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Tom J Nowell

17:08

@benlevywebdesign try it and see if it works or not

@benlevywebdesign position relative to the bottom not the top

e.g. instead of top:0; use bottom:0;

Brady

@toscho It's all about the timing ;)

If there are flags when I first sign on in the morning then I deal with.

The rest of the day when I check for flags there never are any

@toscho And regarding the spam account. I got told off by another Mod wink wink for destroying spam accounts. I was told it was better block by IP.

toscho

@Brady I had some debates about that recently with the higher powers. IP bans will not happen anymore, except in some very aggressive cases.

Brady

@toscho OK I will continue with my destructive ways :)

Stephen Harris

17:27

@kaiser Glad you got to the bottom of it :)

kaiser

@songdogtech you're welcome. If it worked for you I'm happy to grab the bounty :)

@StephenHarris Yea, finally. :) Do you think about extending it to handle Tax Archives as well? As in this case, I'd quickly rebuild it and send you a new base.

Michael Ecklund

Hey guys, quick question. I know @toscho Gets mad at me, because I ask a lot of questions in here. I promise it will be a quickie. Simply put, is there any function or class method available for determining the current page path? I know I could just parse the URL for the page path... Just wondering if there was something built in already?

kaiser

@MichaelEcklund get_permalink()

Michael Ecklund

Not quite what I had in mind.

Let's say the site is domain.com/wordpress/about-us/our-team/ /wordpress/ is the sub directory of the installation. Don't care for that. All I'm looking for the the current parent page path, and any ancestor page paths that might proceed afterwards. Ideally, in that situation, would simply return: /about-us/our-team/ and nothing else.

If nothing rings a bell, I will have to rig up something of my own.

Was just curious if something like that already existed.

kaiser

It does. Search for path & URl on main site - dozens of explanations for that.

Stephen Harris

17:38

@kaiser Tax archives? You can already add tax term archives to the menu, can't you?

kaiser

@StephenHarris Ah. Damn. Didn't see that...

@StephenHarris Ehm... no. Still don't see that.

@StephenHarris Well... you have to set show_in_nav_menus ... (face/desk).

Stephen Harris

@kaiser Might be hidden by screen options but if you have a custom taxonomy, it should list the terms in its own metabox...

@kaiser :)

toscho

18:13

writing spiders

userabuser

what a bad edit

toscho

but one person approved it.

userabuser

quite funny.. answer given by low-rep user, edit made by high rep user, one user approves it. The wheels have fallen off :)

kaiser

pretty wired interview with matt m. Quality gets better at ~1:00min

And this is website.

@All Google Maps WebDev API session now live and starting‌.

Rarst

18:40

what's up with WordCamp Europe rumours?

toscho

@Rarst Where did you read that?

Rarst

apparently I am getting people in trouble :) look through my last tweets and around

toscho

@Rarst Looks like you failed to DM your Skype handle. :P

userabuser

@Rarst I saw you blogged about f.lux, cool.. agree about the colour. You need to turn it off you are doing colour sensitive work. Sometimes I forget when I am designing for projects and the results can be way off (clients go wtf?) but otherwise its good

Rarst

@toscho whatever :)

@userabuser I don't do much of designing since I suck at it

userabuser

18:54

then you can leave it on :) except if you ever need to choose something based on colour...

I usually still design with it on, then switch it off at the end for colour adjustment

toscho

Callbacks are the modern goto. I have similar thoughts sometimes when working with WordPress.

When you look at apply_filters('some_string', $my_value ); you never know who will change your value.

userabuser

callback city! I agree

good article btw, good to see thoughts on this kind of stuff... all to often its just "do this...because its the best" without much reason as to why

Stephen Harris

@Rarst - loving your Codex Generator. Hacking it at the moment to auto-generate Markdown documentation for my plugins... while also actually documenting my plugins.... :s

Rarst

@StephenHarris yay!

userabuser

codex gen? why I no hear of this before?

Stephen Harris

19:07

@userabuser wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codex-generator/

mmm... why no link... wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codex-generator

better

userabuser

very nice

kaiser

You all missed a very nice Google Dev Session :)

userabuser

let me summarize it... "We own you."

Rarst

@userabuser stare

userabuser

@Rarst stare two can play at this...

kaiser

19:24

funny way to show code in a question

@userabuser pretty kool visualization. And they also told that the max. nr of points is reached at 245k.

userabuser

haha what?

oh I see what you did there...

distract me so you can get in with your answer on that front end user search question

clever!

@kaiser that code almost has retro feel to it on my screen

more sepia

kaiser

@userabuser U know Im smarrrt ;)

Kool! Made it back into row #2 by overrolling Jan Fabry :)

userabuser

@kaiser yes you are :)

►

kaiser

hehe

userabuser

nice work man

not easy to get up there

Rarst

19:29

dragging myself through wegdev track on codecademy is excruciating...

userabuser

@Rarst What course you doing?

Rarst

@userabuser web fundamentals (completed JS)

userabuser

I find it very hard to watch videos most times... prefer to read

How come you doing that? You not so good on the web side, more technical dev in PHP or?

Rarst

ehm, what videos? codecademy has none

userabuser

@Rarst I thought they had vids... well if its excruciating and its not vids must be horrible then

Rarst

19:32

I tend to shrug learning HTML/CSS properly and that keeps biting me :) also - badges!

userabuser

Ahh you got sucked in by the gamification!

kaiser

User adds bounty, but no explanation - funny!

Rarst

you are confusing it with something else, codecademy is interactive tutorials... mostly because it's boring and there is a lot of code mangling without real IDE

userabuser

thats one step down from a video.. the horror!

Rarst

HTML/CSS is better, JS track had outright crazy amount of typing in it...

well, it's the first thing that got JS into my skull (somewhat)... will see how jQuery goes after I compelte HTML/CSS track

they got form right, it's just that a lot of people did courses and quality kinda floats up and down

userabuser

19:35

everyone learns differently too

For me, I prefer to grab a book and read it from front to back... regardless of whether I understand it all. Then tackle projects or tuts...

...then when that doesn't work out so well I tear up the book or burn it.

Rarst

that gotta be expensive... :)

I have some ebooks queued to read...

userabuser

Yeah I've been banned :)

guys does stack allow for single sign on for external sites? want to integrate wpse user on to my site..

ah yes

Jared

19:52

Just hit 2k reputation :)

userabuser

quit while you're ahead

but well done though :)

Jared

Lol

userabuser

takes a bit of effort unless your Mridul :)

lkraav

20:08

have you guys configured anything special to make your browser create prominent alerts in case of JS errors, when you have consoles closed. i'm mostly on firefox.

Rarst

my stuff usually prominently stops working and sometimes crashes browser

lkraav

:) not for the weak of heart your stuff

Rarst

I JS dangerously...

kaiser

21:30

Anyone ever heard of Shibboleth before?

Rarst

21:48

not me

Michael Ecklund

Anyone interested in working on a BuddyPress website? 2 developer spots open. US based project.

Stack Exchange

22:27

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Q: Answers getting posted as comments

When browsing through the Unanswered Questions section of WordPress SE, I come across an overwhelming amount of supposedly 'unanswered' questions, which have actually have a perfectly reasonable answer posted in the comments, or as part of the question itself. I propose that something be done ab...

feature-request

Pollux Khafra

23:03

@kaiser Can I show you an example of my implementation of the link you provided for get_users? It doesn't work for me.

Stephen Harris

23:16

@kaiser Uni uses it so you can authenticate yourself to a third party site - i.e. one providing online access to journals etc. Don't know much about it though...

Rarst

23:43

apievangelist.com/2012/11/02/… I like how when it's convenient it's linking GPL derivative and when it's not - non-copyrightable free for grabs interface :)

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