Bootstrap Shortcodes Help

[jeffreysfridge]

Whenever I click the "Bootstrap Shortcodes Help" button it pulls up a blank iframe.

[MWDelaney]

See https://github.com/filipstefansson/bootstrap-shortcodes#installation

If you download the .zip file from GitHub it fails to include a required submodule.

[vinefreeman]

if you clone the repo it also gives the same error.

[MWDelaney]

The required submodule, https://github.com/michelf/php-markdown, requires PHP 5.3 or later. Can you check your PHP version, and any error_logs that might have useful information?

[vinefreeman]

Thanks FoolsRun, I've decided against it as the requirement of further bits out of my control leaves me uneasy...

[MWDelaney]

It's a good practice to run a modern version of PHP anyway. We included php_markdown as a sub module to make keeping this plugin up to date and secure easier. We're sorry you won't be using it.

[vinefreeman]

Thanks... I'm running PHP 5.3. It's just that as I don't really know what's going on (with markdown) I don't want to add something that could cause me probs (and I would hve no control over, too many dependencies etc). Your plugin looks great though and I was gutted when I couldn't use it.

[simonyeldon]

The php_markdown is only required if viewing the help.

Maybe we should look at making this an optional feature (a check box on the plugin settings maybe?)

[vinefreeman]

Yes, i'm getting the error when clicking the button on the write panel editor (TinyMCE etc...)

[MWDelaney]

I think this is an unusual request and case. Plugins like this one use dependencies all the time. This one requires Bootstrap and jQuery in addition to php_markdown. php_markdown is open source right here on GitHub and the user can review its source code if he is suspicious of it.

I included php_markdown as an easy way of keeping the user-viewable help up to date with the repository's README (by making them literally the same document). Since this project has only a few maintainers, it seemed the easiest way to not have to write everything twice. If we no longer think this is a good plan we can definitely revisit the issue.

[MWDelaney]

@vinefreeman can you describe what error you receive? The original issue didn't describe an error, only a blank ThickBox popup.

[vinefreeman]

hi guys... when clicking the shortcode help button on the write panel editor, the pop-up window contained lots of errors... to do with the markdown plugin... I'm not massively technical, but I forked the repo and installed that way (not manually).

[MWDelaney]

can you copy the errors into a comment here? Seeing them would help us diagnose whether the issue is with our plugin, or upstream with php_markdown.

[vinefreeman]

Will do - I just need to get a project live then I'm moving onto the one this plugin was needed for... I must admit i would prefer to use your plugin.

[vinefreeman]

Hi guys I'm slightly confused now. Have just cloned the bootstrap-shortcodes git and am getting different errors (when clicking the 'B' in the editor), it's bascially saying there's a missing include. So I looked in the markdown folder in bootstrap-shortcodes/includes foler and the markdown folder is now empty. Also in WP BS3 shortcodes plugin, it's saying there is a newer version available but I cloned from github - is this not the most recent ver?

Do i need to clone the markdown git separately? The install on your readme tends to suggest that is part of the manual process.

Apologies if I'm being an idiot.

[MWDelaney]

I can answer the Wordpress Update part right now --I'll investigate the cloning issue later on.

WordPress uses the plugin's folder name to determine whether updates are available. Unfortunately there are a lot of plugins named similarly to ours, which is why we recently changed the name to "bootstrap-3-shortcodes".

My guess is that your plugin folder is named "bootstrap-shortcodes" or something similar which overlaps with another plugin in the WordPress repository. Can you check that and rename your folder if necessary? That should clear up the incorrect update notification.

[vinefreeman]

thanks i've renamed the folder and that has cleared the WP message

[MWDelaney]

I've just deleted and re-cloned using the GitHub GUI client and it also cloned the submodule successfully.

If you are cloning the repository via command-line, the readme includes additional commands you need to run to get the necessary submodule:

$ git clone git@github.com:filipstefansson/bootstrap-shortcodes.git
$ cd bootstrap-shortcodes/
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

[vinefreeman]

Thanks although I don't want this to be a submodule. It's not currently residing in a repo. I only have the theme as a repo not the whole WP structure. Is the last line neccessary to update the markdown requirement?

[vinefreeman]

@FoolsRun ignore my previous comment. It's probably my lack of git knowledge. I had no idea what the submodule section did so avoided it as I didn't think the BS3 shortcodes was a submod - I understand the phpmdown is. Apologies for the running around and thanks for your help.

Is there a way I can edit the conents of the popup window to remove the first section - it might scare my client if they see that...

thanks again.

[vinefreeman]

Hi again - with a couple of the shortcodes I'm getting the following error:

Also once I close the modal then open it again, it will not close.

thanks

[MWDelaney]

Where does that error appear? It's not clear from context. What is your hosting situation? Which shortcode caused that error?

[vinefreeman]

Hey - it's on wamp localhost. It appeared for popover and tooltip. And the modal window wouldn't close 2nd time. Php 5.3

[MWDelaney]

Alrighty, there was actually a bug in popover which I've fixed. You can re-download the full plugin, with the necessary submodules (and the scary installation section removed from the README) at this plugin's new page here:

http://filipstefansson.com/bootstrap-3-shortcodes/

The big scary error you're getting seems to imply a problem with your WAMP setup. domDocument is interpreting <

as

&lt;

And naturally failing to understand it as XML. I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this error. Do you have hosting somewhere that you could try installing the plugin on to confirm it works elsewhere?

[vinefreeman]

thanks - I've now uploaded to a remote test server but unfortunately it is running PHP v 5.2.17. This must be why i'm getting the empty popup window when hitting the 'B' shortcode help button?

[MWDelaney]

This is a server configuration issue, not one with this plugin specifically. Closing.