gormley

I tried the development version you linked to above. i am experiencing the same issues with the latest wordpress (3.5.1). the thumbnail checkbox is selectable and then when save is hit the check mark disappears and no thumbnails appear on the site.

Same thing. Check box does not lead to dimensions option and when “saved” the check within the box disappears. No thumbnail on site.

I think a section that just spits out all reports in full would make this plugin just about perfect.

site owners like to see comprehensive reports within the admin system where you can select all of the options that the widget report allows. i understand the benefit to having a widget option that displays this to the public on the site, but was there a reason to not include this full reporting function within the admin system for owner use?

if you had a “reports” section that allowed you to select pull downs (or another sorting option) that gave complete results for most voted, highest score, average, etc. much like google analytics so admins can have quick access to the TOTALS that would make a lot of sense.

thanks! great job.

So there are no comprehensive reporting in the admin? Why does the widget show more useful report totals than the admin?

yes, it is not the number of post displayed that is the issue, that works fine. if i choose “2” – two show on my page. if i choose “5” – five show on my page. what barkeyo and i are saying is that the bucket of posts the plugin pulls from is limited. it only seems to pull in from a selection of 10 posts. i have 100 posts but it ignores 90 of them and there is no obvious setting to change that. it only shows the same 10 posts when set to random.

i’ll try to explain it in a different way…

100 posts in the database.
set plugin to show 5 titles and thumbnails on front page.
offset by 5.

so the front page will not show post ID 1-5.
but no matter the random rotation it only shows ID 5-15.

we are asking if it is possible to change that very limited setting. for instance if we want the front page to rotate through ID 5-50

I guess this is a bug that doesn’t have a solution.

i’m using the widget. the only options that pertain to this issue are the following:

under “basic options” there is the following..

“Max Number of Posts/Pages to Display?
Enter the maximum number of posts/pages to display. ____”

this is set to 3. it shows 3 thumbnails and titles on the page as it should. when i change it to 4 it shows 4.

i have “post offset”– under “advanced posts options” set to 10 as our main front page is set to show the 10 most recent posts so we want the sidebar widget to show the posts that start after those 10…

but the above do not affect how many posts the plugin pulls from. it only shows about 9 older posts (ID 10 – ID 19) within those 3 spots. it does not show any posts past ID 19…

so you cannot override the css built into the plugin? it is a simple background placement. there is nothing within the inner workings of the php code for the plugin that will allow this alteration?

Ok, let me present this in a different way.

Let’s say I have 50 posts and i offset the plugin with 10, it is still only currently showing ID 10 to ID 20. i changed the above “post_limit” within the “srp-config.php” to 40 and it did nothing. based on your explanation it should show ID 10 – ID 50, correct?

there is no setting within the widget to define how many posts to pull from, only how many to show at one time on the page.

am i missing where this should be changed in the config files?

within the “srp-config.php” it specifically says the following:

****************************************************
| ATTENTION: DO NOT CHANGE THESE VALUES HERE.
| ALL THESE VALUES CAN BE CHANGED IN THE WIDGET PANEL
| OR IN THE SETTINGS PAGE.
| ****************************************************

i changed the post_limit and it didn’t do anything. from what i can tell, that limit is how many to show on the page. i am trying to increase the amount of posts to rotate through the spot. for example i set it to show 3 posts on the sidebar and currently it only rotate about 9 different posts through those 3 spots. i want to increase that 9 post limit to 20 or 30.

“Set max number of posts to display” –> this displays a certain amount of actual thumbnails at once on the page.