Anthology of Ideas

Downloaded and installed AJAXed WP, looks interesting but I have to admit I am a bit lost as to how to use it and what it actually does. Do you have any kind of documentation I can read about this herculean effort?

1. Aaron posted the following on November 13, 2007 at 11:08 am.

   There is a sizable readme, but the biggest help will probably be the little hints inside the Admin panel. (click the [?])

   The documentation is still a work-in-progress, so if you have any questions outside of what the readme answers, I’ll try to explain them the best I can.

   Reply to Aaron

Thanks a million for all your help Aaron.

Green

Done.
Visit WordPress.Mu to see your work, Aaron.
And don’t hesitate to link to our weblog as an example for brilliant use of AJAXed WP

1. Aaron posted the following on February 24, 2008 at 10:34 am.

   Looks good, and good luck.

   With the release of the next version I’m going to try to start a gallery of people who use non-standard installs of AWP. WP.Mu definitely qualifies.

   Reply to Aaron

A very easy hook to everyone who wants to show the real “comment count”, without including trackbacks.

Open /wp-includes/comment.php

Replace
$new = (int) $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '$post_id' AND comment_approved = '1'");
with
$new = (int) $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->;comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '$post_id' AND comment_type = '' AND comment_approved = '1'");

That’s it !
Very useful if you use “separate trackbacks from comments” through this great AWP plugin.

Note: WP stores “comment count” for each post in SQL database. That hook is immediately effective on new posts, and automatically update “comment count” in an older post when someone publish a comment or a trackback.
Should be easy to write a oneshot running script (wp_update_comment_count_in_every_posts) if you want to update the whole blog instantly.

Tested and aproved on WP 2.3.3 with AWP 1.11.1.

Wow, fast reply. Incredible support. Everything is working now. Thanks a lot, even when your plugin was not causing the problem. Be sure I will use PayPal for you in the next days (finishing current month, let me get the money). Thanks a lot again.

Check out your plugin in action, you did a great job :D, but me too. Hope that you’ll put the pagination on comments Here is the link:
http://www.pizza-tm.ro/pizza-la-tino/

Thanks a lot …

If you are using AJAXed WordPress 1.19.2 and the AJAX nav module and are having issues with odd links being displayed, please see this support forum post.

Thanks for the plugin, maybe i’ll translate it to spanish

I’m test this and I very impressed with it!
Thank you very so much and keep the great work. Cheers.

Aaron, Valerie is absolutely right. It would be incredibly useful to let authors (including me) log in and add, edit and manage posts from the front end of the blog, instead of forcing them (and me) to go through the back end process. It would rid everyone of a lot of unnecessary navigation for edits and updates, and getting rid of unnecessary work in a process is always worth a short term effort. For the record, I’d pay for that plugin in a heartbeat, just for the time and effort it would save me.

Also very importantly, it would make it easy for authors to build up blog communities that don’t require lots of training time and support. For instance, I just showed a friend a non-standard way that I use a blog, and he immediately mentioned that an organization he belongs to could really use that for their members. I can have a WP site with a custom theme up in 3 days once I’ve got their needs mapped and their template in hand. But there’s no way a single developer can help a modestly-sized (hundreds of members) organization roll a WP or WP-MU blog site because I’d have to run every user through training on using the backend for posts, and then support them over time too. They’ve got the budget for the site, but not for the training and support (and I don’t have the endless time it would take).

However, if the end-user training consisted of an tutorial email with instructions and a couple of pictures, such as “here’s your blog url, username and password. Click the login link and log in, then click the Add button on the front page, type your post and click Submit” …. that’s a whole WORLD of usability apart from where WP is now. All that backend training and support burden goes away for everyone.

If you need to see demand, how about posting an article that asks the simple Yes - No question-

“Would it be better if you and other authors could add, edit and manage posts on the front end of your site instead of through the Admin panel?”

Actually, just looking at the question, who’s going to say “No” to that? lol

1. mintegral posted the following on June 26, 2008 at 9:29 am.

   I second Valerie and DavidA. What a great idea! I immediately see a huge potential for such a function.

   Reply to mintegral

I enjoyed your page. Keep up the good work! Feel free to visit my page. It\’s cool too.

Hi Aaron.

thank you for your wonderful plugin.

do you have any idea why my comment form stopped working correctly in firefox ?

click on “نظر دارم” to see. if you right-click on any of controls, it works.

is it because of the old version of plugin?

It is compatible will all of the latest WP versions

well, i don’t understand what i was doing wrong - but i couldn’t get this plugin to do a damn thing

after an hour of banging my head on the wall and browsing the quite frankly useless documentation, i give up

for the record - this was with wp2.5.1 with virtually no other plugins active (certainly nothing that should conflict)

Forgot to mention: running on WP 2.5.1.

Btw: if you have a look at my webpage: by default my comment form is open on index.php. if you compare the top comment form with the following you might see that they have a different styling. Do you know why’s that different?

very valuable plugin I think, thanks for sharing

I recently moved from a hosted environment to my own Server. I setup the server so my setup might be different from the hosting environment. All my word-press plugins work, except for AWP which complains with :

Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘AWP_inlineposts::post_paginate’ was given in /var/www/herowner.com/htdocs/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 311

I wonder what that is coming from? Google was not exactly helpful. If you need my php.ini, please let me know.

hey Aaron! long time huh? Guess what, I’ve decided to auto-update… and things got messy - as always =p I lost the commentform I was using, and I have no idea of where it’s gone… if it’s been deleted and all that… it had custom text and didn’t had those formatting buttons…

and yeah, I know I should have posted on the forum, but I forgot my password, and I can’t access personal email at work =( also, that’s why I’m using another email in this comment - if you can answer me on this I’ll be able to read =)

thanks and keep up the great work! as soon as I get my hands on a new card I’ll be sure to make a donation, Ajaxed rlz =D

I like the theme of your blog This is a job well done and this is great advice, Thankyou!