Hi, just read your post about Project Wonderful & like how user friendly it is. Does your Instant Content plugin work with newer versions of WordPress?
Also, a little off topic but do you make or know of any plugins for quizzes? I spent about 8 hours the other day downloading different plugins that didn’t work. I am looking to put it into my footer section.
Thanks!
Found a solution to the apostrophe problem. Open the text file using notepad++ and change the encoding to UTF8 without BOM. This will fix all special characters during import and will also take care of the beginning marker in the title.
Great plugin by the way. I have one issue and I tried to sort it to no avail. If there are any ‘ symbols in my text the articles just off. I tried adding this line $pbody = htmlspecialchars($pbody, ENT_QUOTES); but it didn’t make any difference.
I released a new version today. I never got the error you describe, but I changed the way that the plugin finds the zip files. I think the current way is more straightforward and less prone to errors.
My thinking is that running php under windows returned a slightly different absolute path format, perhaps even with backslashes. The new version might take care of that, although I can’t test it.
When I try to use the plug-in, I get a warning “Warning: fread() [function.fread]: Length parameter must be greater than 0” for each of the files in a zipped file…
Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
The concept of this plug-in is soooo perfect for what I need if I could just get it to work!
I would hire someone to write something, but I don’t even know what kind of person to look for or what to ask.
(I’ve started doing it by hand, about 200 in about 4 hours, but 1000’s more!)
Thank you.
The plugin will take the text files and load them into wordpress as posts. Afterwards the text file will be the post and you would use wordpress to manage it.
You could load the txt files as pages and make them hierarchical with a directory structure. The plugin will do this.
Another approach would be to make make a template and a simple php progam. The template would load the text files into the template and display them. I have done this with my website https://www.rockfind.com which uses a directory of song lyrics and a template to wrap them.
I hope you can tell me if this plug in will do what I am looking to do… (forgive me for being a graphic artist and not coder, I’m probably in over my head, but…) OK, I have just re-designed a small newspaper website and am using wordpress as cms. Our previous host sent me all our 8 years of txt files from the old website. I have created a subdomain (archives dot name-of-site dot com) to hold the old sites articles, which I would like to be searchable. Could I use the same theme as the main site and this “Instant Content Plugin”? Would the plug in then allow readers to open the txt file as a post? (I apologize for being so clueless and beg for mercy!)
🙂
Hi, just read your post about Project Wonderful & like how user friendly it is. Does your Instant Content plugin work with newer versions of WordPress?
Also, a little off topic but do you make or know of any plugins for quizzes? I spent about 8 hours the other day downloading different plugins that didn’t work. I am looking to put it into my footer section.
Thanks!
Found a solution to the apostrophe problem. Open the text file using notepad++ and change the encoding to UTF8 without BOM. This will fix all special characters during import and will also take care of the beginning marker in the title.
* the articles just cut off that ment to say 🙂
Hello,
Great plugin by the way. I have one issue and I tried to sort it to no avail. If there are any ‘ symbols in my text the articles just off. I tried adding this line $pbody = htmlspecialchars($pbody, ENT_QUOTES); but it didn’t make any difference.
Any ideas?
Thanks
I released a new version today. I never got the error you describe, but I changed the way that the plugin finds the zip files. I think the current way is more straightforward and less prone to errors.
My thinking is that running php under windows returned a slightly different absolute path format, perhaps even with backslashes. The new version might take care of that, although I can’t test it.
The only way it would get that is if the zip file is not where it is supposed to be.
I’ll try to debug.
Keith
Yes, I am getting the “Warning: fread() [function.fread]: Length parameter must be greater than 0″ error message as well.
Any ideas why?
When I try to use the plug-in, I get a warning “Warning: fread() [function.fread]: Length parameter must be greater than 0” for each of the files in a zipped file…
Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
The concept of this plug-in is soooo perfect for what I need if I could just get it to work!
I would hire someone to write something, but I don’t even know what kind of person to look for or what to ask.
(I’ve started doing it by hand, about 200 in about 4 hours, but 1000’s more!)
Thank you.
The plugin will take the text files and load them into wordpress as posts. Afterwards the text file will be the post and you would use wordpress to manage it.
You could load the txt files as pages and make them hierarchical with a directory structure. The plugin will do this.
Another approach would be to make make a template and a simple php progam. The template would load the text files into the template and display them. I have done this with my website https://www.rockfind.com which uses a directory of song lyrics and a template to wrap them.
I hope you can tell me if this plug in will do what I am looking to do… (forgive me for being a graphic artist and not coder, I’m probably in over my head, but…) OK, I have just re-designed a small newspaper website and am using wordpress as cms. Our previous host sent me all our 8 years of txt files from the old website. I have created a subdomain (archives dot name-of-site dot com) to hold the old sites articles, which I would like to be searchable. Could I use the same theme as the main site and this “Instant Content Plugin”? Would the plug in then allow readers to open the txt file as a post? (I apologize for being so clueless and beg for mercy!)
🙂
yep– the zip is bad
The file gives bad incompatible Archive just letting you know.