Alvaro Degives-Mas
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You know what’s strange? Wordfence now doesn’t throw that error anymore… Oh well.
First!
Well, ok – second then!
Nevermind…
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Rublon Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)] Amazingly simple to install & useThank you for making this service available, and also for extending compatibility to PHP 5.2; Rublon now also works on that server I mentioned above. So, that means most people with sites hosted on Bluehost can use Rublon as well (Bluehost allows selecting for its shared hosting packages among PHP 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 and many people still run 5.2). So, hopefully that’ll make your product an appealing solution to many more people.
I’m not really worried about spam comments (no comments allowed, unless you’re logged in, and you can’t log in, unless you’ve paid up your membership dues) what I am worried about are malbots. Bad Behavior checks, as the name suggests, for suspicious fingerprints in behavior and denies or admits accordingly. Moreover, it checks IPs (via a fast DNS type query) against a blacklist for known bad IPs. Bad Behavior actually works great alongside Akismet; they complement each other well. But like many plugins, you have to know why you use it – and how to set it properly. Anyway…
I noticed that the BB plugin didn’t set WSC to legacy mode on my site, so now that you’ve confirmed that the BB plugin really sets things up as required, I’ll just keep it in PHP mode then.
It’s just that the text next to the BB plugin suggests that it ought to be used in legacy, that is why I asked here.
Thanks again Donncha!
Hi Jason, no – those shouldn’t be cached by CF. And just in case you ask: I already had switched off the W3 Total Cache search results, so it’s not cached there, either.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Conflicts with WIshlist Member and Simple PressYou mean with an absolute degree of certainty applicable to each and every case of WP running on any kind of server and in any combination of other plugins? I’d think you already know the answer to that one: there is no such certainty. What you have are a generous helping of a rule of thumb, served with a pinch of your mileage may vary.
The difference between “forum” and “/forum” and “/forum/” is semantics, and only marginally relevant. In practice, unless you have that word in the slugs of other pages / posts (and the so-called pretty permalinks active) they boil down to the same.
The point is to pick a distinctive partial of a slug that clearly identifies the page hosting the forum; since in most cases the word “forum” is in there, use that. With or without one or both slashes. And arguably, regardless of the type of forum you’re running.
Well thanks for that but my query wasn’t really about CloudFlare’s quasi-CDN (I did say “quasi-CDN” right?) I asked about the interoperability of the Online Backup for WordPress plugin and the CloudFlare service. Their quasi-CDN is just a fringe benefit.
Plain English version: take your gripes about CF to them or in a more appropriate topic.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Theme My Login] Remove Personal Options in User ProfileHip hip hurray for Theme My Login! Thanks Jeff.
Forum: Alpha/Beta/RC
In reply to: Cannot remove admin bar from wp-admin in 3.3Thanks Olyma! Finally got rid of that clutter-magnetic strip. Which suspiciously looks like a copycat of Google’s and Twitter’s and… and… As I strongly suspected, plugin developers can’t help themselves and hungrily jumped on that admin bar like white on rice, and the poor thing predictably grew exponentially over these past weeks with “handy” (and repetitive) plugin shortcuts.
No more. Pity that it takes two plugins to correct the problem in the core but there you are. I’m happy again (until the next “must-have-like-the-others” appears).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Conflicts with WIshlist Member and Simple PressSimple:Press Forum is ALLERGIC to caching plugins à la WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache, because SPF generates all pages dynamically.
Exclude the path to the forum in the W3 settings page via Performance > Page Cache in the “Advanced” box, next to the “Never cache the following pages” input the slug to the forum (if you have a page at the top-level named “forum” just input “forum” but without the quotes.)
Minification of CSS and JS also begs for trouble. So exclude the forum from your cache and you’ll be fine.
By the way: this not really a topic related to W3 Total Cache but to SimplePress. Check their support forum for more info on the caching conundrum.
PS: with regard to the content access management situation, keep in mind that if you ONLY cache for non-logged in users you won’t run into trouble of cached “guest” pages being served to credentialed members. That’s not specific to your membership plugin; it can happen with any membership plugin.
Forum: Alpha/Beta/RC
In reply to: Cannot remove admin bar from wp-admin in 3.3No idea what makes the WP core dev team like the bar. The functionality that is in the admin bar is and has always been in the vertical so I don’t care for its silly duplication. It’s really a pity that the bad idea of adding more clutter is so incredibly persistent, without an option to switch it off. Seriously: the recommendation is to use CSS with display:none?
The WP core team should have thought longer about insisting in propping up that dagnabbed horizontal clutter, or at least include a general off switch (for all users, not the ridiculous per-user of 3.1 and 3.2).
I hope some smart developer comes up with a plugin to get rid of that annoyance, soon.
I’m not sure what a sticky post has to do with it. Simply put, a sticky post is a post that will stay at or near the top of the last published posts. So if you have a “last post” page that you use as the frontpage, your stickied posts will be there.
Now, if you want tabs somehow in there, I’d suggest to put them in a section of the template that is not touched by the posts, stickied or not. That’s what you can arrange within the theme; edit or create a “homepage” page template (and CSS styling) to do what you want it to do, where you want it.
The alternative is to change the architecture: use a “regular” front page and use it to show featured posts in another way, there are tons of featured post plugins out there. Then you can put the tabs wherever you want on that page. Here’s an example: http://www.nitaonline.org
It uses GT Tabs as well as Featured Articles Lite (a featured posts slider plugin) on a “normal” page set as the frontpage. Note: it’s not the aesthetics or design but the functionality, which is why I point to that place.
Actually jason_lane gave you good advice. It’s much easier to add an image through CSS; you need to look at the ID and class (e.g. it’s “GTTabs_curr” if it’s the active tab) and then define a background image.
If all that sounds like gobbledygook, you really want to brush up on basic CSS. Take a look then at the good (and free) resource of W3Schools to become familiar with CSS and its tweaks. Alternatively, get a decently skilled CSS artist to do it for you, which shouldn’t take too much time, depending on what you want.
There’s no singular way of doing things; moreover, CSS is just what it is. Invest some time in mastering it, you’ll get the investment back in spades in the future.
Good luck!
Sure it is. Just edit
GTTabs.phpand tinker with the code to your heart’s content; the code is well documented. Get a PHP coder to help you out if you can’t figure out what you need to do.