Al the Virgin up'n wrote this

I get an error when trying to download your plugin.

May 1st, 2007

Niki the Virgin thought this

Would love to download, but I can not

May 1st, 2007

Niki the Virgin commented

Thank you!!

May 2nd, 2007

Niki the Virgin mentioned

It outputs a couple of error when I try to activate it..

May 2nd, 2007

David the Groupie chimed in with

I got the same error - I had that on other plugins - if you go back and activate a second time there is no error.

I modified the plugin to allow for output of a list of classic posts (through a new function call). You are welcome to have the modification if you like.

I also discovered that whenever I tried to select a post as classic when I was not on the basic wp-admin/edit.php page (for example wp-admin/edit.php?paged=2) it would not select or deselect the post. Can that be fixed?

May 2nd, 2007

Al the Virgin remarked

@David, sorry off topic but your site doesn’t look well in IE7. You may want to check that out.

May 2nd, 2007

David the Groupie asserted

Thanks Al - I’ve been fighting with that for a while. I may just do a fresh redesign a this rate.

May 2nd, 2007

Keith the Director commented

Afraid I have the same problem as David - I cannot select posts that aren’t on the first page of the ‘Manage Posts’ screen.

I think it’s a great idea for a plugin though and I’ll definitely be using it if you can get the bug fixed.

May 2nd, 2007

David the Groupie added

I have fixed the bug over at my site davidjmiller.org/classic-posts/ - Chris can tell you when the fixed version is linked here.

May 2nd, 2007

Niki the Virgin mentioned

I got mine up- the list version (TY, David). Also, to select older posts, I just pasted in the appropriate post number until the fix has been made

May 2nd, 2007

Jeff the Virgin scribbled

This is the error I get when activating the plugin:

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘SHOW_COLUMNS FROM wp_posts LIKE ‘classic” at line 1]
SHOW_COLUMNS FROM wp_posts LIKE ‘classic’

WordPress database error: [Duplicate column name ‘classic’]
ALTER TABLE wp_posts ADD classic VARCHAR(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘n’

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/journeyg/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php:121) in /home/journeyg/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 275

May 3rd, 2007

Keith the Director quibbed this

Excellent I have now been able to get the plugin working.

For my site I just wanted a list of links to the pages to display so have amended the php accordingly. If you would like a copy just drop me a line via the contact form:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/credits-and-contacts/contact-f1fanatic

Thanks again for the excellent plugin.

May 3rd, 2007

Jeff the Virgin added

Nope, still same error message. After I refresh the plug-in list, it shows that it’s activated, but the code won’t work.

May 4th, 2007

Chris the Virgin penned this

Great idea! I’m looking for something like this for ages.

Would it be possible to have a widgetized version as well, to put a list of ‘Top Posts’ into a sidebar (aka Popular Posts on wordpress.com)?

Thanks,

Chris

Life is what you make it!
http://www.nomad4ever.com

May 12th, 2007

Bill Compton the Virgin thought this

Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks

June 4th, 2007

Leon Sceviour the Virgin hunt n' pecked this

This one makes sence “One’s first step in wisdom is to kuesstion everything - and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.”

June 14th, 2007

TheV the Virgin thought this

Hey Chris/Chris,

Was just wondering about step 3 in the instructions…
“3. Choose the post you would like to randomly select from”

How would I do this? i.e. How can I mark a post as being a ‘classic post?’

Thanks!

June 29th, 2007

TheV the Virgin stated

Regarding my earlier post, just read the description again and found it is under Post Manager…my bad!

June 29th, 2007

joe the Groupie added

I’ve installed the plugin, activated, deactivated, activated again (twice), but no list of classic posts is coming up (i’ve selected about 20).

am I missing a step?

July 6th, 2007

David the Groupie asserted

Joe,

Have you inserted anything like “ where you want the list to show?

July 7th, 2007

David the Groupie up'n wrote this

Sorry - that should have said `<?php do_action(’classic_post_get_list(5)’); ?>` rather than “

July 7th, 2007

joe the Groupie quibbed this

` rather than �>>

Yes, that’s exactly the code I used. I tried it in a widget (using both RunPHP widget and ExecPHP widget), and also put it directly into the sidebar template. Maybe there’s something with my theme?

thanks for replying so quickly!

July 7th, 2007

David the Groupie thought this

Unfortunately I can’t help with widgets since I don’t use them. Maybe you should try displaying a post with `<?php do_action(’classic_post_get(1,200)’); ?>` and see if that works in your main content area. That may not be what you’re looking for but it might offer some clues into the problem.

July 7th, 2007

joe the Groupie asserted

OK, when you say “main content area”, do you mean it should go somewhere into the main index template (index.php)? Like after the comments div and before the endwhile? (or after the endwhile?)

Thanks so much for your help … this is a really cool plugin you’ve created and think it will be a nice addition for my readers.

July 7th, 2007

David the Groupie mentioned

Yes, index.php would be the mail content area. Perhaps right before ‘<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>’ (which would place it right before your latest entries) or else after ‘<?php endif; ?>’ (which would place it after your posts).

July 7th, 2007

joe the Groupie mentioned

oh boy … that didn’t work … it broke the site and left this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /usr/www/users/jjanish/metstoday/wp-content/themes/wpcolors-blue-orange-fixed-2col/index.php on line 31

That was when I put the code after the endif

July 7th, 2007

David the Groupie spake, and sayeth

I got the same error on my site - The correct code is:
<?php do_action(classic_post_get(1,200)); ?>

For the list I’ll bet it had the same problem - The code should have been:
<

July 7th, 2007

David the Groupie spake, and sayeth

Not sure why that got cut off:
<?php do_action(classic_post_get_list(5)); ?>

July 7th, 2007

joe the Groupie scribbled

That did it !!!!

It works in the widget (using runphp) now!

Thank you SO much for your help … great plugin !

July 7th, 2007

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April 21st, 2008

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April 22nd, 2008

gary the Virgin got all philosophical

hi I tried adding this to my wp2.5 site. By default ../wp-admin/edit.php shows only the option to ‘deselect’ all posts.

I tried doing so and ‘deselect’ does not change. Nothing shows up when i use classic_post_get_list on my sidebar either.

is this plugin ok for 2.5? any fix re this?

many thanks in advance

April 25th, 2008

David the Groupie up'n wrote this

I would like to add Classic Posts to the Wordpress Plugin Repository but I thought I should ask permission to do that. (I’d also like to add a shortcode so that it can be used in widgetized sidebars.)

April 1st, 2009

Bob18 the Virgin spake, and sayeth

Speaking of demographics, what about men playing as women, or folks who prefer not to be gender-specific? ,

October 22nd, 2009