I have it activated, and put a couple of images into a post. When I try to use the highlighter on the edit posts page, it just says “Loading…” and nothing else happens.
When I highlight posts it doesnt seem to be pulling out the images in that post. Is there some permissions that i need to be setting to make that happen?
The expected behavior is: When you click to highlight a post on the Edit Posts screen, it shows a settings window with all the pictures that were uploaded inside that post. Alternatively you can type the URL for an image anywhere in the internet. If this is not happening let us know more about your enviroment.
I’m trying to make a new theme for it, but can’t quite get it to work.
I would like to have the text container aligned to the right – I’m trying to get the plugin to look like: http://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/eNews/
see how the background of the content area is an image that fades to white, showing the post photo underneath? That’s what I’m trying to do.
ok, i mostly figured out what I want to do. I was able to move the the text container to the right using css. See http://movemaine.com to see where it’s headed.
My next question is: I would like the image to resize to the size of the slideshow. Because if an image is too small, it tiles and if it’s too large it may not display well (due to aligning to the top left).
I’m not a php coder, but I think I know the direction of what I need to change but I know the output is wrong (this is the index.php of the theme file):
[code]
<img src="" width="get_option('width'); ?>;" height="get_option('height'); ?>;" />[/code]
I think it may have something to do with the quotes, but i’m not sure how to output the quotes in the string for html.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I realize, I’m posting alot, my apologies.
You can see the changes I’ve made to the slideshow thus far. I still have some tweaking on the text area to make, but the overall design is set. See http://movemaine.com for my example.
You will be able to download this at: jasondaydesign.com once my site is up. In the meantime, shoot me an email and I will respond with the theme files. jason [@] jasondaydesign [.] com
I would like to know how to get the posthighlights to only appear on the frontpage. We are experimenting with the images and like it. We just installed yesterday. But we don’t want it to appear on the other pages. Please help.
Hi Ms Lawson, I know two different ways to display posthighlights only on the home page. You can either add the posthighlights code to the home.php file (http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy), if you have one, or you can use an if statement to check if you are in the home page. Something like this (sorry I don’t know how to indent code in a Wordpress comment):
if (is_home()) {
if (function_exists("insert_post_highlights")) {
insert_post_highlights();
}
}
Hi Indigo, you have to open the index.php file located in the theme directory with a text editor and add those lines. Or if the theme has a home.php you can remove Post Highlights code from index.php and add it only to the home.php file. I’m not familiar with thesis theme.
It is not possible to make Post Highlights adjust itself to the images size. What you can do is choose a size for Post Highlights and use images of this size. If the image is bigger Post Highlights will crop it, if the image is smaller Post Highlights will repeat it. I have updated the documentation page with this info. Your comment make me realize that this was not clear there.
Great work – thanks! But there is/was a Bug with IE/Explorer. You fixed this at Version 2.0.1 at the Plugin Site from Wordpress but not on your Webseite. There is still the old Version to Download.
Hi, leogermani. I managed to make your plugin work with pages too. Just a few changes to the ‘post-highlights.php’ file. I can send you the file, with coments near to the changes if you want.
Hi!
I do not like the idea of repeating the pictures smaller than the size of the flip.
A good idea would be to adapt the lower. height or width.
I saw that with the external picture is centered. It seemed better to repeat the shot.
Congratulations!
“I have it activated, and put a couple of images into a post. When I try to use the highlighter on the edit posts page, it just says “Loading…” and nothing else happens.”
Wordpress Version Version 2.9.1
Tried with all browsers but nothing happen
hello
I only want to show the highlights on my home page so I’m putting this in index.php in the right place:
if (is_home()) {
if (function_exists(“insert_post_highlights”)) {
insert_post_highlights();
}
}
Problem is I set up a static page as homepage and the php code keeps putting the Post-Highlights on the post page.
Can I manipulate the if statement to get what I want? Meaning something like this: if (is_page(3)) {
But that doesn’t work either…
I’m having the same problem. I’m using the Inline Posts plugin to control which posts are shown on the homepage (which is a page). How do we make this plugin display on a page page?
same problem as rook and daniel…
in the post listing click the highlight checkbox it shows “loading” but nothing ever happens have tried in all major current browsers mac and windows wp version 2.9.2
I’m testing with WordPress 3.0-beta2-14489, and looks like its not working with pages…….I can highlight the page……but only show the image and not the title in the slideshow……..
Are you planning to to support WordPress 3???? If you want I can help testing……..
Thanks very much for this plugin……..I always looked for this…….
Hi Guys,
I’m using the plugin and realized that using Chrome with template-2 occurs
an error in the design of the bottom that appears on the bar. Even using the element li display: inline elements appear below each other. I changed the css “# ph-numeric-nav” removing the “right: 50%! Important”, so he came inline. That permanent change can be done in css for the Chrome work properly?
Tks
Hello! I’m having a problem that I’m not able to solve, when I click on the box “Highlight” to display the options and the box with the image list of the post, does not appear any image, everything is blank, and must post a picture or even more, I’m not understanding why ! My WP is vs2.9.2!
Hey there! Great job with the pluggin. I just have a question. Somehow, i highlighted correctly my pages and everything was going fine untill i made a post sticky. In that moment, the pluggin started to recognise this post as highlighted (altough it was not) and inserted it on the loop.
Furthermore, when i tried it again without that sticky post the pluggin do not recognises again the original higlighted pages (but the first one). There are no arrows and no display of images.
beautiful plug in. i am having trouble finding the right place to put the code.
I am using the atahualpa theme, which allows me to enter php code “within the loop..”
i am using this plug in on one page only..
however i would like the actual page content to go below the Post highlight box…
where exactly do i enter the code?
I’ve tried a dozen of post featuring/highlighting plugins of every sort. There always seems to be something missing. Your post highlights plugin is one of the easiest to implement and to administrate. I would sure use it if:
-it would automaticly crop and resize images (like timthumb or something)
-it could be set to pick the first image of the post automaticly
“it would automaticly crop and resize images (like timthumb or something)” – it does. Look at the options
“-it could be set to pick the first image of the post automaticly” – This is a good idea to implement. If no image is set, try to use the featured image (if current theme supports it), if there is no featured image, use the first image… This will be on the next release
Hi, thank you, picking the first image automatically would make it even more effortles to use, at least for my purpose.
It seems that the plugin does not crop and resize for me. I used this setting:
“I want Post Highlights to automatically create and use an image with these dimensions: Width:500px Height:300px”
The size of the highlighter is set to same dimensions. You can see the result in http://www.arvoarvostelut.net. The images are linked via url from the same site.
Olá colega. Seu plugin funciona perfeitamente no FF mas no IE 8 não funciona. Eu mudei algumas configurações mas parece q não funcionou. Estou com a versão 2.1.1 do plugin. Poderia ajudar?
—–
Hello friend. Your plugin works well at FF, but IE 8 don’t work. I tried to change the options, in the control painel, but don’t work. I have plugin version 2.1.1. Can you help me? I really don’t know what do. Tks
I’ve set “5″ as the number of image to display and now I have more than 5 articles with highligths images. The script seems to take the 5 image from the oldest end to the recent and not from the recent to the oldest.
In this way it display always the same 5 images and not the new ones.
Is there a parameter to set to allow the script to show the image with an ORDER BY Recent -> Oldest
Hi Lorenzo,
Thanks for your comment.
It used to work as you expected in previous versions… at some point we lost it. I will make a new release whicih will include this options at the settings.
cheers
First of all, congratulation for this amazing plugin! Is really impressive, but me, as a newbie with Wordpress, find it really difficult to implement it in my theme. So I have a couple of questions to find a easier way to include it:
-Could it be possible to include the highlight plugin in the content? I want to display it only in the front page, in a similar way as it is included in this website’s main page.
-Could it be possible to create a “widget” with the “posthighlights”? I use Artisteer software to design WordPress themes, and I create a region over the content, and if there were a widget, I could drag it to that region.
Sorry if my questions are stupid. My HTML and CSS knowledge is very basic (for now), and I find very difficult to find the place in the php files to put the code to enable the plugin .
I answer myself. Maybe this is useful for more people: I managed to use another widget to do it: Executable PHP Widget. With this widget, I can paste the code from Post Highlights plugin, and put it in any sidebar region. As I can define with Artisteer a wide top sidebar region, I can paste the code in that widget, and get the result I wanted!!
I am not a coding or html expert but I’m having a problem with your plug-in. I picked articles to highlight but it keeps on saying “Loading.” Please help!
Thank you for information. No, I did not upload them again. They are linked via url, I upload all my images via FTP to one folder. This is my original request: I want it to pick the first image of the post (even if linked to a file in the same domain) and then automaticly crop and resize it.
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Will this also work for Pages as well as Posts ?
Thanks, looks marvelous and very customizable.
It was worth watching the video!
Hi,
At least for the moment no, it only works with posts. But I thinks this is a good new feature for a future release.
Leo,,
– UPDATE: Yes, you can highlight pages as well! –
I have it activated, and put a couple of images into a post. When I try to use the highlighter on the edit posts page, it just says “Loading…” and nothing else happens.
hi Rook,
This should not be happening. Let me know what browser and version are you using, and also what WordPress version.
cheers
Leo,,
When I highlight posts it doesnt seem to be pulling out the images in that post. Is there some permissions that i need to be setting to make that happen?
Hi Gianluca,
The expected behavior is: When you click to highlight a post on the Edit Posts screen, it shows a settings window with all the pictures that were uploaded inside that post. Alternatively you can type the URL for an image anywhere in the internet. If this is not happening let us know more about your enviroment.
Leo,,
I’m trying to make a new theme for it, but can’t quite get it to work.
I would like to have the text container aligned to the right – I’m trying to get the plugin to look like: http://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/eNews/
see how the background of the content area is an image that fades to white, showing the post photo underneath? That’s what I’m trying to do.
Any thoughts?
by the way – elegantly simple post slider – probably the easiest in terms of implementation.
ok, i mostly figured out what I want to do. I was able to move the the text container to the right using css. See http://movemaine.com to see where it’s headed.
My next question is: I would like the image to resize to the size of the slideshow. Because if an image is too small, it tiles and if it’s too large it may not display well (due to aligning to the top left).
Thoughts?
Thanks!
I’m not a php coder, but I think I know the direction of what I need to change but I know the output is wrong (this is the index.php of the theme file):
[code]
<img src="" width="get_option('width'); ?>;" height="get_option('height'); ?>;" />[/code]
I think it may have something to do with the quotes, but i’m not sure how to output the quotes in the string for html.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I realize, I’m posting alot, my apologies.
Hi Everyone,
You can see the changes I’ve made to the slideshow thus far. I still have some tweaking on the text area to make, but the overall design is set. See http://movemaine.com for my example.
You will be able to download this at: jasondaydesign.com once my site is up. In the meantime, shoot me an email and I will respond with the theme files. jason [@] jasondaydesign [.] com
Thanks,
Jason
I would like to know how to get the posthighlights to only appear on the frontpage. We are experimenting with the images and like it. We just installed yesterday. But we don’t want it to appear on the other pages. Please help.
Thanks
Hi Ms Lawson, I know two different ways to display posthighlights only on the home page. You can either add the posthighlights code to the home.php file (http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy), if you have one, or you can use an if statement to check if you are in the home page. Something like this (sorry I don’t know how to indent code in a Wordpress comment):
if (is_home()) {
if (function_exists("insert_post_highlights")) {
insert_post_highlights();
}
}
I’m using thesis theme, not to sure where to put that
if (is_home()) {
if (function_exists(“insert_post_highlights”)) {
insert_post_highlights();
}
}
to get it to display only on the homepage.. could u direct me if you are familiar with thesis theme?
Also…I am having an issue with the pics in the banner duplicating as well. How do I tweak it so the picture doesn’t tile? Thanks.
Hi Indigo, you have to open the index.php file located in the theme directory with a text editor and add those lines. Or if the theme has a home.php you can remove Post Highlights code from index.php and add it only to the home.php file. I’m not familiar with thesis theme.
It is not possible to make Post Highlights adjust itself to the images size. What you can do is choose a size for Post Highlights and use images of this size. If the image is bigger Post Highlights will crop it, if the image is smaller Post Highlights will repeat it. I have updated the documentation page with this info. Your comment make me realize that this was not clear there.
Hi!
Great work – thanks! But there is/was a Bug with IE/Explorer. You fixed this at Version 2.0.1 at the Plugin Site from Wordpress but not on your Webseite. There is still the old Version to Download.
thanks for pointing this out, we though we have fixed it… anyway, ts ok now
Great job! Works with WP 2.9?
yes, it should work with 2.9
Hi, leogermani. I managed to make your plugin work with pages too. Just a few changes to the ‘post-highlights.php’ file. I can send you the file, with coments near to the changes if you want.
Hi!
I do not like the idea of repeating the pictures smaller than the size of the flip.
A good idea would be to adapt the lower. height or width.
I saw that with the external picture is centered. It seemed better to repeat the shot.
Congratulations!
hey pablo faria can i haves these changes too??? i need it for a important project!
Hi all,
version 2.1 is out with Pablo’s patch and more! Please check out the announcement post here: http://post-highlights.hacklab.com.br/2010/02/version-2-1-released/
“I have it activated, and put a couple of images into a post. When I try to use the highlighter on the edit posts page, it just says “Loading…” and nothing else happens.”
Wordpress Version Version 2.9.1
Tried with all browsers but nothing happen
I have the exact problem. Tried it with Chrome, IE, FF, Opera and now also Safari.
Wordpress 2.9.2
I translate your plugin in Italian language. How I send to you ph-it_IT.mo and ph-it_IT.po files?
hello
I only want to show the highlights on my home page so I’m putting this in index.php in the right place:
if (is_home()) {
if (function_exists(“insert_post_highlights”)) {
insert_post_highlights();
}
}
Problem is I set up a static page as homepage and the php code keeps putting the Post-Highlights on the post page.
Can I manipulate the if statement to get what I want? Meaning something like this: if (is_page(3)) {
But that doesn’t work either…
Thanks ahead for the advice!
I’m having the same problem. I’m using the Inline Posts plugin to control which posts are shown on the homepage (which is a page). How do we make this plugin display on a page page?
same problem as rook and daniel…
in the post listing click the highlight checkbox it shows “loading” but nothing ever happens have tried in all major current browsers mac and windows wp version 2.9.2
Hi,
I’m testing with WordPress 3.0-beta2-14489, and looks like its not working with pages…….I can highlight the page……but only show the image and not the title in the slideshow……..
Are you planning to to support WordPress 3???? If you want I can help testing……..
Thanks very much for this plugin……..I always looked for this…….
Owww! it’s me again…..
Forget what I wrote above………the problem was in my CSS……….
Everything is working GREAT!!!!!
THANKSSSSSSSSS
Hi Raoni,
Thanks for testing!!
Cheers
Leo,,
Great plugin!
How do I go about customizing the font size of the displayed Title and Headline?
Hi Guys,
I’m using the plugin and realized that using Chrome with template-2 occurs
an error in the design of the bottom that appears on the bar. Even using the element li display: inline elements appear below each other. I changed the css “# ph-numeric-nav” removing the “right: 50%! Important”, so he came inline. That permanent change can be done in css for the Chrome work properly?
Tks
Hi Lucas,
Thanks a lot for your report! We are right now releasing version 2.1.1 with your fix.
Leo,,
Hello! I’m having a problem that I’m not able to solve, when I click on the box “Highlight” to display the options and the box with the image list of the post, does not appear any image, everything is blank, and must post a picture or even more, I’m not understanding why ! My WP is vs2.9.2!
Hey there! Great job with the pluggin. I just have a question. Somehow, i highlighted correctly my pages and everything was going fine untill i made a post sticky. In that moment, the pluggin started to recognise this post as highlighted (altough it was not) and inserted it on the loop.
Furthermore, when i tried it again without that sticky post the pluggin do not recognises again the original higlighted pages (but the first one). There are no arrows and no display of images.
Can you help me with that? Thank you very much!
beautiful plug in. i am having trouble finding the right place to put the code.
I am using the atahualpa theme, which allows me to enter php code “within the loop..”
i am using this plug in on one page only..
however i would like the actual page content to go below the Post highlight box…
where exactly do i enter the code?
i guess i solved it. I put it in the ‘above the loop’ section and it worked.
Não consegui add o código
na index.php com sucesso.Pode me dizer, em português, onde eu devo add?
Depende da onde voce quer que que ele apareça…
Como faço pra colocar apenas uma imagem a esquerda e o resumo do post a direita?
I’ve tried a dozen of post featuring/highlighting plugins of every sort. There always seems to be something missing. Your post highlights plugin is one of the easiest to implement and to administrate. I would sure use it if:
-it would automaticly crop and resize images (like timthumb or something)
-it could be set to pick the first image of the post automaticly
Could these features be added?
Hi Matti,
“it would automaticly crop and resize images (like timthumb or something)” – it does. Look at the options
“-it could be set to pick the first image of the post automaticly” – This is a good idea to implement. If no image is set, try to use the featured image (if current theme supports it), if there is no featured image, use the first image… This will be on the next release
Leo,,
Hi, thank you, picking the first image automatically would make it even more effortles to use, at least for my purpose.
It seems that the plugin does not crop and resize for me. I used this setting:
“I want Post Highlights to automatically create and use an image with these dimensions: Width:500px Height:300px”
The size of the highlighter is set to same dimensions. You can see the result in http://www.arvoarvostelut.net. The images are linked via url from the same site.
Olá colega. Seu plugin funciona perfeitamente no FF mas no IE 8 não funciona. Eu mudei algumas configurações mas parece q não funcionou. Estou com a versão 2.1.1 do plugin. Poderia ajudar?
—–
Hello friend. Your plugin works well at FF, but IE 8 don’t work. I tried to change the options, in the control painel, but don’t work. I have plugin version 2.1.1. Can you help me? I really don’t know what do. Tks
I have a little problem.
I’ve set “5″ as the number of image to display and now I have more than 5 articles with highligths images. The script seems to take the 5 image from the oldest end to the recent and not from the recent to the oldest.
In this way it display always the same 5 images and not the new ones.
Is there a parameter to set to allow the script to show the image with an ORDER BY Recent -> Oldest
Thanks
Hi Lorenzo,
Thanks for your comment.
It used to work as you expected in previous versions… at some point we lost it. I will make a new release whicih will include this options at the settings.
cheers
Leo,,
I translate your plugin in italian language. How I send to you my work?
Hi,
First of all, congratulation for this amazing plugin! Is really impressive, but me, as a newbie with Wordpress, find it really difficult to implement it in my theme. So I have a couple of questions to find a easier way to include it:
-Could it be possible to include the highlight plugin in the content? I want to display it only in the front page, in a similar way as it is included in this website’s main page.
-Could it be possible to create a “widget” with the “posthighlights”? I use Artisteer software to design WordPress themes, and I create a region over the content, and if there were a widget, I could drag it to that region.
Sorry if my questions are stupid. My HTML and CSS knowledge is very basic (for now), and I find very difficult to find the place in the php files to put the code to enable the plugin
.
Thank you in advance.
I answer myself. Maybe this is useful for more people: I managed to use another widget to do it: Executable PHP Widget. With this widget, I can paste the code from Post Highlights plugin, and put it in any sidebar region. As I can define with Artisteer a wide top sidebar region, I can paste the code in that widget, and get the result I wanted!!
Hello,.
I am not a coding or html expert but I’m having a problem with your plug-in. I picked articles to highlight but it keeps on saying “Loading.” Please help!
Did you upload the images again? Post Highlights will resize and crop all new images you upload after you have choosed this option.
Thank you for information. No, I did not upload them again. They are linked via url, I upload all my images via FTP to one folder. This is my original request: I want it to pick the first image of the post (even if linked to a file in the same domain) and then automaticly crop and resize it.
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