harknell

Generally you shouldn’t have any issues upgrading from MySQL 4.1.x to 5.x. However, if you are upgrading from 4.0.x then you may very well hit some issues. MySQL changed greatly between 4.0.x to 4.1.x, and that caused a few headaches. But right now I’m sure most hosts are running at least 4.1.x, so again, most likely no issues should happen.

Here’ my issue: Why no backward compatibility mode? Why not distribute WordPress 2.5 with the “new” admin theme and an alternate “compatibility mode” theme that replicates the old one?

If you remove drag and drop functions from the new widget area, why not have a setting that says “use the older style of widget management” and leave the old code in? Same for almost every major regressive change that has occurred. I seem to remember seeing directives to plugin programmers to use conditional logic in their plugins for the changes between 2.5 and previous versions, why not have the main program do this as well?

And the real issue no one (I believe) has mentioned: Any plugin that adds tables to the database will almost certainly fail if not rewritten for WordPress 2.5. Most plugins use a function to add tables, and during plugin activation now these functions DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO GLOBAL VARIABLES ANYMORE….so if you use any variable to hold your plugin table names, or paths, or data, etc. (which most people do) unless you globalize them additionally in the main part of your plugin file (at the “global” level so to speak) these variables will be empty and cause the table install to fail. Expect a flood of “my plugin doesn’t work” forum requests soon. In many cases it won’t be apparent why the plugin doesn’t work since users don’t normally see that a table isn’t there.

Oh well, gonna be an interesting few weeks after release I bet.

Update: Duh, I found out how the preview and Save stuff works. The preview link only appears if you save the page, and save now acts only like save and continue–the old save where you were then taken to the manage page no longer occurs.

I’m still wondering about autosave though, I haven’t seen that happen yet.

Personally I wonder about the idea of using someone else’s server as the host for something that shows up on your site. (and even ads are/have been an issue for this) What’s to stop the .jpg exploit that hit CNN.com from awhile ago from causing an infected image displaying on your site? Also, what happens if their site/server is down?

Maybe I’m a control freak, but not allowing any other way of displaying an avatar but having people sign up for some other site seems a bit strange…..

The “special” to take into account is that there are a great number of changes that will be occurring in how plugins and themes work, so test your site out offline first to make sure parts of your site don’t suddenly stop working properly. For you this would be particularly true of plugins that affect categories since this was changed in 2.3.

Maybe you might want to do something easier like use my AWSOM News Announcement plugin and turn on php execution support, then place your ad in a news post in the plugin. It would only then appear on the index page (and you can even optionally have it only appear to different groups of users) or wherever you want (so you can add the code to other pages if you want it to show up on particular pages or posts.

Hi, I’m not sure I understand your problem when using AWSOM News (I’m the developer of it), though I will attempt to answer what I think you mean. What title isn’t showing? If you mean the title you assign to it in the admin area–>that title is actually not a display title but is the title for you so that you know which news post is which when administering them in the admin area. The News area itself does not have a separate title field, you can do that your self by using the Visual editor and formatting the News post the way you want it to look. I didn’t want to force people to have a title field because not all implementations of the news section on sites warrants a title area.

I have some basic tutorials on how to do the setup and how to move files to your server at my AWSOM.org website here. I also design plugins for comics/image galleries and my stuff works with ComicPress. Quick thing: don’t worry about the host, charset and collate settings, they probably don’t need to be altered.

You could also use something like my AWSOM news Announcement plugin to do this, you could limit the visibility of certain news posts or all of them to a certain registered level, and place it in a post or page.

Hi, I think I have the perfect gallery for you. it’s here: https://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/popup-image-gallery/popup-image-gallery-download/

it’s no longer supported, but it does work in 2.3 and looks very close to the site you posted.

Well, you could use my AWSOM News Announcement plugin. That adds an area at the top of your page that you can edit like a post.

Hi, in general the best place to post support questions is on my support forum at Harknell.com.

However, let me see if I can help out. It’s fine to have the cache folder in the uploads area, that won’t cause an issue. The first wueation I have is “not showing” for the gallery–does this mean errors, broken images, or absolutely nothing (blank page) happens?

Quick things to remember: The cache folder needs to have 777 permissions, and all image files need to be at least 644.

Also, can you post a link to the page so I can see the behavior?

Your page didn’t tale super long to load for me, maybe 3-5 seconds. In general to add an area to the side of your page you’d need to edit your theme index file (and possibly your file for individual posts and the file for individual pages–these are often named different things–like archive.php single.php, page.php, etc.)

Since your sidebar is sort of connected directly to your main content area, to place another area ouside of this you’d need to play with adding a div area floated to the left in your index.php file. I would consider reading the “sidebar” how to area on www.remarpro.com though which might help you in how to set this up, especially if you want to make it easily editable.

As an easier method you could also utilize my AWSOM News plugin, which has options to display content within a news post to only certain levels of registered users, or to only non-registered users. The News post can be added to any post, page, or set to display on your index page, or any theme location using a code. Each News post is individually set for user level that can view the content.

Uh, we’d need more details to help on this. Nothing in WordPress should affect the display of animated gifs. Post a link to the page with the problem so we can see what’s happening.