website when we moved from one host to another.

Thanks Hunor and Joe: I encountered this same problem when trying out the plugin, and was very relieved to see that there was a simple fix.

This is an excellent plugin, incidentally: I regret staying on WordTwit for so long.

Doesn’t matter, found a workaround. Thanks for the help nsathees.

I’m probably making a very basic mistake somewhere, but using urlencode seems to make things worse: instead of outputting “Ratings: Cadel Evans%E2%80%99 Tour de France victory sends SBS soaring”, it’s now outputting “Ratings%3A Cadel Evans%26%238217%3B Tour de France victory sends SBS soaring”.

function the_titlestring() {
$titlestringprocessed = urlencode(get_the_title($post->ID));
echo $titlestringprocessed;
}

I’ve been having huge problems with Contact Form 7’s spam filtering, or lack thereof, recently. I’ve been using both CAPTCHA and Akismet, but have consistently continued to receive floods of spam messages through the system. I’ve now had to switch to a new contact form system.

Needs to be of the following form: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppe3vSNZlF4&start=3m12s