MattAlgren

Hi Gary,

I totally understand. We’re gearing up for a redesign, and since this seems to be related to the (extensively modded) theme that we’re hoping to get rid of fairly soon, we’ve decided to drop back to the previous version of the plugin for the time being. Don’t want us (or you, especially) putting time and energy into an anomalous, short-term problem.

Thanks for the plugin and for being so responsive!

Using Continuum. Paid, sadly. Just tried <?php wpb_the_biography_box ($mode, $user, $prefix, $name, $role, $type, $order); ?> and had the same results. Eternal loading, nothing rendered. Even tried <?php if (function_exists('wpb_the_biography_box')) wpb_the_biography_box ($mode, $user, $prefix, $name, $role, $type, $order); ?>. Still nothing.

The share buttons html code is plunked down in single.php, same as the biographia call. A bit of javascript in the footer.

Hi Gary. Thought I’d add this here instead of starting a new thread. I’m having trouble with placement as Fjonka did. For reference, we spoke earlier this year in this thread, and the site in question is here. Using WordPress 3.4.2 and just updated to Biographia 3.3.0 with a Wootheme, if that makes any difference. I saw that there were a couple settings for Woo, but they don’t seem to apply to our installation. Settings-wise, we’re pretty much default installation.

We’ve been using shortcode specified in the previous thread, specifically <?php echo do_shortcode('[wp_biographia]') ?> since we’re pulling the code outside the loop. As soon as I upgraded to 3.3.0, the single posts won’t load on the site. It just keeps trying to load with no success and none of the page rendering. Left it for ~5 minutes with no apparent success. I tried on different computers with different browsers and the problem persisted unless I deactivated the plugin or deleted the shortcode from single.php. Shortcode on our About page is still working fine.

I switched to general installation and it’s working, but as Fjonka, we’d like to pull the box back down the page under the share buttons (hard-coded AddThis, not Jetpack) and nRelate plugin links. I attempted the solution above, but decreasing the priority incrementally to 100 didn’t budge it. I just tried the variation <?php echo do_shortcode('[wp_biographia mode="configured"]') ?> from the notes on the plugin page, but had the same problem.

Any idea what we can do? Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

Okay, on the avatar issue, I switched to Simple Local. Here’s the HTML I get, including the div surrounding the image:

<div class="wp-biographia-pic" style="height:100px; width:100px;"><img alt='Matt Algren' src='https://techcitement.com/admin/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Matt-Algren_avatar-100x100.jpg'
 class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' /></div>

Looked like you were right and this was a CSS issue with some rules bleeding through from the theme, so I reset the CSS for “.wp-biographia-pic img” (which had been empty) with:

.wp-biographia-pic img { border:0;outline:0;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;margin:0;padding:0;
}

…and suddenly it’s snapped into place. I’m sure the CSS should have been added to the theme rather than your plugin, but for the life of me I can’t see why the theme CSS is leaking through.

Your suggestion with the shortcode works perfectly, and the other two issues are resolved. If you have a more proper way to deal with the avatar CSS issue, please let me know. I’d love to fix it correctly instead of just what worked first.

I can’t thank you enough for your help!

Man, you’re fast. I’ll check out #1 and #3 in a bit and see what I can figure out with your notes. Thanks!

Correction: I switched back to the native author boxes until it’s working. See the following link for what the problems I’m having:

https://techcitement.com/techcitement/contributors/

It’s working fine on my blog with Firefox 4.

Me four. I’m about ready for my straightjacket.

That seems to have worked.

Hm… Okay, I updated to 1.5.1 yesterday afternoon and it seems to be working (still didn’t like the zip within the zip, though), but on the blog it’s still reading returning “Sorry. No data so far.” I checked the database, and the popularpostsdata table is showing 88,807 records.

Maybe I should drop the table and let it start from scratch?

(Take a look at https://blog.mattalgren.com)

Hey Ikki24,

I tried to update to 1.5, and kept getting a database error. After I took the .zip out of the folder, it uploaded correctly, but now I’m getting what looks like php on the front end (using the sidebar widget).

I backed out to 1.4.6 until it’s straightened out.

Thanks for the update, kaspars! I appreciate your work on this one!

I’m getting the same thing. I checked the plugin website and it seems to be completely down.

With WP 2.7, the theme’s admin page is broken and news sections don’t appear. I emailed the theme developer the day before his site went offline, but so far nothing.

Unfortunately, fixing it is beyond my ability. hrm.

I hate to bump old threads, but I got this dragover=”true” thing tonight.

Any explanation? Google just sends me here.