goldenapples/recommended-links

a plugin to add a reddit-style system of link sharing, commenting, and rating to WordPress

recommended-links's Issues

Cannot output reclink_sort for a specific category in my page

I am trying to have the reclinks split up into categories but it shows all recommended links instead of just the ones in a particular category

Allow public to see add link widget

Love this plugin. Non-registered users of the site can't see the add links form widget. I can't see an option to change this in the plugin settings (there is a tick box for public voting, but not for link submission). I can't quite figure out how to allow this by editing the plugin code (though I can see some likely places where this might be possible, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to know for certain). Any help would be appreciated...

New feature: Author archive pages

I'm getting around to building out author archive pages for version 0.5 of the plugin and wanted to get feedback as to how that should work.

Typically WordPress will just pull the author.php template from the theme, but if I just inject recommended links and comments into that query, it will look really bad unless the theme author has specifically prepared that template for this post type. So I'm thinking I will need to make site owners create a stub page to hold that archive similar to the way there's already a stub page to hold the recommended link archive page.

Some questions:

How should the page be laid out? Can it use the same page template as the recommended links archive page, or does it need its own holder page and page template?

Should author link archive pages try to deal with regular posts as well, or just posts of the "recommended link" type?

What metrics are most important to display? Do users want to see total karma? Or karma broken down by submissions / comments?

And finally, how should the page be linked from the rest of the site? Should the WordPress the_author_link() be hijacked to point to this archive page? Should it only be linked from the headers on RecLinks pages? Should there be a widget set up to view top users?

I'll be going forward and making some decisions, but would like feedback from users as to what options to offer.

Link doesn't appear anywhere after I submit it to webpage.

To preface my comment, I should note that I am extremely new to wordpress. I just recently downloaded RecLinks in the hopes of creating a site very similar to digg, reddit, fark, etc. I've been able to put the proper widgets on the sidebars and so forth, but when I submit a link to the site, nothing appears on the page. Is this normal? Is there something that I'm missing that would otherwise allow the submitted links to appear as a standard post much like a link submitted to reddit or fark would?

Thank you in advance.

Pagination Doesn't Play with Filtering

Pagination only seems to work if you haven't filtered

THIS WORKS:
http://www.website.com/reclinks/page/2

THIS DOESN'T:
http://www.website.com/reclinks/?sort=newest/page/2

It would be nice if those "filters" could actually be static pages anyway.

IE:
http://www.website.com/reclinks/newest_posts
http://www.website.com/reclinks/popular_today
http://www.website.com/reclinks/popular_this_week
http://www.website.com/reclinks/popular_all_time

Having static pages for these "filters" (which you now just have using what appears to be the standard built-in wordpress filtering calls) would be a lot better because each of those individual pages could then build up their own PageRank the way inbound.org's do. For example; their front page is a PR5, but their http://inbound.org/incoming/ is a PR3 all on its own (the ability for those individual-pages to have their own PR is incredibly valuable because that means that the 25 newest submissions are getting PR juice too, not just the 25 on the front page (that's much much more incentive for people to submit new content (they get a PR3 just for posting, without even getting a single vote yet, that's awesome).

So on a related topic: Not sure if you've noticed this but inbound.org's site appears to be amazingly similar to your plugin. I talked to their developer and he said they were actually using a customized version of the Nominate theme (http://prothemedesign.com/themes/nominate-for-wordpress/) but I still say it looks a hell of a lot more like yours than theirs. Some obvious ones are that they have 25 posts per page just like yours, they use the word karma like yours, and most of all, all their listing links are IDENTICAL to your votebox() even the linear order of those links in your votebox() are the same.

Anyway, hope that static-pages thing might be something you could implement INSTEAD OF trying to fix pagination ith filtering problem.

Am I driving you nuts yet? I played around with that Nominate theme earlier tonight by the way, and I'm definitely not a big fan, yours is so much easier to customize, well worth waiting for.

thanks brother

Homepage pagination doesn't work.

The "next page" links on the bottom of the homepage don't work. While the link does take you to a new page (as witnessed by the url), the content of the page is still the same top 25 reclinks of the homepage. I've tested this with multiple themes. I'm guessing, the plugin doesn't ever show past the top 25 submissions.

Is this easily fixed? Working "next page" and "previous page" links on the homepage for reclinks?

Voting issue?

So, after I submitting a link, a different user logged in to the same computer can't seem to vote on that link. I think you have some sort of IP address protection turned on. Could you possibly make an option in the settings to turn that off? Thanks!

Bookmarklet

Requested: a bookmarklet for sites. Similar to: WordPress "Press This" or Reddit's bookmarklets. Need a way for site owners to customize it to some degree.

Need to handle themes with multiple 'the_content' areas

Themes which call 'the_content' filter multiple times on a page cause the list of links to be displayed multiple times on the page set as "Page for Recommended Links Archive". Need a way to determine which is the primary content area and ignore the others.

Note: this is different than secondary loops, which are already being handled. This problem appears to be specific to themes which allow users to define multiple content blocks within a single page.

"The document does not appear to have a tittle"

I think you should get rid of the error message "The document does not appear to have a tittle" in the addform widget. I don't expect the title field to autofill, so when it does, it's a bonus, but if it doesn't, I didn't expect it to anyway. But getting an error message for something that isn't really a problem only slows me down when I'm just trying to out the form.

WP post type admin page not set up

The WP admin page edit.php?post_type=reclink is not set up to handle the fields specific to "recommended links" post type. Needs a column for "Link URL".

Also, there needs to be a metabox on post.php to handle the custom fields on recommended links. It would also be helpful to be able to view votes from here. Also needs better UI for creating links directly from the admin, maybe a bulk importer?

Allow "link" submission without urls

Howdy!

First of all, I'd just like to say that I appreciate the great work that you're doing in developing this plugin.

So, the issue that I'm having is this. The first link gets submitted just fine. But then, when another link is submitted (by either the same user or a different user), it says "Link submitted successfully," but it doesn't actually show up. Do you know what I might be doing wrong?

I'm using WP3.3.1 and version 0.3.4 of your plugin.

Thanks!

Vote won't go above 2

The vote seems to max at 2, or am I missing something? Thanks again.

Current recommended links widget

In the current recommended links widget, it is sometimes listing the incorrect author for the listed links. They should all be by me (dldahly), but on pages with any comments, the author is replaced by whomever made the most recent comment.

For example, compare these...
http://statisticalepidemiology.org/?page_id=887
http://statisticalepidemiology.org/?p=357
http://statisticalepidemiology.org/

Addform breaks after first submission

The addform page needs to be manually refreshed for consecutive submissions. The first submission goes through just fine, but subsequent submissions fail even though I get a "link successful message."

Archive links by category and tag

Right now you can enable categories, tags, or any other taxonomy for the "recommended links" post type, and if they're enabled, they are selectable from the submission form (although that is still somewhat buggy).

In order for this feature to be useful, there needs to be a query variable set to browse only links with a given term. Need a way to make this more user-friendly.

Faulty comment link?

So, with the theme that I use (http://www.lightworddesign.org/), when looking at http://site.com/reclinks, it shows up something like this:

Link Title (along with actual-link)
Posted by - poster-name

• + | x points by poster-name time-elapsed - comments/no-comments-yet

filed under: category Other-comments-link.

The issue that shows up for me is that the other-comments-link links to actual-link#comments instead of the comments/no-comments-yet#comments, if that makes sense?

Thanks!

Linking submitted link to a particular page?

Currently, I have the plugin set up to post links directly on the main page of my site, but is there a way that I can categorize a recommended link to post itself on a specific page as well as the main page?

For example, on a site link Fark, when a poster submits an 'entertainment' link, it will appear on the main page as well as the 'entertainment' page. If this isn't something that reclinks offers, would you be able to suggest a secondary plugin that might accomplish this task?

Thank you in advance.