All Good Things Must Come To An End

As you all know, I have been doing WordPress plugins and supporting it for the past 6 years. These 6 years of my life, I have been through my polytechnic education, my national service as well as my university education.

I just graduated from university in December 2009 and have been looking for full-time jobs. I am offered a full-time job and will be starting work on 1st February 2010.

I regret to say that I am NOT ABLE to provide support for my plugins anymore due to my full-time job commitment. I will leave this forum open and let the community help one another.

However, I WILL still update my plugins whenever I can and you still can report bugs to me via email and I will try to fix it.


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Offline weevie833

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Instructions problem and no table printing
« on: 19 January 2010, 03:10 »
I am using WP-Print along with WP-Invoice. The Invoice appears correctly on the designated page (blog page content followed by inserted table data from the plugin). The WP-Print shortcode is pasted onto the top line of the page, on its own. PHP5.x, WP 2.9.1, Massive News by WP Elements. The "Print This Page" page, however, only shows the blog page content, not the table. What might this be causing this? I have snooped around - no solution I could make sense of, and I'm no newbie.

Second, I have to concur with some of the other flamers here about how badly the instructions are written. Yes, it is easy to install, but the #3 text is like from a bad dream:

"If you DO NOT want the print link to appear in every post/page, DO NOT use the code above. Just type in [print_link] into the selected post/page content and it will embed the print link into that post/page only."

I GET THIS. I DID IT. IT WORKS

"The first value is the text for printing post.

The second value is the text for printing page.

Default: print_link('', '')"

WHAT FIRST VALUE ARE YOU REFERRING TO? The "print" portion of the "print_link" shortcode, or the comma delimited code within the parameters of { print_link(); to place below the Loop? These two statements are logically impossible to define what you are referring to as they are currently written and configured sequentially.

Suggestion: if the shortcode instructions are completely independent of the "first value" "second value" instructions, move the "first value" "second value" instructions ABOVE the shortcode instructions so that they pertain to the Loop code, not the shortcode. Second, provide an example. The "Default" example makes no sense unless you define it, such as "print_link(''123,456'') will give (whatever) result with respect to post or page results. I realize that experienced coders will understand what you mean regardless of the sequencing of your instructions, but when the plugin does not work, we are inclined to think it had something to do with the confusing instructions.

5 minutes of your time on this would clear up a LOT of confusion. - thx!

Offline GaMerZ

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Re: Instructions problem and no table printing
« Reply #1 on: 19 January 2010, 05:23 »
Thanks for the feedback, I have swap the position as suggested by you.

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