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Finishing the site, will take a little while longer.

Patriek Jeuriens — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:30:06 +0000

I’ve been finishing up the details of the site a lot of work has to be done still but it’s getting there. This will also be the first running my new ajax framework, it still has issues but the bulk of it is done. Main thing lacking is searching through media. Which is giving me a lot of headaches, but it’ll work eventually. It’s getting awfully complicated though. For now the Ajax Framework includes:

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Ajax Query Albums
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Ajax Ratings

The Ratings are based on the Excellent Plugin KK Ratings by Khamel Kahn. Although it’s completely cannibalized to work with custom database queries and views. Many thanks to Khamel.

Call to undefined function is_rtl() in plugin wordpress 3.3

Patriek Jeuriens — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:22:08 +0000

If you upgraded to wordpress 3.3 you will notice a lot of plugins breaking that have a dashboard functionality. They are using the following code:

wp_admin_css( 'css/dashboard' )

Which stopped working in 3.3. It might happen in other plugins as well if they are using wp_admin_css. My advice would be to hold off on upgrading until they get this sorted out. I don’t have time right now to do this myself.

Plugin Authors: If you are having a problem with your plugin, you can comment the wp_admin_css and do a wp_enqueue_style instead.

Redesign in progress, stuff is broken!

Patriek Jeuriens — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:55:00 +0000

Just doing a short overhaul now that my Diablo site is up and running. Layout is temporary and subject to change. Still need to prune older posts that have stopped working.

Shared database wordpress: Posts table

Patriek Jeuriens — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:42:49 +0000

I was looking for a way to use the same posts table for two seperate WordPress installations. The following will only work if they are using the same database. Turned out to be quite easy. All you have to do is edit the wp-db.php in the includes directory.

In that file locate the following function:

	function tables( $scope = 'all', $prefix = true, $blog_id = 0 ) {
		switch ( $scope ) {
			case 'all' :
				$tables = array_merge( $this->global_tables, $this->tables );
				if ( is_multisite() )
					$tables = array_merge( $tables, $this->ms_global_tables );
				break;
			case 'blog' :
				$tables = $this->tables;
				break;
			case 'global' :
				$tables = $this->global_tables;
				if ( is_multisite() )
					$tables = array_merge( $tables, $this->ms_global_tables );
				break;
			case 'ms_global' :
				$tables = $this->ms_global_tables;
				break;
			case 'old' :
				$tables = $this->old_tables;
				break;
			default :
				return array();
				break;
		}

		if ( $prefix ) {
			if ( ! $blog_id )
				$blog_id = $this->blogid;
			$blog_prefix = $this->get_blog_prefix( $blog_id );
			$base_prefix = $this->base_prefix;
			$global_tables = array_merge( $this->global_tables, $this->ms_global_tables );
			foreach ( $tables as $k => $table ) {
				if ( in_array( $table, $global_tables ) )
					$tables[ $table ] = $base_prefix . $table;
				else
					$tables[ $table ] = $blog_prefix . $table;
				unset( $tables[ $k ] );
			}

			if ( isset( $tables['users'] ) && defined( 'CUSTOM_USER_TABLE' ) )
				$tables['users'] = CUSTOM_USER_TABLE;

			if ( isset( $tables['usermeta'] ) && defined( 'CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE' ) )
				$tables['usermeta'] = CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE;
		}

		return $tables;
	}

Now add the following lines above the CUSTOM_USER_TABLE line:

	$tables['posts'] = 'wp_posts';
	$tables['postmeta'] = 'wp_postmeta';

You will need to the change the ‘wp_’ to the prefix you chose at installation time. Now you can edit the same posts in both instances. The following allows you to share taxonomy tables as well:

	$tables['term_taxonomy'] = 'wp_term_taxonomy';
	$tables['term_relationships'] = 'wp_term_relationships';
	$tables['terms'] = 'wp_terms';

And you’ll need to share comments as well ofcourse:

	$tables['comments'] = 'wp_comments';
	$tables['commentmeta'] = 'wp_commentmeta';

Keep in mind that the change will be overwritten anytime you update it. So keep a copy to replace it again. I haven’t noticed any bugs or strange behaviour so far but i’ve only been using it a day or two. This is a hack and thus can cause problems with your installation. Do not attempt this without a backup.

White flash on page loading in WordPress 3.2

Patriek Jeuriens — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:17:42 +0000

I’ve encountered a strange bug, when I active bp_template_pack plugin refreshing the page you get a white flash before the page loads. Disabling it will return everything to normal. At first I thought it was ajax calls but I can’t pinpoint the exact problem. As a workaround I moved the ajax code to my functions.php and included the scripting in my own javascript file. While this works fine, I still would like to new what the exact problem is. Googling it I found a lot of other users having the same problem but no answers.