[wp-forums] Sharing login details to dummy host

[andrew nevins]

>  The tone from this chain leads to me believe there really is no support,
or at least somewhat of a reluctance to assist with issues.

That's a bit of a generalisation, you're only seeing 1 thread being
discussed from this chain.


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Joe Finnerty <joefinnerty at verizon.net>wrote:

>
> I'm not sure I was supposed to be a recipient on this chain.
>
> The login info requested is for a large, live site.
>
> I can assure you that I would not be asking for help, if I didn't need it.
>
> I have worked with many other themes, written a few etc ...
>
> Never had any problems.  Or at least those I couldn't fix.
>
> I have already coded around this problem but would just like to clean this
> up.
>
> There are continued changes to these sliders and for some reason this one
> has been a real pain.
>
> I have investigated plugin clashing etc... but to no avail.  What I will
> probably do is use another slider
>
> that actually works.   The tone from this chain leads to me believe there
> really is no support, or at least
>
> somewhat of a reluctance to assist with issues.  That is fine with me.
>  All I want to know is where the theme
>
> stores the slider info.  File, db table????  I am resistant to supply any
> login info or ftp credentials.
>
> If you don't know where the slider is stored just say so and we're done.
>
>
> Thanks
> Joe Finnerty
> Email: joefinnerty at verizon.net
> Cell: 302.258.7530
> Fax: 302.541.8506
>
> On Mar 5, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Mika Epstein <ipstenu at halfelf.org> wrote:
>
> > That's what GitHub is for. I'll fire up MAMP if I feel like I can debug
> your theme. Which I usually avoid. But still. Your weird code, I'll test
> when I have control.
> >
> > Sent on my iPhone
> >
> >> On Mar 5, 2014, at 5:40 AM, andrew nevins <andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> It's getting to the point where it's like supporting a commercial theme
> >> where we, and the guy asking for help, has no idea what code does what,
> >> where.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:32 PM, andrew nevins
> >> <andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com>wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thx.
> >>>
> >>> I am fine with helping people out with bits and bobs of their custom
> theme
> >>> that they're making, but that thread isn't as innocent. The OP made a
> >>> custom theme off some tuts but it seems like it was more of a
> >>> copy-and-paste job and he isn't aware how to make the changes he's now
> >>> enquiring.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Jan Dembowski <jan at dembowski.net>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> andrew nevins wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is it okay for people to share their login details for us to help
> them,
> >>>>> if
> >>>>> their installation is hosted on a dummy server? E.g. Someone has an
> issue
> >>>>> on localhost and they just put their site on any free hosting
> service to
> >>>>> get it up and running for us to see, is it then okay for them to
> share
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> login details to that site?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-problems-with-
> >>>>> my-theme?replies=15#post-5304791
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Although I am aware that when it gets to the stage that they need
> someone
> >>>>> to look into their dashboard they may need more support than this
> forum
> >>>>> can
> >>>>> give.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Nope. *Looks for coffee*
> >>>>
> >>>> I mean, "That's not a good idea and that userid and password should be
> >>>> edited out of the post when found just like email addresses." ;)
> >>>>
> >>>> The forums are self-help and members should wait for instructions or
> >>>> examples of how to sort out their problems themselves. It doesn't
> matter if
> >>>> it's paid hosting or free (which is it's own problem BTW, free hosts
> are
> >>>> awful) no one should be publishing credentials on the forums.
> >>>>
> >>>> They can share code, screenshots, point to the temporary site, etc.
> but
> >>>> if they need that level of hands support then please politely refer
> them to
> >>>> the jobs site.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> Jan Dembowski
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