[wp-hackers] Proposal: StackOverflow for WordPress

Davit Barbakadze jayarjo at gmail.com
Fri May 14 07:04:36 UTC 2010


Register yourself to StackOverflow and use it for a week or so, you
will understand :)

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Pixel Insert <studio at pixert.com> wrote:
> bbPress 1.1 is to be released soon. Also, for those who missed it,
> bbPress website looks better now http://bbpress.org/
>
>>> I like the new bbPress website. I can't wait for new bbPress updates. I'm
> hoping for more integration between WordPress and bbPress in the future
>>> Can anyone explain differences between Stack Overflow and WP Questions?
> It looks similar to me.
>
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:00 PM, <wp-hackers-request at lists.automattic.com>wrote:
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>> Today's Topics:
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>>   1. Re: ordering by a custom field (Brian Fidler)
>>   2. Important changes to post type and taxonomy       registration
>>      (Andrew Nacin)
>>   3. Shortcodes getting wrapped with a "p" tag by rich editor
>>      (Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz)
>>   4. Re: Shortcodes getting wrapped with a "p" tag by rich     editor
>>      (Thomas Belknap)
>>   5. Re: Proposal: StackOverflow for WordPress (Calvin Freitas)
>>   6. Re: Proposal: StackOverflow for WordPress (Stas Su?cov)
>>   7. Re: Proposal: StackOverflow for WordPress (Doug Stewart)
>>   8. Bugs caused by adding a second rich editor to the add/edit
>>      posts screen (Matthew Gerring)
>>   9. Re: Proposal: StackOverflow for WordPress (Michael E. Hancock)
>>  10. Re: Bugs caused by adding a second rich editor to the
>>      add/edit posts screen (scribu)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 07:06:44 -0700
>> From: Brian Fidler <fidler.brian at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] ordering by a custom field
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
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>> Thanks Mike, I may have some questions on how to implement it.
>>
>> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Mike Schinkel <
>> mikeschinkel at newclarity.net
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > On May 13, 2010, at 12:22 AM, Brian Fidler wrote:
>> > >
>> > >   - I have a second custom field in my posts that allows me to set
>> > >   display_order. Instead of ending my query with ORDER BY
>> > >   wp_posts.post_title ASC, I'd like to order by the custom field
>> > >   "display_order"
>> >
>> > What will your custom field's value be?  The name of a field in the posts
>> > table, or something else?  If the former, I assume there's a finite set
>> of
>> > options which you would test against (otherwise you might end up having a
>> > SQL injection vulnerability?)
>> >
>> > > and secondly, is there a simpler way to run this query using wpdb
>> class?
>> >
>> > What about it do you want to be simpler?   AFAICT NextGen doesn't give
>> you
>> > hooks into their queries so you'll have to do it with SQL.
>> >
>> > Anyway, here's a standalone file you can put in your root and I think it
>> > should give you want you want, minus the display order I haven't
>> implemented
>> > yet.  Let me know if this is what you are looking for?
>> >
>> > http://wordpress.pastebin.com/79QDM7Ng
>> >
>> > HTH.
>> >
>> > -Mike
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>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:53:57 -0400
>> From: Andrew Nacin <wp at andrewnacin.com>
>> Subject: [wp-hackers] Important changes to post type and taxonomy
>>        registration
>> To: wp-testers <wp-testers at lists.automattic.com>,
>>        wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
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>> Testers and hackers,
>>
>> We've made two important changes to how you register post types and
>> taxonomies. We've introduced two new arrays into the arguments you would
>> normally pass during registration: 'labels', and 'capabilities'.
>>
>> More or less, label and singular_label is not enough for i18n purposes, so
>> we now generate a dozen or so labels based off the post type that can be
>> used throughout core, and any plugin can choose to register their own
>> translations for their own custom post types. (This also will apply to
>> taxonomies.) It isn't fully implemented yet, but it's close. We may
>> eliminate singular_label entirely, since that was introduced earlier in the
>> 3.0 cycle.
>>
>> Second, we've moved the fine-grained capabilities controls for custom post
>> types and taxonomies into a capabilities array. Thus, if you were using
>> manage_cap, assign_cap, edit_type_cap, etc -- all of those are gone, moved
>> under a cap object. ($post_type_object->cap->edit_posts.) Please take note.
>>
>> I've also chronicled this in more detail (and arguably more confusing
>> fashion) at http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/?p=814. That post also references
>> the tickets where this was implemented, so you can look at the code if you
>> have any questions, or ping any of the committers etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nacin
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 00:05:07 +0800
>> From: Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz <aizat.faiz at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [wp-hackers] Shortcodes getting wrapped with a "p" tag by
>>        rich    editor
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
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>>
>> Holas,
>>
>> I've written up a trac ticket #13288 (
>> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13288 ), and have yet to a see a
>> response of any kind.
>>
>> Was wondering what is the procedure to get this looked at.
>>
>> Trac ticket description, reproduced here:
>>
>> This bug appeared when trying to hunt down a bug with the TinyMCE Advanced
>> (
>> >  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/ ) plugin where
>> > extra spaces were being added (
>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/350867), and was related to the
>> WordPress code.
>>
>>
>> > It appears that shortcodes are wrapped with a "p" tag, before being sent
>> to
>> > the rich editor.
>>
>>
>> > This patch removes the "p" tag, by calling shortcode_unautop.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Aizat
>>
>> --
>> http://aizatto.com
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 12:17:05 -0400
>> From: Thomas Belknap <dragonfly at dragonflyeye.net>
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Shortcodes getting wrapped with a "p" tag by
>>        rich    editor
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> Message-ID:
>>        <AANLkTikdRPyqCmzSrsz9Awsco1-nbe36iDRz2K_USfAb at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> I think I've always used the HTML editor. Thought that was the way it was
>> supposed to work?
>>
>> On May 13, 2010 12:05 PM, "Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz" <
>> aizat.faiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Holas,
>>
>> I've written up a trac ticket #13288 (
>> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13288 ), and have yet to a see a
>> response of any kind.
>>
>> Was wondering what is the procedure to get this looked at.
>>
>> Trac ticket description, reproduced here:
>>
>> This bug appeared when trying to hunt down a bug with the TinyMCE Advanced
>> (
>> >  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/ ) plugin where
>> > extra spaces were being added (
>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/350867),
>> and was related to the WordPress code.
>>
>>
>> > It appears that shortcodes are wrapped with a "p" tag, before being sent
>> to
>> > the rich editor.
>>
>>
>> > This patch removes the "p" tag, by calling shortcode_unautop.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Aizat
>>
>> --
>> http://aizatto.com
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>> ------------------------------
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>> Message: 5
>> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 10:05:37 -0700
>> From: Calvin Freitas <cal at calvinf.com>
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Proposal: StackOverflow for WordPress
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> Message-ID:
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>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> It'd be great to have all the same tools and features available to run on a
>> site powered by bbPress, but from what I've seen those tools aren't there.
>> When was the last time bbPress had any kind of update?
>>
>> - Cal
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Christopher O'Connell <
>> jwriteclub at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > I'm going to add +1 to this whole concept.
>> >
>> > ~ Christopher
>> >
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 6
>> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 20:22:52 +0300
>> From: Stas Su?cov <stas at nerd.ro>
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Proposal: StackOverflow for WordPress
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> Message-ID: <1273771372.14542.17.camel at rivalry>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>>
>> ?n data de Jo, 13-05-2010 la 10:05 -0700, Calvin Freitas a scris:
>> > It'd be great to have all the same tools and features available to run on
>> a
>> > site powered by bbPress, but from what I've seen those tools aren't
>> there.
>> > When was the last time bbPress had any kind of update?
>>
>> bbPress 1.1 is to be released soon. Also, for those who missed it,
>> bbPress website looks better now http://bbpress.org/
>>
>> There are also plans to rewrite it as a new WordPress 3.0 plugin using
>> exclusively the api for custom post types and taxonomy. This was
>> discussed recently on #bbpress and #wordpress-gsoc.
>>
>> For those who missed the wcsf keynote, there are also plans to move the
>> whole *press.org stuff to BuddyPress so I believe bbPress still has the
>> chance to get better (much better).
>>
>> Jane is right, there's no reason to move all the data to somebody's else
>> yard, at least without trying to fix something by ourselves.
>>
>> --
>> ()  Campania Panglicii ?n ASCII
>> /\  http://www.asciiribbon.org/
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 7
>> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 14:45:38 -0400
>> From: Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Proposal: StackOverflow for WordPress
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> Message-ID:
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>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>
>> On 5/13/10, Stas Su?cov <stas at nerd.ro> wrote:
>> > Jane is right, there's no reason to move all the data to somebody's else
>> > yard, at least without trying to fix something by ourselves.
>>
>> I would cede your point if it were simply data we were talking about.
>> What SO, et al., offer is /curation/ of that data.
>>
>> At this point, I  think the distinction is roughly this: The DotOrg
>> forums are fields of wildflowers, weeds and prairie grass, with little
>> semblance of "here's where you go to find an answer to Question X" and
>> harried "gardeners" (mods) scurrying about frantically stamping out
>> "contributions" from folks intent on re-growing a patch of daisies
>> while a perfectly fine bit is growing over the next rise.
>> StackOverflow is a local topiary.
>>
>> Both may very well contain the same "plants", it's just an order of
>> magnitude easier to find the bushes shaped like a Shared Host
>> Recommendation in the topiary.
>>
>> --
>> -Doug
>> @zamoose
>> http://literalbarrage.org/blog/
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 8
>> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 12:21:40 -0700
>> From: Matthew Gerring <mgerring at emrl.com>
>> Subject: [wp-hackers] Bugs caused by adding a second rich editor to
>>        the     add/edit posts screen
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> Message-ID: <429CE6F8-49E0-4EF0-A872-EC32C3FB02BC at emrl.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>
>> Hello all.
>>
>> I wrote a simple addition to a theme that adds a meta box in the add/edit
>> posts screen. It allows you to use the rich editor to edit content that
>> shows up in the sidebar.
>>
>> The problem is that the dialogs for some buttons now appear inside the text
>> area for this second rich editor. For instance, clicking the "add link"
>> button on the regular rich editor causes the Add Link dialog to appear in
>> the second rich editor, underneath the grey overlay.
>>
>> Does anyone know why this is happening, or a way around it?
>>
>> -Matthew
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 9
>> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:53:42 -0400
>> From: "Michael E. Hancock" <justmichaelh at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Proposal: StackOverflow for WordPress
>> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
>> Message-ID: <025d01caf2de$60b72fc0$6401a8c0 at dell8600>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8";
>>        reply-type=original
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Doug Stewart"
>> > StackOverflow is a local topiary.
>>
>> I'd say it's planting season.  Seems there's enough +1's from this list to
>> get that growing.  If you don't want to use the Forums, then ignore it.  If
>> you want your own, then start plowing.
>>
>> May your harvest be plentiful.
>>
>> MichaelH
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 10
>> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 01:00:45 +0300
>> From: scribu <scribu at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Bugs caused by adding a second rich editor
>>        to the  add/edit posts screen
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> Message-ID:
>>        <AANLkTiluFrb-SdH2L-6SDWGT45W22SUa02xLG0Zlx1X6 at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>
>> See this trac ticket:
>>
>> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11862
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Matthew Gerring <mgerring at emrl.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello all.
>> >
>> > I wrote a simple addition to a theme that adds a meta box in the add/edit
>> > posts screen. It allows you to use the rich editor to edit content that
>> > shows up in the sidebar.
>> >
>> > The problem is that the dialogs for some buttons now appear inside the
>> text
>> > area for this second rich editor. For instance, clicking the "add link"
>> > button on the regular rich editor causes the Add Link dialog to appear in
>> > the second rich editor, underneath the grey overlay.
>> >
>> > Does anyone know why this is happening, or a way around it?
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://scribu.net
>>
>>
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