jefromcanada

I just installed the plugin today, and I see what you mean about the Ukranian flag. There is a solution to this, but I hesitate to recommend it because it removes the attribution altogether.

You can use the Appearance > Customize CSS capability within WordPress to hide the “.leaflet-control-attribution” element.

I wish the plugin author would have separated the flag from the subsequent attribution information so that only the flag could be hidden, and maybe there is a more restrictive element definition I could have used, but I didn’t want to spend any more time figuring it out.

Thanks for that reply. But my question goes deeper than that. If WordFence is designed to find CHANGES that have been made to WordPress core files, shouldn’t your program try to ELIMINATE any dependence on core functions within WordPress? So, for example, if you are calling core functions within WordPress, what happens if those core functions are among those that have been compromised? Just as the best Windows anti-malware products are those that can work from a clean boot and not be affected by a compromised operating system, shouldn’t your product be designed to have no dependency on WordPress functionality beyond the actual installation and activation?

@andergmartins thank you for your quick resolution of this issue.

After first having to disable the plugin completely to allow me to even run WordPress (white screen fatal error) and then installing a fresh version of 3.15.0, I saw the same error as the original poster. When I installed the 3.15.1-alpha plugin, the error cleared up and the site is running again, although I have not checked yet for any side effects.

Funny, I had a similar problem yesterday and was going to report it and then I saw your post. In my case (and it’s not completely resolved), the invalid submission message was caused by an unrelated plugin that had been installed about a week earlier. When I disabled that plugin, the SmartForm worked.

So I would recommend you check for any newly installed / updated plugins to see if any are interfering.

EDIT: I just went to your website and successfully registered a FAKE TEAM. You’ll need to remove it.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by jefromcanada.

Further information. The submission worked while using Chrome with the F12 (Console) working. When I went into the form editor (using Chrome) and tried to PREVIEW the form, it didn’t work properly. A field that should have appeared after clicking a choice in a radio button did not appear, and when I clicked the NEXT button, several pages of the form were skipped (probably because that hidden field on screen 1 didn’t appear).

UPDATE: It appears there is a recently installed plugin on my site that is interfering with Smart Forms, but I’m still confused. When I disabled the other plugin, the SmartForm works in LIVE MODE, but in test mode, it still doesn’t seem to be working.

I usually do request and am granted full control of websites I work on. Unfortunately in this case, the original author of the WordPress site also owns the hosting company and did not give the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery their own cpanel. Not only would he not grant me access to the cpanel (nor would I expect him to with all his other clients placed at additional risk by a “stranger” having the keys to the castle), he didn’t offer my anything beyond a [reluctant] administrative access to WordPress. Fortunately, I knew of the WordPress File Manager plugin that essentially gave me access to everything down to the /public_html folder. That was enough access to comfortably go along doing what I needed to do, but not enough access to directly access the database (I got access anyway using remote access tools and the passwords stored in the WordPress configuration files). Anyway, enough of that. Now that I have your email address, I will go ahead and send the code I altered. Again, please forgive the rudimentary PHP “skills”. You’ll probably need to improve and refactor the code to make it presentable for distribution. And if you need to know anything about my methodology that isn’t already explained in my embedded documentation, don’t be afraid to ask.

Well, that sucks. As I mentioned, I am a VOLUNTEER for this organization. I have access to the WordPress website, but not the the cpanel or any of the email accounts other than my own. To save money, the organization does not have any email addresses registered under their domain. Everyone in the organization uses their own “personal” gmail address. If you filled out the information form on that page, then your mail would have been sent to the person in charge of membership (I believe the current membership chairman is Garth Wigle). Anyway, I’ll have to write to him to ask him to forward your mail to me.

When I contact Garth, what should I be asking him to look for (in terms of identifying which email came from you)? Did you mention my name? Did you use “zymeth25” anywhere?

If you ever want to contact me directly, my businesses are:
Safe and Secure Computing, JEM Software and SSDRAPIDHOST Webhosting Inc.

I’ll hopefully be able to get the email from Garth and get back to you shortly.

Thank you for all your assistance!

EDIT: I’ve sent an email to Garth. Hopefully he didn’t throw away your email if he didn’t know what it was all about. We’ll see…

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by jefromcanada.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by jefromcanada.

I followed your suggestion to create a custom post type because editing the publish dates is not something I can easily teach other volunteers to do. Then I used a little known (and unsupported) 10-year-old plug-in (Ambrosite Next/Previous Post Link Plus) to help me create a customized version of the single.php template. It worked really well. It took me nearly 11 hours over the past two days to figure out how to do everything, but it is done.

Take a look at https://rca-arc.org/heritage/great-gunners/ and follow any of the links to see what I ended up with.

I really would like to share my improvements to your plugin and Sundari’s template with you. I think my posts use a non-displayed email address, so if you have access to it and want to reach out in person (I won’t abuse your contact info), I’m happy to share. I’ll be 70 years old soon, and don’t want this information to be lost to the world in case something happens to me.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by jefromcanada.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by jefromcanada.

With respect to the matter at hand, I’ve begun to convert these Great Gunner posts to custom posts with the post_type=”greatgunners”. This does limit the list to ONLY the great gunners (when doing next/previous). Unfortunately, it is still apparently cycling through the list in chronological order rather than using the custom sort criteria.

Does this mean I have to take the default page template and clone it for use by the Great Gunners list so that there is a special interpretation of Next and Previous links?

Does your plugin have some sort of “page” template that implements Next/Previous sorting based on the sort criteria in your catlist shortcode?

I changed the file lcp_catlist.php. I don’t see a way to upload it to you through this thread. My modification begins on line 385. Let me know how to get it to you.

I can also send you the changes I made to Sundari’s nothumb template so you can test how it works for yourself.

No, I’m saying I got no response.

But, looking over my notes (I’m very old and my memory is failing), I realize the issue I was addressing was NOT directly with your plugin, but rather in the work done by Sundari Designs to make the plugin more attractive. He had created a number of custom templates, and the issue I had was with one of his templates, not with your plugin. I apologize for my confusion. However, in order to “trigger” my modifications to Sundari’s code, I needed to make a small addition to your code… I added a new excerpt type – so now there is excerpt=yes, excerpt=full and excerpt=custom. This last parameter is the one that is used in my modified version of Sundari’s template.

I have now reached out again to Sundari to see if he is interested in fixing his template.

So now that I know the issue is with his template, I’m wondering whether updating to the latest version of your plugin will still allow me to use his template modification, or whether that will be wiped out when I install your update. The modified templates are in the same folder within my child theme where you would normally place your default.php file (and where I have additional files installed, as per Sundari’s instructions).

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by jefromcanada.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by jefromcanada.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by jefromcanada.

That’s the thing… I’m self-taught in PHP and have never used Github. Not sure how it’s done. That’s why I thought if we could communicate and I could pass you my code, YOU could clean it up (I used inline code because I didn’t know how to call it properly as a WordPress codex-compliant function) and integrate it properly.

Here are two screen captures of the way your plugin worked before I modified it
https://rca-arc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/before-modifying-plugin.jpg

and after modifying it
https://rca-arc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/after-modifying-plugin.jpg

The issue was that when trying to use a full-html excerpt, sometimes the “cut-off point” would occur in the middle of an html tag. Because the tag didn’t terminate properly, any code that followed would not be aligned correctly. For all I know, you have added this correction (based on my original correspondence with the author) in a subsequent version, but I’ve been afraid to update since 0.84.1 because I didn’t want to lose my customized code.

Thank you for your quick reply. Here is the shortcode we are using right now:

[catlist name=”great-gunners” customfield_orderby=gunner_sort_code order=ASC numberposts=40 template=default ]

Are you saying that if we created a new custom post type for “great-gunners” and referenced that in your shortcode instead of the name=”great-gunners” category, the standard WordPress “post” that displays each gunner would restrict itself to the specific custom post type? Or would we need to somehow “clone” that standard POST type to become a new GUNNER-POST type, and then change all the existing posts to the new post type?

I found an article on the wpbeginner site about a plugin I could use to define the new post type. But, I really only want it to mimic what a standard post does (except perhaps for the way it displays the default image).

By the way, I tried writing to the original plugin author a couple of years ago. I had to create a custom patch to the code to deal with an “issue” (I wouldn’t call it a bug) we had with your plugin, and I really think you’d benefit from adding that functionality to your plugin. I won’t elaborate here (off-topic) and I don’t want to fork your work simply to add this functionality because it’s really YOUR work. I’d love to discuss it and offer you my (terrible but functional) code so you can properly integrate it into your product.

I would suggest you taking a small portion of your project to forward, but not sure whether there is a secure way for me to contact you without posting in public here.

I saw on your site that you have a link to your design business. Maybe I should send email to you directly there so we can trade direct contact information.

The reason I am suggesting a small portion of the project is so I can see whether use of the conditional math solves the issue you’re having with chrome, since my formulae are all working with both chrome and firefox.