Just installed the P2 theme by Wordpress; needed a more clean theme and found out with http://fan-tas-tic.com designing your own is too much time consuming…
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Tschai
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Tschai
Gallery Image Sharing with Google Buzz
Google Buzz seems the next hot thing in the tech savy blog world…and I kinda like it. There are already a lot of tutorials for getting started as a developer/designer with it, but as always the one feature I need for my gallery site is missing: sharing gallery images with Google Buzz.
For some live demo and examples check out the sub categories, sub stats, tags or any single posts at the Fan-tas-tic! Inspiration Galleries: click on the Google Buzz button and see what the buzz is about!
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Tschai
AZIndex: sort groupheader URL
Like the TDO mini form plugin the AZIndex is an incredible powerful plugin…but also lacks a certain feature, which would make it just perfect: URL’s for the header, the subheaders are grouped by.
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Tschai
Don’t believe the hype of Gridservice
The MediaTemple Grid-service “is a cluster-based, modern hosting service powered by hundreds of servers working in tandem to power your websites, applications and email with unrivaled power, burstability and reliability”.
Sounds great, doesn’t it?
Background story
I’ve just recently moved to MediaTemple and at this moment my following sites are hosted with (mt): aytemir.com (that would be this blog), fan-tas-tic.com and VoetbalPortaal.com.
All three sites have very humble amount of traffic to handle and are Wordpress or vBulletin powered, with some standard popular plugins or mods.
Nothing fancy. Nothing special.
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Fan-tas-tic! User Generated Galleries
It took me longer than foreseen, but after a couple of different approaches there is a final alpha version of my fan-tas-tic project. Although still in a alpha stage, I think a soft launch with this post is a logical move prior to a beta version: behold FAN-TAS-TIC! User Generated Galleries.
WTF is FTT!
FTT! is actually designed and developed as a pure personal project: a fantastic image gallery, with ‘fantastic’ covering the genres science-fiction, (heroic) fantasy/sword & sorcery, gothic, horror, anime and the quality of the art self displayed at the gallery.So…yet another gallery?
Supervisually yes…it’s nothing more than just another gallery.However some of the features what should make FTT! really unique compared to other galleries are: (More …)
Tschai
TDO Mini Forms: upload path/URL mini hack
The TDO Mini Forms Wordpress Plugin is simply one of these plugins you’ll end up using, when you’ll be using WordPress for more than ‘just another blog’.
For my upcoming project I was looking for a fully customizable end user form and after having tried a bunch, TDO mini forms was simply the best.
I still don’t understand why it is called ‘mini’ because it has a ton of options and almost all of them very useful.
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Ragnar
Thanks a lot, dude. Prolly can put it to use, too, now. ^^
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Ragnar
Ah, what the hell… after adding all that my admin gives me a blank page. :S
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Ragnar
Okay, never mind, I got my admin page back… but the code doesn’t seem to work… added all these new thing right where supposed to but TDO still uploads it to some id folder.
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Ragnar
4th comment here, hello!
Sorry, but got it working fine, everything is perfect, I just messed up stuff myself. Thanks a lot for this great tutorial! -
Derek
I have had great success with TDO Mini Forms and your mini hacks have been of tremendous help. One thing I am seeking is how to use TDO Mini Forms with video options. Wondered if you might had an ideas on what I may be able to try.
Thanks!!
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Tim
People who want to use this (for example) when using a post form for unregistered users: be careful!
If the post is rejected (deleted) by an administrator (at the ‘moderation’), the whole folder of that specific month is emptied… see what I’m saying? Careful.
Just a tip. Good hack though!
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admin
Tim, thanks for the warning…I wasn’t aware of this, obliviously.
I’ll test this and implement your suggestion and will come back to you…
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admin
Shit…you’re right,I’m seeing it only now: at http://fan-tas-tic.com, where I implemented the hack, I’ve already deleted all other images in the same folder with the one I only wanted to delete!
Thanks for the warning…
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Tim
No problem!
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Tim
Suggestion in this case
$postdir = $options['path'].$yearID.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$monthID.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$post_ID;
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iqbal
hii…every one…i just wanna ask how to make a submission form like for sample…downarchive.com…that another or registered users can submit their download to our site??
can we hack TDO mini Form tobe like it??
sorry for my bad english…
thanks for helping…
Tschai
Glad to hear it’s working and thanks for letting know…
Tschai
Do you want to upload these video files to your own server or do you just want to refer to some external (youtube, vimeo) URL’s?
The latter should be very easy.
The first option might require some hacking…
Derek
I was attempting to upload vids to my own server and then embed them in a post.
That’s where I am having the problem, videos upload fine just can’t get them to display.
Tschai
If you’re able to upload the video and retrieve the URL generated by TDO forms, than from here your problem is a general issue and not TDO mini form related anymore.
You probably need the right plugin to show the video, depending on the format of your video.
Have you tried something like this one http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/embedded-video-with-link/, which seems to support almost any format? If you’re able getting the full URL/path, this should do the trick for you…
Tschai
Replacing your comments with Intense Debate
There are some very great and creative ways to design the comment section of your blog: check out these examples for some inspiration (37 Ways to Design the Comments Form, 30 and 30 More Must See Comment Designs for Web Designers).
And while I was thinking about how to design my own comment parts of my upcoming WP powered sites, I decided I should go for the easier way…which by the way kinda is the philosophy of this blog.
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Tschai
Yet another proove my ID account is screwed:
Via gmail I got noticed someone commented here, but I could not see the comment here, nor in the admin/backend nor in my ID-comments page!All I could do is click the ‘Delete’ link in my mail to actually follow/see the comment…which actually deleted the comment.
I´ve (temporary) disabled ID…untill I´ve figured out the mess.
Thanks for the comment and sorry bout deleting it.
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Amanda
Hello
Kindly, can you tell me if it is possible to add IntenseDebate to a website built with RapidWeaver, on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PCC based (not Intel).
I’m not a blogger, just need a dynamic comments box on my site that allows comments with more than 200 words… Because at the moment I’m using a basic, lame Cbox since neither IntenseDebate, Disqus have answered my question. I see it as a lack of support.
RapidWeaver and Mac forums do not know how. They use Echo js kit. Sucks!
Yahoo answers gave me no answers and at Get Satisfaction my questions is piled on top of hundreds.Of all the problems I’ve encountered while building my website adding a working, dynamic and nice comment box seems like looking for a needle in the sands.
You may look at the lame Cbox I’ve at the moment, just to fill the gap while I’m trying hard to find alternatives.
http://www.amandaindependentlondonescort.com/comments.html
I really appreciate and will be immensely grateful for help. Even if it is to say “give up”.
Kind regards
Amanda
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BadGirl11
Is your mind opened to all the new possibilities the instructor is willing to give you? ,
Tschai
You should be able to use IntenseDebate with ANY site, including a DreamWeaver site…at least that´s what they say on their own site.
Having said that, ItenseDebate might be overkill for your site, though. You should perhaps consider a simpler/smaller script.
Sorry, I can´t help you any further…
Amanda
Thank you Tschai.
Firstly, I don’t think my comment was deleted, because when I posted it (what most probably will happen now) I just got the message:
“Thank you your comment has been submitted and is waiting moderation” Huh… something like that.
Secondly, Yeap, You’re right. Thanks for the advise. I do not want overkill my site with too many scripts but CBox is so simple, does not allow replies, can’t change lines neither add paragraphs as I’m doing in this box. And honestly looks ugly. But works with a very simple html code.
Anyway, I’ve subscribed to your forum and if anything comes up, kindly let me know.
Kind regards
Amanda
Fan-tas-tic
A fan-tas-tic start of 2009!
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As stated in my post Setting goals for 2009 I’ll try to post only about the projects I’m working on…from now on. And I have to admit it’s hard not to blog, rant or rave about anything else.
Because there is actually a lot to blog, rant and rave about. For example this blog now has reached a Pagerank of 2 in 3 months, but so did my sleeping site Uppedd.com, which never had any content at all…and this is a big mystery to me.
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Tschai
Unstandard theme now Wordpress 2.7 compatible
Like many great themes the Unstandard theme did initially lack some basic features like widgets and gravatars. I made a widgetized and gravatar-ized version and this version has been donwloaded almost 600 times from October 2008 till now. Which proves that it’s still a popular theme and a decent upgrade was necessary.
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Vishesh
Does the updated Unstandard theme cover all the useful edits you’d made to it, or would we have to do the manual edits ourselves?
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Tschai
I think everything is covered fully, although I have not installed/tested it myself…I think it’s save bet, since Derek is still fully supoorting it.
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Joep Kalthoff
I’ve installed this theme, but I have problems with the pages. It keeps showing the default ‘home’, ‘about’ and ’subscribe’ pages. When I add a page in the back-end nothing changes.
Any hints where to alter this?
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Tschai
Joep, these links are hardcoded in the header; you should manually edit them to your needs in the theme editor.
At last that was the case in the older versions, it sounds like it still is the case in the current version also.
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Rich Pollock 11:11 am on January 6, 2010 Permalink |
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Jerome 7:12 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink |
Hi, for a project I’m working on, I have almost identical issues at Mediatemple as you have.
I put a complaint at their helpdesk about the bad performance of their grid service (GS) and they point the finger to me, or te be more specific, the code I wrote.
On the MT forum, there are more people having major issues with the GS, so I think it’s time to move on to another provider.