epretorious

Here’s the HTTP dialogue using slightly different request (i.e., “/index.php” versus “/”)…

eric@eric-x1:~$ telnet practicalxenserver.org 80
Trying 45.33.36.209...
Connected to practicalxenserver.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /index.php HTTP/1.1
HOST: practicalxenserver.org

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 21:12:41 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3
<<<snip>>>

HTH,
Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

Here’s the HTTP dialogue…

> eric@eric-x1:~$ telnet practicalxenserver.org 80
> Trying 45.33.36.209...
> Connected to practicalxenserver.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> HOST: practicalxenserver.org
>
> HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
> Server: nginx
> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 19:45:19 GMT
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Length: 0
> Connection: keep-alive
> X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3
> Location: https://PracticalXenServer.org/

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

UPDATE: Disabling CMTG does not fix the problem. Removing CMTG does not fix the problem.

What might be causing this?

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

Thanks, Yannick:

LL is working nicely but I did find these errors in the Apache error_log:

> [Sat Aug 20 00:23:44 2016] [warn] [client 24.22.63.252] mod_fcgid:
> stderr: WordPress database error Incorrect index name ” for query
> ALTER TABLE 8J4wo_linkcategorymeta ADD UNIQUE KEY (meta_id)
> made by activate_plugin, do_action(‘activate_link-library/link-
> library.php’), call_user_func_array, link_library_plugin->
> ll_install, link_library_plugin->create_table_and_settings,
> dbDelta, referer: https://practicalxenserver.org/wp-admin/plugin-
> install.php?s=Link+library&tab=search&type=term

What do you make of that?

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR
>
> [Sat Aug 20 00:30:05 2016] [warn] [client 24.22.63.252] mod_fcgid:
> stderr: WordPress database error Incorrect index name ” for query
> ALTER TABLE 8J4wo_links_extrainfo ADD UNIQUE KEY (link_id)
> made by activate_plugin, do_action(‘activate_link-library/link-
> library.php’), call_user_func_array, link_library_plugin->ll_install,
> link_library_plugin->create_table_and_settings, dbDelta, referer:
> https://practicalxenserver.org/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_
> status=all&paged=1&s
>
> [Sat Aug 20 00:30:05 2016] [warn] [client 24.22.63.252] mod_fcgid:
> stderr: WordPress database error Incorrect index name ” for query
> ALTER TABLE 8J4wo_linkcategorymeta ADD UNIQUE KEY (meta_id)
> made by activate_plugin, do_action(‘activate_link-library/link-
> library.php’), call_user_func_array, link_library_plugin->ll_install,
> link_library_plugin->create_table_and_settings, dbDelta, referer:
> https://practicalxenserver.org/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_
> status=all&paged=1&s

WordPress: 4.6
Link Library: 5.9.13
Theme: Twenty Fourteen
PHP: 5.6.24

> PHP 5.6.24 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Jul 22 2016 11:59:12)
> Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
> with the ionCube PHP Loader (enabled) + Intrusion Protection
> from ioncube24.com (unconfigured) v5.0.18, Copyright (c)
> 2002-2015, by ionCube Ltd.
> with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend
> Technologies

Sometimes I forget to read all the way to the bottom:

Yannick wrote:
> Actually, there is a way to order categories. You need to go
> under the General Options and set ‘category selection method’
> to ‘comma-separated ID list’. Then, go to library settings, under
> common, and you will see that the list of categories to be
> displayed has changed to a list of category IDs. You can then
> decide on the order of the categories by adding them in a
> specific order.

aenea wrote:
> There’s one more step in addition to those you describe – also
> need to go to Library Settings | Categories and change the
> Results Order to ‘Order of categories based on included category
> list’. And, with that done, it works a treat! Many thanks.

Yannick wrote:
> Oh yes, sorry. Forgot about that step. Glad you figured it out.

Thanks, Yannick – That worked perfectly!

I’ll make a contribution very soon. Thank you for all of your amazing [and hard] work!

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

> Next: I’m going to install the “My Link Order” plugin. ??

From this LL support thread:
> > The “My Link Order” plug in no longer seems to be available…
> >
> There will be [an alternate solution] down the road. I am working on
> the next-generation of the plugin and direct ordering is something I
> am looking into.

When do you think that direct ordering will be complete, Yannick?

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

> FWIW: LL must have completed installation successfully because there
> are two new items in the left-hand margin of the Dashboard: Links &
> Link Library. (One of them, “Links”, was there before I disabled LM.)

LL 5.9.13 seems to be working despite the complaints during installation. e.g., I’ve inserted a few of the LL shortcodes into a page and they’re displaying correctly, AFAICT.

Next: I’m going to install the “My Link Order” plugin. ??

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

> What might be causing this failure?

FWIW: LL must have completed installation successfully because there are two new items in the left-hand margin of the Dashboard: Links & Link Library. (One of them, “Links”, was there before I disabled LM.)

I’m still uncertain, however, because LL is displaying the Link Categories that I defined in LM using the same panel that LM displayed. Is that the expected behavior?

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

FWIW: I read the excellent WPMUDEV tutorial “How to Create a WordPress Child Theme” and created a child theme (“Twenty Fourteen Child”) to store these customizations and others. ??

.primary-navigation {
        display: none;
}

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-create-wordpress-child-theme/

I found the CSS responsible for the width of the width of the ‘entry-content’ container and the ‘entry-header’ container and added this stanza to my Twenty Fourteen Child theme style.css:

.site-content .entry-content,
.site-content .entry-summary,
.site-content .entry-meta,
.site-content .entry-header,
.page-content {
        margin: 0 auto;
        max-width: 800px;
}

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

> This plugin does not provide a front-end editor.

Isn’t that a standard part of a “Wiki”, Dennis? Otherwise, if authors/editors have to login directly to WordPress and access the Dashboard, it would just be a blog. Right?

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

Thanks, Michael – That was absolutely the shortest distance from the question to the answer!

To expand upon the directions that you’ve provided: Directly below Line #974 of the CSS file $DOC_ROOT/wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/style.css add the declaration “display: none;”. The revised CSS class declaration will look like this…

.primary-navigation {
        display: none;
        -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
        -moz-box-sizing:    border-box;
        box-sizing:         border-box;
        font-size: 14px;
        padding-top: 24px;
}

This will render the ‘primary-navigation’ class impotent and the navigation in the upper-righthand corner will no longer display.

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

FWIW: I’ve verified the Menu:Location settings in the customizer and the main dashboard (Appearance:Menus).

TIA,
Eric Pretorious

Tobias:

I took your explanation [to a different problem] at face-value:

When sorting, HTML code is stripped before the sorting, which leaves that image column with empty strings.

…and tried adding invisible zeros:

<span style="visibility:hidden">0</span> and
<span style="color:white">0</span>

…but the get the same behavior: Values are sorted by the first digit (e.g., $1, $12, $123, $2, $23, $234, and so on) and all other digits are ignored.

Can you recommend a simple work-around for sorting mixed numeric/empty columns?

Thanks, again!
Eric P.