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Lightbox Plus Issues

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I know there have been a lot of questions about issues with Lightbox Plus. I’m currently trying to track down the cause for most of them.   I’ll try to answer what I can here and hopefully have some resolution for the other issue soon. I’m working on completing a project that is taking up most of my coding time but as I am going to be using Lightbox Plus in this project I will soon be concentrating effort on improving it and hopefully solving the remaining issues.

A bug was pointed out to me recently that may be causing issues with IE – I’m going to correct that and hopefully that will solve some of the problems people have been having.

Issues with the lightbox tags rel=lightbox not showing up is probably due to the Image Title or Image Caption not being set. Images added prior to LB+ installation may or may not have them. Images added in older versions of WordPress (2.3-) probably won’t have them.

I have just released another version that correct a definite IE error with Lightbox Plus so please let me know if this solves your issue.  It may also correct the issue with the Loading and Close image paths as well.

Get it here: [Download not found]

New Version of FLIR Soon

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I was hoping to have a new version of FLIR out by today but life does that strange thing, you know where it interrupts with programming.

Anyway the new version is just a minor update that fixes a few bugs and adds a few small features and makes it a little more WordPress 2.7 friendly.

I need to finish up a few things then do some browser testing.

The changes should be as follows:

  • Set the tags used by the Automatic method to follow the element types as defined in the configuration
  • Add checkbox to allow the use of external JavaScript libraries – jQuery, Scriptaculous and Prototype support only
  • Hide Elements to Replace section when using Automatic method as it is not used in that case.
  • Add checkbox to disable FLIR for IE6 users to to various problems, may expand to disable for older browsers in general.
  • Fix the global Use FancyFonts not showing it’s activated.
  • Other minor interface fixes.

FLIR for WordPress 0.8.0

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I am in the process of testing version 0.8 of FLIR for WP.  Assuming all goes well it should be released tomorrow sometime.  Here are some of the key changes:

  • Updated Facelift to 1.2 release
  • Rewrote code for better readability and adherence to code conventions (hopefully)
  • Redesigned admin interface to be more logically organized (again, hopefully)
    • Added more helpful information to the configuration text.
  • Added ability to specify all elements to replace rather than just the few I had.
    • For example you can specify something like h1,h2,div#sidebar a to have your h1, h2 headers and all of the sidebar links replaced.
  • Fixed config-flir.php from being replaced or not present.
In the meantime you can visit the Facelift Image Replacement (FLIR) for WordPress page for more information.

WordPress Developer’s Toolbox

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Smashing Magazine has a very lengthy article they published recently called WordPress Developer’s Toolbox and it’s pretty impressive as well as exhaustive.  I’m probably going to pull all the resources apart and sling them into a set of toolbox pages with additional information as I can provide here.  I’d really like to see the thing pulled apart and repurposed as a PDF but it’s a lot of resources.

This site looks awful in IE 6, but FLIR works

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I haven’t checked this site in IE 6 since I re-themed it and man it looks bad.  Maybe it’s because it’s running a virtual machine – I hope that’s the reason but I wish IE 6 would just go away and die.  But really why not take it a step further and wish that Microsoft would make browser that were standards compliant.  So sorry IE 6 users is this site looks bad you might want to use Firefox, Opera or Safari.

Lightbox Plus and FLIR, Projects and Frameworks

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I’ve got a whole lot on my plate and development efforts for Lightbox Plus, FLIR for WordPress and Actionable are going to have to go on hold for a bit.  I’m going to try to push out another release of Lightbox Plus either tonight or tomorrow then after that I probably won’t even be able to provide much in the way of support for about a week and a half.  I’ve got to literally cram a 3-4 week project into 3-4 days.  I’m not looking forward to it.  Then I’m going out of town for about five days for a much needed escape.

To get the project I need to finish out done by Thursday of next week I’m looking at some frameworks for PHP though I’m not sure they wouldn’t just slow me down.  Ideally they shouldn’t and right now I’m trying to decide between CakePHP and Symfony.  Both are good but it’s pretty much going to be whichever I can pick up on quickest tomorrow or Sunday night.

After I get back from being away I will still have more to do on the project but I should hopefully be able to put some time into the plugins – at the very least I should be able to do some support.  I hope everything doesn’t go to hell in a handbasket while I’m gone.

FLIR for WordPress

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Not long ago I ran across some a set of scripts (JavaScript/PHP) called Facelift which is an alternative to sIFR and I thought this needs WordPress plugin to make it easy for people to use with WordPress.

So I downloaded it and created a plugin from it.  Since then – Sunday – it’s proven extremely popular.

A lot of people seem to be having some issues with it and I think the bulk of them come down to two things:

First you need to have the GD Graphics Library built into your PHP installation.  This is probably the main contributor to the problem.  The second issue is probably not having your cache folder for the plugin be writable.  I’ll be glad to help anyone – within reason – get these issues resolved.

I am pretty much constantly trying to work on this plugin to get it up to version 1.0.0 – it currently sits at 0.5.5 and as such is functional but incomplete.

You can get it from Facelift Image Replacement and you can get support at Mawhorter.net Forums or via commenting on the plugin page.

End of Life for PHP 4

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Today is 8/8/8, which is interesting for a few reasons, one of which is that it marks the end of PHP 4. What does this mean? It means yesterday’s release of 4.4.9 is the final release of PHP 4. More information can be gleaned from the mailing list archives, beginning with Derick’s request to drop support:

I am trying to gauge what people feel about dropping support for PHP 4 at the end of this year.

Derick caveated his suggestion with the idea of continuing to publish new releases that address security vulnerabilities. Rasmus didn’t see the point:

I don’t really understand what dropping support means if we will still release security fixes. That’s the mode we have been in for at least a year, so what would change at the end of the year?

He suggested a stronger stance:

I’d be more in favour of a statement that put a final death date on it which means no new releases of any sort. We could still say security-fixes only by the end of the year and then death by 08/08/08 or something like that.

So, here we are. PHP 4 is dead. Long live PHP.

Read More at Chris Shiflett: End of Life for PHP 4

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