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Comment on Popcorn Hour NMT (Networked Media Tank) A-100 by Dave

Dave — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:47:53 +0000

Just a detail: I guess, the playlists extension .jsp has however to do with Java Server Pages, because NMT’s MyiHome is a J2EE app with JSPs, although in cases of just static playlists this is a little confusing. But I made the experience, that every extension other then .jsp works as well.

Comment on NASA Image Of The Day plugin by webmaster

webmaster — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:21:37 +0000

Hi Jimmy!

Nasa has a few galleries online that might be suitable sources for a plugin like the one you want. See the grin.hq.nasa.gov website for categorized images. I’ll see what I can think up.

Comment on Google News plugin by Mns

Mns — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:18:26 +0000

Thanks for coding such a great plugin. I am trying to have it working on my blog with no success so far. I am using WP version 2.6.2. It works fine as a widget. But when I try to do it as part of the theme using
I get the error “No default feed available”. Please suggest.

Comment on NASA Image Of The Day plugin by Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:05:50 +0000

I love the NASA-Image-of-the-Day plug-in! I like it so much, I feel bad asking: is there any way to tap into NASA photo galleries that emphasize the astronomy images? Don’t get me wrong: I respect the welders and scientists who make it all possible, but I’d really love a plug-in that has a daily slide show of those astounding pictures of the universe. Anyway, thanks!

Comment on CNN News plugin by webmaster

webmaster — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:42:46 +0000

Hi Dillon!
You can add separators without editing the plugin source. The plugin itself is wrapped in a LI-tag with the id=”cnn-news”. The link-set is wrapped in an UL-tag (no id) and the individual links are all LI-wrapped. (View the page source on a page showing the plugin). You can use this information in your CSS file to say have a big bullet-like graphics in front of each link. As for the “fatal error”, you have most likely made a syntax error in your PHP-code. Se your webserver error log for additional information on what you did wrong. Hope this helps!

Comment on CNN News plugin by Dillon

Dillon — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:58:33 +0000

Hi,
I’m testing your CNN widget on a new blog I have just launched, but am not happy with the display of the 5 CNN news links. These links appear as one large block paragraph, without any indication where one link ends and the other begins. I’d like to insert a small image at the start of each news link to clearly define each link. But when I tried inserting the image code into the cnn_news.php file at the place I presumed to be correct, it prevented me from activating the plugin. Instead I got a “fatal error” message. Can you tell me exactly where and how to insert this image before each news link?
Thanks - am looking forward to hopefully resolving this!

Comment on Google News plugin by webmaster

webmaster — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:52:11 +0000

Hi Michael
The links you see are inside the Google news content, which I’m technically not allowed to manipulate according to Google TOS. But I’ll look into adding a target=”_blank” to the links to make them use another window though, that can’t be too much against the rules.

As for the complex query, it’s kinda limited in this release. If you just type in a list of words, that works as AND and will match articles that have all the words in them. For boolean or, you have to use the word “OR” as the first word in your word list. So “OR this that” (always without the quotes) means articles that have the word this OR the word that in them. I’m afraid that’s it for complexity at this point.

Comment on CNN News plugin by webmaster

webmaster — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:16:54 +0000

Hi Brad!
Do you mean something that would post a snapshot of the current news to a posting once in a while?
OK

Comment on CNN News plugin by Brad Hart @ A DoFollow Blog

Brad Hart @ A DoFollow Blog — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:39:07 +0000

It is a nice plugin, any chance on the next version having a digest post feature?

Comment on Google News plugin by Michael Kydonieus

Michael Kydonieus — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:37:57 +0000

I’m having a few problems.

1) When you use the ’short’ version, sometimes there is an extra link that says something like ‘98 additional articles.’ This link opens in the same window, leading the reader away from the website. How can I get it to open in a new window? (I can hack if necessary.)

2) When you use the ‘long’ version, ALL the links lead away from the website. Again, I would like to get them to open in a new window.

3) How can I use a complex query, i.e. something like “Religion and Politics” or “Religion or Politics”, that uses boolean logic?

Thanks