isabel104

I am sorry, but I can’t replicate your issue. This plugin doesn’t cause any conflict with the image uploader. I just retested using the default WordPress 2013 theme, and it inserts images into posts and products fine. What theme are you using? There must be some javascript that is conflicting with the image uploader.

Thank you.

1. I looked at your staff page, and it appears as though the Archive heading is gone. I don’t see it.

2. Yes, when you’re adding the text on the “Staff –> Add New” page, place your cursor where you want the excerpt to end, then click on the “Insert More Tag” icon. That icon should be in the row of icons above the text editor — it’s usually to the left of the “Spellchecker” icon.

3. I went ahead and added the ability to sort staff members. It will be available in the next update, which I’ll try to release by tonight. It will add a box for you to enter an “Order Number” for each staff member.

4. The Staff list is actually just an archive the “staff” post type. If your theme has some action call (look for “add_action”) inside the archive.php file, then it would be easy to insert your intro by hooking onto it. But if it does not, then this is how you can insert stuff above the Staff list:

Drop this into your archive.php file, after the page title, but before the loop:

// show blurb only on staff archive

if( is_post_type_archive('smartest_staff') ){ ?>

    // YOUR BLURB HTML CAN GO HERE
    <div id="staff-blurb">
	<h2>Welcome. This is a blurb.</h2>
    </div>

<? }

// end blurb

Of course, you must edit the 3 lines after “YOUR BLURB HTML CAN GO HERE”.

5. At the moment, there is no shortcode for the Staff, or Services, or News, because they’re simply archive pages. I could add something like that in the future, but I don’t have the time at the moment. Will consider this for future updates. For now, to have a completely custom Staff page, you could create a copy of your archive.php file, and name it archive-smartest_staff.php. Edit as desired to make it look how you like, and this template file would automatically be used to show your staff list.

Your welcome. Where would you want display it? Like as a sidebar widget on the single page? Or rather on the downloads archive page?

Thanks for being so detailed.

1. Yes, an actual featured image has to be added in order to show on the archive page. Twenty Twelve theme allows you to do this. It may be hidden. Try this: on the “Add New Staff” page, click ‘Screen Options‘ on the top right corner. Make sure that ‘Featured Image‘ has a checkmark next to it. If that doesn’t reveal your ‘Set Featured Image’ area, please tell me what theme you’re using so I can look into it.

2. I agree. But this plugin simply adds the staff content and social links into your theme’s own template files. So the code is found in your own theme’s single.php and archive.php (or in content.php, if you are using Twenty Twelve). You’d have to comment it out there.

The reason it’s done this way is that this plugin is actually a backup for people who have used my premium app-themes, and decided to stop using them. My app-themes create the staff custom post type, and have custom template pages for the staff page and staff archive page. They don’t show the regular post info on those pages. This plugin allows them to switch to a regular WP theme while keeping their staff and other custom post types. But the display is up to the theme.

Every theme is different, so this plugin can’t cover all scenarios, but I will cover at least Twenty Twelve theme. I’ll release an update within the next day or so, which will take care of this issue for those using Twenty Twelve theme.

For now, until the update is released, you can do this:

If you’re using Twenty Twelve theme, you can hide the post date info on the Staff single and Staff archive by adding this to your CSS:

body.single-smartest_staff article.smartest_staff footer.entry-meta, body.post-type-archive-smartest_staff article.smartest_staff footer.entry-meta {display:none;}

As far as I know, Twenty Twelve theme doesn’t show “Comments (on/off)” on pages that have no comments, so look inside you’re theme’s single.php and archive.php to find that.

If you’re using a different theme, if you give me a link to your staff page, I’ll take a look and give you a custom solution to hide it in your theme.

Another option, which will completely give you what you want:

For the single staff page, create a template file named single-smartest_staff.php. Copy the code from your single.php and edit as desired.

For the staff archive, create a template file named archive-smartest_staff.php. Copy the code from your archive.php and edit as desired.

3. Excellent idea; thanks. I’ll add a spot for Linkedin in the update within the next day or so.

The specs table is set to display after the prices (after the purchase button). The default order is: 1st the content, then the price/purchase button, then the specs table. If this is is not the case with your site, please give a link to it, so I can take a look and see if something else is disrupting the order.

So sorry about that. A few things…

1. The Staff, News, and Services pages are actually archives of staff-custom-post-type, news-custom-post-type, and services-custom-post-type. So, you will not see a page for these in the list of pages in the dashboard.

2. Since they are archive pages, you will get an error until you add at least one post for each (staff, news, and services).

3. After adding a post for each, if you still get the 404 error:

Upon 1st activating the plugin, did you go into the plugin options panel and click “Save All Changes”? That seems to be a necessity sometimes (I will add this to the installation instructions).

Also, if at any time you disable either the staff, news, services, or reviews (by un-checking the box in the plugin options panel “Preferences” tab, and then you later decide to enable one, you must click “Save All Changes” twice. This flushes the permalink settings. It will have the same effect as going to ‘Settings -> Permalinks’ and clicking “Save Changes” twice. (I will add this to the installation instructions, as well).

Hope this helps. If not, please post here again.

Sorry to hear that, but I can’t reproduce this Notice.
Are you in debug mode? I develop & test this plugin in debug mode, and I get no Errors or Notices. That Notice you’re getting could be caused by any number of things. For clues, if you can access it, take a look at what’s on line 2251 of \wp-includes\query.php.

Yes, and that’s a great idea. Please see the FAQ section, which I just updated to address your issue. I put up examples so you can copy and paste.

Apologies! Your theme’s CSS loads before the plugin’s CSS.
To override it from your theme, you have to use !important, although it’s not a “best practice”. You could add !important like this:

#isa-related-downloads img {
    width: 161px;
    max-width: 100% !important;
}

That will make sure your CSS overrides the plugin’s CSS.

If you could please post a link to your site (that’s using the plugin), I could take a look at the source. There is, most likely, some other stylesheet overriding your
max-width: 100%;
If you post a link here, I’ll see what’s overriding it.

The plugin CSS for the images gives a max-width of 150px. Try overriding that in your theme with this:

#isa-related-downloads img {
    width: 161px;
    max-width: 100%;
}

You should generally leave the height set to auto, see if that looks okay. If you must, you can add to the above:
height: 101px;

Hope this helps.

Not built in to this plugin. But there are several plugins that add the ability to rate. The best choice would be Product Reviews which is made especially for Easy Digital Downloads.
Two free options, which I’ve tried and can say that they work, are WP Customer Reviews and GD Star Rating. Hope this helps.

Thank you. I haven’t tried Symlinks yet, I didn’t think it would make a difference if the actual file is stored in the same folder, only the link is a mask, correct?. I will give it a try when I get a chance.

Is there any way to delete my post from above (referencing the path)? I apologize for being explicit about the uploads path. It was just an honest review, and at the moment I was upset at that issue because it was the only 1 flaw in an otherwise excellent plugin that I really wanted to use. It’s the best plugin I’ve seen for digital products.

Thank you!

Ok, new version is up. Hope it works.