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Re: Add Linked Images to Gallery

Lex Al Bruckner — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 11:04:11 -0000

hi there. i use custom posts. I tryed this

32: Change "get_post" to "get_offer"
122: Change "get_post" to "get_offer"
287: change "get_posts" to "get_offers"

Pages and posts work just fine, just that i don t use the usual posts, at all :) ... I upload HTML, with pics and all from the server, i would like to be able to set those pics for feautured img, for that i need them to my gallery. This plugin is the solution, unfortunately i can t make it work for my custom post type...

:( ... Could the be another solution to this problem ?

Re: Add Linked Images to Gallery

Trisha Cupra — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 23:53:21 -0000

I love this plugin so much that I've picked up development with another WP developer, and forked it here under the name "Image Teleporter" at http://wordpress.org/plugin...

Re: Money isn't everything

bbqiguana — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:36:18 -0000

"Are they better for the end user too or just the developer?"

That's a pretty funny question to ask, since the entirety of your comments seemed to be geared toward your own self interest as a developer. :)

Wordpress is actually not very user-friendly at all. The bulk of its success is that it gives amateur developers the confidence to make things. The key word in that sentence is "amateur", because those are the ones who will proudly spend two days writing code (without unit tests or code review) and then spend weeks or months promoting that little feature.

But I wouldn't call Wordpress developer-friendly either. Their API documentation is horrible. They offer no test suites or coding standards. They provide absolutely no system or support for monetizing add-ons. They offer little in the way of security. They force developers to work with the worst language (PHP) and the worst source control (SVN) imaginable. And about performance? Wow, it's as if they were actively working at making the web a slower, less usable place for everyone.

So really, an alternative would only have to be a little easier to use than WP, or a little more developer-friendly that WP, in order to satisfy your criteria... and that pretty much opens up the entire world:

http://postagon.com/

Postagon - if you're an end-user and you just want a blog, this is one of the best options available. Authoring is dead-easy, and pages are beautiful.

http://tumblr.com/

Tumblr - Yes, it's not self-hosted, but it's dead-simple to use, and offers lots of themes, including the ability to create/customize your own. Tumblr is a million times more secure than Wordpress, and a thousand times easier to use. If you're just an end user, you should start your search with Tumblr before looking at anything else.

http://jekyllrb.com/

Jekyll - generates a static site, so you don't get the database churn that one gets from Wordpress. In fact, there's no database at all. And because the pages are static HTML, there's no server-side code, so there's nothing to hack. Highly secure, high performance. Just requires a little bit of tech knowledge. Also, accepts Markdown, so writing and formatting is super-easy.

http://plone.org/

Plone - dynamic, database-driven CMS, running in python so it's highly secure and easy to work with. In-place editing with a rich text editor. Lots of user control. Plone also happens to be one of the most active open-source projects in the world!

http://www.surrealcms.com/

Surreal CMS - if you're a web site designer making your money by providing inexpensive one-off sites, this is the tool for you. Allows you to design and create a site and then mark off portions of that site as editable in a CMS which you then make available to your client.

http://www.silverstripe.org/

SilverStripe - and if you happen to just *like* PHP, and you want a solution that uses it, SilverStripe is a much better option than Wordpress. Like WP, it offers a rich collection of add-ons, extension, themes, and widgets... but unlike WP it's built on a proper MVC-based software design and safer, more-stable software development principles.

http://habariproject.org/en/

Habari - similar to wordpress in function, but far better in design. Has a well-documented set of APIs, and a clean, object-oriented approach for developing addons. Tons of documentation. Active community.

Re: Money isn't everything

Brad — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:53:50 -0000

I hear what you are saying and you make great points. You got to do it for the love, but there's nothing wrong with being compensated for your efforts either. I believe I'm coming from a different perspective since I'm not a plugin developer. I will tell you that I can't stand PHP. (I love Coldfusion actually! I can do crazy complicated stuff very quickly.) But I've learned to love Wordpress because it allows me to produce websites quickly for clients. (I don't use Coldfusion for websites anymore...just apps.) I typically buy WP plugins that are actively maintained and improved. The ability to scale basic website development makes Wordpress compelling for me. It's almost like plug and play. So what are the better platforms/languages and why? Are they better for the end user too or just the developer?

Re: Why I am no longer supporting my WordPress plugins « BBQIguana

bbqiguana — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:28:33 -0000

Several reasons:

1) Because the money one can get from a for-pay Wordpress plugin is almost worthless to me. I earn a respectable salary at my day job, and I have several lucrative hobbies. Charging for Wordpress plugins is a weak value proposition for me.

2) Even if the money was tempting, the infrastructure for Wordpress plugins is preventative of a for-pay model. Free plugins can be searched out from within the app, and have user feedback and ratings, and can be one-click installed from right within the admin area, while for-pay plugins must be purchased separately and installed manually, and cannot make use of one-click updating. There is also absolutely no infrastructure in place to prevent one person from buying the for-pay plugin and then sharing it with the world for free -- or worse, editing the source code and reselling it as his/her own.

3) Even if we assume that the money was tempting, and that there was a big market for paid plugins and no piracy or plagiarism, (you can see this is a big stretch already, right?), continuing to support Wordpress plugins would be a silent vote of consent, as if to say I agree with the use of the platform. I do not, and I don't want my actions to encourage people to use that awful platform when there are so many better options available.

4) And most importantly, continuing to support my plugins would mean that I would be spending my time creating and maintaining even more of the PHP code that I hate, when I could be spending that time creating awesome new tools in other, better languages, and on platforms that reward developers for their hard work.

Re: Why I am no longer supporting my WordPress plugins « BBQIguana

Brad — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 08:58:54 -0000

Why not charge for your plugins instead?

Re: Hoverswap

Caelan Huntress — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:56:03 -0000

I'm still looking for an image hover plugin.

Re: Add Linked Images to Gallery

hamid — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 08:24:21 -0000

thankyou but it working for admins and not working for users want to send news or writers .... it works for admins and editors class .

Re: Why smartphones and tablets are the future — a developer's perspective

disquszt — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:30:59 -0000

you mean IE6, 7 and 8!

Re: Add Linked Images to Gallery

Yuriy — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:02:14 -0000

is it possible to display a picture of medium size, and a reference to the full
Here is my attempt:$at_img=wp_get_attachment_image_src( $imgid, 'medium');$trans = preg_quote($imgs[$i], "/");$content = preg_replace('/(<img[^>]* src=[\'"]?)('.$trans.')/','$1'.$at_img[0];, $content);$content = preg_replace('/(<img.*?width=)"\d+ i',="" '$1"'.$at_img[1],="" $content);$content="preg_replace('/(<img.*?height=)"\d+/i'," '$1"'.$at_img[2],="" $content);="" but="" as="" now="" wrap="" it="" in:="" <a="" href="orininal.img"><img src="medium.img">
I do not know.

Re: Lightboxes are for assholes

Mike — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:42:47 -0000

Thank you very much. This issue has been driving me crazy as well. Adblock plus can't do anything about it AFAIK.

I have been looking for a way to get around this on Firefox and your add-on works! I do hope you will continue developing it.

Re: Nexus 7, after one week

Luxury Mini Bus Hire — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:14:57 -0000

As like you I too not used any apple products yet.

Re: Nexus 7, after one week

Event Venues London — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:57:55 -0000

Well Nexus has some features which Apple product does not have. But still Nexas should develop more. And there are not much things to get out from it. Still Apple is in the first place.

Re: Add Linked Images to Gallery

tom — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:40:38 -0000

very good. thank you !
i noticed that it didn't work for images from google+ because they use httpsso i changed: //only check FQDNs
if (preg_match('/^http:\/\//', $uri)) {
to //only check FQDNs
if (preg_match('/^http(s):\/\//', $uri)) {and it now works for google images as well

Re: Why I am no longer supporting my WordPress plugins « BBQIguana

Same Day loans — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:08:08 -0000

Yes I guess you should update your blog and as well as your pluggins. This happened to me once and that’s what I did. Anyway don’t worry it is not a big issue.

Re: Nexus 7, after one week

invisalign surrey — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:39:09 -0000

Nexus 7 is better than apple but I’m not sure. Because I didn't use any Apple products before. But I have nexus 4 with me. There are so many
apps coming to this and can spend more than 8 hours in cyberspace.

Re: Why I am no longer supporting my WordPress plugins « BBQIguana

On Page Optimisation — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:17:12 -0000

You should update your blog and also the plugging too to get a good response for your word press plug-in.

Re: MacBook Air wired ethernet adapter failing to connect

Hypnosis Weight Loss — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:37:25 -0000

I have an ASUS
laptop and wireless works fine with it, I’m glad to hear about the Android file
transfer agent and how effective it is.

Re: Why I am no longer supporting my WordPress plugins « BBQIguana

Corey — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:23:43 -0000

You may reach more of your plugin users/potential users if you update your profile on wordpress.org to say that you are no longer offering updates, too.

Re: Why I am no longer supporting my WordPress plugins « BBQIguana

Corey — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:21:58 -0000

Looks like you quit updating your plugins 253 days ago http://profiles.wordpress.o...

Re: Lightboxes are for assholes

Not — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:12:25 -0000

nice one

Re: AppEngine-powered blog platform

weber grills — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 03:12:37 -0000

I haven’t heard about AppEngine before, you have gotten a good result through it, so I want to try it.

Re: IFRAME insertion PHP exploit

bbqiguana — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:24:04 -0000

I never managed to find a solid explanation for how it happened or how to prevent it from happening again. In fact, in the time since this post, I've had two more cases of similar hacking occur, on two separate hosts. Since I'm fairly conscientious about installing Wordpress updates, I can't see this as any fault of my own -- other than just my own bad decision making by using PHP and Wordpress.

The PHP platform is terrible, and practically begging to be hacked. But add to that the enormous spaghetti-code that is Wordpress, and it seems like a no-brainer that sooner or later, everyone is going to be bitten.

In the end, the solution that I chose was to completely replace my blog with new, custom software, and ditch the PHP+Wordpress platform for good. I chose Python for my language, and I'm running it on Google's AppEngine platform for rock-solid stability and scalability, with minimum security risk.

I'm quite pleased so far. Everything is faster and more stable. I no longer have the daily software updates to deal with. And thanks to a few wise limitations in the AppEngine platform, there is very little chance of anyone ever hacking me.

Re: IFRAME insertion PHP exploit

Mike Higginbottom — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:04:00 -0000

Did you ever get to the bottom of this? I have a similar problem that just cropped up on a client's site this morning and like you I'd rather get to the root of the problem rather than just band-aiding over it with file perm changes.

Re: Add Linked Images to Gallery

Ryan Isra — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:44:34 -0000

There is a problem when you fetch images with special character in the URL. i.e.: http://s3.amazonaws.com/awe...

How do I fix this? Any future updates to expect?