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OH! My apologies – I didn’t see that you already had a fix for this. I have upgraded, and everything is working wonderfully. I’ve five-star rated this plugin, it’s awesome and I really appreciate your responsiveness.

Thank you!!!

Francesco – I will HAPPILY rate the plugin, and if we can get the paragraph/line break issue resolved, I will be adding this plugin to every client site I manage as well as installing it by default on all my new client sites. It’s really an invaluable tool, I don’t know why it’s not built in by default.

Many thanks!

Hi Marco!

I’m so glad that I was able to help identify the bug between your plugin and Jetpack. And very glad that I was able to get your plugin working on my site.

BUT… now I have another issue, I’m hoping you can help with a fix for. When I add HTML to the text widget using your plugin (on the HTML tab), it’s stripping out my
and <p> tags. The content that I’m putting on the sidebars of this site are paragraphs and lists of contacts, so the ability to have line breaks (at the very least) is essential.

Any suggestions? Thanks SO much!

FOUND IT!

It’s that stupid JetPack plugin! I had only installed JetPack because the annoying nag screen at the top of my page was getting my goat, and I just hadn’t gotten around to deleting it (I don’t really see what the value of that plugin is…)

But sure enough – on the development server, I installed all the same plugins and one by one disabled, and JetPack was the culprit. Returned to the client site – disabled JetPack and voila – your plugin works. YAY!!!

Please keep up with development on this, it is a MUCH needed addition to WordPress!! Thank you!!!!

Additional update: I set up a test site on my development server with a fresh installation of WP and the theme I am using on the site that your plugin won’t work on. However on the fresh install, your plugin IS working.

That would lead me to suspect that one of the plugins on my client’s site is causing the problem. I’m going to install each of them on this sandbox site and see if I can determine the problem. I’m wary of just disabling them on my client’s site for fear I may lose some data (has happened to me before when disabling plugins).

Fingers crossed and will keep you updated. I’m hoping that this information will also help you!

Just FYI, I just installed your plugin on another site I have in development, and it works BEAUTIFULLY. I love it… now, just to figure out what is interfering on THIS site so I can use it! ??

Hi Marco,
The update didn’t work unfortunately. I loaded the Chrome console as you asked. The only error is “Uncaught Error: chrome.tabs can only be used in extension processes. See the content scripts documentation for more details.” Seems to be related to one of my installed extensions so that isn’t the problem.

The remaining info displayed shows no errors, but for what it’s worth I’ve pasted it all below. I can’t think of what else could be interfering, unless something built into this theme – but even then, I can’t imagine what…

Uncaught Error: chrome.tabs can only be used in extension processes. See the content scripts documentation for more details.
privilegedchrome/RendererExtensionBindings:288
(anonymous function)chrome-extension://aonjhmdcgbgikgjapjckfkefpphjpgma/measureIt.js:120
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:56:35 GMT
1 : ID=26762 *SCRIPT* rf_CS_onLoad. Script loaded! url=https://www.thevineyardscommunity.net/wp-admin/widgets.php
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:56:35 GMT
6 : ID=26762 *SCRIPT* rf_sendMessageToBG. CS -> BGO : cmd:clearCS
g_docnum:10402968
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:56:35 GMT
69 : ID=26762 *SCRIPT* rf_CS_receiveBG. COMMAND=setdocnum
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:56:35 GMT
69 : ID=26762 *SCRIPT* rf_CS_receiveBG g_docnum=0
Also eval language localization data
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:56:35 GMT
70 : ID=26762 *SCRIPT* rf_CS_receiveBG. COMMAND=login
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:56:35 GMT
71 : ID=26762 #### LOGIN REMOVE-ADD EVENT Mouse_down and KEY_DOWN######################

Thanks so much for your attempts to help… I realize without being able to reproduce there’s not much you can do, but I really would like to be able to use your plugin. Open to any suggestions.

Hi Marco –
I got a reply from you on this post in my email but am not seeing it here… not sure what’s up with that.

I installed your update, unfortunately, still no styling buttons ?? I also tried switching from HTML to Visual and back, but no success.

I’m running WP 3.2.1, a few plugins but none that I can see conflicting (other than WYSIWYG Widgets, which I’ve un-installed). I do have Advanced Text Widget installed, but not activated. Other plugins… Advanced Excerpt, AJAX Contact, Calendar, Category Posts Widget, NextGen Gallery, Promotion Slider, WishList Member, WP Show IDs….

I’m running Chrome, but have tried FireFox and IE9 and having the same issues there.

Happy to provide any other info you need… I appreciate the help.

Hi Marco!

Was so happy to see a replacement for WYSIWYG Widgets… I’m in the 11th hour of a client project and while WYSIWYG is working for me, it is not for my client, so I need a fix ASAP.

However, I’m having a problem. I installed your plugin and drop the widget into a sidebar, but am not getting the tiny mce buttons. I DO get the media insert buttons, but not the styling buttons.

I thought maybe it was because I still had WYSIWYG installed, so I disabled and deleted that, then reinstalled yours – but still no buttons.

Any thoughts? Did I mention I’m desperate? ??

Thanks, woodent. Interestingly, I did swap out the sizes – put width to 600px and height to 100% and while I didn’t expect it would work, so far with all of my test images it is working so far.

I agree that cropping the images first will work, but again, my client is a senior citizens community, and the people who will be doing the updating are used to Word. They don’t have Photoshop or image editing software and I don’t want to overwhelm them with having to learn (or buy!) new software in addition to learning WordPress, etc (they’re converting a former paper newsletter to online).

I can’t define the image size, because all they’re going to do is find cute pictures to throw up that say “happy Thanksgiving” and “merry Christmas” from stock sources, so again without teaching them how to crop, edit, etc., that won’t work.

For now I’ll keep it as is and see how they make out, and adjust if need be down the road. Thanks again for the reply!

Thanks for the response, I appreciate it. I kept the plugin on the site, but I will let the client know that it may be buggy and we may have to remove it. There just aren’t any other plugins (that I could find, anyway) that will give my client true WYSIWYG functionality for a text widget (why this is not built-in functionality…or at least a popular developer plugin – is beyond me). My client is a community association for seniors. They’re not computer illiterate by any stretch, but teaching them HTML is out of the question.

If you’ve got a mailing list or have a site with RSS feed of announcements, I would love to know when you re-develop the plugin. If done right it would be a must- have on any WP site.

Thanks,

Kym

Does the creator of Stout read this forum? This issue is also happening on our site. All of our October events are showing, but in IE9, only the first November event shows up and then nothing. Switch to compatibility mode and it works fine. Works fine in EVERY other browser. This isn’t a Google Calendar issue, it’s a Stout GC plugin issue (as this doesn’t happen if I embed the calendar directly, outside of the plugin.).

For now I need to disable the plugin and go with an ugly Google calendar… but would very much like to see this issue resolved.

Thanks to you both for your reply. I found instructions on using mod-rewrite to redirect the URLs and then simply changed the site URL and wordpress URL, and voila, all worked magically well.

Appreciate the responses!

To Ipstenu – true… but typically the theme upgrades list in the changelog which files were changed, and for what reason — and I use Beyond Compare to see what was added and decide if I want to manually make the changes. That of course requires a higher level of comfort with code so I can’t recommend that for everyone, but so far it’s worked for me.

Still, point taken, and it is a valid point. ??

I just hit my 2 year anniversary of WordPress development. I’ve been a web designer for almost 15 years now. When I started my own business 2 years ago it was with the intention of doing regular static sites. Overwhelmingly my clients wanted a CMS so I dove into WordPress. For the first couple of months I felt the way you do. Once it “clicks” it makes all the sense in the world… I just encourage you to hang in there.

To answer your question though – the reason it doesn’t create a child theme by default is that just about anyone who wants to use the Twenty Ten theme does NOT know anything about HTML and CSS, they want to use the theme off the shelf, and they’re not going to do much customization and certainly not going to touch the code, and wouldn’t know how to create a child theme. Those who do modify Twenty Ten have probably been through quite a bit of the Codex (including the starter articles) in which it does indeed recommend the child theme.

Again, if you purchased a theme (or even used any of the other, non-default WordPress themes) they would NOT be overwritten by an upgrade to WordPress. That’s the beauty of how the themes are structured – the core files are not intermingled with the theme files. Twenty Ten (and Kubrick, formerly) ARE updated with a WP upgrade, because they’re “beginner” themes and WP is doing a favor by upgrading them.

Hope that helps… if you stick with it and keep learning more I think you’ll find that WP is indeed very user-friendly — for me, far more so than the “other” major CMSes out there.

Let me also add – WP is phenominal about always working to make it more user friendly with the new features they add with upgrades. Particularly starting with 3.0 they’re implementing CMS-necessary features (as opposed to blogging functionality only). Another reason you’ll definitely want to upgrade.

Good luck… keep an open mind!