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@kafkaesqui:

So if my test theme is called “Blue Theme”, do I just activate the theme switcher plugin and then type in:

https://my.site/?wptheme=Blue%20Theme

in the browser address bar ?

@podz:

I have a laptop running windows xp pro – how do I develop on my own machine?

@davincim:
Is there a guide somewhere that explains how to build a test site – and how do I turn pings off (whatever they are)?

Thanks

thanks lorelle

sorry – I wasn’t using the right words in my search

I just found the info that I was looking for.

@minna

Thanks for the reply

Do I just click on the “RSS feed for this thread” link and bookmark the page that it takes me to ??

@slobizman

Now that you know how to use backticks – can you post the complete code that you used.

Thanks

@phrixus

Your first response was cool – but the second showed your inability to resist the temptation – but hey, I’m not looking for an argument either – I was just making a point.

But, your second response left me little choice but to make a final comment. Yes, I did follow the link on your website and I did read the relevant posts – I also downloaded “your first plugin” to have a look at it prior to posting my comment here.

This is what bothered me when I compared the code:

GPL gives people the right to use code as one pleases – that’s cool.
And, adding additional code to improve a plugin – that’s cool too.

But how does changing this code:
$title = __('Contact Form Options');

To this code:
$title = __('PXS-Mail Options');

improve how the plugin works ?? Did it not work with the original code intact ??

Or, this: $wpcf_email = $_POST['wpcf_email'];
To this: $pxs_email = $_POST['pxs_email'];

Or, this: $wpcf_subject = $_POST['wpcf_subject'];
To this: $pxs_subject = $_POST['pxs_subject'];

Or, this: $wpcf_success_msg = $_POST['wpcf_success_msg'];
To this: $pxs_success_msg = $_POST['pxs_success_msg'];

etc, etc, etc …..

In my humble opinion, I just think that if the orginal code that you used was working ok, why would you have to change it to look like the code is yours ??

@ryanduff

I am currently using your plugin. I was searching for a plugin like this for a long time and, as far as I know, you were the first to come up with a wordpress contact form plugin. And, as busy as you were with your new plugin, you also made it a point to answer my emails. You even added some small changes that I was looking for and I thank you for that.

Personally, when I read the words “I have written my first plugin” I would interpret that as meaning a person started from scratch and wrote the thing. In my honest opinion, there’s a big difference between “writing” something versus “adding to” something, regardless of how good the additions are. Doing that may be legal, but I think it’s really unfair. If anyone has any suggestions on how to make “your” plugin better, then they should work with you.

don’t waste your time on mg2 – not worth the effort

@rummanddan:

Every photo gallery software that I have tried so far requires that you upload your photos to a folder or folders located inside of the program’s main folder.

example:
photoprogram/uploads/florida/beach 01.jpg etc etc
photoprogram/uploads/texas/fiesta 01.jpg etc etc

I would like to be able to create an “uploads” folder in the root directory on the server (or any other directory that I choose).

example:
uploads/florida/beach 01.jpg etc etc
uploads/texas/fiesta 01.jpg etc etc

And then have the photo program get the photos from that folder in the root directory and create thumbnails in a folder inside of the photo program folder.

example:
photoprogram/albums/florida/thumb_beaches 01.jpg etc etc
photoprogram/albums/texas/thumb_fiesta 01.jpg etc etc

This would create more flexibility and leave your upload folder clean, organized, and intake.

@rummanddan:

– the ability to upload photos to various different folders (it would also be better if the folders could reside “outside” of the main photo gallery directory.

Just a suggestion,

If you are using Firefox as your web browser (and you should be), there is an extension called SpellBound that can be used to spell check your posts.

The extension allows you to spell check any text input field. So, when the extension is installed, it allows you to right click your mouse and choose the “check spelling” option while you are in the “write post” or “write page” box in the administration panel.

It works great for me, and it can be used in text input areas of other applications as well, and not just in WordPress.

looks like your code cannot find the image file – are you sure the file is named correctly?

you may also want to check the file ending – sometimes *.jpg is treated differently than *.JPG

I started out using minigal – version b13 – it was a pretty good program, one that I thought I would end up using on my website. In the b13 version, you were able to upload your photos to the server and then save them in different folders. It was a cool program. In the newer version – minigal2 – the developer changed the program and now all photos must be uploaded to one folder only. Having to store 3000 photos in one directory folder sucks. So did some of the developers answers in his forum when he was questioned about that change.

Simple PHP Gallery is a great little program except that, if I recall, you cannot spread thumbnails across several pages. If you have 100 photos in an album, then all 100 thumbnails are displayed on the same page. If the ability to spread thumbnails across pages was added to that program in the future, then I would use it in a heartbeat.

I am currently using Coppermine – impossible to integrate – but faily easy to get it to mimic your existing website layout. But the program is certainly overkill – more features than I need – but it had most the features that I wanted. However, their support staff in their support forum has a couple jerks who enjoy degrading people more than they do helping them.

Creating a photo gallery looks like something that the greater majority of wordpress users want to do – and it also appears that a large majority of them are not totally happy with the solution they are using for their gallery – so it would make sense in the future to spend some time developing a feature in wordpress that you allow you to do just that. The developers were able to introduce the page feature in 1.5 and did a fine job – why not have a built in galery feature as well. WordPress would then be greater than it already is.

I went with coppermine because gallery does not support the GD library and my server does not support imagemagick