WP Games Embed Plugin

Date: 28th February 2009 at 1:27 am | Filed under: development, plugins, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , ,

Turn your wordpress blog into a games arcade!

This beta version WordPress plugin, WP Games Embed, makes it easy to embed games into your WordPress blog by using shortcodes in your posts and pages. WP Games Embed is intended to be able to support content offered by the various free games sites out there using the codes or downloads they provide.

FEATURES

4 Different views:

  1. Grid view - a grid of thumbnail images linking to each game (can be restricted to a single category or parent category)
  2. Category view - this view includes a medium sized image and a written description of the game
  3. Single page view - the page where you play the game itself
  4. Featured Game view - this view is similar to category view, but allows you to pick the games yourself to create your own 'Featured Games' page.

Different embedding modes:

  1. iFrame embedding - embed iFrame content using code provided by free games sites, or use this method to display games from your own server where an html file has been provided with the free game download.
  2. Flash embedding - embed Flash content using embed codes provided by other sites, or embed flash games directly from your own site. You can even upload them easily using the wordpress 'Add Media' tool.

WORKING EXAMPLE

Visit Zap Gamez Arcade to see an example of the plugin in action.

INSTALLATION

  1. Download the plugin from the link at the bottom of this page
  2. Upload the wp-games-embed.php file to your wp-content/plugins folder.
  3. Activate the plugin from the Plugins page in WordPress.

USAGE

Use shortcodes to embed games into your posts, or to create a grid of thumbnails on a page or your home page.

Embedding a game in a post:

Shortcode: [game /]

Additional attributes:

  • width - the width of the game
  • height - the height of the game
  • src - the url of the game (html file for iframe embedding, swf file for flash embedding)
  • flash - if set to true flash embedding will be used, if set to false iframe embedding will be used. (default=false)
  • thumb - the url of the thumbnail image (70px x 60px)
  • main - the url of the large image (appx 300px wide)
  • title - the name of the game!
  • description - your description including controls etc.
  • featured - whether this should be formatted as a featured game. (default=false)
  • game_url - only to be used in Featured mode (when featured is set to true). See  the shortcode examples below for more details.

Shortcode Example 1 (embedding game as iFrame):

[game width="640" height="480" src="http://www.example.com/games/pacman.html" thumb="http://www.mysite.com/images/pacman-small.jpg" main="http://www.mysite.com/images/pacman-medium.jpg" title="PacMan" description="This is a great game! Use the arrow keys to play." flash="false"/]

Shortcode Example 2 (embedding game as Flash):

[game width="640" height="480" src="http://www.mysite.com/games/pacman.swf" thumb="http://www.mysite.com/images/pacman-small.jpg" main="http://www.mysite.com/images/pacman-medium.jpg" title="PacMan" description="This is a great game! Use the arrow keys to play." flash="true"/]

Creating a grid of thumbnails on a page:

Shortcode: [get_latest_games /]

Additional attributes: list_category - the category id for the games you want to appear in the list.

The list_category attribute makes it possible to display the latest games under a certain category e.g. 'Arcade' or the latest games under all categories. Simply set up a main category called 'games' and then create all your games categories (action,adventure,sports, etc.)  as sub-categories.

Shortcode Example 3 (thumbnail grid):

[get_latest_games list_category="2" /]

Creating a Featured Games page:

Shortcode: [game /]
Additional atrtributes: (see above)

The important attributes for creating a features games list are 'featured' which should be set to true, and 'game_url' the url where the game can be played on your site.

Shortcode Example 4 (featured games):

[game  main="http://www.myblog.com/uploads/pacman-medium.jpg" title="PacMan" description="This is a great game! Use the arrow keys to play." featured="true" game_url= "http://www.myblog.com/games/pacman/" /]

[game  main="http://www.myblog.com/uploads/donkeykong-medium.jpg" title="Donkey Kong" description="This is a great game! Use the arrow keys to play." featured="true" game_url= "http://www.myblog.com/games/donkey-kong/" /]

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14 Responses to “WP Games Embed Plugin”

  • Comment by imad
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 11:28 am

    good work:) I am going to install it , I have also interest in the wp Mochi plugin..
    Thanx for sharing

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

    Hi Imad
    Good luck! Don’t forget to post a link to your arcade here as an example…
    The mochi plugin needs a bit more development to integrate the mochi ‘bridge’ which gives the scoreboard functionality etc.
    Sam

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    Date: March 12th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

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  • Comment by acrylic
    Date: March 19th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    Hello Sam and thanks for this wonderful plugin.

    I only have a slight problem with the get_latest_games shortcode. Every time I put in and define the category (for example 20) it lists all content from all categories. It might be a bug or might be something that I’m looking over.

    Thanks for your help

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 20th, 2009 at 2:10 am

    Hi Acrylic

    The get_latest_games shortcode will return all posts under a category, and all posts under child categories of that category. So if you have a main category called ‘games’ with an id of 1 and sub-categories of games such as ‘action’ (id =2), ‘arcade’ (id = 3), ‘fighting’ (id =4), etc. if you call category 1 in get_latest_games you will get all games, but if you call category 2 you should just get ‘action’ games.

    If this doesn’t help please comment again as it is this type of feedback that helps me to develop and improve my plugins over time.

    Sam

  • Comment by acrylic
    Date: March 20th, 2009 at 3:20 pm

    Hi Sam!

    I tweaked the code a bit and now it’s doing what I need. My concept was to have the grid system represented on a separate wordpress page rather than in a single post.

    So I created a new page template. The problem that I encountered was that the page template gets the content by running the loop first but the ep-embed.php runs the loop again. So what happens is that the page template loops through all the posts you have and displays the content.

    What I did was that I omitted the while loop and left the if conditional in. In this way the loop only runs when you have a content in your page and retrieves it. Once it happens it activates your function call which loops through the given parameters and retrieves all the game posts.

    I hope I made sense :/

  • Comment by Harri Nyman
    Date: March 26th, 2009 at 11:52 am

    Interesting plugin, no doubt - however I have interesting dilemma, is there some kind of limit how many games is needed before grid appears? On my site it’s not working, at least not yet.

  • Comment by Exam Philippines
    Date: April 1st, 2009 at 4:29 pm

    thank you so much for sharing this plugin. really helpful to my game site

  • Comment by Bilal
    Date: April 11th, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    Hi, great plugin.
    One question, if we use feeds to get mochi games can we use this plugin to show those games in posts?

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    Date: April 20th, 2009 at 6:15 am

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  • Comment by Eoin
    Date: May 7th, 2009 at 1:41 am

    Hi,
    I’m trying to get this to work, but can’t quite get it right. The plugin is activated - and this is code that I’m trying to use - (I changed example.com and mysite.com to our site)
    [game width="640" height="480" src="http://www.skuzziport.com/games/pacman.html" thumb="http://www.skuzziport.com/images/pacman-small.jpg" main="http://www.skuzziport.com/images/pacman-medium.jpg" title="PacMan" description="This is a great game! Use the arrow keys to play." flash="false"/]
    grateful for tips!

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 9th, 2009 at 9:50 am

    Hi Eoin
    In what way is it not working? Do you have an example I can look at?

  • Comment by Mark
    Date: September 19th, 2009 at 3:48 am

    Thanks for this little plugin…it works a treat.
    I’m gonna use it to add games as I go along, and then put a category page up… in the meantime I’ll just add each game I find as a blog post.

    The 1st game attempt can be found here….

    http://www.foundstuff.co.uk/2009/magic-towers-solitaire-an-addictive-little-solitaire-game/

    Excellent plugin and simple to use.

  • Comment by Steve
    Date: October 30th, 2009 at 3:13 am

    Well it seems to me to be quite useless, the grid view shows evey post of the whole blog, fine if 2-3 is all you have, but when in the 1,000s very terrible.

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WP Background Tile Plugin

Date: 3rd February 2009 at 12:47 am | Filed under: plugins, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , , ,

The WP Background Tile Plugin for WordPress applies a tiled background image to your blog.  It is as simple as this:

  • Create a background image
  • Upload it
  • Apply it as the background via the WP Background Tile options page

Applying a repeat pattern to the background of a webpage is easily done using css:

body {background-image: url(example.jpg);}

However, if you're not into writing code, or don't know where to insert the css into your wordpress theme, then you will find this plugin much easier. It can also be an easy way of testing out lots of background images before deciding on one you are happy with.

INSTALLATION:

  1. Download the plugin from the link at the bottom of this page
  2. Upload the wp-background-tile folder to your wp-content/plugins folder.
  3. Activate the plugin from the Plugins page in WordPress.

USAGE:

  1. Upload your background image via 'Media => Add New' in Wordpress (or via FTP)
  2. Go to 'Settings => WP Background Tile' in WordPress
  3. Paste or type in the URL of your background image (explained in more detail below)
  4. Press 'Submit'

CREATING A BACKGROUND TILE:

A background tile is an image which is repeated in both directions over the background of a webpage. Look closely at the background of my site and you will notice the green background is not a matte colour, but a subtle texture. Right click on the background of my site and choose 'View Background Image' (Firefox) or 'Save Background As' (IE) and have a look at the image. You will notice that it is small (16 x 16 pixels), as you don't need much of the pattern to make it tile. Stripes and other geometric patterns can work well for a subtle effect.

Tip: Check out the free online Stripe Generator tool, it's a really easy way to create striped background tiles.

Background tiles can also be used for larger images such as a logo repeat. An example of this is www.mrdupes.com. To achieve this type of result using photoshop the 'offset' filter can be very useful.

GETTING THE URL OF A FILE YOU HAVE UPLOADED WITH WORDPRESS:

  1. Go to 'Posts => Add New'
  2. Click on the 'Add Media' button (a little star type icon next to 'Upload/Insert')
  3. Click on the 'Media Library' tab
  4. Click on the word 'Show' next to the file you want the url for
  5. Under 'Link URL' click on the button 'File URL'
  6. The file url should now be in the 'Link URL' text box so you can copy it.

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  • Comment by pressitfor.me
    Date: February 3rd, 2009 at 4:25 am

    WP Background Tile Plugin | Sam Burdge…

    The WP Background Tile Plugin for WordPress applies a tiled background image to your blog. It is as simple as this:

    * Create a background image
    * Upload it
    * Apply it as the background via the WP Background Tile options page

    Get the plug…

  • Comment by baron
    Date: February 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    hi. Thanks for plugin

    perfect.

    Regards

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  • Comment by Satranç
    Date: February 4th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    Hi,
    This is a nice idea. Thanks for plugin.
    But I want to ask a question.
    Why did you create a table? Can we save tha background image as an option?
    Thanks.

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  • Comment by beauty blog
    Date: February 19th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    can you make a plugin like this to show post in a magazine like layout.

    http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/08/04/two-column-horizontal-sequence-wordpress-post-order/

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 19th, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    Hi beauty blog,

    I have a plugin which does exactly that! Here’s the link:

    http://www.samburdge.co.uk/wordpress/wp-post-columns-plugin-2

  • Comment by dogday
    Date: March 4th, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    I have this nice plugin running in my blog, but it isnt XHTML compliant, I think because of the ‘&’ signs used to pass varibles.

    Could you replace ‘&’ signs with ‘&’ to correct this?.

    I have tried, but my knoledge about php isnt enought to find where is called the function.

    Thanks in advance.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    Hi dogday
    The plugin doesn’t use any & symbol, this error must be coming from your theme! Also, if your theme already uses a background image then the plugin may not work.
    Sam

  • Comment by technofunk
    Date: March 12th, 2009 at 12:33 am

    great plugin.

    one question; what if i dont want this tiled? just a single image. non repeating.

  • Comment by Charles
    Date: September 21st, 2009 at 12:15 am

    Hi,

    I tried it on my site (see comment header) and it tiled only the upper half of the page. I have WP 2.7.1. on that particular site.

    Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

    Thanks,
    Charles

  • Comment by KiraSherrine
    Date: October 23rd, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    Hi,

    what part would you input the tile file?

    Also my nav tags (about, contact, …)
    and Sidebar Tags (category, archives)
    are all jpegs … I am looking for ways to input it into the php but cannot find any help on that…any help?

    Kira

  • Comment by bpositive
    Date: November 9th, 2009 at 1:32 pm

    Hi. Great Plugin :-)

    How do i get it to center a larger picture?

    Thanks

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WP Post Columns Plugin 2

Date: 20th January 2009 at 1:09 am | Filed under: development, plugins, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , , ,

The WP Post Columns Plugin for WordPress allows you to easily create columns within your wordpress posts and pages. It is ideal for sites with a magazine / newspaper style layout, or if you want text to appear on one side of the post with an image displayed opposite. It is much easier than creating html tables within posts and perfect for users with no coding experience. This plugin is a perfect solution for those using WordPress as a CMS.

As you can see from this example it is also possible to have text, before or after the columns, which spans the full width of the post.

Installation:

  1. Download the plugin file from the link at the bottom of this page and unzip.
  2. Upload the wp_post_columns.php file to your wp-content/plugins folder.
  3. Activate the plugin from the Plugins page in WordPress.

New Features:

  • Have as many columns as you wish
  • Column width and right padding can be set for each individual column

More examples:

Please visit the WP Post Columns 2.0 examples page for more examples of the column based layouts that can be achieved.

Usage:

When writing a wordpress post simply use the following shortcodes to create your columns:

shortcodes2

For example shortcodes you can copy and paste directly into a wordpress post please check the first comment on this post.

Additional Info:

The current version of the plugin is 2.0, it used to only support two columns, but now you can have as many as you like! The idea of adding the code for extra columns was inspired by RickHap who sent me his modified version of the plugin.

The only restriction is that the total width of all columns together does not exceed the width of your WordPress post.

If you have upgraded from an earlier version of the plugin be sure to read the 'Usage' notes again, as the way the columns are implemented has changed in order to incorporate the new features. The latest version no longer supports the original method. If you have been using the plugin since it's first release, or it is working fine for you there is probably no need for you to upgrade. Instructions for the earlier version of the plugin can be found here: WP Post Columns 1.2

The width and padding of each column can be set in any unit of measurement supported by CSS. Absolute units of measurement include: px, mm and relative units include: %, em. 'Padding' refers to the right padding of the column (i.e. the space between its right margin and the left margin of the next column). For this reason it is recommended that you don't apply padding to your final column (set its padding to 0).

The example shortcodes above had to be embedded into this post as an image, else they would be interpreted as column formatting by the plugin. For example shortcodes that you can copy and paste into your wordpress post please refer to the first comment on this post.

Don't forget to close each column before opening a new one. And don't forget use the 'end_columns' shortcode after your last column, or you might get some funky results!

Updates:

24/4/2008 - Minor update to version 1.1 - Added extra preg_replace code to remove implicit <p> tags inserted by wordpress

27/4/2008 - Minor update to version 1.2 - Added priority of 13 to add_filter to make compatible with 2.5.1 - preg_replace is called after shortcodes have been processed (priority 11)

19/1/2009 - Major update to version 2.0 - Added shortcodes support so that the column widths can be configured within each post. Added the potential to allow as many columns as required, so long as the overall width does not exceed the width of the available space.

9/2/2009 - Minor update to version 2.1 -added do_shortcode() function to allow nesting of other shortcodes within the columns

20/4/2009 - Minor update to version 2.2 - removed original 'curly bracket' shortcode functions from the plugin as a bug fix.

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158 Responses to “WP Post Columns Plugin 2”

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 20th, 2009 at 1:20 am

    More shortcode examples:

    2 column layout:

    [column width="47%" padding="6%"]
    Column 1 content goes here.
    [/column]
    [column width="47%" padding="0"]
    Column 2 content goes here.
    [/column][end_columns]
  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 20th, 2009 at 1:28 am

    3 column layout:

    [column width="30%" padding="5%"]
    Column 1 content goes here.
    [/column]
    [column width="30%" padding="5%"]
    Column 2 content goes here.
    [/column]
    [column width="30%" padding="0"]
    Column 3 content goes here.
    [/column][end_columns]
  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 20th, 2009 at 1:28 am

    4 column layout:

    [column width="22%" padding="4%"]
    Column 1 content goes here.
    [/column]
    [column width="22%" padding="4%"]
    Column 2 content goes here.
    [/column]
    [column width="22%" padding="4%"]
    Column 3 content goes here.
    [/column]
    [column width="22%" padding="0"]
    Column 4 content goes here.
    [/column][end_columns]
  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 20th, 2009 at 1:29 am

    Copy and paste any of the above examples into a WordPress post or page, edit the text and hit preview!

  • Comment by pressitfor.me
    Date: January 20th, 2009 at 2:17 am

    WP Post Columns Plugin version 2.0 - Sam Burdge…

    The WP Post Columns Plugin for WordPress allows you to easily create columns within your wordpress posts and pages. It is ideal for sites with a magazine / newspaper style layout, or if you want text to appear on one side of the post with an image disp…

  • Comment by RickHap
    Date: January 20th, 2009 at 5:51 pm

    Great work on this plug-in! Beer is on me!

  • Comment by ovidiu
    Date: January 22nd, 2009 at 7:43 am

    great. using it on my site now, example here: http://pacura.ru/blog/site-server-optimization/

  • Comment by ovidiu
    Date: January 22nd, 2009 at 8:22 am

    unfortunately this plugin causes invalid xhtml because the column shortcodes can break tags apart that wordpress inserts into the_content :-(

    in other words, it breaks paragraphs :-(

    any solutions to this?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 22nd, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    Hi Ovidiu,
    This is an example of how wordpress (particularly if using tinyMCE advanced) inserts extra html such as ‘p’ tags into the post. many people are complaining about this at the moment: http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=437

    Try bunching your column shortcodes up, without any line breaks, like so:

    [column width="47%" padding="6%"]Column 1 content goes here.[/column][column width="47%" padding="0"]Column 2 content goes here.[/column][end_columns]

    Sam

  • Comment by ovidiu
    Date: January 23rd, 2009 at 8:51 am

    thx, but its the other way around: actually I needed to do it like this:

    [column width="47%" padding="6%"]Column 1 content goes here.
    [/column][column width="47%" padding="0"]Column 2 content goes here.
    [/column][end_columns]

    to give tinymce space to insert its - aka p closure tag

  • Comment by Pierre
    Date: January 23rd, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    Hi
    How can I use your plugin for a page like my homepage? Your fabulous plugin works very wel in my pages (articles,etc) but not on my homepage… :-(
    Tx for your help
    Pierre

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  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 23rd, 2009 at 10:13 pm

    Hi Pierre
    Maybe to do with your homepage template? can you send me a link please so i can have a look…
    Sam

  • Comment by Michelle
    Date: January 24th, 2009 at 12:13 am

    I am having trouble with the plugin. (Possibly the same as Pierre?)

    1) I have a homepage that uses the_excerpt. The plugin appears to be overriding this and printing out the full article. (It doesn’t affect the list of headings which uses neither the_excerpt or the_content)
    2) It is also repeating posts on single pages (I haven’t added column shortcode to any posts yet). In the repeat it prints out the shortcode for captions etc. But it does not do this in the original i.e article one (caption) article repeat (caption shortcode)

    I’ve currently deactivated the plugin on the website. So, I can’t show you an example.

    Hopefully you can shed some light on this?

    Thanks.

  • Comment by albo
    Date: January 24th, 2009 at 4:47 am

    Hi
    im testing this plug in but it doesnt work.
    i substitute the content where it says “content goes here ” but nothing happes it just looks like a normal post.it doesnt separate columns

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  • Comment by Pierre
    Date: January 24th, 2009 at 8:41 am

    Thank you for your answer. Here is the link. The problem is that we use Qtranslate to translate our Website. But Q Translate can’t translate the Widget in this version of Wordpress. So the idea to preserve the three columns on the homepage is the creation of a template in the template with the three columns. We have 2 options :
    1) Create three columns in the template of the homepage and call for a content automatically
    2) Create a page with 3 columns and integrate it dynamycally in the homepage.
    In the 2 cases, I’m not skilled in PHP to integrate it dynamycally but if you can help me, it’s very kind of you.
    Best Regards
    Pierre

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 24th, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    Hi Michelle
    As far as I can tell, shortcodes aren’t supported in the_excerpt. See this wp support topic:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/205246
    there is a suggested solution:
    add_filter(’the_excerpt’, ‘do_shortcode’);
    which i will put to the test, and see if there is a way to integrate this into the plugin.
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 24th, 2009 at 2:38 pm

    Hi Pierre,
    Unfortunately I haven’t used Qtranslate, but I will get it and install it, and see why my plugin is not compatible with it.
    In WordPress under ‘Settings -> Reading’ you can set a static page as your homepage, this may solve your problem?
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 24th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    Hi albo
    The problem may be that your theme uses ‘the_excerpt’ on the home page. Have you tried the columns out on another page?
    Sam

  • Comment by Pierre
    Date: January 24th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    Hi Sam,
    How can I replace the 3 widget “bottom left -middle and -right by your colums. I need translate the texts… Tx
    Pierre

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  • Comment by Pierre
    Date: January 25th, 2009 at 9:20 am

    To complete this : Qtranslate seems to be incompatible with the Widgets of my theme. So I need a solution to give the same aspect with 3 columns and a translation… So the problem is’t an incompatibility between my theme, QTranslate and your plug-in but wel a problem to integrate your plug-in in my home page.
    Regards
    Pierre

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 25th, 2009 at 2:28 pm

    Hi Pierre
    I’m guessing your homepage uses the_excerpt code (See Michelle’s comment). I am working on a solution to this at the moment…
    Sam

  • Comment by Pierre
    Date: January 25th, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    Hi Sam,
    We ‘ve not used the_exerpt code. The code under “Plus d’infos” is hardcoded on HTML…

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 26th, 2009 at 11:28 am

    Hi Pierre
    The plugin is for formatting WordPress posts and pages, it can’t be used to format hardcoded html.

  • Comment by Pierre
    Date: January 26th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    Hi Sam,
    I understand but my question is very simple: how can I put your plug in on my home page?
    Tx
    Regards
    Pierre

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  • Comment by Lan Lan
    Date: February 9th, 2009 at 2:40 am

    Hello Sam. Thanks so much for this useful plugin (I’ve been looking everywhere)!

    I was wondering if you could offer some tips as to how to set a default width and padding in the plugin for the different column configurations (2col, 3col, 4col) so that these won’t need to be typed each time? I am making a blog for someone else so I’m hoping to keep the shortcode as simple as possible (version 1.2 was actually really nice for that reason though I found your site too late and can’t reference the code there). Thank you so much for your help!

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  • Comment by ken
    Date: February 9th, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    I am having trouble with nesting other shortcode within this plugins shortcode? Is there a reason for this?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 9th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    Hi Ken,

    Well spotted! I found this info from WordPress:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API

    The shortcode parser correctly deals with nested shortcode macros, provided their handler functions support it by recursively calling do_shortcode():

    [tag-a]
    [tab-b]
    [tag-c]
    [/tag-b]
    [/tag-a]

    However the parser will fail if a shortcode macro is used to enclose another macro of the same name:

    [tag-a]
    [tag-a]
    [/tag-a]
    [/tag-a]

    I have made a minor change to the code and updated to version 2.1 (you can download it from the link above, or do an auto update via your plugins page in WordPress)

    Sam

  • Comment by Cat
    Date: February 11th, 2009 at 1:43 am

    how to avoid the short codes from showing up in the feeds?

    thanks in advance

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 11th, 2009 at 2:13 am

    Hi Cat
    The shortcodes don’t seem to be showing up in my feeds…
    http://www.samburdge.co.uk/category/plugins/feed

    What version of WP are you using? Do you use feedburner?

    Sam

  • Comment by Alain Delmont
    Date: February 14th, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    Hi,

    I have been looking a long time for a plug in like this. I have problem when i use the plug in on pages, the text of the page shows up on top of the page You can see what i meen here : http://wp8.facilitech.fr/?page_id=7

    Hope it can work with this website.
    If you hae an idea of what the proble is that would be great

    Thanks in advance

    Alain

  • Comment by Cindy
    Date: February 14th, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    Hiya,

    I installed the plugin and it works great on the pages. However it breaks the rest of my blog by putting two columns and duplicating the content off the side of the page.

    It is this way for internet explorer and firefox.

    You can click my name to view my blog, but I deactivated the plugin because it made the blog unreadable.

    I really like the plugin and hopefully there is an easy solution!

  • Comment by Cindy
    Date: February 14th, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    Btw, the problem is in the right side column under where it says, “recent posts”. Instead of following the rules and posting just a thumbnail, title and exceprt, it reposts the entire post in the column including all of the full size photos from the post.

    I hope you will have a solution.

    Thank you!

  • Comment by Cindy
    Date: February 14th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

    Oh my gosh!!! I’m so sorry to spam. I do not mean to but I removed this line from the plugin code and now everything works ok. Please tell me if this will cause any problems. Again, my apologies.

    add_filter(’the_content’, ‘wp_post_columns’,13);

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 15th, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    Hi Alain
    I just looked at your page, the problem seems to be with your meta description tag. In your meta description I can see the code:
    <meta name=”description” content=”<p id=”top” />

    I suggest you edit the page in wordpress, go to the html view and remove the code: <p id=”top” />

    This should solve it. I don’t think it is the plugin which is causing the problem.

    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 15th, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    Hi Cindy

    I think this problem is due to an incompatibility with your theme. Specifically with the way recent posts are displayed in the sidebar.

    Removing the line:
    add_filter(’the_content’, ‘wp_post_columns’,13);
    from the plugin code should actually work for you. It won’t affect the plugin’s performance either.

    Sam

  • Comment by Alain Delmont
    Date: February 18th, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    Hi Sam,

    What code can you see ? What should i take off. Sorry i am not at ease with cooding.

    Alain

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 18th, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    Hi Alain,
    Sorry I didn’t notice that the code didn’t show up in my previous comment. I have updated it.

    In your meta description I can see the code:
    <meta name=”description” content=”<p id=”top” />

    I suggest you edit the page in wordpress, go to the html view and remove the code: <p id=”top” />

    If you are using an SEO plugin it might be causing it.

    Sam

  • Comment by Joan
    Date: February 19th, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    Hi and thank you for this plugin. I am using it on a school site to publish staff photos in columns. It seems the second column is lower than the first but I don’t see the cause for it in the html code or css - any ideas how to fix it?

  • Comment by CatCat
    Date: February 20th, 2009 at 9:49 am

    hi I’ve try out your great plugin, it’s what I’m looking for ages.

    but the problem is breaks the “PHPlist 1.5″ plug in, I use that for people register to my Phplist.

    when your plug in is activate, the “PhPList” disapeared.

    any idea how to fix it?

    many thanks in advance.

  • Comment by Englinger
    Date: February 20th, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    Great plugin but here’s my little problem by using your plugIn with the_excerpt: it doesn’t show an excerpt on the mainpage but the full article. You can see it on may site in the middle (right:-) column. The left column (”Wortberge”) uses the_content, shows another problem… Why? - Its a great little plugin and I think I only have to add a little code segment, but where and what??? Any idea? - No, I’m no programmer or php-specialist…

  • Comment by Joan
    Date: February 24th, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    Hi again, I solved my problem with columns not aligning correctly because of the p tags added by tinymce.
    I created a new template and added the code to remove p tags;
    Use this template for the pages using columns and they align correclty.
    Thanks again for this great plugin.

  • Comment by Stefan
    Date: February 25th, 2009 at 11:53 pm

    I’m using the K2 theme. I have the plugin activated and I copy paste the default code and the columns does not show up - what can possibly be wrong?
    Check out the page: http://stefanboman.se/hallbar/store/find-a-qrs-distributor/

  • Comment by mouli
    Date: February 26th, 2009 at 2:44 am

    Hi
    I was having the same problem as a few folk dealing with the extra break tags wordpress was adding between the columns causing the second column to be stepped down from the first.
    Open includes/formatting.php
    line 116
    change $br=1 to $br=0
    That worked for me :)

  • Comment by Euphoria
    Date: February 28th, 2009 at 10:57 am

    Hello, nice plugin. Is there any way you could make it working with Wordpress 2.7.x?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 28th, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    Hi Euphoria, It is working fine on 2.7

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 28th, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    Hi stefan
    Are you sure you have activated the plugin? perhaps your theme doesn’t support shortcodes, try it out by inserting the [gallery] shortcode using the Add Images tool in WP
    Sam

  • Comment by Dave
    Date: March 4th, 2009 at 8:11 am

    I took Cindy’s advise and removed the following line of code:
    add_filter(’the_content’, ‘wp_post_columns’,13);

    This fixed most of the problems.

    However, using two columns, the top line of the text in the right column is one line or so lower than the top line in the left column. No obvious line breaks, etc. Any ideas as to how to fix?

  • Comment by Reix
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 1:30 am

    well, this plugins works excellent.. but…
    i have this weird error with internet explorer..
    help me pleeease..
    i don’t know much about coding.. or english..

    http://chilepolitik.freehostia.com/blog/noticias-regionales/

  • Comment by dogday
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 9:28 am

    Hi! and thanks for your plugins. If I activate the columns plugin, it duplicates every post content.

    I mean: all the content and images of the post appears twice into the post content. Im using wordpress 2.7.1

    Any ideas?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    Hi Dave
    Are you using the tinyMCE plugin? It has been known to insert unwanted line-breaks in shortcodes…
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

    Hi Reix
    Your page won’t load for me… what exactly is the problem?
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    Hi dogday
    If you could send a link to a page where this error is occurring I will try to solve it for you.
    Sam

  • Comment by Reix
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    please try again.. i’m having some server issues..

    and the error happens only with internet explorer..

  • Comment by dogday
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    Thanks a lot Sam!. Here is the link: http://www.dempalmada.com/wordpress/barra-libre-su-minuto-de-gloria/

    Anyway it occours every posts in my blog. Just activating the plugin all posts get its content duplicated.

  • Comment by dogday
    Date: March 5th, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    Ok. It conficts with YARPP, a plugin to insert related posts after the post: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/
    or plugin home page: http://mitcho.com/code/yarpp/

    I have deactivated yours, till finding a solution.

    If you want me to activate both to try to solve this just tell me.

    Thanks a lot anyway.

  • Comment by Ray
    Date: March 18th, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    Sam, thanks for the plugin, I’m trying to use it but I’m experiencing that when you have a lot of content on the post, when you click on “Publish” or edit the content and then click “Update Post”, everything disappears from inside the tinymce editor. The post is indeed updated and it appears on the site, but I can no longer access the post from editor. It’s just blank whenever I go to the edit page of that post.

    I’m not sure if it’s because it has too much content or not, but once I deactivate the plugin and then go back to the edit page, all the content is there again. meaning, it must be something with the plugin I believe. Have you experienced this? And would you have a fix?

    Please respond as soon as you can. I appreciate your help.

    Thank you

  • Comment by btreece
    Date: March 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    I’m using 2.7.1 and this plugin does not work at all for me. I can do everything that I need to do with it, however no columns actually show up regardless of how I try it.

    I’m figuring such a lack of effect must be theme related, which begs the question … how will you make this plugin work on all themes?

  • Comment by Eike
    Date: April 1st, 2009 at 11:17 am

    I like your plugin but it seems that it conflicts with Lightbox2 (http://www.stimuli.ca/lightbox/)
    When it is enabeled the pictures in my blog doesnt load anymore in a lightbox.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 2nd, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    Hi Eike
    You could try removing this line of code from the plugin file:
    add_filter(’the_content’, ‘wp_post_columns’,13);

    I haven’t had much time to work on plugins lately but an upgrade for wp post columns is in progress. Compatibility with other plugins is one of the main issues I am addressing in the upgrade.

    Sam

  • Comment by Eike
    Date: April 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 am

    Many thanks
    Seems to work
    Eike

  • Comment by ixley
    Date: April 10th, 2009 at 3:57 am

    nice plugin. Would be nice to have more custom control over class & id tags so we could control widths and padding via external style sheets rather than having to set them inline. The inline option is of course a nice option to have to override when necessary, but I prefer having the defaults set via stylesheet…

  • Comment by Ami @ Elizabeth Anne Designs
    Date: April 11th, 2009 at 4:01 am

    lovely plugin. having the same issue with YARPP. hopefully this can get worked out soon because i love both plugins. thanks for your hard work!

  • Comment by Pranav
    Date: April 14th, 2009 at 11:39 am

    Thanx a lot!needed this badly…am a newbee with php but am hardworkin, so if i could help you with any programmin pls lemme know.will do it for free…!

  • Comment by Scrib
    Date: April 15th, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    Not sure but I think there is a problem in that your function wp_post_columns (which is called by add_filter(’the_content’, ‘wp_post_columns’,13)) echoes the content rather than returning it.

  • Comment by baron
    Date: April 20th, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    Works great, thank you

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 20th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    The latest update to 2.2 should solve all your problems (well, problems related to the plugin anyway!). Unfortunately it no longer supports the very original column codes ({column} - from before the days of shortcodes), but for 99% of you that won’t apply.

  • Comment by Ami @ Elizabeth Anne Designs
    Date: April 29th, 2009 at 12:19 am

    works perfectly with YARPP now! thank you!!!

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  • Comment by Lance Laytner
    Date: May 14th, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    When I add more than seven photos all my content disappears from display. It exists in the HTML, but does not show up on the actual post. This appears to be the same trouble that was described before the update to 2.2. If I disable wp post columns, the content returns so it definitely is something to do with the plugin. Any help you could give me would very much be appreciated.

  • Comment by Lance Laytner
    Date: May 14th, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    The above problem seems to only happen when the 2nd column starts immediately next to the first. If I have the 2nd column start a paragraph down, the error does not occur. Weird.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 14th, 2009 at 11:35 pm

    Hi Lance
    Do you have an example I can look at? send me a link in a comment, I won’t publish it ;)
    This sounds weird, are the widths of the columns set wide enough to accomodate the images? perhaps the combined widths of the columns exceed the overall post width as set in your theme? If you send me an example I may be able to solve it for you.

  • Comment by Jeni
    Date: May 15th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Hi, this plugin works for me using IE8 and Firefox 2.0. but it doesn’t work in IE7, the columns won’t show in the single post page. is it incombatible with IE7? what can I do?..thanks

  • Comment by Pardo Verduzco
    Date: May 17th, 2009 at 7:00 am

    Hi Samburdge, great solution, now im thinking how can i add to my proyect because im using custom fields and maybe need a version in php to separate my custom image in 1 column & the text content in the column 2…. this is posible??? Salute!

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 17th, 2009 at 11:41 am

    Hi Pardo
    You would have to code it into your theme if you are using custom fields. It shouldn’t be too hard to do.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 17th, 2009 at 11:44 am

    Hi Jeni
    Have you triedtesting different column widths / padding in IE7. If making the columns a bit narrower doesn’t work, send me an example page to look at and I will try to solve it for you.

  • Comment by joe
    Date: May 18th, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    Does anyone know if it is possible to but a border line between the columns and how I can do that if it is possible.

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    Date: May 26th, 2009 at 12:47 am

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  • Comment by ovidiu
    Date: May 26th, 2009 at 2:11 pm

    somehow it stopped working. but I msut say I am just testing wp 2.8 beta 2, maybe that is the reason? have a look here, one can see the column tags, half of them are shown, but the text is still displayed right: http://pacura.ru/blog/site-server-optimization/

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 26th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    Hi Ovidiu
    That is weird as the columns are still working, but the shortcodes are also showing in the post… maybe the shortcodes API has changed for 2.8 ? You should report this to WP as it may be a bug with shortcodes in 2.8 beta

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 26th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    I have an installation of 2.8 that i will test it on too as it may be theme related?

  • Comment by ixley
    Date: May 29th, 2009 at 12:45 am

    Great plugin, but what’s with the hidden tag your code inserts?? After pulling my hair out thinking it was Wordpress/TinyMCE inserting the (unclosed) tag, I found it nestled in your PHP. Please take that out! Also, if it’s not too difficult, it would be great to have incremental counters to add unique classes or id tags to your columns!

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  • Comment by sri78
    Date: June 2nd, 2009 at 10:44 pm

    Problem with my bullets when making the 2 column post. The first column is numbered the second column is bullet. How can I fix this? Pls help.

  • Comment by Stian
    Date: June 4th, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    Hi Sam,
    I seem to have some problems getting Post Columns to work together with xLanguage - a translation plugin that uses the code eg. blabla . Whenever I combine the two, Post Columns seems to override this code and the translation goes to h… any clues of how to resolve this?

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  • Comment by Jasper
    Date: June 7th, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Tesing it on a local server now. It works (on a page), but somehow the right column starts a little below the left one. And of course that does not look nice..

  • Comment by greg
    Date: June 11th, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    It’s almost too easy! works a treat.

    thanks!

  • Comment by RickA
    Date: June 11th, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    I have used this plugin a lot but it doesn’t seem to working with WordPress 2.8

  • Comment by HELP!
    Date: June 12th, 2009 at 2:22 am

    Sam, please help! I just upgraded to 2.8 of WordPress and now the columns are no longer working! My whole site is ruined right now! If you go to my site and click on the “Rankings” tab, you will not see clean columns as before. Please look into this and patch it as quickly as possible, a million thanks!!!

  • Comment by riclos
    Date: June 12th, 2009 at 8:59 am

    Hi ,
    I ask you if is possible to modify plugin so I have 2 column and in automatic the post goes inside the two column , in my site the post are no longer than 3500 spaces so I need two column of 1750 spaces and justify text

  • Comment by dede
    Date: June 12th, 2009 at 11:33 am

    this plugins not working very good in wp 2.8. could u update the plugins? thx

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: June 12th, 2009 at 11:56 am

    Hi Guys
    With regards to the problems with WP 2.8, as far as I can tell this is a bug with 2.8’s handling of shortcodes, as documented here:

    http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10082

    As this is a bug with WP rather than the plugin it will most likely be solved with WP 2.8.1
    If I can come up with a solution in the meantime I will post it here.

    One possible solution is to try inserting a space between the two shortcodes.

    Sam

  • Comment by dede
    Date: June 12th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    thx for quick reply sam, and it works, to add a space between shortcode, thx again.

  • Comment by RickA
    Date: June 14th, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    Shortcodes for other plugins such as Cforms and NextGen Gallary are working fine in WP 2.8.

    I hope you will find the problem and fix this. I have a number of broken pages and I have had to revert to a CSS column scheme.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: June 14th, 2009 at 4:50 pm

    Hi Rick

    The shortcodes bug is specifically this:

    [shortcode]hello world[/shortcode][shortcode]hello again[/shortcode] — doesn’t work

    [shortcode]hello world[/shortcode] [shortcode]hello again[/shortcode] — works

    notice the space between the two shortcodes in the second example.

    This is a new bug in version 2.8 which has already been reported to wordpress.
    Unfortunately there is not much I can do about it except to advise people to insert a space between their shortcodes as a quick fix for the problem.

    I’m sure that this bug will be squashed with the next release.

    This and other bugs have prevented me from updating my site to 2.8 so far.

    Sam

  • Comment by JGB
    Date: June 22nd, 2009 at 12:06 am

    Sam…

    This plugin works for me in WP 2.8, save for the second column being offset one line lower than the first. I am using only the HTML editor in WP, and have removed any line breaks between the shortcodes and text.

    The example page is here:

    http://westernhillsvetclinic.com/blogdev/

    and the code for the page (copied directly from the HTML editor) is here:

    http://pastebin.ca/1469319

    Any thoughts on a fix for this issue?

    Many thanks…

    JGB

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: June 22nd, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    Hi JGB
    You were missing a forward slash in your second closing column tag: [/column] instead of [column]
    I updated your example on pastebin:
    http://pastebin.ca/1470409
    Let me know if that doesn’t solve it.
    Sam

  • Comment by Auriana Jensen
    Date: June 24th, 2009 at 4:24 am

    Hi Sam,
    Thanks for this great plugin.
    All looks good except the-

    [/column][column width="47%" padding="0
    at the beginning of he second column. I'm sue it's something simple just cant work out what.

    http://pastebin.ca/1472039

    Regards Auriana

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  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: June 26th, 2009 at 12:08 am

    Hi Auriana
    try adding a space like so: [/column] [column width=”47%”

    It is a new bug with wp 2.8

    Sam

  • Comment by Thomas
    Date: June 27th, 2009 at 12:04 pm

    hi sam,

    i get a fatal error on activation with wp 2.2 :(
    sadly, i trashed the earlier version of your plugin which worked just fine only to find out that you’ve now made it unavailable for download.

    in case you can’t fix this, i’d appreciate a dl link of the old version :)

    thomas

  • Comment by Jay
    Date: June 27th, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    how do you use this plugin on the index.php? Is it capable of working there since of course it is a static page?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: June 29th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    Hi Jay
    When you say index.php do you mean index.php of your theme? or the homepage of your site itself?

    Does the page contain wordpress content? if so you can use the post columns plugin as normal.

    If it is a static page with hard-coded content then you will need to edit the html and css of the page manually.

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  • Comment by jo
    Date: July 8th, 2009 at 8:46 am

    Great plugin!
    Thanks a lot!

  • Comment by Wardi
    Date: July 14th, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    Does anyone know if the plugin works with WP version 2.8.1? I’ve refrain from upgrading my wordpress because the plugin works so well in 2.7 (thanks for the great job!!!).

  • Comment by Sri
    Date: July 22nd, 2009 at 4:01 am

    Hi, the plugin works well however when I upgraded my WP the code [column width="47" padding="0"] is showing up in my published post? Any help please

  • Comment by serenine
    Date: July 22nd, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    Thank you for a very helpful plugin! Donation on the way..

    works in 2.8.

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  • Comment by magic
    Date: July 23rd, 2009 at 8:19 am

    Is there a way you can use colors… like text color and backgroundcolors?

  • Comment by George
    Date: July 25th, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    When adding column example 2 heres what happens when viewing:

    Test Test
    Test Test
    the column to right and any other columns are shifted down by one line how can I make them all even?

  • Comment by James Dunn
    Date: August 3rd, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    Thanks Sam for a great plug-in. It got me out of a real jam with a recent site I was building and I’ll probably use this numerous times in the future. I do have one “situation” I’m trying to overcome - it’s not a problem with the plug-in - but rather a formatting problem that I can’t seem to overcome. I have some info that I’m trying to put part of it in two columns - http://www.drugtreatmentaddictionhelp.com/ - under types of cases we handle, the first line runs full width and the next two lines need to be in two columns - but I’d like them to come directly under the first line. It seems to be putting an extra “return” in the format even though I’ve taken all line breaks out. I’m assuming that it probably has something to do with the formatting for the tag. Can I create an extra tag (maybe something like or so that I can format without any extra spacing above or below the lines? Sorry if this is outside of something you can help with - I’m just searching for a little help here.

    Thanks again for a great and useful plug-in.

  • Comment by James Dunn
    Date: August 5th, 2009 at 3:59 am

    Hey George. I had the same problem the first time I used this. Then, I realized that I had a “return” AFTER the start of the column. I removed the “return” and the two columns lined up wonderfully. The notes about spaces versus no-spaces are very important for the formatting when using this plug-in. But, it works beautifully and I’ve been extremely pleased with the results - as have my customers.

  • Comment by Cal
    Date: August 7th, 2009 at 5:44 am

    Thanks for the great plugin!

    I have a slight issue that I can’t seem to fix myself. The column function works great for my blog on Mozilla Firefox but not for Internet Explorer 7. Here’s a link to my blog - http://www.cfssearch.net - Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

    Cal

  • Comment by Mike
    Date: August 10th, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    I had problems with the tags in my code. I had my column shortcodes on the same line, however that no longer parsed properly when I upgraded to wordpess 8, after fixing that the extra space was there.

    I wrote a bit of CSS just to hide the spaces

    div.post_column_1 + br {
    display:none;
    }

  • Comment by Ken
    Date: August 11th, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    Sam,
    Thanks for offering this useful plugin. I used the shortcodes in a very straightforward way to get three columns, but the result at http://staddendesign.com/?page_id=18 gives me two columns instead of three. WP seems to be inserting a tag where it doesn’t belong. Can you help? Here’s my WP editor code:
    Portfolio
    [column width="33%" padding="5%"]L O G O T Y P E S

    [/column]
    [column width="33%" padding="5%"]B R O C H U R E S

    [/column]
    [column width="33%" padding="0"]N E W S L E T T E R S
    This should be the third column.
    [/column]
    [end_columns]

    This line should be full-width across the bottom of the page.

  • Comment by Ken
    Date: August 11th, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    I wrote “WP seems to be inserting a ⟨p⟩ tag” above but the editor stripped it out.

  • Comment by Cojo
    Date: August 13th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

    Excellent plugin. Is there a way to get a vertical line between the columns? That is a line which seperates the columns from eachother? Best regards

  • Comment by V.C
    Date: August 14th, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    I’ve done it for my blog. It now look as a CMS :)

  • Comment by sonia
    Date: August 16th, 2009 at 12:14 am

    on wp 2.8.4 is not working :-(
    Although is enabled, When I’m trying to insert it on a page a)it does years to publish & b) I get the following message:”Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/citynews/public_html/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 972″.
    Note that my wp, is on my server and not to wp.com
    thank you

  • Comment by JerryR
    Date: August 20th, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    Hi all,

    This plug-in is great. Very easy to use. I am experiencing a small bug. At the top of the 2nd column there is an extra tag being inserted. It happens on any page where I use the plug-in. Here is just one example: http://tw2blog.fabianross.com/case-studies/

    Above the heading “San Diego Canyonlands” there is the extra tag causing this right column to be pushed lower than the left column.

    Any thoughts on how to correct this?

    Thanks,

    Jerry

  • Comment by Ateljé Digital
    Date: August 23rd, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    @Ken
    Hi, could it be because of the width settings?
    width: 33%+33%+33%=99%
    padding: 5%+5%=10%
    99%+10%=109%

    Could be your third column doesn’t fit and therefore not seen.

    And, after the WP-upgrade, be sure to put a space between the tags.
    [/column] [column width="30%" padding="0"]

    NOT
    [/column][column width="30%" padding="0"]

    I had some job going through my pages :-)

  • Comment by serenine
    Date: August 28th, 2009 at 2:01 am

    Hello,

    I’m having the same issue as @George above with three columns. Suggestion by @James Dunn helped but the third column shifted. Any ideas? Thank you.

    P.S. I tried the wpautop plugin but I didn’t want to loose the formatting where needed within the same page.

  • Comment by serenine
    Date: August 29th, 2009 at 12:21 am

    Btw, I am using WP 2.8.4 + WP PC 2.0. Thank you.

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  • Comment by Kenny
    Date: August 31st, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    Hi i put one column with a picture and the other column with texts. It turns out that the column with the picture is higher than the column with text. For example, the text is not in the same height level with the picture. It’s like the picture is slightly higher than the texts column. Can anyone help me to fix this?

  • Comment by mischa
    Date: September 8th, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Use the code together with “Article Templates” and you can easily build quick pages with several layouts. Thanks for the code and keep on developing.

  • Comment by Nick
    Date: September 12th, 2009 at 8:24 pm

    Sam,

    First off, great program. However I have an issue on the second column its slight lower then the first column. Anyway to fix this issue? Seems like its a known issue from reading the comments, but I didnt know if their was a fix for it yet.

    Thanks

    Nick

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    Date: September 18th, 2009 at 6:14 am

    Hi Sam,

    wonderful plugin. Thank you. I’d like to have only one thing a vertical divider between the cols. Any idea how to achieve it?

    Thanks
    Thomas

  • Comment by JP
    Date: September 25th, 2009 at 10:28 am

    Hi Nick,

    I had the same problem, you have to be sure that you have a space between the tags.
    [/column] [column width="30" padding="0"]

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  • Comment by Virginie
    Date: October 17th, 2009 at 4:00 am

    Hi Sam,

    Love the plugin… My only prob? In WP 2.8.4 the shortcode tag is published with the post– why? It’s driving me nuts! Other than that, best plugin of its kind.

  • Comment by Bentforkz
    Date: October 22nd, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    I’m having an issue with this plugin validating.

    First question: Does this plugin validate?

    Second question: Why is there an open tag on line 59 of the “wp-post-columns.php” file?

  • Comment by Sandy
    Date: October 24th, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    I’ve been using this plugin on a client site and it has been working wonderfully. I just noticed this morning that site using it no nlonger has columns. I just recently upgraded my WordPress. Is this working with the latest version? Are there any plug-ins that may create problems? (although I haven’t added any new ones lately) Thanks

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  • Comment by Jeff
    Date: November 25th, 2009 at 5:13 am

    Great Plugin!

    I have worked through all of the little issues that come with how certain Themes are created. However I cannot figure out why when I insert 2 columns into a page, a large amount of blank space is added to the end of the content.

    http://ourstorkgotlost.com/about-2/nicufamilies/

    After the end of the content I have placed into both columns there is nothing showing in Visual or HTML editors.

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  • Comment by Jeff
    Date: November 30th, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    Found that after creating a page with 2 columns if i ended with:
    [/column] [end_columns] or
    [/column]
    [end columns]
    i was left with tons of blank space below the columns. If I end with:
    [/column][end_columns]
    i do not see the blank space, but I see the [end_columns] and the bottom of the 2nd column. I am able to add text below (outside) of the columns just fine, but still see the ending tag.

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  • Comment by Gozi
    Date: December 9th, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    I seem to have a similar issue as Virginie’s. As of WP 2.8.4 the plug-in seems no longer to work and displays the shortcode txt instead. Is it theme-centric or a general issue?

  • Comment by Steevie
    Date: December 9th, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    Anyone know why the columns are always misaligned at the top?

  • Comment by Julie
    Date: December 13th, 2009 at 9:44 pm

    This is PERFECT! I have been trying to figure out how to put my resume neatly on my website. I had settled for saving it as a PDF, converting it to a jpg and putting it up as a picture.

    This is exactly what I needed! I already tested it and it works perfectly. I will be updating my resume shortly - thanks to you!

  • Comment by Echio
    Date: December 13th, 2009 at 10:24 pm

    Is it possible to have my post title in category in columns?? Because if it can then my webpage won’t stretch that much cause of all the post title in my categorys…

  • Comment by bedlam
    Date: December 14th, 2009 at 2:58 am

    for those having issues with the trailing [end_columns] tag…

    all you need to do is put a space between [/column] [end_columns]

  • Comment by alex
    Date: December 15th, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    I encounter the same problem as Steevie (2 post above me)

    I think it has something to do with the latest Wordpress. I hav eused this plugin before on an older version. Up until today its fine. Now however on the curren Site iam working on the columns always misalign at the top. Please help!

    …by the way, other than that its a great plugin!!!!!!! thanx!

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  • Comment by greg
    Date: January 6th, 2010 at 10:59 pm

    I am attempting to get 2 columns on the front page of my site using rocketthemes refraction. I don’t want individual posts to have 2 columns I want all the posts to flow across two columns. I have spent days w/ a few different tutorials, http://www.cre8d-design.com/2008/03/how-to-organize-posts-into-two-side-by-side-columns-in-wordpress/ , http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=1288 , and http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/08/04/two-column-horizontal-sequence-wordpress-post-order/ and none of them seem to work w/ my theme. Does anyone have any other recommendations?

  • Comment by LHT
    Date: January 9th, 2010 at 12:47 am

    Just installed the plugin and I can’t get it to work. I’m using WP 2.9. I copied and pasted the code in the plugins readme file and added some text where indicated and the text just shows up vertically with a large space between what is supposed to be col 1 and col 2 text, not side by side.

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WP Flash Titles Plugin 2.0

Date: 22nd April 2008 at 3:02 pm | Filed under: development, flash, plugins, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

This WordPress plugin allows you to display your post titles in any font, colour and size you want using Flash. It will also retain your original html styling of your titles and display that to users who don't have Flash installed. It is fully customisable via the Options tab in wordpress. It is search engine friendly and easy to implement.

Update:

Version 2.0 includes 2 basic changes.

  1. The way the options are saved has been changed to address the problems some users were having with this.
  2. More pre-installed fonts.

Example:

I am happy with my WordPress theme as it is, so I have set up this example page for you to see the Flash Titles in action: {{post id="wp-flash-title-plugin-example-page" text="WP Flash Titles Example Page" target="_self"}}

Installation:

  1. Upload the wp_flash_titles folder to your wp-content/plugins folder.
  2. Activate the plugin from the Plugins page.

Usage:

  1. Go to Options -> WP Flash Titles to choose your font, size and colour scheme for your titles.
  2. You need to modify your template file slightly. First you need to locate the code that relates to the post title. This will typically be something like:
    <h3 class="storytitle" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
    <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
    <?php the_title(); ?>
    </a>
    </h3>
  3. You then need to add two lines of code. First paste this line in directly before the page title code:
    <?php if(function_exists('wp_flash_titles')){wp_flash_titles($post->ID,'start')} ?>
  4. Then this line directly after:
    <?php if(function_exists('wp_flash_titles')){wp_flash_titles($post->ID,'end')} ?>
  5. To embed any font you want you must have Flash CS3. Open the source file 'wp_flash_title.fla' which is located in the 'Source' folder of the plugin. In flash simply change the font of the text area to any font you wish. Do a 'Save As' and then publish the swf. Once you have created the swf you must upload it to the folder: wp-content/plugins/wp_flash_titles/flash
    It will now appear in the list of fonts in the Options -> WP Flash Titles page!!

Download Plugin:


35 Responses to “WP Flash Titles Plugin 2.0”

  • Comment by Printer
    Date: April 22nd, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    Hi, thanks for this great plugin. Unfortunatly I can’t seem to get it to work. I followed the instructions. But I can not see an example image inthe options page, and when I insert all the option values after update options the option boxes are empty again. Any idea how this can be? I’m onWP 2.5

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 22nd, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    Hi Printer,

    Sorry, it was my mistake…I hadn’t updated one of the plugin files correctly. Please download again and re-install and it should work.

    Sam

  • Comment by Printer
    Date: April 22nd, 2008 at 11:20 pm

    Ah, thanks! the optionpage is working now. I seem to run in to another problem now. when I refresh my site it goes blank(empty). the dashboard ist working though. i have this code in my ‘index’ now:
    ID,’start’)} ?><a href=”" rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to “>ID,’end’)} ?>
    this should be correct is it?

  • Comment by Printer
    Date: April 22nd, 2008 at 11:22 pm

    ow, i see the code did not displayed corect in my comment.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 23rd, 2008 at 1:01 am

    The code should be something like:

    < ?php if(function_exists('wp_flash_titles'))
    {wp_flash_titles($post->ID,’start’)} ?>
    <a href=”< ?php the_permalink() ? rel="nofollow">” rel=”bookmark”>
    < ?php the_title(); ?>
    </a>
    < ?php if(function_exists('wp_flash_titles'))
    {wp_flash_titles($post->ID,’end’)} ?>

  • Comment by Stephen
    Date: April 24th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    Hi,

    I am trying to use the plugin once again. The saving options problem seems to be fixed, thanks. BUT when I activate and try to use the plugin, only the first two posts on my home page get flash titles and all the others are completely missing. I have about 20 posts showing on my homepage btw.
    Any advice? Thanks!

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 24th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    Hi Stephen

    It could be one of a few things causing this. Let’s start with the basics, have you tried emptying your browser’s cache and refreshing the page?
    Does this behaviour occur on all pages of your site (monthly archives, single category pages, etc) or just on the home page? Do the titles that aren’t appearing contain any special html characters (&#@!”‘, etc.)?

    Sam

  • Comment by Stephen
    Date: April 24th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    Thanks for the reply. I see that it seems to be browser specific. In Safari it looks fine and in Firefox 3 beta I am having the problem of no titles after the first two.

  • Comment by brian
    Date: May 6th, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    Thanks for the plugin, it’s great!

    I was wondering… how to configure the plugin if you want the background to be transparent?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 7th, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    Hi Brian
    I hadn’t thought to add an option for transparent…I’ll have to add that feature in the next release! For now you could use this workaround…

    change the line of the plugin’s code:
    so.write(”flash_title_’.$flash_title_id.’”);

    to:
    so.addParam(”wmode”,”transparent”);
    so.write(”flash_title_’.$flash_title_id.’”);

    Hope this works for you…
    Sam

  • Comment by Jayvee
    Date: May 7th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    Hey, great plug-in but sadly it won’t work in my site. The options panel don’t show the fonts.

    How do I fix that? =(

  • Comment by Jayvee
    Date: May 7th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    BTW I’m using WP 2.5.1

    Thanks.

  • Comment by Jayvee
    Date: May 10th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    I already figured out the problem. I upgraded the swfobject.js file. Thanks for the plugin.

  • Comment by Mikester
    Date: May 12th, 2008 at 7:13 am

    I just couldn’t get it to work…… :-(

  • Comment by Stephen
    Date: May 23rd, 2008 at 2:45 am

    Hi, it is me again. Just wondering if you will be updating your plugin to work with the new Firefox? Thanks!

  • Comment by alectro
    Date: June 10th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    Hi Sam, I followed the instructions but I cant see it working both on Index and Single.

    That’s the blog: http://www.laondagrafika.com/blog/

    Thanks!

  • Comment by alectro
    Date: June 10th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    ID,’start’) ?>
    <a href=”" rel=”bookmark”>
    ID,’end’) ?>

    thats the code I put on that files.

  • Comment by Ryan Creighton
    Date: June 12th, 2008 at 12:59 am

    Hi! GREAT plugin idea! i desperately want to use it.

    The trouble is that when i install the plugin, i get this error message:

    Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

    When i go to the plugin page under Options, i see various errors like:

    WordPress database error: [Table 'untolden_wrdp1.wp_flashtitles' doesn't exist]

    There are numerous similar errors. i checked my database, and it looks like the tables that the plugin needs aren’t getting installed.

    Any suggestions? i’m running ver 2.2.2.

    THANKS!!

  • Comment by zulu
    Date: June 13th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

    Hi. Great plugin :) Got one problem: There’s a “free space” before the title, means title, date and post don’t begin at the same beginning *lol* know what I mean? Visit my site to check, I can also send a screenshot if wanted (I don’t know how long this plugin will be activated). How can I fix this? Thanks a lot!
    zulu

  • Comment by zulu
    Date: June 13th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    It’s me again! Another problem: The flash titles don’t link to full post as they used to do before, so I uninstalled the plugin now. But screenshot is ready to send ;)

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  • Comment by Fernando
    Date: August 6th, 2008 at 9:10 pm

    Hi Sam! Contratulations for the plugin, I think is amazing!

    You know? Im using the default theme for wordpress, the original code says:

    < div class=”post” id=”post-” >
    < a href=”" rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to ” >

    But when i replace this code for:

    ID,’start’)} ?>
    <a href=”” rel=”bookmark”>

    ID,’end’)} ? >

    … then the theme no work. :(

    I dunno where Im mistake. Can you help me? Thank you so much and sorry for my english language, still is very poor. :)

  • Comment by Fernando
    Date: August 6th, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    Hi again Sam…. i found my mistake, i forgot write class=”storytitle” in the code… is ok now… thank you so much again… your plugin is cool

  • Comment by steve
    Date: September 12th, 2008 at 8:29 pm

    hey there,
    thanks for the great plug! but i have a little prob:
    I am usin the lightbox2 plug to view my pics. when the lightbox effekt is running, the titles are “flashing” through the background of lightbox and sometimes appearing on the images. I recognized that this happens with every flash content embedded on the page… so its not really an issue for you but you might know a little workaround for that.
    it could be something with the z-indexes i guess?

    steve

  • Comment by Ronan
    Date: November 5th, 2008 at 10:24 pm

    Thanks Sam,

    great plug in,

    how would you code this to use in the main navigation of K2. it would solve many problems!
    Thanks

    Ronan

  • Comment by burak
    Date: November 9th, 2008 at 12:17 pm

    Thanks for that great plugin. The code, that you gave as an answer for the transparenc stuff, does not work. so.addParam(”wmode”,”transparent”);
    so.write(”flash_title_’.$flash_title_id.’”);

    I need that transparency and a little donation is on the way. Thanks.

  • Comment by burak
    Date: November 20th, 2008 at 7:52 pm

    Do you still work on this plugin?

  • Comment by chuck
    Date: November 22nd, 2008 at 12:15 am

    does not work in IE!! why why why i hate internet EXPLODER!!!

    how can i fix this? please advise..

  • Comment by Fred Snelling
    Date: November 28th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    Hi Sam,
    Great plugin, but will not work after upgrade 2.6.5 please help.
    Thank you

    <?php if(function_exists(’wp_flash_titles’)){wp_flash_titles($post->ID,’start’)} ?><h3 id=”post-”><a href=”" rel=”bookmark” title=”"><?php if(function_exists(’wp_flash_titles’)){wp_flash_titles($post->ID,’end’)} ?>

  • Comment by Fred Snelling
    Date: November 29th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    Hi Sam;
    Can you please look at my code and tell what wrong? Thank you

    ID,’start’)} ?><h3 id=”post-”><a href=”" rel=”bookmark” title=”">ID,’end’)} ?>
    By

  • Comment by steve
    Date: November 30th, 2008 at 6:32 pm

    hi there,
    having the same problem since upgrading to 2.6.5
    anyone know how to fix that?

    cheers,
    steve

  • Comment by Ieso Nagata
    Date: February 17th, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    great!
    but not all characters are displayed , like “çãêó”, i’m using UTF8 (pt_BR)! then was desabled, THX

    i don’t know how many hardy can be to put thumbnails to fonts example at the options pages, or include a image with, then they don’t need to choose font by font to make the choice!
    just a suggestion…
    THX anyway!

  • Comment by Fabio
    Date: July 23rd, 2009 at 1:44 am

    Hey! nice plugin, comon upgrade to Wordpress 2.8.2 core… and the plugin doens’t work with Latin accents “áéíóúç” maybe a charset problem can easily fix that.

    Cheers

  • Comment by Michelle
    Date: July 30th, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    This is what we’ve been looking for, but is it possible to have a transparent background?

  • Comment by Eno
    Date: August 27th, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    Hi,
    Great plugin, but it doesn’t work well using Internet Explorer as browser.
    Any fix soling that . . .?

    Thanks

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WP 2.5 Gallery Lightbox Plugin

Date: 12th April 2008 at 10:17 pm | Filed under: plugins, scripts, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

This WordPress plugin adds the Lightbox feature to image links and to the new WordPress 2.5 gallery feature too. It uses the jQuery Lightbox Plugin by Benjamin Arthur Lupton to create the lightbox effect, and adds rel="lightbox" to image links in posts, pages and galleries as demonstrated in the example below:





Updates:

25/4/2008 - Minor update to version 1.1
- updated jquery version to 1.2.3 to fix IE7 bug.

28/4/2008 - Minor update to version 1.2
- added priority of 12 to add_filter to bring in line with 2.5.1 shortcode priority.
- moved style elements to the head of the page so that the gallery XHTML code validates! (<style> tags are not allowed in the body of the page)

29/4/2008 - No version update
- minor bug fix - changed the modifier of the first preg_replace statement to U (ungreedy)

2/5/2008
Minor update to version 1.3
- css bugfix for safari 3.1.1

Installation:

  1. Download the plugin using the link below and unzip it.
  2. Upload the folder 'wp_gallery_lightbox' to your 'wp-content/plugins' folder
  3. Activate the plugin from the plugins page

115 Responses to “WP 2.5 Gallery Lightbox Plugin”

  • Comment by allan
    Date: April 13th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

    The lightbox seems to break if you go to setting>misc and uncheck: Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are proportional)

    Other than that it’s awesome.

  • Comment by John Staplehurst
    Date: April 13th, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    Works great, and props for getting this out!
    Two comments:
    1) does not cope if you change the thumbnail sizes away from the default 150px - any chance the dimensions can be picked up dynamically?
    2) Best way to remove the rather in-your-face attribution line from the top of the overlay screen?

    thanx, —john—

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 13th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    Hi Allan

    Thanks. I wasn’t aware of that option, I will test it and update the plugin within the next few days so that it works with both options.

    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 13th, 2008 at 9:10 pm

    Hi John

    If you download it again and re-install you will see that the attribution line is gone. It was bothering me too!

    In a few days I will upload a new version that supports all thumbnail sizes.

    Sam

  • Comment by John Staplehurst
    Date: April 13th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    Thanks !!!

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 14th, 2008 at 12:24 am

    Hi Allan & John

    The plugin is now updated to incorporate thumbs of any dimensions! Picking up the size dynamically wasn’t the problem, it was that wordpress adds the dimensions to the end of the filename of each thumbnail (image-150×150.jpg)

  • Comment by Martin Peine
    Date: April 14th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    Hi,

    thanks for the great addon! But i noticed that it always uses the original size-version of an image for the thumbnail preview, if i use ‘ instead of ” in the links.

    The same happening to someone else?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 14th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    Hi Martin
    I could only make it work with either ‘ or ” in the links, so I opted for “. Maybe I’ll come up with a solution for this, but for now I guess you’ll have to use “.
    Sam

  • Comment by Martin Peine
    Date: April 14th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    No problem, your plugin still helps me very much.

    But while setting up a new website i noticed something else. If there is a button with a link to another page, it shows the button in the lightbox, instead of going to the page.

    Difficult to explain, so i made a screenshot. As an example, it happens if i click in the RSS-button on the upper right:

    http://schrott.zukunftia.de/spark/lightbox_button.png

    The button links just to the RSS-feed in that case. Thanks in advance!

  • Comment by Jesse
    Date: April 15th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    I am having a similar problem to Martin. I have a page that I am wanting to not use the lightbox plugin on and am manually inserting images with anchor links around them and for some reason the plugin is adding the lightbox tag. For example I have a video file I want to link to with a small preview image but for some reason lightbox is messing around and making the large version of the uploaded thumbnail image instead of actually linking to the video file. Any ideas why?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 17th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    Hi Martin and Jesse

    I will try to work out a solution to this problem and update the plugin within the next few days.

    Big thanks to all commenters for helping me to iron out these teething problems with the plugin!

    Sam

  • Comment by Pete
    Date: April 18th, 2008 at 4:18 am

    My post hasn’t been approved from before, I think it was because I included some html code in it to explain my problem.

    Anyway just to summarise it’s the same problem as both Martin and Jesse and also I still can’t use “widescreen” thumbnail sizes.

    Basically 150×150 or 120×120 or any equal sized thumbnails worked perfectly but 128×72 or the like makes it so the lightbox doesn’t work (it links to the thumbnail not the full size).

    Another problem I have is that the lightbox doesn’t position large images correctly, is there a way we can use thickbox or something instead?

    Basically some of the images I have are 3000pixels wide and the image is cut off on the screen for a while and then it clicks in place (takes awhile). Thickbox I think it was actually scaled down the image so that this wasn’t a problem.

  • Comment by John Staplehurst
    Date: April 19th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    Hi Sam,
    Thanks for the plugin update. I’ve traced what I assume to be part of my problem (and it may be part of Pete’s too) to this statement in your plugin:

    $thestr2 = preg_replace(’/<a(.*?)href=(.*?)-([0-9][0-9][0-9])x([0-9][0-9][0-9])/i’,'<a$1href=$2′, $thestr);

    which is assuming a 3×3 digit thumbnail size. Since mine were 128×96, the replace failed. I have substituted this:

    $thestr2 = preg_replace(’/<a(.*?)href=(.*?)-(\d+)x(\d+)/i’,'<a$1href=$2′, $thestr);

    and it seems to do the trick. I’m no expert at PHP, but I couldn’t see any bad effects of of using the \d pattern here. You may know better!

    cheers, and thanks for the plugin!, —john—

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 20th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

    Hi John

    I had also identified that part as the problem and was thinking along the same lines as you. The \d+ should work fine. I will update the plugin accordingly and re-upload. Thanks for your feedback.

    Sam

  • Comment by chiwan
    Date: April 22nd, 2008 at 6:13 pm

    hi.

    a problem for me: after activating plugin, it tries to load the header image in a lightbox effect, which leads to freeze on a blank white frame.

    is there a way i can exclude the header image from being tagged for lightbox?

    thank you.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 22nd, 2008 at 10:49 pm

    Hi Chiwan

    This problem (The same problem experienced by Martin & Jesse in previous comments) should now be solved. Please download again and re-install.

    The plugin should now only add lightbox to the gallery and to links that point to an image i.e. a href=”example.jpg”

    Sam

  • Comment by hj barraza
    Date: April 24th, 2008 at 4:28 am

    i tried it,

    but as soon as i activated it it directly showed up the lightbox trying to load an image and looped there.

    this in all pages…

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 24th, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Hi HJ Barraza
    It sounds like it’s clashing with javascript that is generated by another plugin. Do you use any plugin that uses either jQuery.js or any other lightbox effect built in?
    Sam

  • Comment by Jonathan
    Date: April 24th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    This is the plugin that I have been looking for, but it uses the original image size uploaded by wp instead of the “medium” size. Is there a way to pick up this medium size dynamically? I realize it might be tough because we all my specify different sizes and if the image is vertical, it may mess up the dimensions.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 24th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Hi Jonathan
    Unfortunately with the method I used it is not possible to choose between using the medium size or full size image. It had to work with either one or the other, and I chose the full size as I felt it was the most useful option.
    The best way around this is to resize your images before you upload them, you can set up an automated batch in Photoshop to save time on this.
    Sam

  • Comment by Jonathan
    Date: April 24th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    That is what I thought Sam. Is there a way edit the code to use the medium size since I know how WP will resize them? I tend to like to have access to all the sizes of an image, so if I want to look at some detail, I can download the full size image, but generally stick with the medium sized images for quicker browsing.

    Perhaps in Lightbox, one could create a link to close light box and open the full sized image? Just thinking out loud.

  • Comment by Marcus King
    Date: April 25th, 2008 at 10:59 am

    Hi there

    This is a great plugin, however when I have an individual picture as opposed to a gallery the title is not displayed. Any thoughts anyone, the difference I noticed between the links made in 2.3 v 2.5 are the title=”something” is missing from the link tag

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 25th, 2008 at 11:31 am

    Hi Marcus

    I know this sounds obvious, but did the link have a title to begin with? alt=”something” is not the same. Also with this lightbox the title appears when you mouse-over the image.

    Sam

  • Comment by Jesse
    Date: April 25th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Hi Sam,
    Downloaded the latest version of the plugin but I am still experiencing the same problem as I was previously. It seems that the plugin in placing the rel=”lightbox-6″ code into the img tag in my particular case. The code ends up looking like:

    <a href=’http://example.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/groundround-soundlogo-1.mov’ rel=”nofollow”></a>

    It seems as though the code is being placed, awkwardly in the img tag for some reason unknown to me. Any ideas on what might be causing this?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 25th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    Hi Jesse
    I dont see the img tag in your example code?? Also there is no rel=”lightbox” in the ‘a’ tag. If you want I can have a look at your page and maybe that will help me to spot the problem. Send me a comment with a link to the page. If you want to keep the page address private just say so in your comment and I won’t publish the comment on my site.
    Sam

  • Comment by Jesse
    Date: April 25th, 2008 at 8:49 pm

    Oops, looks like the HTML got stripped from that comment. Anyways the page in question is here. http://insightadvertising.com/blog/?page_id=6 The first 6 images link to a .mov file but the plugin is putting lightbox code into the image tag between the closing / and >.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 26th, 2008 at 1:30 am

    Hi Jesse
    I had a look and I think I have detected the bug in the code that is causing the problem. I have made a minor change to the plugin’s code and re-uploaded it. You don’t need to do a full re-install, just replace the ‘wp_gallery_lightbox.php’ file with the new one. Let me know if it works.
    Sam

  • Comment by Ahmed
    Date: April 26th, 2008 at 11:10 am

    It interferes with the action of my Featured Content Gallery plugin .. Any solution ??

  • Comment by switch
    Date: April 26th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    When I insert images into my post plugin works fine. But it doesn’t work with gallery. Here is my example: http://www.stn.agh.edu.pl/archives/73 (gallery is at the end of the post). What have I done wrong?

  • Comment by michae
    Date: April 27th, 2008 at 5:07 am

    Hi Sam,
    I just upgraded to wp 2.5.1 and your great plugin stopped working, I tried to find out why and did not find a reason - do you have a clue?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 27th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    Hi Ahmed
    I’m not familiar with that particular plugin, in what way does it interfere? I’m guessing that the Featured Content Gallery plugin has the code ‘add_filter(’the_content’, ‘function_name’, X)’ where function_name is the plugins function and X is a number. If so try removing the ‘, X’ from the filter and see if that works.
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 27th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    Hi Michae
    I haven’t made the upgrade to 2.5.1 yet, but will be doing so this week. At that point I will run some tests and get back to you.
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 27th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    Hi Switch
    This may be the same issue michae is experiencing with 2.5.1. I will have more info / updated version of the plugin within the next few days.
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 27th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    Hi Michae & Switch
    Here’s a quick fix to make the plugin work with 2.5.1:

    in ‘wp_gallery_lightbox.php’ change the line:
    add_filter(’the_content’, ‘gallery_lightbox’);
    to:
    add_filter(’the_content’, ‘gallery_lightbox’,12);

    This fix may stop the plugin from working in 2.5 - and also may cause clashes with other plugins which also add filters to ‘the_content’ - so, for this reason, an updated 2.5 / 2.5.1 compatible version of the plugin will not be released just yet…sorry
    Sam

  • Comment by hj barraza
    Date: April 28th, 2008 at 2:30 am

    @Sam
    My template is using Mofx and some other lightbox, i didnt saw it before. i’ll try to hack it… any recomendation is appreciated
    : )

  • Comment by michael
    Date: April 28th, 2008 at 7:26 am

    Hi Sam,
    thanks for the hint, it works again!

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 28th, 2008 at 11:07 am

    Hi Michael
    Glad it works again! I’ve made an updated version of the plugin based on that change - and one other important change which moves the css that the gallery inserts into the post up to the head of the page where it should be. So I would recommend a re-install…
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 28th, 2008 at 11:13 am

    Hi HJ Barraza
    It’s the other lightbox from your template which is causing it to bug. You can probably fix this by removing the link to the plugin’s lightbox script and just using the one that comes with your theme. To do this you can comment out the following line of the plugin’s code:
    add_action(’wp_print_scripts’,'wp_lightbox_js’);
    like this:
    //add_action(’wp_print_scripts’,'wp_lightbox_js’);
    Hopefully that will work for you. If not then you could edit your template’s Header file and remove the call to the lightbox js from there.
    Sam

  • Comment by Bárbara
    Date: April 28th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    It’s possible that plugin work only in “medium” images, so the thumbs redirect for the gallery page.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 28th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    Hi Bárbara
    Do you mean so the thumbs link to the medium version of the image? Or so that only medium images link to the lightbox, while thumbs link to the wordpress attachment page?
    Sam

  • Comment by switch
    Date: April 28th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    Hi Sam
    Version 1.2 works geat! Tanks!

  • Comment by Jesse
    Date: April 28th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

    So does version 1.2 only work in WP2.5?

  • Comment by Jesse
    Date: April 28th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    errrrrr. I meant 2.5.1 :)

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 28th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

    Hi Jesse
    It should now work in both…but I think most people will be upgrading to 2.5.1 pretty soon as 2.5 has security flaws.

    Version 1.2 of the plugin also moves the style tags generated by the gallery to the head of the page so that the page validates…worth upgrading I think
    Sam

  • Comment by Jesse
    Date: April 29th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    Ok I have another strange issue that cropped up. The gallery code works fine. But on pages that I have small thumbnail images linking to either a video file or an external website I have the problem that only the odd numbered images in a sequence work properly whereas all the even numbered images have rel=”lightbox” tags attached to them and clicking them brings up the lightbox loading wheel and gets stuck there. Very strange indeed. Page in question: http://insightadvertising.com/blog/?page_id=6 images 1,3,5 etc work fine, images 2,4,6 etc dont. o_O

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 29th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

    Hi Jesse
    I have fixed this bug, hopefully it’s the last! I’ve re-uploaded the plugin. You only need to replace the ‘wp_gallery_lightbox.php’ file this time.
    Sam

  • Comment by Jesse
    Date: April 30th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    Thank you! It’s working wonderfully. :)

  • Comment by FruityOaty
    Date: May 1st, 2008 at 5:15 am

    I updated to WP 2.5.1… and it stopped working.

    I updated to plugin version after your April 29 comment (bug fix for WP 2.5.1)… still not working.

    I commented out (as suggested) //add_action(’wp_print_scripts’,’wp_lightbox_js’);

    … and still not working. :(

    Too bad, it was the only lightbox plugin (I tried 5) that I found that worked idiot-proof with K2 theme… well, until I updated to WP 2.5.1. I don’t know what to do now… I’m kinda low on the tech-know-how. :)

  • Comment by FruityOaty
    Date: May 1st, 2008 at 6:20 am

    Oh wow… I didn’t notice this before in IE 7.0.5730.13! Tested, OK in Firefox 2.0.0.14.

    Upload load of home page, nothing else shows up on my home page except a loading “lighbox” (that’s all). It just spins and spins, but nothing loads in that lightbox image… only in IE 7.

    And an IE script error pops up:
    Line: 3939
    Char: 9
    Error: Object doesn’t support this property or method
    Code: 0

    Wow… OK, I had to deactivate the plugin. Everything’s but to normal. I didn’t realized no one could access my site via IE 7 with the plugin activated.

  • Comment by FruityOaty
    Date: May 1st, 2008 at 6:22 am

    Typo… I meant… “Upon load of home page”…
    Basically, when my home page loads, nothing else appears except the lighbox effect, even though no picture was clicked on. Weird.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 1st, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Hi FruityOaty
    The plugin is certainly working with 2.5.1 as my site is running 2.5.1 and it works for me. If you view my site in IE7 you will see that it is also working.
    The most plausible explanation for the plugin not working for you is that it is clashing with other javascript generated by another plugin or by your theme.
    The first thing you could try is a fresh install of the plugin (de-activate the plugin, remove it from your plugins folder, download the latest version and install again, as if from scratch).

    Instead of commenting out the line:
    add_action(’wp_print_scripts’,’wp_lightbox_js’);

    You could try removing the line:
    <script type=”text/javascript”
    src=”‘.get_bloginfo(’url’).’/wp-content/plugins/wp_gallery_lightbox/jquery_lightbox/js/jquery-1.2.3.pack.js”>
    </script>

    This may work if your theme, or a plugin you are using, already includes the jquery script.

    I hope this helps…Let me know
    Sam

  • Comment by Jesse
    Date: May 1st, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    Ran into another snafu on the page I previously linked. The very last image is still getting a rel=”lightbox” tag applied to it. I can get around this issue by adding a blank 1×1 gif with an anchor link around it to trick the plugin to applying the rel=”lightbox” tag to that but it is an issue with the plugin that I thought I would bring to your attention.

  • Comment by FruityOaty
    Date: May 2nd, 2008 at 3:08 am

    Hi, thanks for the answer! Deactivated my plugins… and it turns out it’s incompatible with this WP plugin called “Collapsible Elements” (which I definitely must keep)… http://deuced.net/collapsible-elements/

    Oh, well… I guess I have to say goodbye to your excellent Lightbox plugin. :(

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 2nd, 2008 at 10:33 am

    Hi FruityOaty
    Did you try removing the line of code I suggested before? I had a look at the collapsible elements plugin, but couldn’t see any obvious problem that would cause it to clash…

  • Comment by FruityOaty
    Date: May 2nd, 2008 at 9:40 pm

    Hi, yes, I did remove line - same problem. Anyway, everytime I activate only Collapsible Elements with your Lightbox plugin, my blog goes wonky. I isolated incident to these 2 (by turning off all my plugins and testing one by one).

    Anyway, last night I found another Lightbox plugin that doesn’t clash with Collapsible Elements plugin. No problems together. Works fine together. I have Lightbox again. Yey.

    Thanks for the reply. :).

    To be fair, I think the K2 theme (what I’m using) is probably at fault because K2 theme seems to hate a lot of plugins I’ve tested.

    Thanks anyway for your prompt reply. :)

  • Comment by FruityOaty
    Date: May 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    I forgot to mention this (re: your new update today version 1.3) … BTW, when I click “upgrade automatically” (in WordPress 2.51), your installer deletes old folder but writes this to plugins folder: wp-25-gallery-lightbox-plugin/wp_gallery_lightbox

    … instead of just wp_gallery_lightbox. Hence, it doesn’t show up in Plugins screen.

  • Comment by FruityOaty
    Date: May 3rd, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    Sorry, last comment (I hope). Just wanted to inform you that the author of Collapsible Elements responded to my issue inquiry and confirmed there is a clash between the plugins.

    http://deuced.net/collapsible-elements/#comment-7234 (COMMENT #54)

    Long reply, but here’s a clip:
    “when both plugins are activated the “Gallery Lightbox” inserts it’s Javascript files twice, the second one where “Collapsible Elements” sits in HEAD section.”

    Honestly… a bit technical for me… so I’m still in the process of trying to understand the reply.

    Anyway, that’s all. :)

  • Comment by bill
    Date: May 3rd, 2008 at 10:49 pm

    Thanks for providing such a great plugin.
    I have a question when I use WP’s automatic update funtion to update this plugin,it does not works after upgrade.I checked it and found WP downloading a file named “wp_25_gallery_lightbox” and unzipped it under the file folder “plugin”.Only after I moved the folder “wp_gallery_lightbox” to the folder “plugin”,this plugin can works again.
    Please check the reason!

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 4th, 2008 at 11:27 am

    Hi FruityOaty
    I had a read of his reply to you, and also tried his solution. It didn’t work for me either, if I get a chance I will study the code for his plugin in more depth and try to get them to work side by side…as for the auto update problem I am aware of it and in the process of trying to get it solved (it’s to do with how the plugin is listed by wordpress)
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 4th, 2008 at 11:30 am

    Hi Bill
    Glad you like the plugin. I am in the process of solving the auto update problem…sorry for the inconvenience…
    Sam

  • Comment by Kei
    Date: May 4th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    hi sam, it’ll be great if you could help me take a look at what’s wrong? i tried your plugin but it ain’t working out well. appreciate it =)

  • Comment by Pat
    Date: May 4th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    hi, is there a way to open images in lightbox with just a text link (means: no thumbnails)?

  • Comment by mauro
    Date: May 4th, 2008 at 6:29 pm

    I just upgraded to your plugin 1.3 and wordpress 2.5.1.

    The gallery function of worpress does not seem to work with your plugin. Or at least not for me. Any known issue at the moment that might prevent the plugin to work correctly?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 5th, 2008 at 10:10 am

    Hi Kei
    It may be because you are using ‘ in your links instead of ” (see comment by Martin Peine above). It may also be to do with your permalink structure. Try switching to ” in the links and let me know if it still doesn’t work.
    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 5th, 2008 at 10:11 am

    Hi Pat
    Just add rel=”lightbox” to the link like:
    <a href=”example.jpg” rel=”lightbox”

    Sam

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 5th, 2008 at 10:13 am

    Hi Mauro
    Did you ‘auto upgrade’ the plugin? I am trying to solve a problem with that at the moment…If so try downloading the plugin from this page and install manually…
    Sam

  • Comment by mauro
    Date: May 5th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    No autoupgrade, the plugin is correctly installed and visible. It simply does not work with the [gallery] functionality as it should. No errors output, it looks like it has never been installed.

  • Comment by Jeffrey
    Date: May 8th, 2008 at 11:35 am

    Hi Sam
    I’m using your plugin 1.3 and wordpress 2.5.1. Everything is working fine except that the titles all show as “untitled”. Is there something I’m missing out on?
    Thank you in advance.

  • Comment by Nathan
    Date: May 8th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    Dear Sam,
    I’m having a similar problem as Mauro, the gallery function of wordpress does not work with your plugin…However I’m using 2.5.

    Any suggestions / updates?

  • Comment by mauro
    Date: May 8th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    Found the solution:

    In wp-includes/post-template.php, line 390 looks like so:

    return “$link_text“;

    Replace this line with the following:

    //mafro lightbox mod
    list($url, $w, $h) = wp_get_attachment_image_src($id, “full”, $icon);

    return “$link_text“;

  • Comment by mauro
    Date: May 12th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    I fixed the problem but I cannot move from picture to picture while in lightbox mode. The link to ‘next’ does not show at all in the picture.

  • Comment by Mats
    Date: May 13th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    Hi !

    Does this plugin automatically add the tags necessary for the lightbox plugin to work with all my “old” posts aswell. I was using the lightbox plugin before upgrading to 2.5 and now 2.5.1 and it was working fine.

    I can´t get your plugin to work and I can´t figure out what the problem is…

    Any pointers would me much appreciated…

  • Comment by Michael Romero
    Date: May 24th, 2008 at 7:01 am

    I am trying to use this plugin on a page that has a gallery and it’s inserting the js declarations in the header fine, but it’s not adding in the rel=lightbox tags to any of the gallery’s a href tags. I’m using v1.3 on WP 2.5.1 with the K2 theme.

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    Date: June 3rd, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    It’s gorgeous. Very nice.

  • Comment by mores
    Date: June 10th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    I’m using a function in my template’s functions.php file that uses
    wp_get_attachment_link
    to display a post’s attached image.

    THis plugin does not add the necessary rel=… code I’d need to make the image lightboxeable :(

    any ideas?

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  • Comment by Soh
    Date: June 28th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    I paste the rel=”lightbox”, cannot… what happen??
    Try for long time…sad sad sad….

  • Comment by Serpentarius
    Date: July 1st, 2008 at 10:14 am

    i’m using the lastest jQuery core (1.2.6) in my template… i’ve remove the line
    . in ff2, ff3, opera works out fine but Safari keep crashing everytime i click the gallery… can you help me with that? btw i’m using mac

  • Comment by eft0
    Date: July 1st, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    Hey Sam, nice Job, but a question, it work with [gallery] ? Just work with post images, but not when I write in a post [gallery] (every thumb link to a page, i want the ling to lightbox)

  • Comment by will
    Date: July 6th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    Great Plugin

    Question:

    I have photos low down in my side bar, when selected, since page is scrolled down a bit, the “close” option doesn’t appear. Which could be confusing.

    Is there a way to integrate the “close” with the photo (an “x” in the corner or whatever

    cheers

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  • Comment by Nick Prignano
    Date: July 31st, 2008 at 1:04 am

    Doesn’t work for me on WP 2.6. The plugin is working because I see the js files and css included, as well as the rel tag added to the image link… but when i click the thumbnail i get redirected to the full image itself… no lightbox. Please advise.

  • Comment by steve
    Date: August 13th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    agreed on 2.6 breaking the plugin. same symptoms.

  • Comment by aads
    Date: August 21st, 2008 at 11:31 am

    You are the boss .
    =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    thank you very very Much

  • Comment by J Furbish
    Date: September 4th, 2008 at 7:05 am

    Is there a way to get this to display not only the caption, but also the description of the image?

    Other than that I love it!

  • Comment by Richard
    Date: September 6th, 2008 at 11:20 am

    Can you deatil how to convert this to using mootools instead of jquery?

  • Comment by cintia
    Date: September 14th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    yes, plugin no longer works with Wordpress 2.6. First of all, lightbox won’t show up, second it breaks…image is too large.

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    Date: September 19th, 2008 at 4:52 am

    Hi, I found your blog on this new directory of WordPress Blogs at blackhatbootcamp.com/listofwordpressblogs. I dont know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, i duno. Anyways, I just clicked it and here I am. Your blog looks good. Have a nice day. James.

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    Date: September 25th, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    Пока толстый сохнет, худой сдохнет.

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  • Comment by andy
    Date: October 21st, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    I just updated my permalink structure to ‘pretty’ - and now dozens of galleries don’t work because they are looking for the old post name - where can I change this? Thanks in advance…

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    Date: October 29th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

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    Date: November 7th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

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  • Comment by missmaddis
    Date: December 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    Hi. I can not get ANY lightbox to work on my blog and I dont know why. This one doesnt work neither. Can you please help me?

  • Comment by Merlin Silk
    Date: December 19th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    hi - is there a compatibility issue with wp 2.7?

    Cheers
    Merlin

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: December 26th, 2008 at 9:43 pm

    Hi Merlin
    I haven’t tested it yet.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: December 26th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    Hi missmaddis
    Perhaps its a problem with the theme you are using?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: December 28th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    Still Working on 2.7!!!!

  • Comment by jace
    Date: December 28th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    Hello. Sorry if someone else has written this before. There are some bugs (not severe, but very visible) in your lightbox v2.5.

    1st is when opening new picture after page scroll, it’s position is for example half beneath the lower border of the browser window, not when size of the picture other than of the one open before, thus lighbox is reformating itself.

    2nd the black background shows only in upper part of page, it means when a page is with much text in it and it is a bit longer, the background is shown in upper part only and invisible.

    I am using wordpress v2.7 with theme newsprint

    Bye and have a nice day.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: December 28th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    Hi Jace
    What browser are you using? I’m not experiencing those problems…

  • Comment by Sonali
    Date: January 18th, 2009 at 11:42 pm

    Hi I have a very simple problem… How do I get the next and previous buttons to show? I seem to have the plugin working fine in 2.7 but i cant move through the pictures. Any thoughts?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 19th, 2009 at 12:01 am

    Hi Sonali. The previous and next buttons should appear when you move the mouse over the left or right of a photo. Is the lightbox working for all the photos in your gallery? Is there a URL you can send me?
    Sam

  • Comment by erik
    Date: January 25th, 2009 at 12:46 am

    Hi Sam. Love the Plug-In. It does exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the hard work. However, I have a weird issue. The lightbox code is NOT consistently publishing to galleries. Have a look at my site and you will see what I am talking about. What is even odder, is that the posts when previewed as a draft DO have the light box code. Any idea what it could be? Thanks again.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: January 25th, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    Hi erik
    I think the problem is due to the settings for your galleries. In the WordPress ‘Add an Image’ section you need to make sure that the images are set up to link to the ‘File URL’ not the ‘Post URL’. As one of your galleries is working, yet another is not, this is the only possible explanation I can offer…Let me know if this solves the problem?
    Sam

  • Comment by erik
    Date: January 25th, 2009 at 6:20 pm

    I thought it was that too, and made sure that galleries were set to link to the image. The funny thing is, if I disable the plug-in they all link to the image. If the plug-in is enabled some of them link to a ‘Post Url.’ Thanks for getting back to me. If I figure it out, I’ll let you know.

  • Comment by Steve Taylor
    Date: March 11th, 2009 at 11:07 am

    Thank you so much for the plug in. Using it on WP 2.7 in above site for a friend. Only issue is thet on viewing picture is slightly out of line with the white background - any help apprecaited to get this working as well as it looks. Thanks again.

  • Comment by Kirk
    Date: April 22nd, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    Hi Sam,
    awesome plugin I’ve been searching for! Discovered strange issue - when putting few pix in a post to make some kind of gallery, it plays to open only the last picture. All the previous pix are opening without any Java effect in a new web page.
    Could you please advise what to do?
    Thanks in advance!

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    Date: July 17th, 2009 at 12:00 am

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    Date: September 2nd, 2009 at 2:38 pm

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    Date: September 18th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

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  • Comment by Wordpress Eklentileri « www.hakanersoy.org
    Date: December 25th, 2009 at 10:18 pm

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    Date: January 2nd, 2010 at 12:24 pm

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