My NextGen gallery kept vanishing on my WordPress frontpage. It did not show as long as the page was set to front page, as soon as I picked a different front page, the images reappeared. Even when I changed the theme, the gallery disappeared.
I checked and rechecked the source code, but what I apparently missed was the gallery being wrapped in auto excerpt tags:
<!-- Begin :: Generated by Easy Custom Auto Excerpt --> <div class="ecae"
Polypager’s strength clearly was in handling the database – it has foreign key capability and without the faintest complaint, Polly will display any mysql-database it is being fed. However, it was never built with serving images as a central part in mind. There is a gallery plugin in place, but my desires soon surpassed the capabilities.
Zenphoto in turn is fantastic in handling text and images (and video by the way, which surprisingly posed the biggest hurdle in wordpress – the other was 301, but in the end Tony McCreath’s redirect generator helped). The problem with zenphoto is more an aesthetic one as the available skins are limited and don’t really meet my expectations. The one I hacked together unfortunately »grew organically« over the years until recently it gracefully started falling apart.
Thus, today I make the move to WordPress and while I am at ease parting from Zenphoto, leaving Polly behind really hurts. So, thanks Nic for developing it and having me aboard, because in the process, I learned many a thing about distinguishing sensible feature requests from the other ones, about version management using svn and git, and also, in 2008, about how it feels to be at the receiving end of a proper hack.
After an earlier failed attempt at owncloud 4 I’m prety happy with OC 5 now and succesfully sync contacts, calendars and some files in between
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Then, for the actual rule there’s a lot of generally helpful stuff out there – only it didn’t help me:
My task was to replace a chunk from a dynamic URL and leave unchanged whatever was before or after this chunk.
The example was the page you’re reading at the moment. It used to be called »Recettes« and I wanted to rename it to »Recipes«.
The overview was reached through http://www.brasserie-seul.com/?Recettes, but this article had the URL http://www.brasserie-seul.com/?Recettes&nr=60. In addition this page has groups, so there is also http://www.brasserie-seul.com/?Recettes&group=web, […]group=ubuntu etc.
It took me literally hours of research, until I finally found Carolyn Shelby’s very helpful article. Her code took me almost there:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)Recettes(.*)$
RewriteRule ^$ Recipes? [R=301,L]
This would take any URL containing the string »Recettes«, no matter where in the url it was, replace it with »Recipes« – and loose everything that followed. Now, Carolyn’s last example contains something she could have been doing if her strings were consistent:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}
New XAMPP
[update 2011-11-10] Both this and Nic’s article have been featured on tt-rss’ project site. There are a bunch of other interesting and useful articles, too, so check it if you’re interested in tt-rss. [/update]
A while ago, Google updated their reader, killing one of the best features: sharing. I looked around a bit for a suitable alternative and in the end settled with tiny, tiny rss.
Advantages:
Nic, who thankfully came up with this great alternative, has a more techno-philosophical article on the switch.
Some minor issues I had while installing:
Problem: during installation I got the fatal error
php.ini: open_basedir is not supported
Solution: Open <tt-rss-root>/sanity_check.php and find the entry Update: in recent versions it’s in <root/include>
if (ini_get(“open_basedir”)) { $err_msg = “php.ini: open_basedir is not supported.”; }
Comment it out (using // at the start of each line).
All credit and a major hat tip goes to demaya.
[update 2011-11-22:]
Solution 2: see here (thanks to Reperiam for his comment below pointing it out.)
[/update]
Problem: In Goolgle Reader I had organised my feeds in folders, they were gone in tt-rss
Solution: Before importing, go to preferences in tt-rss and enable feed categories
Problem: On importing the OPML I had a timeout in Firefox and the following error in Chrome:
Exception: TypeError: Cannot read property ‘innerHTML’ of null Function: opmlImportComplete()
TypeError: Cannot read property ‘innerHTML’ of null
at opmlImportComplete (http:///prefs.js?1320259102:791:35)
at HTMLIFrameElement.<anonymous
(http:///prefs.php:1:141)
at HTMLIFrameElement.onload
(http:///prefs.php:2:4)
Solution: Ignorance. Apparently it’s not a tt-rss problem but one of the browser, so just ignore it.
Just make sure that on your server