Comments on: Install: Things You Should Not Do

By: Jake Spurlock

Jake Spurlock — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:07:59 +0000

So, disabled all of the plugins, activated Biz Directory, and was faced with the same problem. The only thing that I haven’t deactivated is BuddyPress, but for this server, we are kind of production, so I don’t have a test bed. I will try again, but don’t know what to do. Any ideas?

By: Cary Snowden

Cary Snowden — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:56:33 +0000

Thanks for the details, Paul; We are looking at it.

Geoff: we don’t currently have a user interface to change the field names. We have this on our list for future development.

-Cary

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:17:47 +0000

We are seeing the same symptoms as Jake and are also running the MU version of WordPress (v2.6.1 MU).

The Apache error log shows:

[Wed Oct 08 16:29:31 2008] [error] [client 192.168.46.7] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_current_user() in /home/beta/public_html/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 447

As soon as I click “activate” in the admin interface, this error is generated and the admin browser fails to draw a reply page. Also, the public interface to the site generates the same error and fails to draw a page. In effect, the entire site is “down” until this plugin is removed.

We have a completely separate set of plugins installed from Jake’s list. So, I suspect that it is a multi-user issue rather than an interaction issue with another plugin – although that is still a guess at this point.

I’m still investigating as I would like to run this at our site as well. My current suspicion is that there is something significantly different in the MU environment that this plugin is not “playing nice” with. I’ll post more details if/when I have them but thought I’d confirm what looks like the same issue that Jake is seeing. Thanks.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:34:56 +0000

How can I update the display of the listings. For example I would like to display “Website:” before the URL output etc.

By: Cary Snowden

Cary Snowden — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:07:32 +0000

Michelle, you may have pasted a ‘bold’ copy of the code. (we intentionally bolded it so that it would not work on our instructions page.

To resolve the issue: retype the code into your blog page yourself, or remove the bold tags, which will appear as ‘‘ in your Code editor view.

To clarify: The code will not work if it is bold. We bolded the example so that it would not work on our instructions page. If you copied the code from that page, it is probably bolded.

Remove the bold tags and it should work just fine. Retyping the code is the easiest way to do this. Make sure you do not have Bold turned on when you do this.

By: Michelle Hoffmann

Michelle Hoffmann — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:20:49 +0000

I love the plugin… but when I try to use it, all I get on my directory page is the code… ie [bizdir_directory]. The same for the join page.

I have copy/pasted from the readme file… I am using WP 2.6.2. Seems I have this problem with a few different plugins. Any suggestions?

By: Cary Snowden

Cary Snowden — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:04:04 +0000

Bob, sorry about the color-stripping. I will have our team look at it on Monday and see if they can figure that one out (haven’t heard that one yet). The likely issue is a conflict with your CSS.

Jesse is our CSS expert; I’ll have him take a look at it and report back.

Thank you, everyone, for your feedback.

By: Cary Snowden

Cary Snowden — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:01:40 +0000

Jake,

I know it is troublesome, but it would really be helpful to us if you could turn off your plugins, load the Business Directory, and then turn yours on one-at-a-time to see which one is breaking your site (in combination with ours, that is).

We suspect it will be one that is javascript-heavy, or that also uses shortcodes.

Any additional input you can provide would be helpful. Thanks for the list; that was a great start.

By: Cary Snowden

Cary Snowden — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:59:43 +0000

When you go over 30 listings, the plugin automatically creates pagination. A page list will appear at the top of your Directory listing, showing 1,2,3, …etc. Users can search the entire list using the search tool, or can browse pages using the pagination.

We are working on adding ways to sort your lists, and perhaps a way to segregate filtered lists to different pages (for instance, if you place shortcode such as [list_utah] on a page, only Utah listings would show on that page.)

You currently cannot mess with the display without breaking into the code. We are considering spending some time on that, too.

We’ll keep you posted.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:33:19 +0000

One more thing. What happens when it gets long like 1,000 listings. Can we limit the number which display on one page? Is there a way to show A-Z or 1-10, 11-20 type links? It would also be nice to have a category entry pre-populated with some defaults like “restaurant”, “contractor” etc.