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pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Hey guys. Quick html/wordpress related question...

I want to see how often people click a specific link to get to another internal page. For instance, to see if having a contact link in my footer is worthwhile or not.

I was thinking of doing fake anchors (href="contact.php#ftr") so I could watch it in Mint, but it only shows the destination page w/o the anchor. Not to mention I am afraid I will start having weird SEO problems.

Any ideas on how to track internal links like that?

# ¿ Jul 29, 2009 17:28

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 20:51

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Ned posted:

You probably want to look into clickmap tracking or something like that. There is nothing internal to Wordpress for keeping track of what elements people click on.

Figured as much, thanks. I actually just realized I could use bit.ly - hope it doesn't slow things down too much. Might look at my own shortener instead.

I just reread the thread...I havent kicked into a WP thread since the old megathread.
:-)

I'm currently reworking http://bit.ly/1NhZs, tweaking the Cleaker theme and making it more to my liking. I've done several dozen WP sites myself and anytime I have an idea or am asked to do come up with one, I immediately think 'how can I do that using wordpress'.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2009 19:10

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Just installed http://yourls.org/ (Lester Chan and Ozh wrote it). It creates either a self hosted short url or bit.ly/tr.im/etc. when you make a post, then can optionally tweet it for you. Very cool stuff.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2009 19:37

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Lazy post: anyone know of a way to retrieve all of the urls in a post and pop them into an ul?

# ¿ Aug 4, 2009 12:25

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

I have another headache I've been fighting with...maybe you guys can help.

I want to put a text link to add a url to Instapaper. They provide an api (http://bit.ly/FKx0p) and a bookmarklet (http://bit.ly/14gEww), which is accessible through a plugin (http://bit.ly/S2POI).

However, the plugin is an iframe showing a graphic. I tried to match it style wise, but the iframe fucks it up (http://bit.ly/spD5 - below each excerpt).

Anyway, point is that I'd like to pass the permalink to Instapaper through a normal href. The code below *almost* works, except that it doesn't add the url - a minor problem as you can imagine.

code:

<a href="http://www.instapaper.com/b?v=4&k=USER_KEY&u=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink()); ?>">read later</a>

The 'https://www.instapaper.com/api/add' part of the api he provides wont work since I dont have the users user/pass and it won't accept them with no values (returns a 403).

Anyone want to see if they can make this work using the info above? I wasted hours on it yesterday and cant get a response from the developer (which is cool, it's not his problem).

# ¿ Aug 4, 2009 14:16

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Envato has a wp/css/script/cs bundle going on - several templates for $20: http://envato.com/birthday/

# ¿ Aug 19, 2009 10:20

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Anyone know of a plugin that will show me wordpress related errors? For instance, I have a plugin that occasionally fails and I dont know why. If I had something that logged errors I could maybe find out...

# ¿ Aug 19, 2009 19:33

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

I've gotten myself stumped. He;lp?

I want to have a category description displayed - chosen randomly from all available categories - that links to the category page using the description as the link text.

I can make it work if I specify the category, but I'm not sure how to get it to iterate through my categories to be random.

Here's what I have so far:

php:

 <?php 
$category_id = get_cat_ID( 'Finance' );
$category_link = get_category_link( $category_id ); 
?>

<a href="<?php echo $category_link; ?>">
<?php echo category_description($category_id ); ?>
</a>

I'm so close, but not sure how to randomly put one of my category names into get_cat_id . Any ideas?

# ¿ Aug 20, 2009 21:16

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

I kind of cheated and just threw some category names into an array for now:

php:

<?
$input = array("Finance", "Utilities", "Games", "Media", "Internet");
$rand_keys = array_rand($input, 2);

$category_id =  get_cat_ID ($input[$rand_keys[0]]);
$category_link = get_category_link( $category_id ); 
?>

<a href="<?php echo $category_link; ?>">
<?php echo category_description($category_id ); ?>
</a>
?>

I'll look at get_categories later and see if I can get it to fill that array for me. Thanks NSS.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2009 22:20

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
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I like everything about that site.

eHacked posted:

Hi guys

I've been working with WP for a few years now. So far I've turned it into quite a few things that it wasn't originally designed for, but turned out to be perfectly suited for.

The following site is ADULT. DON'T CLICK AT WORK YOU FAGS.

http://www.cutiesr.us

It's a TGP/Blog/Tube site all rolled into one.

It downloads images off a remote server, and makes a post out of it, and makes thumbnails for the hover over feature.

if I remove all the image-only posts, I'd be left with movies-only, and then the site would be a true tube site.

Wordpress is pretty nifty

# ¿ Oct 7, 2009 22:53

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Any votes on the best appointment scheduling plugin? And as a bonus question: a 'helpdesk ticket' system...

# ¿ Aug 30, 2011 19:49

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

I need your opinions, gents and gals.

I'm setting up a site wherein someone can open a 'support' ticket, but I need to be able to collect payment before they open a ticket.

Ideally, the workflow would be:
* Login to account or create a new one
* Agree to terms ($ per incident, blah blah) checkbox
* Pay via Paypal/Google/Amazon
* Return and enter the ticket

To complicate it more, I'd like to offer 'prepaid' support where they can buy tickets in advance at a discount.

I have a feeling I'm looking at a shopping cart though, with a 'return_to_paid_enter_ticket' page. Any thoughts or ideas?

Worst case is I let them enter the ticket, send an invoice then work the ticket I guess.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2011 17:33

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Here's my worst case scenario. I'm actually warming to this idea, as I can script an auto-response invoice server side probably without too much trouble. And I could also just create a 'sell me 4 tickets' form and keep track manually.

Only registered members can see post attachments!

# ¿ Aug 31, 2011 17:41

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Anyone else been affected by the timthumb bullshit? I've had index.php and htaccess files modified to point to .ru domains.
Serious pain in the rear end to clean up on a shared host, spanning 20+ domains. Every db user and password to be changed, all files scanned, all themes not in use are being trashed.
I want to punch someone.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2011 00:20

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Anyone a member of http://premium.wpmudev.org/ ?

# ¿ Sep 11, 2011 01:04

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

ElegantThemes has an Estate theme (http://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/ElegantEstate/) and (http://www.elegantthemes.com/gallery/elegantestate/)- all of theirs have an optional blog style that might do the trick.

If you sign up (tis cheap), feel free to use this link http://www.elegantthemes.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=5864 and I'll help you out. I've deployed their stuff a dozen times.

pipebomb fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Sep 12, 2011

# ¿ Sep 12, 2011 20:15

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Do you guys know of a plugin that will let me track unique page views for a post and display it in that authors dashboard (as well as the admin)? I'm setting up a site where people can post content and promote it.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2011 23:39

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

I need a new Mac editor that isn't Ecto or MarsEdit -what do you guys use? Hell, for Windows too for that matter...

# ¿ Nov 25, 2011 05:34

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Sorry guys - my bad. I use Coda exclusively. I meant, actually, a post editor. Sorry.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2011 02:08

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Hey guys. Having around a dozen sites using Wordpress, I spend a lot of time doing updates, monitoring security, copying content back and forth, etc.

I'm considering moving everything to Multisite - does anyone see any reason not to do so? Benefits are clear - single plugin repository, integrated content, quick deployment of new sites and of course a single (though large) db to backup.
Downsides: if something gets hosed up, it's for every site. Initial config might be a pain. What else?

# ¿ Apr 29, 2012 16:44

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

NM. Bad plugin.
:-(

pipebomb fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Jun 14, 2013

# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 15:49

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Hi all. Back in 2005 I started a site, using Wordpress, and kept it going for a few years. Then when my real job got in the way I let it languish.

Now I've got some free time and I decided to revive it. I was wondering if you could take a look around and see what you think.

It's based on InReview by Elegant Themes. There are a few things I've yet to do, including:
* Revamp comments
* Insert galleries below each post
* Make it easier to handle reviews
* General css tweaks for browser compatibility though IE is not a concern
* social and customized login page
* a bit of mobile tweaking

Anyway, if you get a second:
http://babygotmac.com/wp-login.php

goon/stairs (subscriber account)

Feel free to make comments, rate, etc.

If you see anything security wise, PLEASE let me know. Hopefully all is fairly current.

Also, if you see anything you like, ask - happy to share my customizations.

PS: No real content at the moment, just copy/paste stuff mostly.

PSS: I'm considering pulling comments - just allowing ratings from authenticated users. Any opinions on that? It would cut down on BS, plus I could style it to look like the sidebar (avatar | name | rating)...

pipebomb fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Jul 8, 2013

# ¿ Jul 8, 2013 22:17

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Anyone else looking for an ET account, feel free: http://j.mp/bZrKrT

# ¿ Aug 31, 2013 15:26

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Hey guys.

I've got my site setup to list 4 posts on the home page. These are the only posts on the site. I have removed their <h1> links so basically you scroll from post to post and it looks like continuous content.

In my header, I'm using wp_get_recent_posts to show the posts in an inline <ul>. However, now I'm trying to figure out how I can link to them on the index page, as opposed to their actual permalink.

Ideally i could do something with anchor IDs, but I've been poking at this for hours and now my brain hurts. Ideas?

Here's what I'm using in the nav:

code:

<ul class="ulnav">
<?php
	$args = array( 'numberposts' => '4' );
	$recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args );
	foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ){
		echo '<li><a href="' . get_permalink($recent["ID"]) . '" 
		title="'.esc_attr($recent["post_title"]).'" >' .   $recent["post_title"].'</a> </li> ';
	}
?>
</ul>

# ¿ Sep 12, 2013 04:07

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

You hit that out of the park, my friend. Works perfectly, thanks so much! I'll have the site wrapped up today and will post for feedback. Thanks!

PS: Anyone using DreamObjects? .04 per gb, for life. Seems like a decent deal�

pipebomb fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Sep 14, 2013

# ¿ Sep 12, 2013 15:19

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Any of you guys in the Atlanta area? I may have some WooCommerce, Paypal IPN stuff coming up that I'll need to outsource. Owner is a 'face to face' type though, so I'd need you local. PM me...could lead to more work, possibly even F/T next year.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2013 16:30

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

thegasman2000 posted:

Anyone here using Woocommerce? I have a store that is working great and need to export all the products to excel so I can bulk edit things. I installed the store exporter plugin and it works but doesn't seem to bring out the description. Which is obviously pretty important. Any ideas? Site is here http://www.total-outdoors.co.uk

Curious, but how are you going to get your edited data back into Woo?

# ¿ Jan 2, 2014 22:05

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Does WordPress log plugin deactivation times, IPs, etc.? Someone disabled 'coming soon' on a site and it was live all weekend - a half finished skeleton. I want heads on a plate.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2014 02:18

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
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Good call, thanks.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2014 04:43

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Wordpress pages have password protection built-in (create a page, click 'visibility'). Or do you need a different password per person?

# ¿ Jan 22, 2014 22:12

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
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On one hand, you're a pedant. On the other, I applaud that.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2014 16:10

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

"Under Construction" works for me. http://wordpress.org/plugins/underconstruction/

You can assign IP access, user roles, etc.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2014 15:48

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Anyone have a favorite Google Analytics plugin?

# ¿ Feb 13, 2014 01:44

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Anyone know of a way to generate/import an rss feed of LinkedIn headline keywords? Their API is poo poo.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2014 22:45

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

So...a server I now manage has about 180 installs on it. For whatever reason, each and every one requires FTP credentials for updates and plugin downloads, even recent installs.

It's a fairly standard lamp server, I suppose. Anyway, it occurs to me that even if I manually install wp on my own shared, hosted server, I don't need to use FTP.

So I could manually do the ( define('FS_METHOD','direct'); ) mod as seen on http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/update-wordpress-without-ftp/, but I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing, like a server side config option that other hosts use?

Any thoughts, experience with this?

That said, any ideas on touching every wp-config to append define('FS_METHOD','direct'); barring a system wide change?

# ¿ Mar 20, 2014 00:44

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
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I was looking into it more, and it appears to be related to suexec and possibly apache. I'll ping them tomorrow and see if they can offer advice. Thanks.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2014 12:32

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
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Sonofabitch.

I'm trying to list the sub-pages for a menu, and it WONT FRICKIN WORK. What am I missing here? '19' is a top-level, and it has children (6 or 7 items) below it.

code:

<?php $items = wp_get_nav_menu_items(19); ?>
<?php
foreach($items as $item)
{
    echo '<li>'.$item->title.'</li>';
}
?>

# ¿ Apr 21, 2014 21:39

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
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19 is the id of the menu. I ended up just manually adding them since I was in a time crunch. Sucks not to have a native way to show children though.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2014 02:03

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

FYI, Alex King died of cancer last night.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2015 18:59

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 20:51

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

If I wanted to 'ajaxify' my site - in effect have each header/post link instantly load content within the same div, what would be the best approach to take? I'm kicking off with an _ template.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2015 21:24

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