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cognidox / WordBridge

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dealbreakers... #10

Open ebooksmart opened 13 years ago

ebooksmart commented 13 years ago

I really want this to work. but it is simply unusable. here's the sad list:

1- once posts get sent to site cache, they never are re-checked. so if you edit them in WP, the edits do not show up. 2- only 10 posts show, no matter what you type in the back end number. 3- no link to previous posts, or older posts beyond the 10.

no comments and no "facebook likes", etc, I can live without. no access to edited posts or previous posts renders this extension totally useless...

sorry...

vittala commented 13 years ago

Hi

Thanks for the feedback. The cache issue we know about and are looking into as part of github issue #8.

For the 10 posts the feed size is ultimately controlled via Wordpress. In your blog settings on wordpress.com, under Settings -> Reading, increase the value for 'Syndication feeds show the most recent" to the number of items you would like to see on the Joomla site, and match the value with the "Feed count" setting on your WordBridge menu item settings.

Strange that you don't see older posts - can you search for older blog posts though Joomla?

Regards Vittal

ebooksmart commented 13 years ago

thanks for the response. in my wordbridge syndication settings I have changed it to 60, just like the back-end. it still displays only 10. you can go to my page and see that it doesn't show a link to past posts. By being able to search it is possible to find old articles, but is not useful, since user wouldn't know what to search for...

have a look: http://shindogs.org/index.php/dogblog-all-our-pups/blog

ebooksmart commented 13 years ago

here's a post I found by searching:

http://shindogs.org/index.php/dogblog-all-our-pups/post/12-malia-the-spaniel

vittala commented 13 years ago

Thanks for the information - it looks like your WP site is providing all the required information, and I can see all 12 posts if I test on a local Joomla 1.6 install. So, it looks like the local Joomla WordBridge cache is at fault. The master branch of the component has a mechanism to manually clear the cache; you can try using this by following the instructions below:

1) Download a zip of the current master branch: https://github.com/cognidox/WordBridge/zipball/master 2) Extract the joomla_1.6 directory from the zip 3) Zip the extracted joomla_1.6 directory up 4) Upload the zipped joomla_1.6 directory to your Joomla site 5) Visit http://shindogs.org/index.php/dogblog-all-our-pups/blog?nocache=true to force the cache to be cleaned

This is only a temporary fix until we get proper cache management into the component.

Regards Vittal

ebooksmart commented 13 years ago

Thanks for the advice. However, I don't think I'm willing to go through all that process every time I correct a miss-spelled word on the blog, or when I have to do an edit to reflect an adoption.

Thanks for your support, and if you get a fix in the next few days I will be able to use it. otherwise, I'm just going to make an install of full WP on my server ar run the blog from there. however, I don't want to make it be an external thing from joomla, but so be it.... thanks again.

vittala commented 13 years ago

Hi

It looks like it'll be at least another couple of weeks before we can release a new version with the cache modifications. Sorry it didn't work out for you.

If you are using a local WP install, you could possibly use WordPress Blog for Joomla! (http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-production/blog/6659) which should allow you to use WP features from within Joomla.

Regards Vittal