Wordpress debugging : CformsII, Jcarousel and Timthumb

Just blogging my debugging experience  in Wordpress.

First problem encountered : Timthumb.php by Darrent Hoyt not displaying the resized images.

Solution: First thing to do is to check the file permissions properties of the temp/cache folder where your timthumb.php stores its temporary files is set to 777. This is also part of the timthumb instructions so don't hesitate to visit their site. If this doesn't solved your problem, you can also try contacting your host because I noticed it will give an Error 403 or 500 which is particularly in security issues. By searching the Wordpress forum I found a solution at this thread . It was suggested to use relative path of the images. Solution is straightforward, you just have to omit from the path of images your url address and leaving only "/wp-content/uploads/bigs.jpg&w=232&h=158&zc=1". I immediately tried copying the URL of the image and paste it to the address bar of my browser, removed the address of the site with the following sample.

Working
http://www.address.com/wp-content/themes/magiting/functions/timthumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/big_boobs.jpg&w=232&h=158&zc=1

Error
http://www.address.com/wp-content/themes/magiting/functions/timthumb.php?src=http://www.address.com/wp-content/uploads/big.jpg&w=232&h=158&zc=1


Second Problem : Conflict between Jquery's plugin Jcarousel and WP plugin CformsII

After the first problem was solved, I noticed another problem from the Jcarousel. Both navigation buttons of the carousel was not displayed eventhough the its background was already loaded. I suspected some javascript or css files are doing it.

What I did was, I copied the source in plain HTML and save it to my local disk. Initially, I removed some css and javascripts pre-loaded by some WP plugins. The last plugins' javascript and css I removed was from Cforms II, upon refreshing the page the navigation buttons of Jcarousel magically appeared again. Until now I'm still looking for solutions to make the Jcarousel gallery and CformsII work together. If anyone have some solutions to this issue please leave your comment.

Converting WP Theme to Drupal Theme

Yesterday, I was surprised to read from Technorati that White House's website will be shifted to popular CMS Drupal which happen to be my favorite when I lost my appetite with Joomla!'s categorization.

Also yesterday, I posted my first experience in converting WP theme to Blogger layout which I worked out last month but got pissed off with the posts display problem. Today, I'm happy to post that my conversion with WP theme Masunurin to Drupal theme is another milestone to me.

For those interested in creating Drupal themes, I suggests reading this tutorial How to Make a Drupal Theme which was my source in converting the Paddsolutions' Masunurin WP theme. Also, you can visit Drupal's Theme guide for more comprehensive documentation.

Tomorrow, I will finalize packaging the said theme for Drupal community to give it a try. I will also capture screenshots and setup its demo site.

My First : Wordpress Theme to Blogger Layout

I have been studying for a month now how to create a Blogger layout but unfortunately I only spend a day then back again after a few weeks or more because of my daytime job. In short, I just did it during my leisure time.

Anyway, here's the screenshot of my amateur conversion of Wordpress theme to Blogger layout which you can visit at Bloggers Templating. During the peak of my conversion, I decided to check some of my resources for Blogger template tutorial and noticed that FalconHive already converted the theme I'm working on. Too bad for me I was late in publishing it earlier. Well, I can't do anything about it now so I decided to continue what I've started last month and post it here instead.

I also checked FalconHive's work, it was awesome, great actually. I didn't even bother to put Tweetmeme plugin in my version because this is just my exploration with Blogger. What makes my version different? Very obvious is the color, I used the magenta/pink version the Masunurin theme of Masunurin Pink of Paddsolutions. And the most is, when you add gadgets in the sidebar, it will have the same styling with the original design.

Last month, I was really having problem creating this because the posts and other contents are not displaying as expected that was also one of the reasons I ended up to nothing. But with the help of the blank template by Kendhin , it works brilliantly. Then, I was able to play around with it a little bit more.

 Here's my version's screenshot.

Here's from FalconHive version of Masunurin Theme

For those interested to download my Masunurin Blogger Theme version just leave a comment. I would also like to acknowledge FalconHive because it has been my resources for learning the Blogger theming.

Debug mode 'true' results in Wordpress 2.8.4

I'm not a Wordpress expert myselft but I often asks by friends to do some stuff with it. Recently, I tried debugging some error we encountered with my friends blog using Wordpress. 


Normally, in some CMS or some other web project there's an option to turn on the debug mode for us developers to know what are those error we don't easily see by walking through the lines of codes.


Now, I tried enabling Wordpress' debug mode by adding define('WP_DEBUG',true); at wp_config.php file at the root directory of Wordpress and noticed the following errors:

Notice: get_settings is deprecated since version 0.0! Use get_option() instead. in F:\AppServ\www\projs\wp\wp-includes\functions.php on line 2918.

Well, it won't actually make a huge problem with your Wordpress site using the version 2.8.4 but for compatiblity concern this must be change from its core since 2.8.5 has arrived with security issues addressed already. I believe 2.9 will be coming soon too hope this has been addressed too.

Wordpress MU

For the past few months of using Wordpress particularly in creating themes from PSD to Wordpress theme. I've learned a lot in doing it regularly. It has hone my knowledge in CSS, JS frameworks (Jquery which is my favorite) and Wordpress codex in general.

Recently, I've discovered Wordpress MU (Multi User) and been trying to install to my localhost and it works a bit but adding new blog is not working as expected because it requires an email server wherein login and activation key will be sent to newly created blog.

If anyone can help or suggest to me what to do, please leave your comments.

Wordpress 2.7.1

I just introduced myself to Wordpress 2.7.0 yesterday and so far so good.

Still have to read about its extensions such as templates and plugins. I'm interested to learn how to create templates and plugins on this system. I've known WordPress way back 2007 but i haven't got the chance to learn how to use it. Yah i know it's so easy and I just realized it yesterday. Also, i found it exciting to use.

Really have to go before the rain falls.