Questions about robm.me.uk :)

suarve · 29 May 2006 at 16:52

Hi,

Could anyone (or robm himself) tell me how to display that nicely formatted downloads thingy that displays the download and number of downloads with a nice folder icon.

Thanks.

robmiller · 29 May 2006 at 17:08

I wrote a WordPress plugin to do it, but it's rather hackish

Basically, the syntax is thus:

Code:

Display latest version of project "foo":
<!--download name="foo"-->

Display version 1.0 of project "foo":
<!--download name="foo" version="1.0"-->

I'll post the code but I've been meaning to tidy it up for a while so I'll do that first

robmiller · 29 May 2006 at 18:24

Here you go:

http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/downloads/

suarve · 29 May 2006 at 19:02

Sorry im half asleep here. I have activated the plugin etc but the post will display the code i typed

<--download name="blahblah"--> instead of the required display

I'm missing something obvious here.....

Beansprout · 29 May 2006 at 19:22

The default Wordpress post thingymabob will put it as pure text. There's a button somewhere to add plain ol' HTML code. It's there somewhere, I know it.

Honest!

robmiller · 29 May 2006 at 19:24

Oh yeah, I forgot people actually used the WYSIWYG thing!

Click the "HTML" button then add it.

suarve · 29 May 2006 at 19:35

can you have a look @ e1337.org.uk - the most recent post. Cant get this to work

xyphic · 29 May 2006 at 19:42

Looks like you're missing an exclamation mark out... from the earlier example I would expect the syntax to be:

robmiller · 29 May 2006 at 19:42

It's <!--, not <--.

Edit: beaten

suarve · 29 May 2006 at 19:53

lol ta!

5tephen · 8 Jun 2006 at 14:48

Since this topic is titled "questions" and there's only one question so far, then that allows me one

I've seen a couple of sites implement the sidebar that you also have, rob. Clicking a link doesn't seem to reload the whole page, only part of it. Is that right or is it just me? It's just like frames except not evil

Is this hard to do?

Beansprout · 8 Jun 2006 at 15:26

The sidebar just stays the same between all pages methinks, nothing fancy

robmiller · 8 Jun 2006 at 17:08

It's just you, I guess - the whole page is reloaded when you click a sidebar link.

5tephen · 8 Jun 2006 at 17:47

Bleh

Oh well, the site still looks the part if that means anything to you

Is there actually a way to do what I describe then? Kinda like a <div src="...htm"> except that doesn't exist obviously. That's one thing that's handy about frames & iframes but I would like to do it with div's.

Beansprout · 8 Jun 2006 at 18:49

You could use Javascript's XMLHTTPREQUEST aka AJAX but then I'd have to kill you. Plus it stops you being able to link to pages.