mgrant

It appears this company or service is dead. The cms2cms.com website reports: Error establishing a database connection

and if you try to use this module, it just hangs there.

You know, it’s a shame, if they were totally clear about what they charged, if the price was reasonable, I’d certainly pay. It’s not honest to do what you say and it begs the question what are they doing really.

I won’t do business with folks like that.

Yes, it’s what I expected. So there should be no problem. Thanks.

It’s true that in general it’s better to not modify a plugin. However, I’m really proposing this as a bug fix. As I said, the behavior as is doesn’t make sense.

Yes, I just discovered this too, I hadn’t realized it was theme dependent.

I discovered that if I create a page called ‘Blog’ and set the Post Page (under Settings->Reading) to this page, then I set the template to something other than the default template (for example the theme I’m using has a template called Blog which has a corresponding blog.php in the theme folder. I simply modified it specifically ask for posts of type ‘post’ this:

$blog_query = array(
		'paged' => get_query_var('paged'),
		'post_type' => 'post'  // <-- I added this line
		);
$posts = &query_posts($blog_query);

But I am left with a question for my complete understanding of this… If I left the template to the default template, which file or function in my theme is being used to do the query?

If any of you actually got this to work, would you mind posting the diff changes you made?

I do know from a little playing with the code that it shouldn’t be too difficult. If I modify the word ‘page’ on line 632 of az-index-cacbe.php and put my custom type in there, it does, in fact, pull up an index of that type.

It would be sweet if this module could be brought up to snuff for the 3.x world.

gah, never mind. The code tag was getting added inside the editor! When I flipped it over to html mode, there it was!

I’ve installed Thethe Slider and under the Content Types within your plug in, it shows:

thethe-slider
This post type has been registered by some other plugin.

So it’s sort of a content type.

Adding repeatable images to a content type is what I want, but what I don’t want to do is re-invent the wheel and rewrite a slider to display those.

What’s the right thing to do here? Would for example one of the slide show plugins need to be modified to work with a list of images like this?

I see what you’ve created and I see things like slide shows and other things, and it seems there aught to be a way to use one in the other.

I figured out why my slides weren’t appearing. I changed the width from 940 to 200 and now I’m seeing slides.

So when using widgets, the size of the slideshow has to be the size of the widget. I saw that this sort of thing was over-ridable in the metadata.

Ok, yet another feature request! It would be really sweet if you put the things you could override in the widget as controls.

Hmm, ok, at least now I know, thanks for the ultra quick response. I do not know the wordpress api, but I do wonder if there’s some callback function you can create which is called on publish that would allow you to check the post for all required items. If such a callback existed, here would be the place you should check for title and featured slide.

By the way, I now have a second problem. I published the slides and I marked them as part of a slideshow, but nothing’s showing up in my slideshow. I see the box in the widget and I have the slug name in the Slideshow field. Yet all I see is an empty box. Any ideas?

Right, I figured as much. What about the idea of changing the title of the box to be more clear that the featured image is in fact THE image of the side?

Ah hah! That was it! I wasn’t putting in a title!

Yet even so, at the top it was reporting “Slide published.” when I pressed the publish button! Is this something you can verify in your plugin on publish that a slide as both a featured image and a title or you pop up a message saying a slide must have at minimum these 2 things?