Fresh Support Thread for My Other Plugins

Nov-24

2009

Fresh Support Thread for My Other Plugins

Topic: Deko Boko, Koumpounophobia, Post to Post Links II

Use this post for support questions about Deko Boko, Koumpounophobia, or Post-to-Post Links II.

I just posted a minor upgrade to wordpress.org for Koumpounophobia, which fixes a CSS display issue with the dialog editor. Also, Koumpounophobia and Post-to-Post Links II now include Russian translations, thanks to Fatcow. And Deko Boko has a new Italian translation, thanks to Raneri web design.

10 Responses to “Fresh Support Thread for My Other Plugins”

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Hikari Says:
January 2nd, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Hey great plugin! This seems the ultimate internal-link solution!! I was long searching for a plugin that would allow linking categories and tags!

Tomorrow I’m gonna install it and do some tests. I have 2 improvement suggestions:

1) instead of using “text parameter” for the anchor text, use the shortcode content, this way we can add anything with more freedom, as images and other HTML elements, being able to use single and double quotes freely.

2) Add another parameter, so that we can add #section to the link, and this way point to specific areas of the post. If post permalink is exemple.com/post-slug, it would become exemple.com/post-slug#section
Mike Says:
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:35 am
Thanks Hikari. I don’t think it’s possible to “use single and double quotes freely” with the WordPress shortcode syntax. It requires a x=”y” format, or x=’y’. The parsing is good – if you delimit with double quotes, you can use single quotes in the content, and vice versa. But you can’t have both single and double quotes in the content at the same time (unless you use entities).

I haven’t tried using an image – that’s a good idea – I’ll see what I can do with it. Your #section suggestion is also a good idea. Thanks!

I’m also planning to add an auto-completer, so if you start typing a post slug, it’ll try to match it to an actual slug for you.
Hikari Says:
January 6th, 2010 at 12:17 am
I’ve took a look on your code and I was impressed with it, great quality and pleasurable to read.

I didn’t have time, but I’m willing to tweak it. Currently I use cref to inter-post linking, but it is orphaned. Your plugin is great and they work together without conflict, so I’m gonna use it from now on.

Category and tag linking was really something I was badly needing. I use to make large posts and I already have a table of contents building plugin, I’m gonna develop a full featured one this year and section linking inside posts links is also becoming a need

I’m just finishing an iteration of my theme development and I’m gonna publish a post and then work on your plugin. If you want, I can share my code so that you add it to your distribution. My ideas are not hard to implement anyway

About my suggestion 1), what I meant is that, for a link building, we have more freedom using [shortcode]link "content"[/shortcode] than [shortcode text='link "content"'], even though both approatches work.
Mike Says:
January 6th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Hi Hikari

Thanks for explaining about the shortcodes – that’s a really good idea. I’m busy working on one of my other plugins right now, so it may be a while before I get back to Post to Post Links. Any enhancements you’d like to make are very welcome. If you send them to me I can incorporate them, and I’ll give you credit.
Hikari Says:
January 8th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Ok, I had a problem on my development environment and it will take some time to fix, so I’ll just rollback to stable version and work on your plugin so that I can start using it.

Where can I send my contribution to?
Hikari Says:
January 9th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
done: http://images.hikarinet.info/temp/Post2Post.phps

I added a changelog explaining what I’ve changed.

I forgot to add added some validation checks for when passed ip or slug is not found in database

I did some tests and everything seems working fine and consistent
Mike Says:
January 10th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Thanks very much Hikari. I will try it out – if all goes well I will incorporate your changes into the next release. Thanks very much for your contribution!
Jim Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
When I try to add multiple recipient addresses using comma delimiting, it either only sends the email to the first address, or none of them.

Any thoughts or ideas?
Mike Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Hi Jim – Sorry you’re having trouble. Deko Boko uses the wordpress wp_mail function to send the emails, and it is designed to accept multiple addresses separated by commas. You’re probably having one of two problems:

1. The messages are being sent, but are ending up in the recipients spam folder, so definitely check that; or

2. Your server’s mailer isn’t configured to accept multiple comma separated addresses.

If it’s #2, a way around the problem is to send the message to each address one at a time. To do this you’ll need to customize your copy of DekoBoko. Go to line 520 in DekoBoko.php where you’ll see this:
```
$status = wp_mail($to, $subject, $message, $from);
```
And replace it with this:
```
$emails = split(",", $to);

foreach ($emails as $email) {
       $status = wp_mail($email, $subject, $message, $from);
}
```
If that doesn’t fix it for you, let me know. And remember if you upgrade Deko Boko in the future, you’ll need to add these lines of code again.

Mike T
Jim Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
My mail server is a qmail toaster, and it handles comma-delimited addresses just fine when sent from mail readers like thunderbird and theBat.

I added the code you suggested to send the e-mails indivually, and that seems to work.

Thanks