"Show Entries in sidebar"- bug?

Hokey · Post by **Hokey** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:06 pm

Hi to all S9Y-Users!

I think I found a bug in the "Show Entries in sidebar"-Plugin. I noticed two things:

1.) By surfing my blog with an older Firefox browser in the university both the sidebar-entry and the blog-entry were not visible. Only the plugin-title was visible. (No screenies possible from the university...) After logging in and watching in the backoffice what may have happened to the entries, they were back on their place!? This was reproducible.

(update: I could reproduce the bug with Internet Explorer 6.0. Under the title "Serie: Noten" should be an image and text as you can see on the second screenshot.)

2) I am using an image in the entry that shall be posted in the main blog and in the sidebar. The image is aligned left in the original entry and in Firefox it looks even quite nice in the sidebar, but Opera seems to have some problems: the text crosses the border of the right sidebar:

Greetings from Germany,
Hokey

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:13 pm

Hi!

How should the right sidebar look like? Could it be that you only see the rigt stuff when you are logged in? How did you configure the plugin, did you change the template?

Regards,
Garvin

Hokey · Post by **Hokey** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:03 pm

Hi Garvin,

I had no vision how it should look like, but this is the way it looks like in Firefox:

Maybe it would help if I would make the pic bigger, so that Opera also sets the text under the pic. But this wouldn't solve the other problem.

When I log out with Opera then the content of the plugin is gone, like in the IE-screenshot. But with Firefox it works perfectly when I'm not logged in, even when I empty the cache and shut the browser.

There is only one change in the template. You can see it in my blog on the left sidebar - the last.fm-charts list. The Opera-bug ist reproducible with other templates as well, e.g. Andreas008:

The configuration of the plugin is this:

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:07 pm

Hi!

In my Firefox 1.5.0.1 I cannot see the output either. My guess is that your firefox has automatic login via Cookie enabled?

If you enable "show extended entry" do you see something?

Also, what are the 'Read' privileges of category 32? Did you maybe set category 32 as a "Hidden category" using the startcat plugin?

Best regards,
Garvin

Hokey · Post by **Hokey** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:25 pm

Hmmm... the automatic login is enabled, you're right.

The "extended entry" option seems to have no influence.

I choosed category 32 for only showing entries of this category! All the others should be handled like normal blog posts. I don't use the startcat plugin.

Greetings,
Hokey

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:39 pm

Hi!

And what are the read permissions of category 32? You can see it if you edit that category in the Admin "Categories" section.

Regards,
Garvin

Hokey · Post by **Hokey** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:58 pm

They are on "Alle Autoren". Maybe this information can also be important: the relevant category is a subcategory.

Hokey · Post by **Hokey** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:25 pm

When I copy&paste the URL to the entry in Opera or IE then the following message appears:

"Traurig: Keine Einträge vorhanden."

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:22 am

Hi!

Then definitely something is making the entry invisible. Is it set to draft? Did you set read privileges specific to the entry? Which event plugins are you using?

Regards,
Garvin

Hokey · Post by **Hokey** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:46 am

Good morning Garvin,

you guessed right. I wrote the entry some days before an set the read privleges to "only author can read"...

I am so sorry! I imagine you, checking hundreds of lines of code, twisting your brain about possible solutions... and it was just a *$&/ user who was too dumb to have a simple look on the read privileges.

Don't you have a wishlist? I think in the next time I should have a look at this...

Big big SORRY!

an ashamed Hokey

(maybe it would be better to delete this blemish of "bug"-thread, because it won't 't help anyone...)

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:49 am

Hi!

Don't feel to much sorry for that. I actually already knew it must be something like that, so I didn't even need to check code for that. So all in all I maybe spend 10 Minutes on this problem.

But of course I do have a wishlist: http://wishes.garv.in/

Best regards,
Garvin

Hokey · Post by **Hokey** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:51 am

But the Opera problem can't be solved by increasing the size of the picture. Now, with the right read privileges I can see that this problem also exist on IE.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:10 pm

Hi!

For the image problem, try to create a CSS rule that applies to all image elements for the right sidebar:

#serendipity_rightSideBar img {
width: 200px;
}

Use the proper class names to only "hit" the images in your list, of course. You need to rescale the image so that the text can wrap around it.

Regards,
Garvin

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