CSS for code: Wrap long lines | Weblog Tools Collection
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If you post code on your Wordpress blog, you could use a code beautifier plugin such as syntax highlighter or you could include your code in <pre> tags.
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I have created a three-level drop-down menu plugin for Wordpress. It uses Stu Nicholl’s final drop-down code which is a complete CSS solution - noFlutter, the “ultimate wordpress CMS” updated
You use Wordpress as a CMS right? And you probably love it, after all what is not to love? It is simple, easy to install, has a huge community base, thousands of plugins and themes… and 2.7’s interface is simply… stunning.
Wordpress is not perfect as a CMS however, and can you blame it? It was designed to be a blogging platform. They must have done something right if Wordpress started as a blogging platform that simply works so well as a CMS.
This could all be part of the past now that Flutter has arrived. Wordpress could easily be a fully extendable CMS with one of the best blogging platforms integrated into it. So many of the minor pitfalls wordpress previously had as a CMS are now gone.
Flutter is not a new plug in by any means. Released around wordpress 2.5, it has had time to pick up a little bit of steam. It seams it never really caught on because despite it’s useful benefits it was confusing and difficult to install and maintain. To wordpresses recent credit, it didn’t solve some of the more confusing “blog focused interface” that 2.5 and 2.6 still had.
However now coupled with 2.7 and a new release of flutter you can now create an amazing full fledged CMS capable of almost anything you can think of.
More About Flutter
Flutter was designed to combat two major issues that Wordpress has when being used to administer and power web sites rather than blogs. Dealing with content that was more than just self formated text and photos, and an easy way to edit complex pages.
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Now days you had better count on the fact that websites are going to be complicated enough where the simple homepage / innerpage templates are not going to be substantial. Websites will have different content types, a home listing, biography, portfolio page, etc… Flutter allows you to create custom write panels for different types of content. The write panels can have text fields, radio buttons, pictures, drop downs, etc… allowing the user to create a page exactly how they want it with out hassel or vast technical knowledge.
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Flutter also lets you specifcy editable regions of a page, like the main content, title, or sidebar. Using a bit of AJAX magic useres who are logged in can navigate to the page they wish to edit through the front end, click an edit button, and begin to edit that section with out even leaving the page.
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The learning curve is well worth it. You can easily expect to save more time than you spend in reduced phone calls and e-mails regarding how to perform specific functions, tasks, or edits in Wordpress.
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I ran into (yet another) Feed Count + Feedburner problem recently, shortly after writing my last article on accounting for Feedburner’s subscriber count mistakes. And since I heard from a few people who are also using the Feed Count plugin, I thought I should share this info.
The Backstory
As I’m sure all you Feedburner users out there are well aware, Google purchased Feedburner quite some time ago. But until recently, that didn’t mean much: the same people were working on the code, your information was stored in the same place and was represented the same way, and so on.
But recently Google has begun bringing Feedburner more fully into the fold. As a result, all Feedburner users are being required to convert their Feedburner accounts into Google accounts. That created quite a few headaches for lots of people (including myself) right off the bat, as it took a good week for Google to nail down my subscriber numbers with any accuracy – one day I would have thousands of subscribers, the next I might have zero, and the day following only a few hundred.
A New Problem
However, even once Google started reporting my Feedburner numbers correctly, I still had a problem: my Feed Count plugin no longer grabbed my subscription statistics. Now, this wasn’t as huge a problem as it could have been, because I had my jQuery Feeburner fix in place… but I still wanted my real subscriber stats back at some point.
After a bit of digging, I found the problem: as part of their conversion from Feedburner to “Google” Feedburner, Google changed the location of their API. Thus, any plugins that used the old Feedburner API ceased functioning once that user’s account was successfully ported to Google.
The Solution
Long-term, the best solution would be for the plugin developers to update and release new versions of their plugins. But as of now, the Feed Count plugin has not been updated – and since it hasn’t seen an update since last July, I’m not going to hold my breath on a new version. So I decided to take matters into my own hands and edit my copy of the Feed Count plugin.
Note: this solution is specific to the Feed Count plugin, but any brave souls out there could probably modify and use this information to update other plugins as well.
I opened up my copy of the Feed Count plugin file (feedcount.php) and found this function:
function mapelli_fc_get_defaults() {
return array(
'map_fc_feedurl' => '',
'map_fc_queryurl' =>'http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=',
'map_fc_lastcount' => 'N/A',
'map_fc_lastupdate' => 0,
'map_fc_updateinterval' => 60, // 1 h
'map_fc_error_updateinterval' => 5, // 5 min
);
}
This function mostly sets all the plugin defaults, but it also sets the “queryurl” – the website that the plugin hits to find your subscriber count information. This URL is not customizable anywhere inside Wordpress, and since this URL has now changed, we’re forced to edit the plugin itself.
All I had to do was change the “map_fc_queryurl” line to read this instead:
'map_fc_queryurl' =>'https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=',
Then I saved the plugin, uploaded it to my server, and my stats started showing up again! However, it’d still recommend putting something like this JavaScript fix in place for those random times when Feedburner drops the ball (and your subscriber count).
Note: Your stats probably won’t start showing up again instantly. You’ll have to wait for the duration of your “update interval,” which can be configured in WordPress under Settings -> Feed Count:
If you’re using a different plugin and have run into this same problem, please give this solution a try and let people know in the comments if it worked. Thanks!
