WordPress Testing – 1 2 3
I’m just checking out a few of the plugins that you can get for WordPress and, yeah, some of them work fine but some of them make a real dog’s breakfast of it – breaking up the layout or generating parse errors or even outputting the source code where it’s not wanted! It doesn’t take me long to kick said plugins to the kerb! After all there’s plenty of things that can go wrong with software without actively looking and enabling stuff!
But, by and large, things work out fine and I’m continually impressed by the program. One of the problems I do have though is that Safari can’t see the quicktags, but has a spell checker which is very important for these sorts of things, and Firefox sees the quicktags OK but doesn’t seem to have a spell checker that will work for this version? Not huge things, granted, but helpful nonetheless.
Of course it would be an obvious thing for WordPress itself to have a spell checker function but, sadly, it doesn’t. You can, however, get a plugin for it but sadly it’s turned out to be one of those “pain in the ass” plugins from hell that I can’t seem to get working properly. I’ll keep working away with it though and see if I can’t eventually get it going.
Apart from “WordPressing” I’ve been taking it easy today – mainly because my knees have blown up to the size of grapefruits and are more than a little painful! I have been doing quite a lot around here the past couple of days and it’s taken a bit of a toll on my knees and ankles it seems. Nothing a bit of massaging and relaxation won’t fix anyhow.
I also talked more about the Podcasting thing with Adrian and what we need to go about it (one of the things we need to decide on is a name for the show. We figure we’ve got one now though). I’ve also been organizing and testing out some of the software we need and, so far, everything is working out OK.
Finally I have to add how much better it is here in the office/computer room with that door back up!
OK, I seem to have my spelling problem sorted out now. I was able to finally get the spell checker plugin working in WordPress. Yay, verily, yay!
Till next time…..
You can make the quicktags display in Safari, but they’re kinda buggy.
In ./wp-admin/admin-functions.php look for this section:
function the_quicktags () {// Browser detection sucks, but until Safari supports the JS needed for this to work people just assume it's a bug in WP
if ( !strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Safari') ) :
echo '
<div id="quicktags">
<a href="http://wordpress.org/docs/reference/post/#quicktags" title="' . __('Help with quicktags') . '">' . __('Quicktags') . '</a>:
<script src="quicktags.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">edToolbar();</script>
';
echo '</div>';
endif;
}
Comment out or delete these lines:
if ( !strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Safari') ) :and
endif;}
Ahhhh, thanks for that. I’ll look into it and maybe change a few things.
I just had my own problems with wordpress… well more with a theme that I got almost to the point I was satisfied, then out of nowhere I got the crazy idea of opening with IE and nothing worked… got frustrated and said forget it.
I did the same thing. Had a nice looking theme and then checked it out later in IE. It looked HORRID! So then I had a rethink and went back to basics – in this case the default Kubrick theme which I liked the layout of anyhow. From there I just changed a few of the images and voila! Completely new look!
And I checked it out in IE just to make sure!