sIFR, PHP, and More! My WordPress Plugin Competition entries…

I tried your CG-FlashyTitles plugin on WP1.5.1 but it doesn’t work!! I mean I uploaded the cg-flashytitles.php & ’sifr’ directory to the plugins directory & activated the plugin but I don’t see the Plugin page in the Options menu.

can you help?

The menu “FlashyTitles” should be a main-level menu item, not under Options – so if you are looking for it there, yeah, you won’t see it.  Should be a top-level menu heading, and should appear the moment you activate the plugin (i.e., if you go toggle it on and off, the FlashyTitles menu should appear/disappear…).

If not, let me know… I’d have to figure out if 1.5.1 is missing anything that 1.5.1.2 has (which it shouldn’t…). Or what else might keep it from hooking properly.

so I want to use your “inbetween” plugin. But after I put it in the direrctory, activate it, and try to go to the “inbetween” tab I get a response of: “No input file specified.” What am I missing, I even got the right call in the right place.

Help, thanks

Hey
I tried CG- Inbetween but it didnt save the html I added. I recreated the .dat file and gave it 777 permissions but didnt helped either. It adds all but the echoed text. I can offcourse just include a file but it shouldnt be like that in first place.

The samples did got added however.
cheers!

I’ll be putting up fixed CG-Inbetween in a day or two, but you can just change line 10 from:
$aTween->font = $tw_echo;
…to:
$aTween->echo = $tw_echo;

ryan - my first gut instinct is you aren’t using WP 1.5.1.1 or later… The same menu issue FlashyTitles has probably exists in all of my plugins…

yep using the 1.5.1.1

hmmm… might be something else going on. let me look into this further – never seen that error, and not sure what might cause it.

I somehow don’t seem to get it. I added Inbetween and can even populate the examples but from there on I am lost on how to add ads inbetween the first post and the second. Do I need to upload a seperate HMTL file with the adsense code in it and then call it. What are the exact settings for making sure the ads pop-up between the first and second post.
Any help is very welcome. I am very much a novice

Cheers,

G.

Hi, I just wanted to report a typo/error in your FlashyTitles system:
if (!empty($sirfRep))
should be
if (!empty($sifrRep))

Not a big deal, doesn’t break the script anyways.

China - If you followed the instructions, activated the plugin, and added the inbetweenPosts() call, you’re almost there! Just create a new Inbetween, and set Between to be 1 (after 1st post), and either set Echo to the javascript code, or set File to be an HTML file in the wp-content/ folder to include.

Shahyar - If you have that typo, you don’t have the latest version from here!  Download again…

Thanks David for your answer. I have gotten closer. It seems to be activated as I can see on my test version chinasnippets.com/blog that the “Posted at ..” has been included. The problem I have is adding a “New Inbetween”. What I fill in is this:
Between: 1
Echo: Adsense javascript
Function:
File:
Then I click “save” but nothing is saved?

2. I also installed it on another blog, but after installing and adding the code to the index file I saw the message: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/virtual/site81/fst/var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/cg-inbetween.php on line 85
So apparently I did something wrong but I have no clue what. I did nothing different compared to the other install.

Thanks a lot again.
G.

Ass an addendum to my last post. In the Wordpress Panel - Section “Inbetween” I git the message that the cg-inbetween.dat is missing. Somehow it was created.

China - The first run, you should get the ‘file missing’ message. Actually, possibly until the first time you save – I don’t think I create a blank one. As for the other issues, they’d lead me to believe you don’t have the latest version. If you DO, let me know and I’ll make sure I’ve posted the latest… 

Thanks,

I re-installed the latest version

I activitated it

I added the code to the indexfile

I understand now that is part of the process to get an error first.

After I populated your examples these all worked very nicely (see chinasnippets.com/blog - this is my test lab, a small one though)
Then I created a new one and again the information was not saved properly.
See the screendump at chinasnippets.com/blog

As always, any help is much appreciated. Could it be that there is something wrong with some permissions somewhere or am I still missing something very important?

Cheers,

G.

As I figured, I had a minor fix sitting locally that was to get the ECHO section to save out. Grab the new 0.9 version, and see how that works for you!

I was confused for awhile too - did all 3 steps, but got that same error about the cg-inbetween.dat file - I changed my permissions on my wp-content folder to 777, tried another save on an in-between and voila! It automatically created the .dat file. After changing my permissions on my wp-content folder back to 755, it still writes to the .dat file perfectly.

Hey there CG-Inbetween is awesome! However, I’m having a little problem.

It works great except for when I try to put Google ads in… or anything that has quotes (") in it.

When I add the code with the quotes, and then save it, it adds slashes (\) before each quote. Therefore the google ad code is all screwed up and doesn’t appear.

So something like this:

Hey “there” good looking

ends up looking like this after being saved:

Hey \"there\” good looking

Why do these slashes (\) appear beofre every quote (") and how to I fix it?

Thanks a ton!

~John

Hey John - the current version of CG-Inbetween has a bit of a bug with quote handling… The easy (and my preferred) solution is to create something like adsense.html with the ad code, and use the file-include method instead. Also makes it easier to do multiple Inbetweens with the same file (say after 3, after 6, and after Last).

Hey does CG-Flashytitles work with WP 1.5.2? I installed it, but nothing is happening.

David, thanks for the SiFR plugin - works like a charm! Had to chmod wp-content to 777 and it worked fine after that. Am terribly proud because I’ve also learnt the hard way not to leave the css class undefined - otherwise it gets very pretty 

in short, I think I’m in love. awesome awesome job man

Here’s a workaround for the quote mark problem with cg-inbetween: instead of typing a quote mark, type the html equivalent:" It worked for me!

Actually, the html quote mark code worked for Safari but not Firefox. The file-include work around David spoke of does work better.

By the way, could you provide a description of “single” “last” etc? Thanks for the plugin!

Just a suggestion – if CGQuickPHP is required for CGFeedRead, why not include it with that package?

QuickPHP isn’t required in the slightest for CG-FeedRead – in fact, FeedRead existed for over a year and a half before QuickPHP came along!  QuickPHP >does< enable directly embedding feeds within post or page content, not something people needed to do generally, and before Pages most of such things were done in custom php code anyway.

The main uses for FeedRead are as a sidebar list (in something like sidebar.php), or a custom page (could be completely custom PHP doc, like the provided sample, a 'Page' using CG-QuickPHP, or a Page template (which would be sort of halfway between the two solutions...). QuickPHP enables you to keep things within WP more... but also is useful for calling non-CG code/plugins too. 

Any way to add inbetween before first post?

CG-Inbetween was meant to go after posts by default… But there’s an easy trick so long as you aren’t using the “last” positioning feature: just move the call to inbetween before the post header/content rather than after it all. And then any numbering you use, add one (as the numbering will then mean ‘before post #x’ rather than the default ‘after post #x’…).

Hi, I added cg-inbetween to my plugin directory of WP 1.5.2 and activated it. when I click the inbetween tab on my admin panle i get a message.

“Not Found
The requested URL /WordPress/wp-admin/cg-inbetween.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. ”

any ideas

Hi, Wordpress 2.0 was released some days ago. Will you update your cool “CG-FlashyTitles” to work with it?

All of my plugins will be getting revised for 2.0, but it’s going to be another week or so at the minimum…

I need FlashyStyles ASAP for 2.0. I’ve got a whole site to put together by the end of the weekend.. If you do a rush job and get it done, I can donate.. Please, please hurry. These are some great plug-ins!

Does anyone know if the CG-FlashyTitles plugin works with WP 21 already, without tweaking?

Cassandra & Andy - I just tested my minor-fix version (now the latest upload), and it works fine with 2.0. Definitely download the new 1.2 just for the bugfixes and minor feature updates.

In the 2.0 setup, I cannot find the tab for the FlashyTitles setup. Is it under a new subheading?

Yeah, I’m working on a 1.3 update that should hopefully fix the FlashyTitles menu not showing up on some hosting setups… look for it here.

Hi David..thanks and LOVE Flashy Titles..
having a weird issue though..some post have different sized Titles Very Strange..any Suggests? Using k2 R163g

www.georgethirteen.com/g13blog/

thanks for any help!!

If you use Firefox and the Dev Toolbar, try Outline Block Level Elements. That shows the >original< block size that the sifr is being replaced in. If your block is wide but too short for the font, it'll 'grow' to the height of the block then stop, not filling the width. If the block is too high (say, wrapped originally), the text will end up filling the width of the block, growing as needed, then stop.

This is an issue with sIFR 2 (and not FlashyTitles per se). The 'way around it' is to read up on sIFR and use their 'best practices'. Use a font in CSS that is closest in character size to the replacement font. Or use a smaller font, but a fixed height, so that the text never wraps but you've always got the height to 'clamp' on. Or, play with the parameters like letterspacing in the FlashyTitle to try to force-fit better. But the original text controls the 'box size', so that's usually a good place to start.

This guy came up with a CSS hack, which might help in some cases.
And this is another sIFR discussion of the overall issues.

Can anyone help me get it working with the h2 links in the sidebar? I need those to be treated differently than the other h2’s because the h2’s in the sidebar have a different background.

try using #content h2 and #sidebar h2 to differentiate… 

Is there a way to change where the styles sheets are linked/embedded. I am looking to do some styleswitching on my site, so if I could put the style information on my own documents, not inline, that’d be great. Any way to do this?

Maybe… but the whole point of FlashyTitles was to give access to sIFR, with dynamic editing via the admin panel, with no modification of html, php, js, or css needed. Everything is created on-the-fly. I’d have to be able to create the datafile in the theme directory or something like that – but I’m not sure the theme dirs are meant to be written to (that’s the only hack I can think of). Other than that, not likely.

Hey david I’m getting your CG-inbetween plug-in to work fine at displaying calls and echoing basic text. Is it still not able to echo adsense or YPN text? Also the file include doesn’t seem to be working. Going off the filename in your example that populates I made a file named “my-adsense.htm” and filled it with a YPN script but nothing turned up on my page. What do you suppose is the problem? I’m using wordpress 2.0.

I test in three stages. 1. echo basic text. 2. include html that is just basic text (to prove the htm file is in the right place and loaded properly). 3. include html that is adsense or ypn. Many folks use CG-Inbetween for adsense includes without any problems, so gut would tell me the file isn’t being included or the inbetween isn’t ‘running’. You can also do 1b. echo basic text AND include basic html (you can do both in one inbetween). That’ll prove the inbetween is kicking off (basic text) and whether or not the file is loading (basic html…).

Maybe I am crazy, but every time I paste code in a new “Add New InBetween” item, there are backslash that appears.Example: if I copy this code:

This is a CG-Inbetween after Post #1…

it becomes:

This is a CG-Inbetween after Post #1…

If I reedit it, it adds another series of backsclahs, and so on!

I am using Firefox on a Linux machine! Maybe it is the reason or…!!!???

Thanks

Ok, I’ve got it working so it will display any basic text in an HTML file. It’s still not showing YPN scripts though.

Do I need to add anything to the begining or end of of my YPN code to get it to display? The basic YPN code starts with:

Do i need to wrap the code in anything?

David, first off, thanks for your great plugin! FlashyTitles is amazing at taking the guesswork out of sIfr.

That being said, I’m having problems. I loaded it up, and I’m not seeing any of the swf font files being applied. I took a screenshot: http://www.poconoplateau.org/temp/flashy-titles-not-working.png . Do you have any thoughts as to why? Thanks!

bob

Not offhand. If the javascript isn’t executing, or maybe some flash-blocking technique, either might cause the sIFR to not show up. You can check the Javascript Console for any errors running that page, and try disabling any Firefox extensions that might interfere (or try loading the page in IE..).

Wow great plugin!

One question - because ‘FlashyTitles’ is added as a top level menu option - other users on my site can see/click on it…. is there a way to prevet this?

Cheers

3stripe

Hmmm, not currently. I could potentially add something so only higher-level users get the menu (would want to do that across the board for my other plugins too…). Unfortunately, the whole admin menuing system isn’t very well designed when it comes to setting access rules… something I’m looking into at the moment.

any idea on how to use FlashyTitles with lists (I am thinking of top-nav menu). I tried to enter to CSS selector as “nav il” but it didn’t work.
thanks.

dan - you need to do ”.nav il” or “#nav il”, depending on whether ‘nav’ is a class or a unique id. and, CSS’ing flash objects spatially can be a bit tricky… but a simple navbar should be doable if you use fonts that match the size/kerning of the original font.

I’ve got the same problem as bob. Tested on Opera 9and Firefox (no chance to use IE).

Of course that I’ve got Flash installed, and the files are uploaded (checked the path manually).

Checked the JS Console and got this error:

Error: document.getElementById("ps_online") has no properties
Archivo Fuente: */wp-admin/admin.php?page=cg-flashytitles/cg-flashytitles.php
Línea: 425

I’ll try moving the .swf files.

yep, sounds like something’s not in the right place. make sure the sifr folder is at the wp-content level, not inside the cg-flashytitles dir. it really does ‘just work’ if everything is in the right place (and you don’t have an ad-blocking or flash-blocking thing in your browser!). Well, AND that your theme is calling the header and footer actions, or FlashyTitles can’t auto-insert the CSS and JS needed to make the sIFR stuff all work without manual editing…

Hey david, I love the flashytitles plugin. My only concern is that, out of nowhere, it’s started to display the flashy title AND the regular post title. Might I have deleted something that I shouldn’t have? What controls this? If you have any ideas I’d greatly appreciate it.

I believe the JS sets the CSS on the original title to visible:none equivalent, and then creates and inserts the custom flash in its place. I can’t think offhand of what would cause both to show up…

David, fantastic job! However, my flashytitles (right out of the box) seem to work only with Firefox, but not with Internet Explorer.

Hmmm, that’s odd. I know I’ve tested it many times with IE. You sure you don’t have some kind of flash/ad blocker running? Otherwise, use my contact form and we can look into it offline.

Hi David,

I really like your plug-in, if it worked. I downloaded it some hours ago and have been trying to get it working all morning. It’s really frustrating. Maybe you can have a look at my site; I installed and activated the plugin, added a font. I tried everything, but my title keeps hidden (you can see it at the site). I tried h2, h1, h3 (I don’t even use h1 and h3), post-title, .post-title, etc. etc. Everything I try; it’s just not working!

It’s really frustrating, hopefully you can help me? If you want I can give you an account to test it.

Sorry you haven’t been able to get it running. For properly-formed themes, it should drop in and work. Here’s a helpful bit from the readme:

do_action('wp_head', '');

do_action('wp_footer', '');

The next paragraph there describes looking at the page source to determine if the theme is missing one or both. And, following those rules, I don’t see the footer stuff…  So, you need a do_action(’wp_footer’. ‘’); most likely…

Oh my gosh! It helped, it really helped. I made the theme myself and never heard of it. THANK YOU!

Just installed your plug.
Running WP 2.0.3.
Admin side: All there, but preview isn’t working..
Front-end: Not picking up at all.

Front-end Debug:
Looked at the generated source and saw that it was trying to load sifr from /wp-content/plugins/sifr and not /wp-content/plugins/cg-flashytitles/sifr/.
Fix: Copied sifr to plugin directory.

Remaining Problem…
Not sure how to fix the admin side yet… will look at it later.
Also, sifr now needs to be in two places to allow admin selection and front-end generation.

Other than that - GREAT!

M
(For CG: Please mail me direct)

sifr on wp 2.0.3 (update to earlier comment)

After copying sifr to plugins folder…
Admin preview works in safari… but not in firefox.

Don’t know if you got the first comment.. tried posting on safari and the window didn’t close… so here goes again:

Running: WP 2.0.3
Installed CG-Flashytitles as per instructions.

BUG:
Not working!
Admin side: Able to select sifr style but preview not working.
Front-end: Not displaying

CAUSE:
The generated code looks for sifr in plugins/sifr and not plugins/cg-flashytitles/sifr.

WORKAROUND:
*Copy* sifr folder to plugins/sifr.

Other quirks:
- Preview doesn’t work on Firefox.

Other than that:
- Excellent plug!!!

I also have problems with running it with IE. It works fantastic with Firefox. What could be the problem?

Should just work. Do you have a recent Flash installed under IE? That would do it too, as might any ad-blocking stuff, or extremely high security settings…

Does it work with Opera?

It works with Opera 9 (just tested), and I assume it works with 8 as well, maybe more. It is Flash+JavaScript+CSS, so any browser properly supporting the three should work. 

Hi,

I hope I can get this to work. I am trying to insert spacers via an image that matches my page background using the cg-inbetween plugin.

However, there seems to be a conflict. I’m getting several error messages. One that seems to be related to BA-Stats:

“Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /wp-content/plugins/cg-inbetween.php:55) in /wp-content/plugins/BAStats/BAStats_logger.php on line 99″

I’m also getting the missing .dat file message that China got in that comment above.

I am running the latest WP install 2.0.3.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much for this plugin. 

That’s a ‘cascading error’. BAStats tries to output something, but the PHP errors have already ’started output’. No conflict there…

If you’re having a problem with the .dat file, make sure your wp-content folder is writeable by PHP – if it’s not, CG-Inbetween can’t create the data file.

After… some weeks =P - I tried this again and I can confirm that it doesn’t work with Safe Mode On.

“Warning: dir(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect.”

I’m not running on a safe_mode enabled system (I think my old host was), so hard for me to debug at the moment. dir() should work unless the target folder has a different userid than the PHP/apache process. If it’s failing creating a datafile, try creating/uploading a blank file of the same name. Then the system should work. But usually if the host is really borked, WP itself would run into issues creating files as well… Contact me offline if you can’t figure it out, and I can set up a time to debug directly on your site.

I just tried CG-Redirect. Instead of redirecting, I get an intermediate page saying “OK The document has moved here.” with the word “here” a link to the redirect location.

Here’s a follow-up to my report of CG-Redirect showing an intermediate page. It looks like line 33 of the script should be

global $use_3xx_redirect;

instead of

global $use_302_redirect;

since that is the variable you are using throughout the function. I made that change and it is now working for me.

In my case, I also wanted to change to a 301 instead of the 302 temporary redirect. Any idea if there is a difference between specifying just “301″ vs “301 Moved Permanently” as I often see in examples?

Thanks for posting that for others. I think I had fixed it at one point, but without source control here (which I need to setup soon!), I think I overwrote the fix! 

I don’t think the text makes any difference – anything parsing the header lines should only look at the actual response code number. So you should be able to change it however you would like (where 301 is better for SEO and such…) – and is obviously why that variable is “use_3xx”, as it was meant to be changeable from an admin panel at some point… 

Hi LOVE your Flashy Titles plugin. One question though…I have two themes and want it to change with the theme. Is there some sort of hack that can make that possible? Like direct it to the H3 on one style sheet then another?

Sure. Have each theme have an extra, unique-named outer div, with no pad or border or margin… just a blank wrapper. Use that unique name to then differentiate the FT matching rules to match for the specific theme in use.

How to use it with chinese constants?

i wanted to say that i love your plugin. am using it with all might now 
but there’s one little problem i ran into. when i installed your plugin the links of the header of each post is opening in a new window on the index.php. when i deactivate your plugin from the admin control panel the links open just in the same window as they should.
can you please take a look into that? thnx 

Sounds like something is causing them to open in a new window. My best guess would be some kind of javascript thing for say image popups, image gallery, etc. – anything that otherwise causes a windows to open or something to popup for certain media files. Try turning those off to start, and see if that helps.

Hi, thanks for the good work.
I use CG-Flashy Title for my blog entries titles and it’s great! I even made custom font for it.
Everything seems working fine except I lost the ability to clic on any of this title and go to the permanent link of the related post. The colors are changing while ‘rollovering’, but the link just doesn’t work.
Check out Zobolak.com

Thank you verymuch.

Can’t get to your site at the moment, but the last time I saw something like that happen it was errors in the HTML – certain tags weren’t closed properly (out of order or something). Definitely use an HTML validation services (Firefox’s Developer Toolbar has one), or just look at the resulting source after the page loads.

I’ve had Flashy Titles working on several 1.5 installs for more than a year, but it doesn’t want to work with 2.04.

Hi. I’m trying to set up the sIFR plugin. I have two wordpress installations on my server and it automatically detects the one at val dot robcomm dot net instead of the one it’s installed in which is robcomm.net/blog. Do you have any suggestions on a way to tell it the right blog address?

Thanks

CG-FlashyTitles shouldn’t be ‘detecting’ anything. It just depends which of the two blogs’ plugins folder you uploaded it into. Sounds like you uploaded it into the val dot subdomain, not the /blog folder on the main domain.

Hi!

I am using you InBetween and works very well. Thanks! I am using the field “Echo” but: what to do if I want to upload a file? I have a banner.gif that I want to place between posts. I put the image in .gif image in the wp-content folder and then ??? How do I call the picture?

Thanks
Erico

Eric - I generally recommend using the “File” field, and give it a simple HTML file to include. Have that file just be a standard html [img] tag for the banner (and anything else you may want with it, text, hyperlink, etc.). Doesn’t need a full body, just the pieces of html you want inserted. Note that the link to the banner needs to be specified fully.

What’s confusing me is that if you use the firefox developers plugin and click “edit css” it displays the stylesheets for the page you’re on. If you go to robcomm.net/blog and read the sifr screen.css file, the content in it is from the other (subdomain) blog, not the one flashytitles is installed in. The location of the robcomm.net/blog stylesheet is http://www.robcomm.net/blog/wp-content/plugins/cg-flashytitles/sifr/sIFR-screen.css

I’m confused…

sifr-screen and sifr-print are really just ‘master’ css files. they shouldn’t be changed, they should be identical on any site using CG-FlashyTitles. It looks now like you’ve been pasting html into those files (at least, they looked fine earlier, and now they have html!). There should be no ‘content’ aside from a few master style definitions.

The ‘real’ work of CG-FlashyTitles is done as an inline CSS [style] block in the header section of the page (currently – that may change in a future version to include a dynamic CSS file). That’s where you’ll see the real CSS for each site.

No–I’ve pasted nothing into them. If you click on the link to view the screen.css file itself (http://www.robcomm.net/blog/wp-content/plugins/cg-flashytitles/sifr/sIFR-screen.css), it’s just the untouched, regular css code. The html from the subdomain is in the generated css file for some reason. That’s why I wrote. I’ve changed nothing other than unpacking the plugin file in the first place. Perhaps there is some kind of conflict with a plugin or another javascript or something affecting the generated file.

Got flashytitles set up with David’s help off-line. I appreciate it very much and donated, as he went above and beyond my expectations for supporting a free plugin.

Thanks!

Thanks Valerie! Yeah, for others running into issues, reminder that the sifr folder is supposed to be in /plugins/sifr, as the current public version of code uses wp-content relative paths. So don’t unzip the archive and upload a ‘flashytitles’ folder, upload the >contents< of the folder...  Additionally complicating things in this case was that the 404 was being caught and handed off to index.php, rather than returning a 404 (or even having a custom index.php-based 404 message).

My CG-Redirect install is working great on Firefox. However, it will not redirect in Safari. Rather, when I click on one of the links that redirect to another page within my WordPress site, Safari just hangs for a few seconds before returning the “Safari can’t open page” error message. It looks like Safari tries to open the page many times from my one click, but never resolves to the final page. Any ideas are very much appreciated.

The sIFR plugin itself is really good, but why does it need to be in the main menu? it would fit nicely as a sub menu of ‘options’

I’ve really been enjoying FlashyTitles, but recently I’ve been having trouble calling up the admin panel ..it seems to spew out css info.

It’s still adding Sifr on the blog, but I can’t reach the admin panel to change the options.

Any idea what’s going on?

Thanks for such a great plugin.

Sounds odd. I could try to debug it, but if it just started recently, I’d first have you think about what else changed (other new plugins, for example). The admin panel doesn’t generally just ’stop working’. 

I’ve been testing to see if it’s a conflict with other new plugins by deactivating them, nothing yet..

My most recently-added plugin was Star Rating for Reviews but deactivating it doesn’t seem to make any difference.

In the meantime, is there another way to modify Flashy’s options?

If you were feeling really froggy, you could try editing cg-flashytitles.dat by hand (it’s just a PHP serialized array). Not recommended, but if you need it, and you have knowledge of how the serialization stuff works/looks, you could probably do it.

I’m using your inbetween plugin, it works fine, except when I insert the adsense code in the html box..

When I move to save the changes, my adsense code is automatically populated with “\” (backslashes), and so the adsense code does not work…

Do you know what is making the the backslashes appear when I save the adsense code in the html box??

Because, when I use the html file option, the adsense code works fine and is inserted in my posts…

Use the ‘File’ option – that’s the proper way to include complex html like adsense. ‘Echo’ was really meant for simple text, ‘File’ is likely faster for most real html cases (and doesn’t have issues with special chars).

Sorry to hear that. I’ve had no reports of FlashyTitles having any issues like that, though it could be a conflict with another plugin, an issue with your version of WP, or version of PHP or particular PHP config settings. You should never have to ‘reinstall wordpress’ because of a plugin – in the worst case, you just delete the plugin file from the server, and WP will come back up. If it doesn’t, your server or WP has other problems, as FlashyTitles doesn’t modify any files, so removal should put WP back the way it was. If you let me know your WP version, PHP version, and other plugins, I can ponder this further…

Oh, I forgot to add that I’m using Wordpress version 2.0.5.

If you’d help me out, I would be more than willing to donate you some money.  I wouldn’t mind giving you my web info if it means I could finally get some Flashy Title running on my website by New Year. 

If you get the “unable to open file” error with cg-flashytitles.dat, that means that /wp-content/ doesn’t have write permissions set properly for your server. On a well-configured server, when you upload files via ftp or other process, they are set to be owned by your user – on a bad server, they are owned by ‘ftp’ or ‘apache’. On those servers, you may find you need to set the folder to permission 777 – on a good server, you can use 755. In a future release, I may move the CG-FlashyTitles data into the database to eliminate this issue.

hi
thank you for this nice plugin. im fond of using it! but today i got a problem: how do I write “#news .words h2″ into the css selector? like this or do I have to convert it?

thank you and bye

Write css selectors as normal – note that the sIFR2 stuff might have limitations on selectors (I don’t know offhand). If so, the upcoming FlashyTitles 3 will use sIFR3, which should have even better handling.

thanks for the plugins 

hi, I’m getting this error in WP 2.0.7 when I want to configure Flashytitles:

Catchable fatal error: Object of class Directory could not be converted to string in D:\www\\www\wp\wp-content\plugins\cg-flashytitles.php on line 208

Any idea?

Hi again… Still having trouble getting the admin menu to come up. I’m able to edit the cg-flashytitles.dat file by hand, but I can’t seem to install new fonts that way, so figuring this out is my only way. Clicking the FlashyTitles menu I get the error:

Catchable fatal error: Object of class Directory could not be converted to string in /homepages/42/d94894640/htdocs/thescope/wp-content/plugins/cg-flashytitles.php on line 208

And line 208 in cg-flashytitles.php is:

if ( is_dir($sifr_dir . ‘/’ . $file) ) continue; // skip subdirectories for now.

Any ideas? I’m goin’ crazy.

To Rob, Elling, and others seeing the ‘Object of class Directory’ errors, there’s now a new version of CG-FlashyTitles posted above, 1.4.2, that should fix the problem.

thank for this great plugin.

Ps : For users under WP 2.x, if you want to install flashytitle 1.4.1.
1. You must upload plugin content into /wp-content/ not into a subdirectory.
2. You must download latest Sifr and update your sifr directory by this latest version.
3. Chmod your directory in 755 for right.
4. Download swf font for you website and enjoy

No prob. Yes, the docs instruct to upload into wp-content, but I’ll make sure to make that clearer in the future. NO, you do NOT need to download a newer sIFR – you CAN, but it’s not a requirement. And yes, the wp-content directory must be writeable – that’s where the FT data is stored currently.

This handy plugin is working almost, but not quite. I added the hooks in the header and footer and FlashyTitles is adding the correct code. The issue seems to be with the admin panel. The pulldown for the SIFR font isn’t working even though there are multiple fonts in the SIFR folder (wp-content/plugins/sifr). Screenshot of my admin panel here http://thisweekindenver.com/i_new/flashytitles-admin.gif

Anybody have this problem? Any remedies? Many thanks.

Sorry, my bad. I have just updated the release to 1.4.3 as the FT3 code uses a subfolder for fonts, and I shouldn’t have added that to the FT1 update. Grab the new release, as it’ll grab direct from the sifr folder.

The FlashyTitles plugin works great. Thanks =)

Glad you like it! The new FlashyTitles v3 is coming at some point, and sIFR3 features are truly amazing.

Thank you for your plugin CGFlashyTitle that i’ve just tried on dev site. I would like to use it to replace Headline Images that i use actualy. The only problem i found : it can’t be used with Lightbox because Flash comes in front images. Is there a solution ?
Another question : how to choose the text size. It is very big in the sidebar (http://millesabords.info/wp2bas/)

In Firefox, Lightbox is showing up just fine in front of the Flash stuff. At least for me. For text size, I recall it should base off the CSS, especially the line height of the box it is to fit into. However, the newer FlashyTitles 3 (in beta) is using sIFR 3 (also beta), which does much better sizing of text to the requested size – so if you run into problems, I can always point you to a download of the FT3 beta.

Thank you for your answer David. Yes I’m interested in trying FT3 beta if it is possible.

I have just downloaded CG-FlashyTitles. I am currently testing it in my locally (C:/) installed WordPress. Installation went smoothly but I cannot see the “font replacement samples” along the right side of the screen (in the configuration/options panel); neither in my actual blog (added h1 as the selector using WP’s default theme). I am using WP V.2.1.2, javascripts active, and had the most recent flash player installed.

Any suggestions? TIA.

Not seeing it in the blog can be theme issues. But not seeing it in admin is usually a path issue (sifr should be in wp-content, for instance). At least historically. Could also be a flash/ad blocker or similar app. I usually look at the page source in Firefox and look for the sifr js include to begin with, and make sure it’s in the right place (that is, verify it’s where it’s trying to be included from).

I’m trying to use flashytitles with a subheading. For some reason, it displays the subhead in the first post on the home page but none of the others in subsequent posts show up. Any ideas?

first rule of thumb, validate your HTML and CSS. I see at least one HTML issue (duplicate id’s) that’d cause that result.

Hi,
I love your flash title plugin a lot but for some reason its not working on my theme(default wordpress theme).
My wordpress is version 2.2
I can see in the source code of my website that it is correctly calling the sifr files and code at the bottom, but still the headers are not affected though i have followed all the steps to set up the css selector in the admin panel.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Noura

Hello David. I am loving your plugin and would like to try out the FT3 beta if at all possible. I see that the sIFR 3 has gone out of beta and would love to use all this new functionality. Thanks!

Hi….

Thanks alot for this great plusins. I used the CG-FlashyTitles 1.4.3 on WP 2.2.2 But i’ve trouble using this plugins, so i wish you give me a help.

01. I used theme modified version of GlossyBlue theme, and the output only appear on IE6/7, but disappear on FF 1.5.0.2

02. I used different color between Post Title (24a7d3/visited) and Categories title (FD6909/visted) on my css file. But i don’t know the way so that the color of CG-FlashyTitles’s output is same like the color setting on my css file. Can you tell me the “secret” trics for that?

Thansk,
Ronnie

Is this plugin already working with 2.2, since it is not working for me.

-Downloaded plugin + latest version sifr
-replace new sifr with the one form the package
-uploaded cg-flashytitles to my plugin folder
-activated plugin and went to the tab
-gave “CSS Selector” a H2 value (want to replace all h2)
-on the right side where you can see an example of the font, here the fonts are not working (plain text)
-sifr does show up at the bottom of my page source

Anyone who can help me out ?

I solved my problem, and maybe it is a good tip for the rest.

If you plugin is’t working and your sure everything is set as supposed to, check the source of your page and check at the bottom where the plugin is looking for the SIFR direcotry. This is what cause my problem

Hello, I just tested your nice plugin on wp 2.2.3
The installaton seems smooth, I added my custom swf and everything was fine, but my titles won’t show, after some tries I noticed a file called cg-flashytitles.dat, once I deleted it and replaced with the php, the titles would show up just fine but I had to fix the position. When I added some padding I got a blank page.
removed the padding and removed again the .dat file to restore.
Couldn’t do much with it. I tries again but couldn’t get to work anyway, it also seems that when I remove a style my titles still down’t show back…
In general the plugin in very great! You should consider fixing it for the new version of WP!
Congratulations.

Hey i was wondering how to use the CG-redirect plugin. What does a single post mean?

Does cg-inbetween work with wordpress 2.3? I have used this plugin in the past on my old blog but now I have a new (different) blog with the latest install of wordpress and the cg-inbetween does not seem to be working? Here is what I am doing, I add an item in the admin cp, can be anything even using the default poplation items, then after saving I click on the “Inbetween” link again and there are no items defined.

Cheers for the help on this 

Hi there!
Thanks for the excellent inbetween plugin!
I would like to upgrade my blog’s WP to 2.3 but Aussie is having problems making the plugin work on it.
Are you going to release an upgrade for 2.3?
Thanks!
Ricardo

Hi!
Flashy titles is a great plugin, thanks a lot. I’ve noticed that it doesn’t work in firefox (latest version) on wordpress 2.3. Everything is fine in safari, but in firefox neither the preview on the admin page nor the output on pages work. Any ideas how to fix this?

[…]thank Jens for comments.Flashy titles is a great plugin agreed.Like sIFR3 features which is exceptional[…]

I love your plugin. It works great, except that it opens links with flashytitles applied in a new window. I tried everything.. I disabled all my other plugins, reuploaded the whole wordpress directory… nothing worked.

I’m not sure, but it seems that something is going on in javascript in the sifr.js file, but I’m not very good at reading code, so I couldn’t figure it out.

Any Ideas?

BTW, I would love to try your alpha of FlashyTitles3!

Thanks!
-Phoat

Nevermind… I figured it out. It was a result of exporting the swf in Flash 8 instead of Flash 6.

After correcting it, it everything seems to work fine.

Thanks for the great plugin!!!!!!

I installed the plugin and everything but when i try to save an add i get this:

Unable to open file (……../htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/cg-inbetween.dat).

any help would be apreciated ..

Thanks for the plug-in David, nice work. I would like to second MilleSabords’ comment about the sifr headlines showing in front of lightbox (in this case greybox) windows.

Here’s the URL: http://scoremoresales.com/topsalesexperts

Click the “click here to download e-book” link to bring up the greybox. You’ll see the sifr headlines in front of the greybox window.

Any ideas how to solve the interference?
Thanks.

Hi there, have been using flashy titles on my blog for over a year, and recently noticed they are not clicking on the mac in any browser. I’m certain they were working in the past but have no idea when this problem occurred. I have recently updated to wordpress 2.3.1 and flashytitles 1.4.3 in attempts to cure the issue but still get the same problem.

Would appreciate any suggestions or help thanks,
Mark.

Hi!..

Im having some troubles in safari..
The Title Post link doesnt work.. i click but nothing happens.. but in FF works like a charm.. is this a known bug? or is just me? someone can help me in this?

Thnx and sorry for my english! : (

To those who are having problems with Wordpress 2.3… I don’t think it’s 2.3, the newest flash player and the version of sIFR released with the plugin don’t play well together.

I replaced the sifr.js file in the CGFlashyTitles plugin directory with the new file, and recreated my fonts using the 2.0.5 release of sIFR, and all is working fine now. See this URL for the new release and details. http://novemberborn.net/sifr/2.0.5

hi, So i finally got the CG-FlashyTitles plugin to work properly in the admin panel, required two copies of the sifr folder, one in the cg-flashytitles folder and one in the plugins folder. anyway now that the fonts are appearing in the admin panel, i thought well it must be working. so i set my h1 and h2 selectors in teh admin to use a custom font and the headings just disappear.

i am using wordpress 2.3.2, any help would be appreciated, thanks!

When I associate a ccs style with sifr it is transparent on the site………it like is kind of there but not really. The original “H2″ is removed but its just blank. I have tried many other styles as well. Installation was correct……..not sure what to do, I had this working on another blog a while ago………………..confused. I am using safari for mac but i have tested it on others as well with the same result.

Flashy titles is excellent! I had an issue with Wordpress 2.3 and sifr though. Title links had to be clicked once before they became active (in FF and IE). I just simply downloaded the newest version (2.0.5) and uploaded it to the sifr folder and problem solved!

Thanks Chait!

Thanks for FlashyTiles, its works really well and the interface you’ve made is lovely. But I am experiencing a problem (and it’s one I’ve noticed on other people’s blogs using this plugin, so excuse me if this has already been asked) - rolling over links works fine until i use the scroll bar, then i need to click on a link first to make it active. Any ideas if this can be fixed? (I’m using firefox on windows xp)

I’m not able to create more than one rule.
If I click on “add a new rule” It erase the previous one …

Any idea ?

Hi,
first of all, it’s great to have a plugin to manage sIFR !

I’m not able to create two different style (for two different title) with the interface,
when I’m creating the second style, it erase the first one …
I guess it’s a bug !

Please advice )

Y. - 03/23/08

Hey David lover the cg inbetween.
I had quote problem also with extra ‘\’ being inserted. The method you suggest works fine though when you make a simple .html doc then use the “file” field, remember to NOT use the URL for the file spec, just simply name.html remember to put that the html in the wp-content folder and worked great….
Cheers.

CG-flashy Titles is great but flawed. It installed fine but didn’t create a cg-flashytitles.dat file. So I created a blank one in the plugins folder. I also copied the sifr folder separately into the plugins folder. And set the wp-content folder to 777 (which I don’t like for obvious reasons). The problem is that I can define one css selector but no more. If I try to add others the first one is deleted.

Can you help?

P.S. Have since set wp-content to 755 and this works as it did when set to 777. Am using WP 2.3.3

Hi,

Using Wordpress 2.5 + Your plugin.
installation was OK, everything work good, but i’ve got no title ! ( nothing appears ).
( i’m actually construct my blog in local)

whats’s the solution ?

Hi there,

I just started my first wordpress installation, and have been playing with flashytitles. It works great, but it seems to have disabled my title h1 link? The hover works, it does not link to the homepage that I have set. Is there a solution to this?

hello,

i’ve got a problem with flashy titles in FF (2.*) while in IE7 everything works just fine… namely, link is not clickable, and i assume that this is some ff issue, but maybe you have an idea 

thanks

To those having the non-clickable links issue: I just replaced the old sifr.js with the one from sIFR 2.0.6 (google it) and re-exported the sifr.fla font files to have it work again–though oddly enough, all my links now open in new tabs..