It seems as if comment spammers are about to proceed to the next level. Obviously SpamKarma2 has evolved to be a serious threat to their kind, and more and more WordPress based bloggers start using it as well as putting comments from first time commenters into the moderation queue automatically. For a couple of days I encounter a new kind of comment spam - especially the days of my recent business trip were very “productive” in this way. Fortunate comment spammers tried to use these days to submit seemingly senseful comments like “looks nice” or “great stuff” to make it through my moderation queue. If they were successful, this would have resulted in the effect that comments submitted by them later … Kompletten Post lesen Post schließen Post schließen

I just recognized by incident that the great Ultimate Tag Warrior Plugin by Christine Davis doesn’t take German Umlauts into account correctly under certain circumstances, e.g. if you utilize the “related posts” feature like Binary Blue does (if configured this way). So I dug into the code of the core files of my currently installed 3.1 release of that plugin and found the appropriate function to modify. The mod you need to apply is pretty simple - I just added a few lines of code to make use of a hopefully installed and activated o42-Clean-Umlauts plugin (or its 4null4.de pendant): function FormatPost($post, $format) { $url = get_permalink($post->ID); // CleanUmlauts-Integration if (function_exists(’o42_cu_content’)) { … Kompletten Post lesen Post schließen Post schließen

Das tolle Wayback-Plugin von Chris Goringe hat für deutsche Blogger einen extremen Nachteil - kommen deutsche Umlaute in den Posttiteln zum Einsatz, dann werden diese nicht sauber gefiltert, und je nach eingesetztem Character-Encoding kommt es dann bei der Ausgabe im Browser zu unleserlichem Zeichensalat. Da das natürlich nervig ist, habe ich nun eine leicht aufgebohrte 4null4.de-Variante dieses Plugins angefertigt, die auf einem installierten CleanUmlauts-Plugin (bevorzugt natürlich auch hier die erweiterte 4null4-Edition ;)) aufsetzt und bei Vorhandensein dieses Plugins die ausgegebenen Posttitel sauber auf Umlaute überprüft und diese falls notwendig umcodiert. Das Plugin kann hier heruntergeladen werden.

I just ported the Binary Blue specific Sidebar Widget, which adds full support for Brian’s Latest Comments, into a general purpose Sidebar Widget. Remember that the use of this Widget still requires the installed and activated Brian’s Latest Comments Plugin! Installation Instructions Make sure that you have installed and activated Brian’s Latest Comments Plugin (it’s a mandatory requirement for this widget to work!) Download and expand this zipfile to an empty directory of your liking Copy the file called “widget_blc_latestcomments.php” from the directory where you’ve expanded the zip file to your wp-content/plugins/widgets directory on your webserver of your WordPress installation Activate the Widget in your admin panel on the Plugins submenu Switch to your Presentation/Sidebar Widgets submenu, drag-n-drop the … Kompletten Post lesen Post schließen Post schließen

Since I implemented the Asides feature into Binary Blue, I went crazy on its misbehaviours as soon as you don’t use it as inline asides but as sidebar asides instead. Today I finally sat down and dugg once again into the depths of WordPress to find out how to circumvent the issues. I must admit that I only tested the K2 implementation way as it is a pretty convenient one - maybe there are other implementations out there that don’t suffer from these bugs, but at least K2 does. The issues drill down to the following ones: As soon as you have an article defined as Asides that would regularly be displayed on your front page, the amount of posts displayed on the frontpage will be smaller than defined in the blog’s reading options. This may finally result in the display of an empty page, when all of the posts that would usually be displayed on that page are Asides posts. The amount of Asides posts being displayed in the sidebar varies from time to time and often does not reflect the value you’ve set up in the theme’s options. These issues have their reason in the way this feature is implemented so far. There is a check in the file named theloop.php which looks up whether the current post that is handled in the loop is a member of the category that has been defined as the Asides one. If that post is an Asides post, but the configuration is set to display the asides in the sidebar, the complete post will not be displayed. Unfortunately, when theloop.php starts its dance, the complete post query has already been done, so there is no chance to add older posts further down if other posts fall “through the gates” coz of this sidebar asides check. Kompletten Post lesen Post schließen Post schließen