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Re: Disqus vs. Intense Debate

evelyntiffany — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:28:02 -0000

Disqus has been prominent since it appeared. Maybe this happened because lots of bloggers felt the need for something new and Disqus represented that change.

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:08:05 -0000

You bet. Glad that at least it works w/ smart ads.

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

Oto — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:50:47 -0000

same thing, it's not a big deal, it's working great with the smart ads plugin, so I'm cool with it. Thanks for all your help :-)

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:40:51 -0000

Perhaps if you simplify the code, you can isolate the issue. How about if
you just try [ebay campaignid="YOUR-CAMPAIGN-ID"
keywords="YOUR-STORE-KEYWORDS"] and replace YOUR-CAMPAIGN-ID and
YOUR-STORE-KEYWORDS appropriately. Does it still break?

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

Oto — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:37:16 -0000

Just chatted with my friend, and his is working fine now. He had missed a bracket. My issue still persists, so I'm going to assume that it's my wordpress that's messed up.

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:33:14 -0000

That's bizarre. I'll have to try it out on another WordPress 2.8.5 blog I haven't yet installed it on and see if I get the same issue.

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

Oto — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:27:49 -0000

I was using the html editor when I got this error - and also using html editor on friends site with same results

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

Oto — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:26:21 -0000

That small issue aside, your plugin works great and was just what I was looking for. Thanks :-)

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:22:26 -0000

It sounds like you're using the visual editor, so that may be the problem.
Try clicking the HTML tab and then adding the code.

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

Oto — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:19:33 -0000

That said, I've got it to work fine using the "Smart Ads" plugin

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

Oto — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:17:15 -0000

I don't have any article editing plugin. The brackets don't change, they just disappear, and the commas change from straight to curly commas. I assumed that it was something to do with the wordpress theme, so I tested a number of themes with same result. I've even had a friend test it on a different hosted domain with similar results:

The following is the output of the code on the post page unaltered. The results are the same regardless of what I do to the script, notice the brackets are gone, but the commas change:

ebay campaignid=”YOUR-CAMPAIGN-ID” keywords=”YOUR-STORE-KEYWORDS” rows=”NUMBER-OF-ROWS-YOU-WANT-TO-DISPLAY” columns=”NUMBER-OF-COLUMNS-YOU-WANT-TO-DISPLAY” pagination=”yes” vertical=”yes”

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:42:27 -0000

When you save the article/page and re-open, the brackets are converted to
braces? Are you using some kind of article editing plugin perhaps?

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

Oto — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:26:09 -0000

I'm using the latest WordPress 2.8.5.

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:44:16 -0000

That's odd, I haven't seen WordPress change square brackets to curly braces.
What version of WordPress are you using?

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

Oto — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:41:23 -0000

didn't work for me in post, I think the reason for it is that the enclosing double quotes are being changed by wordpress from a straight quotes to curly ones, and therefore not being read as code correctly. I tried the code in widget and using third party ad software and worked fine, just not in post.

Re: Make and Receive Free Telephone Calls on the Internet

GeekLad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:34:23 -0000

Very odd... Yeah, the IPkall wait period was why I went about using Gizmo.
Well, I'm glad you got it working!

Re: Make and Receive Free Telephone Calls on the Internet

WinnP — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:10:35 -0000

I got my IPKall DID after only waiting about 14 hours (I'd heard sometimes it takes days or weeks), so I just switched to that. Now it works fine. Have no clue what was wrong with Gizmo5!

Re: Make and Receive Free Telephone Calls on the Internet

GeekLad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:36:09 -0000

Yeah, the PBX in a Flash forum may be of better help than I have been.
Sorry I wasn't able to help you out. If you do finally find a fix in the
PIAF forums, please feel free to post the solution here. Best of luck!

Re: Make and Receive Free Telephone Calls on the Internet

WinnP — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:28:49 -0000

Alright, thanks for the help -- I think I'm going to try out the PIAF forums, perhaps one of their gurus will know what I've done wrong. I'm sure I just messed up a single keystroke somewhere along the way.

Re: Make and Receive Free Telephone Calls on the Internet

GeekLad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:51:53 -0000

Something else you can try, is to go into the General Settings screen and
setting Allow Anonymous Inbound SIP Calls? to yes. This could potentially
have security implications (for example, if you have an IVR). I'm somewhat
of an Asterisk noobie myself, so use this feature with caution.

It may be a good way to test things out to see if the box is indeed
receiving the calls. Ultimately, I think you want to get things set up
properly with the trunks, routes, and extensions so that you are able to
properly receive calls without having to set that option. I'm still a bit
fuzzy on setting these things up the right way, which is why I turned to
Orgasmatron since he already had all the trunks, routes, and extensions all
set up.

I'm still puzzled as to why it isn't working for you though. Everything
should be all set w/ the trunks, routes, and extensions so it shouldn't be
necessary to open up the system to anonymous inbound SIP calls.

Re: Make and Receive Free Telephone Calls on the Internet

WinnP — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:33:33 -0000

Thanks... I assume you mean the call logs I can access on /admin/reports.php via the web interface? I just tried two calls (one incoming, one outgoing) and they both show up as "Answered" on that log. However, the incoming call rang for awhile then went to my GV voicemail and the outgoing call just gave me the hold music for 50 seconds then said "Goodbye."

Re: Make and Receive Free Telephone Calls on the Internet

GeekLad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:10:35 -0000

I would check the Asterisk call logs to see if the calls are coming in at
all. Just click on the Reports tab at the top of the FreePBX administration
window. If Gizmo5 is forwarding properly, you should see entries being
added to the call log. If not, then the problem is either with the router
port forwarding or with the Gizmo5 forwarding.

I've messed it up a few times on the Gizmo5 forwarding, because I would
click the SIP radio button but forgot to click on the Forwarding All Calls
radio button.

Re: Make and Receive Free Telephone Calls on the Internet

WinnP — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:06:58 -0000

Great tutorial/summary. However, despite having followed it I am still not able to get any incoming or outgoing calls. Calls from one computer to another (using X-Lite) within my network are fine, and the PBX seems to be running fine. Google Voice calls to the gizmo5 client also work fine. However, it seems like the gizmo5 forwarding to SIP isn't working.

I have a static IP, so didn't have to mess with dynamic DNS stuff. I forwarded port 5060 for TCP and UDP on my router... what's the best way to test whether that is working? Know of any other tricks to troubleshoot this problem?

I know you're not customer support for any of these programs or anything, but I figure it wouldn't hurt to ask.

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:03:45 -0000

If you set it up for pagination and page through them, you should see older auctions. I don't know that there's really any any other way around this at this time. I may have to add in a sort parameter to show the newest auctions.

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

jaybp — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:00:28 -0000

Nice work on the plugin. The only problem I see is that all the auctions displayed are quickly ending, most in a few seconds or minutes. Is there a way to display the newest auctions? Thanks.