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Neil Simon replied on February 06, 2009 07:38 to the problem "plugin not working on WP2.7 - all content disappears!" in DandyID:

Jack,

After much testing, here's what I observed.

When browsing your site (http://www.jacklenk.com/blog/) with Internet Explorer 6 -- it renders properly.

When browsing with Firefox 3.0.5 and Safari 3.2.1 -- the content disappears.

I think this *might* be a theme problem with Grid Focus.

I submitted a report detailing this on the Grid Focus site (http://5thirtyone.com/grid-focus). Hopefully we'll get a reasonable response back from them.

The plugin seems to work properly across several hundred blogs currently, including 2.6 and 2.7 installations.

I'll post something here as soon as I hear back from Grid Focus.

Thanks, Neil

Neil Simon replied on February 06, 2009 04:46 to the problem "plugin not working on WP2.7 - all content disappears!" in DandyID:

Thanks Jack... I'm looking at it now.

Neil Simon replied on February 06, 2009 01:25 to the problem "plugin not working on WP2.7 - all content disappears!" in DandyID:

Jack,

You mentioned that you were able to get the code working in a text widget.

Can you please provide:
1) The exact code snippet you were able to get working.
2) Where you pasted it (was it in sidebar.php?)

Thanks, Neil

Neil Simon replied on February 06, 2009 01:02 to the problem "plugin not working on WP2.7 - all content disappears!" in DandyID:

Hi Jack,

I'm Neil, the plugin author. I would like to help you with this and make it work for you.

I'm unable to reproduce this problem on my test blog:

Blog site ... http://drsarablog.com
WordPress ... 2.7
Theme ... Thesis 1.3.2
DandyID Plugin ... 1.3.0

Are you running the DandyID 1.3.0? (1.2.9 had a small issue that could have caused the problem you reported)

Our plugin requires cURL to be installed on your server. Can you verify that it's installed? If it's not, instructions for installing cURL are at: http://php.net/manual/en/curl.setup.php

I'll do whatever I can to help.

Thanks, Neil

Neil Simon replied on February 04, 2009 06:34 to the problem "Can't get DandyID to work on Wordpress 2.7" in DandyID:

Thanks for letting us know... and thanks again for your help.

Neil

Neil Simon replied on February 04, 2009 04:06 to the problem "Can't get DandyID to work on Wordpress 2.7" in DandyID:

Andrew,

I'm glad you were able to get it working. It looks nice on your blog.

Can you let us know what was wrong? That way, we can help others if they run into this same thing.

Thanks again! Neil

Neil Simon replied on February 03, 2009 23:52 to the problem "Can't get DandyID to work on Wordpress 2.7" in DandyID:

Hi Andrew,

If, according to your original post, you were able to get this working (entering the code as a text widget), and your services were appearing in your sidebar -- curl would, in fact, be working.

I just released a new version (1.2.9) of the plugin to solve some display issues that were recently reported. Can you possible try the new version, and let us know how that works for you?

I'm not aware of any specific issues with WordPress 2.7 -- at least for now.

Thanks again -- we want to make this work for you.

Regards, Neil

Neil Simon replied on February 03, 2009 23:20 to the problem "Can't get DandyID to work on Wordpress 2.7" in DandyID:

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for reporting this.

One idea to try.
- Deactvate the plugin.
- Reactivate it.
- Go to Settings -> DandyID Services.
- Enter your settings (please be sure that your DandyID email address is correct), and press Save.

That will cause your DandyID services to be refreshed into the WordPress database.

Please let us know if that works for you.

Best regards, Neil (plugin author)

Neil Simon replied on January 27, 2009 01:06 to the idea "Idea for the WP plugin." in DandyID:

Hi Shawn,

Thanks for this request. For now, we are interested in adding sites that users request. If you know of one that you would like, please let us know and we'll add it.

Thanks, Neil

Neil Simon replied on January 27, 2009 01:04 to the idea "Please add Imeem" in DandyID:

Added. Thanks, Neil

Neil Simon replied on January 23, 2009 17:04 to the idea "Adding bambuser.com?" in DandyID:

Added. Thanks, Neil

Neil Simon replied on January 23, 2009 17:03 to the question "Can you add this site to the list of profile sites?" in DandyID:

Added. Thanks, Neil

Neil Simon replied on January 18, 2009 19:39 to the problem "ughhhhhhhhhh" in DandyID:

WOW... that looks really nice! I'm so glad you got this working!

If you are comfortable sharing your code, I'll be sure to place it in the FAQ and give you proper credit for this contribution.

Thanks again, Neil

Neil Simon replied on January 18, 2009 19:29 to the problem "ughhhhhhhhhh" in DandyID:

I just took a look -- it looks like you're getting really close with the css.

When you get it looking the way you want, would you please share the css here? I can also publish your css on the plugin site at WordPress, in the FAQ section. This will certainly be helpful to others.

Thanks, Neil

Neil Simon replied on January 18, 2009 18:42 to the problem "ughhhhhhhhhh" in DandyID:

One more thing Shawn,

If you decide to use the styling elements, please download the latest version of the plugin 1.1.9 (or later). I made a few updates to support these elements.

Thanks, Neil

Neil Simon replied on January 18, 2009 18:36 to the problem "ughhhhhhhhhh" in DandyID:

Hi Shawn,

Thanks for this detail.

This line of code -- in sidebar.php -- should be all that is required:

<?php dandyIDServices_buildTable (); ?>

What happens when you include that line in the sidebar.php ?

* * *

The css should not need any updates at all. Optionally, there are 2 styling elements that can be used:
- dandyIDSidebarIdentities
- dandyIDSidebarPoweredBy
...but, these are not required at all.

One example of using these elements in your css file would be:

#dandyIDSidebarIdentities {
font-weight: bold;
}

#dandyIDSidebarPoweredBy {
font-size:.50em;
}

Thanks, Neil

Neil Simon replied on January 18, 2009 04:17 to the problem "ughhhhhhhhhh" in DandyID:

Thanks Augustson for reporting this. If possible, can you provide a link to your blog -- with the DandyID plugin enabled. I can take a look at it and try to see what is happening.

Thanks, Neil

Neil Simon replied on January 12, 2009 17:08 to the problem "DandyID plugin on WordPress 2.7 doesn't work at all" in DandyID:

Emmanuel, thanks for taking the time to explain this. This helps my understanding so I can help others with this. Neil

Neil Simon replied on January 11, 2009 22:51 to the problem "DandyID plugin on WordPress 2.7 doesn't work at all" in DandyID:

Hi EViollet,

I'm glad you were able to get this working.

Just curious (so I can help others in the future):
1) How did you know you were missing php-curl?
2) What did you do to get the php-curl working?
3) Are you running your blog on Linux or Windows?

Thanks, Neil

A comment on the problem "comment link on post not showing" in IntenseDebate:

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your help -- but I'm still seeing the problem on all 3 posts in IE.
In Firefox v3, however, all comment links are appearing properly at the bottom of each post.

In IE 6, the 1st 2 posts show blank links, the 3rd post shows correctly.
In IE 7 -- at least one of the posts showed a blank link.
Again, the blog page is at: http://www.mainwaypc.com

Any more ideas?
Thanks, Neil – Neil Simon, on July 03, 2008 14:18