Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2013-01-15 Thread Shaun Ellis
Tom, Kudos! I think this is a great example of enabling (and asking for!) collaboration within the community. Thank you for maintaining it and integrating Mark's fix! -Shaun On 1/14/13 6:36 PM, Tom Keays wrote: I spent the past week teaching myself how to properly use Git and have finally

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2013-01-15 Thread Tom Keays
After some discussion on the Code4Lib Journal editors' back-channel, we decided to move the various WordPress plugins and themes to the Code4Lib organization site on GitHub. Besides making our process a little more transparent, we also hope to encourage participation in maintaining and improving

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2013-01-15 Thread Michael Schofield
Woot! Will see you on github. //MS -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Keays Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 2:39 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal After some

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2013-01-14 Thread Tom Keays
I spent the past week teaching myself how to properly use Git and have finally updated the repository with Mark's contribution to the Code4Lib Journal Issue Manager plugin. https://github.com/tomkeays/issue-manager Thanks again for the help. Tom On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Tom Keays

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-10 Thread Tom Keays
After a bit of dithering on this, I'm pretty sure that Mark's revision of the plugin is working under the current version of WordPress I'm testing on (3.4.2). I have a few other things I'm going to need to do before I declare this solved, upgrade the Journal's instance of WordPress and upload the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-05 Thread Shaun Ellis
Yes, that's a good place to start. Once you have git installed and link it up to your github account, you can follow the same Contribute steps that are on the README of the anti-harassment policy: 1.) Fork the codebase e.g. to https://github.com/your-username/issue-manager 2.) Clone your fork

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-05 Thread Mark Pernotto
Jonathan/Shaun, Thanks for the direction. I've followed the steps suggested, I think. Please let me know if you have any questions or don't see anything. Thanks, Mark On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu wrote: Yes, that's a good place to start. Once you have git

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-05 Thread Ed Sperr
Instead of maintaining a custom codebase to try and force WP to do what you want, why not just use a tool purpose-built for this kind of job? The open-source, Open Journal Systems from PKP might be a good fit: http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs Ed Sperr, M.L.I.S. Copyright and Electronic Resources

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-05 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
We've looked at OJS in the past and not been happy with it, we're pretty happy with WordPress, and not really looking to migrate all our operations to different software. But thanks for the suggestion. (I do think there are probably ways we could keep using WP without a custom codebase,

[CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Tom Keays
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Seriously, folks, if we can't even figure out how to upgrade our Drupal instance to a version that was released this decade, we shouldn't be discussing *new* implementations of *anything* that we have to host ourselves.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Chad Nelson
Tom, What version of WP are you currently on? Is the source of the plugin available anywhere? Chad On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Seriously, folks, if we can't even figure out

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Mark Pernotto
If I recall correctly, there were some noticeable differences in the way Wordpress would be willing to work with jQuery ajax requests, even as recently as 3.1 to it's current state 3.4.2. I do quite a bit with Wordpress professionally. I'd be willing to help/work on either upgrading the plugin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Lynch,Katherine
Tom and Ross, I'm very familiar with writing and upgrading custom plugins and modules for Wordpress and Drupal respectively. I'd like to officially offer my services to help on the back-end diagnosing/coding/etc. In the mean time, some source to review on GitHub would be great. Sincerely,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Ross Singer
Shaun, I think you missed my point. Our Drupal (and per Tom's reply, Wordpress -- ...and I'm going to take a stab in the dark and throw MediaWiki instance into the pile) is, for all intents and purposes, unmaintained because we have no in charge of maintaining it. Oregon State hosts it, but

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Cary Gordon
As I mentioned in the other thread, I will get with Ryan on updating our Drupal instance. Cary On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Shaun, I think you missed my point. Our Drupal (and per Tom's reply, Wordpress -- ...and I'm going to take a stab in the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
While I agree with ross in general about suggesting technical solutions without suggesting how they are going to be maintained -- agree very strongly -- and would further re-emphasize that it's improtant to remember that ALL software installations are living organisms (Ranganthan represent!),

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Jason Stirnaman
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Tom Keays [tomke...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:27 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Shaun Ellis
The problem is that the listserv is not good for brainstorming. Expecting any one person to have a fully baked solution (with hosting) before posting to the list is not going to happen. That's why I suggested an alternative discussion tool with the vote2promote feature. I also suggested the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Ross Singer
On Dec 4, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: While I agree with ross in general about suggesting technical solutions without suggesting how they are going to be maintained -- agree very strongly -- and would further re-emphasize that it's improtant to remember that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Tom Keays
Hijacking my thread back. To answer all the questions in one go: From Chad Nelson: What version of WP are you currently on? Embarrassed, but you just have to do a view source of the Journal to learn the dirty truth: WordPress 3.0.4 As you can see from the wiki, upgrading is something we want

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Shaun Ellis
On 12/4/12 12:42 PM, Tom Keays wrote: From Shaun Ellis (echoed by Katherine Lynch): Tom, can you post the plugin to Code4Lib's github so we can have a crack at it I can't, since I do not have a login to that Github account (I didn't even know about it until last week). I'm not sure what the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Mark Pernotto
Tom, Yes, I can confirm that I'm willing to work on this issue. However, if a solution works better through Shaun's github solution would work better for the group, I say go that routewhatever is best. Thanks, Mark On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Tom Keays
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu wrote: You can upload it to your account and then someone with admin rights to Code4Lib can fork it if they think our Code4Lib Journal custom code should be a repo there. Doesn't really matter if they do actually. I think for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Chad Nelson
Beat me by one minute Tom! And here it is in code4lib github https://github.com/code4lib/IssueManager On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu wrote: You can upload it to your account and then

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Mark Pernotto
So, I have a solution - well, at least to what I think is the problem. It looks like the im_admin_main.php file made a reference to a depricated 'categories.php' file in the admin section. There were a couple other query string parameters that weren't quite correct. I'd love if someone else

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Tom Keays
Let's have mine be the canonical version for now. It will be too confusing to have two versions that don't have an explicit fork relationship. https://github.com/tomkeays/issue-manager Tom On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote: Beat me by one minute Tom!

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Mark Pernotto
As I'm clearly not well-versed in the goings-on of GitHub, I've 'forked' a response, but am not sure it worked correctly. I've zipped up and sent updates to Tom. If anyone could point me in the direction of a good GitHub tutorial (for contributing to projects such as these - the 'creating an

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

2012-12-04 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
I'd check out the links under Bootcamp here: https://help.github.com/ On 12/4/2012 5:18 PM, Mark Pernotto wrote: As I'm clearly not well-versed in the goings-on of GitHub, I've 'forked' a response, but am not sure it worked correctly. I've zipped up and sent updates to Tom. If anyone could