The Loop

7:06 AM

Updated my lastest question.

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Ok so i have my mu setup with subdomains and need a subdomian to point to a different path. My issue is when i add the vhost file it loads before wordpress and loads it path for everything that does not have an assigned path in my vhosts config. But if i load after wordpress domain install then i...

Jan Fabry

8:17 AM

Do we have an easy explanation of how to get a stack trace on shared hosting?

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Q: Illegal offset type in get_post_type_object()?

I'm getting the following warning in my WP admin custom posts listings page (wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=video) Warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty in wp-includes/post.php on line 817 I'm running WordPress v3.1.3 (latest). Line 817 is in the function get_post_type_object() . A sear...

custom-post-types errors

toscho

@JanFabry Doesn’t the debug bar offer this?

Oh, good morning. Where are my manners?

Jan Fabry

I don't think it gives you full stack traces, only the standard error message

toscho

Sorry, I meant Debug Bar.

Jan Fabry

Ah, that is possible

Anyway, we could use a "canonical" answer like that

toscho

wordpress.org/extend/plugins/timber

> Timber is a general-purpose error-logging and alert system for WordPress. It traps and catalogues PHP errors at multiple levels, and provides detailed stack trace and debug information.

But yes, a native answer here would be fine.

Brady

8:29 AM

morning all

toscho

Many old questions from StackOverflow are just vanished.

Hm … that’s not a good sign.

Start here and go backwards. Many links point to dead ends.

Jan Fabry

Those were from "the early days", when they were not so strict

And "fun" questions were allowed more than they are now

toscho

But they existed when I joined SO last year.

And what happened with the rep?

Jan Fabry

Probably gone when it is recalculated

Maybe some of them got moved to Programmers?

toscho

@JanFabry But aren’t moved questions usually redirected?

Morning @Rarst

Rarst

8:43 AM

hi...

Jan Fabry

8:58 AM

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Q: Getting a stack trace when an error occurs?

I was told to "get a stack trace" when an error occurs in my WordPress installation. How do I do this? This is meant to be an easy place to refer others to. Please list plugins, configuration settings, PHP modules... that can do this. Consider that the user might be on a shared host, might want ...

development debug

Maybe should be community wiki, but please add your answers so we can refer to it when someone posts an incomplete error message

toscho

9:09 AM

Fixing the mess the visual editor creates is not fun.

<p style="text-align: left">

WTF?

I should just write a plugin that hooks into pre_save_post and runs the cleaning …

Jan Fabry

9:30 AM

@toscho How many times did you click that "align" button? You should not confuse the visual editor!

toscho

@JanFabry I didn’t! I don’t even use it. But my client did … very often.

spartacus

9:59 AM

morning all

toscho

Morning @anu

Ah … damn, you’re spartacus.

:P

spartacus

24 days left till i can change back to @anu !

in the meantime...*coughs* I'm Spartacus

toscho

The funniest part is: there is no other Spartacus.

spartacus

@toscho isn't there a little spartacus inside us all....

toscho

@spartacus No, not in me. That would be incompatible with my inner Homer Simpson.

spartacus

10:07 AM

i say spartacus, you say d'oh. we're really the same, you and i

toscho

@spartacus If you had just a tiny bit from me, you were still @anu.

spartacus

:)

toscho

Well, that’s the kind of question I would love to exclude per FAQ:

-1

Q: How to "Custom Post Type" as a non-programmer?

I need to create a Wordpress Custorm Post Type with the following fields, I am not a developer and would appreciate a cut and paste. The Fields are: Contact Person, Address, Telephone, Cellphone, Fax, Email, Website HELP

custom-post-types

It wouldn’t help, of course, these people don’t read FAQs.

spartacus

10:22 AM

@toscho i didn't hate that question, i think i answered it actually

toscho

@spartacus But asking for cut&paste code?

spartacus

@toscho true - but just because he asked, doesn't mean he gets!

toscho

@spartacus I am offended already by the question.

spartacus

@toscho I can see why - for some reason that didn't upset me much (unlike an average Scott B or janochen question)

Rarst

I worship @Jan for this answer

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A: pass object/JSON to wp_localize_script

Indeed, wp_localize_script() is simple, it just adds quotes around the values and escapes the content, expecting all of them to be strings. However, there is the l10n_print_after key of the array, which will be printed without any interference at all. It can be used to execute arbitrary code aft...

toscho

10:28 AM

@spartacus Have you seen his other questions?

@Rarst Yeah, cool. +1

spartacus

@toscho looking now - nothing too horrible IMO - but that's just me - it's interesting how different questions and people annoy us!

toscho

@spartacus Yes, it could be worse. But it looks as if he doesn’t even try to find a solution per Google.

I forgive a lot. But laziness offends me.

spartacus

@toscho i agree with that statement - I'd love to have a flag for "should have googled this first", which only gets unset once the OP has demonstrated some independence! BUT non-use of Google is massive problem here, not just for that question.

toscho

10:45 AM

@spartacus In a German developer forum we have one rule for questions. First tell us what you have tried already and what didn’t work.

I f we could make this mandatory here the whole WPSE would be more fun. At least for me. :)

spartacus

@toscho great rule. and i completely agree/

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Q: Remove .svn folders

Hi I am using SVN while developing a WordPress site, now I want to upload it to the server and there are loads of svn files sitting in .svn folders. Are these safe to remove and how do I remove them? Thanks

subversion

is the kind of question that annoys me

lazy AND offtopic

toscho

@spartacus Yeah, I hesitated to post the answer: find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf.

spartacus

@toscho or tar --exclude-vcs (although to be fair that doesn't work on OS X)

toscho

If he is using SVN for development he knows export already. But he didn’t tell us why he doesn’t want it.

spartacus

@toscho i'd make a fairly large bet that he has no clue about svn export. He'll be running Windows and using TortoiseSVN and not really have a clue

toscho

10:58 AM

We all started with questions we find embarrassing now. :)

spartacus

@toscho yea - my first one was a simple one about pagination - it's actually a bit scary how much I've learnt in the last few months through participating here (both by asking questions, and by finding answers to questions i thought were interesting)

toscho

I just searched for my first WordPress question in a forum.

I couldn’t log in after upgrading from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4. :)

Hm … Akismet is missing more and more spam.

I smell Yahoo!

Brady

surly:

    a, a:link, a:active, a:visited, a:hover {
        color: #fff;
    }

is not more specific than:

header nav ul li a {
    color: #414042;
}

so why is my font remaining white?

toscho

11:13 AM

@Brady It is. classes and pseudo classes are always more specific than simple element selectors.

spartacus

@brady htmldog.com/guides/cssadvanced/specificity

selectors = 1, classes = 10, id = 100 - highest sum wins

toscho

@spartacus No, it is not an addition.

spartacus

@toscho really? i always thought it was

toscho

30 classes aren’t more specific than one id.

Think in separated values.

spartacus

ah ok, you're right - it's like a mask...

Brady

11:18 AM

Ive fixed it by placing an ID on the UL

spartacus

another piece of misinformation in my brain is forcibly ejected

toscho

@Brady Use a class. Always use the lowest value that works.

Brady

a class would be pointless

toscho

Why?

Rarst

hmmm... is there no easy way to query title or content by LIKE? that was implemented for custom fields, makes as much sense for more simple cases

Brady

11:20 AM

cannot argue that now. too much work to do. you win

Maugly

The Greatest Challenge for you! Found New Things and Become a Great Founder!

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/19102/how-to-get-recent-post-from-each-category-with-thumbnail-great-challenge-waiting

:D

Sorry for interrupting. It just made me laugh...
Have a great day people!

toscho

@Rarst Look into the code for search. It should be there … somewhere.

Rarst

search does like, but it does it for title and content - then you need to mess with *_where filters to cut unnecessary parts

spartacus

a load of questions on the front page are highlighted for some reason - anyone else seeing this?

Brady

anyone know how to get IE6 and IE7 to use border bottom on inline element

Rarst

11:30 AM

@spartacus I was told that is your favorite tags or somethings... but I only had it for a day and then it went off...

spartacus

@Rarst yea i checked - I don't have any fave tags. trying to work out if there's a pattern...nothing obvious.

@spartacus is distracting himself

Brady

nvm i got it. trigger hasLayout with zoom:1

toscho

Our tags are obscure.

custom-post-types but custom-taxonomy – note the difference?

They are not predictable.

Rarst

11:47 AM

@toscho plural form is mostly preferable, I have a topic on meta where you can post which tags should be fixed

Brady

1:31 PM

**** i just lost the game

kaiser

1:50 PM

Hi @All

@Brady Ad Borders & IE) Have you tried to add zoom: 1 to those elements?

Brady

already fixed it by using zoom:1

i did say in my reply :P

hi btw

kaiser

Oh :)

You should use blueprint css anyway :)

spartacus

2:24 PM

@kaiser i've heard a bit about blueprint - what do you like about it - i'm way way behind on css frameworks

Brady

2:45 PM

yey icecream for everyone

@jan how did ur bbq go other day?

kaiser

3:04 PM

@spartacus First you can stop thinking about most of the browser compat stuff. Second working with a 24-cols grid is pleasure: everything's possible. Third: You got a ruby script to get every col width you need.

spartacus

3:43 PM

@kaiser thanks - def something i'll look into

kaiser

@spartacus If you need help, just ask. A good started can be found on my github page

spartacus

@kaiser - cheers - looking at the blueprint repo now

Avry

@kaiser I just saw your reply. I'm not sure exactly what comment that Rarst made that you're referring to... are you talking about the one that starts with "chat is a tool for loosely related discussion..."?

kaiser

@Avry Yes

Avry

@kaiser fair enough...

kaiser

3:51 PM

@Avry Didn't meant to be harsh, but i happens often and the main WA site is exactly for that (asking Qs), so just put it there an you'll likely get an answer. :)

(We even got a live feed in here for new Qs).

Avry

@kaiser It's not harsh. I get it. (And I've got really thick skin.) :)

Jan Fabry

4:16 PM

@Brady It was good, thank you. Next one planned for Sunday - but the weather forecast is not so great

Brady

good stuff

u working today?

Jan Fabry

A little bit :-)

I still need to investigate the answers to my bounty question, it ends in 4 hours

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Q: Wordpress: Can I add categories/tags to all sites in my network at once?

I've installed Wordpress 3.1.2, and have enabled the multi-site network. Each employee in my department can now have their own company blog. I was hoping to provide a bunch of pre-defined categories & tags for all the sites in the network for consistency between the blogs. It would be grea...

tags categories multisite

kaiser

Classics

Brady

4:33 PM

anyone know of a tool where i can create my own easing function.

I want to move something that in a way that default easing wont cover

kaiser

4:58 PM

Sorry, not the jQuery Guru...

Somebody knows why my selected or selected="selected" doesn't work (everything seems to be ok): i.imgur.com/92HPD.png

Brady

why is firebug showing selected=""

gtg its home time

have a good weekend all

kaiser

@Brady That's firebug. And that's why i added the sourcecode window

And have a nice weekend

kaiser

5:41 PM

Aaah! #wpcontent select: height: 2em;! No wonder nothing shows up. Which [***] wrote this to be the native standard!?!

Jeff

5:54 PM

hey guys i have a quick question

kaiser

@Jeff Say

Jeff

6:33 PM

I'm trying to display attachments for a post inside wp_query

using $args = array( 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'numberposts' => -1, 'post_status' => null, 'post_parent' => $post->ID);
$attachments = get_posts($args);
if ($attachments) {
foreach ( $attachments as $attachment ) {
echo apply_filters( 'the_title' , $attachment->post_title );
the_attachment_link( $attachment->ID , false );
}
}

but im getting nowhere

nothing shows

echoing $post->ID shows nothing

i tried get_the_id();

kaiser

@Jeff Please ask the Q at the main site

@Jeff And here and here are two helpers for debugging

Rarst

7:27 PM

can't... answer... questions... WP part of my brain was drained for today :(

Jeff

@kaiser what is this chat for then?

toscho

May 26 at 9:19, by Rarst

chat is a tool for loosely related discussion and community hanging out, it's not a pool of 24/7 experts to instantly answer questions. If you have a considerable quesiton and you need it answered your first step should be posting question on site. Then you can drop by chat with link and ask if anyone interested in answering and such.

Rarst

see top pinned message to the right :)

Jeff

it's a general query

about a wordpress function

kinda sad you cant talk about wordpress issues in a wordpress chat

Rarst

not really general - it's chunk of code with broken loop that can be messed up in a million ways...

toscho

7:31 PM

@Jeff If someone else has the same question we have to repeat our answer. That’s why I don’t answer such questions in chat anymore.

Rarst

think of a chat as recreational area - the topic is still WP, but it's about interesting parts, not more work

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Jan Fabry

8:05 PM

OK, bounty time! What question deserves a bounty?

kaiser

@JanFabry "Why do i now have ants in my bathtub?"

I offer a bounty worth all my reputation...

Jan Fabry

[closed] Too localized

Or [migrated] to diy.stackexchange.com?

kaiser

Migrate to: "How-do-i-get-rid-of-the-insane-guy-in-the-flat-beyond-me.stackexchange.com".. i guess they come through the air channels

:)

I'd say offer some on a tricky Transients API or Settings API Q

Or on one of @toscho unanswerable Qs

Jan Fabry

For the ants: little cups with cola and dish detergent gets rid of them

Maugly

@kaiser you are late for the party: R.I.P.

Jan Fabry

8:11 PM

@kaiser On the WordPress or the German site?

Maugly

area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/28266/…

Jan Fabry

My German rep is too low to give out bounties :-)

Maugly

seems that bugs were not really welcomed in the network...

kaiser

@Maugly ?

@JanFabry On WA/WPSE

Wish you all a nice night!

Jan Fabry

Good night

Time to go to bed here too

I'll pick a question tomorrow

Suggestions always welcome

Maugly

8:17 PM

@kaiser There has been a proposal for bugs insects spiders etc site at are51.stackexchange.com.

didn't make it though

Good night!

Jan Fabry

8:28 PM

Oh @Maugly, silly me, I did not even realize until now that you wrote that plugin to sync taxonomy terms

Does it do a "any-site-to-any-site" sync, or is it from the "main" site to other sites?

That was not yet clear to me

Anyway, see you all tomorrow!

Jeff

do you guys know of an easy plugin that lets you swap themes

like click a link done

Feeds

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Q: Problems commenting or accepting answers

Is anyone having the same issue I am with not being able to comment on folks' answers to my questions. I cannot accept answers either. Also, there is no CSS rendering for the interface for me, making it very difficult to find my way around. Also, I'm unable to find a relevant tag which puts th...

discussion support feature-request bug

xLRDxREVENGEx

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Q: Wordpress MU subdomain vhost

Ok so i have my mu setup with subdomains and need a subdomian to point to a different path. My issue is when i add the vhost file it loads before wordpress and loads it path for everything that does not have an assigned path in my vhosts config. But if i load after wordpress domain install then i...

multisite network domain-mapping subdomains virtual-hosts

Can someone look at the updated question

Maugly

10:57 PM

@JanFabry "any-site-to-any-site" worked fine for me :)

@JanFabry and it doesn't really sync. it's a simple one really.

xLRDxREVENGEx

11:46 PM

Ahhh i hate it when people ask for help and it goes forever with comments and then they delete it

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