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funny, I tried pecl install apc, it pulled 3.0.19 and that failed for me.

Could it be resolved with a different APC config?

Arg – had the same problem. Very frustrating to debug. Was using APC 3.0.14 and was failing.

Ahh, I think I know what the problem is. The WordPress function add_query_arg() doesn’t escape HTML entities (understandably).

See line 150 of class.php (/wp-content/plugins/democracy/class.php)

$url = add_query_arg(array('dem_add_user_answer' => 'true', 'dem_poll_id' => $this->id));

Make that:

$url = htmlspecialchars(add_query_arg(array('dem_add_user_answer' => 'true', 'dem_poll_id' => $this->id)));

And you should be on your way. Cheers!

Hi bluejeans,

There’s a readme.html file that should explain everything. It’s in the downloaded file. If you can’t find it, democracy 2.0 readme inurl:/wp-content

If you can’t find it, a Google search for the file will get you what you need.

Awesome, thanks

Nice unique color – you don’t see that often.

One thing – the links look totally out of place. Change the underline color.

-Andrew

I think the social bookmarking icons are an unnecessary eyesore. They pop out more than titles and content of your page. And do people really use them? I’d think most people prefer bookmarklets and FF extensions and whatnot. I’d dump the whole lot. Just my 0.02

Hey, I could write articles on the website about how to make the website ??

Thanks for the kind words.

About the advertising – It’s something we’re still exploring. We haven’t made enough money to justify the “ugliness” added by Google ads. But that may change. We’re also exploring the idea of asking for direct donations (parents!) and local communities. We’ll see how that works out. One thing I wanted to avoid in the google ads was the integrated blending of ads. You know, when a google ad bar appears randomly in the middle of a post. I hate that.

Keep the feedback coming, this is excellent!

Hey, thanks everyone! Deko, I tied up some of the problems you mentioned. I’ve going to keep <input type="search"> so it looks nice in safari but won’t validate. I fixed some other errors though.

I was thinking about the tutorial. I could do a tutorial, I could sell a generic template based on it, or I could just release it. After the 40k downloads of Wordspew and Democracy, I’m a little worn out by the prospect of support. We’ll see.

Nate, we have two periods for the class. Not sure if it’s a full 60, maybe closer to 50. Our school is about 1200 students.

Hey everyone, thanks for the great feedback.

Deko, excellent stuff. I’ll get on that stuff right away.

The problem of image size is kinda tough. For the class I created a standard of 500px width for all images, save for web > jpg, quality 60. The front page articles can’t use the default thumbnail size for WP. I’m still working on that though.

Mm, gotta get my hands on some IE7. Parallels isn’t working like it should…

Getting on those links and validation now.

Quick update:

Added <meta name='robots' value='none'> for pages accessed with query string additions generated by democracy, neutralizing the SEO problem.

Fixed a potential problem with upgrading and sql errors.

If I’m not mistaken, you can use is_home()

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I think you just need to make that one little ‘Y’ lowercase.

Hey. That’s because WordPress doesn’t get to your code when WP deactivates your plugin. It takes it out of the include cycle as soon as the button is pressed.

Also, I recommend not having your plugin completely uninstall itself when it is deactivated. There isn’t a ton of harm in having idle tables, and users might squawk when their data disappears. I have two plugins that install their own tables, and I never run any uninstall code.

Cheers