Programmer/Coder Help Wanted!

Clownst0pper · 30 Jun 2010 at 08:43

Good morning all, apologies if this isn’t in the correct sub-forum...

I am currently a staff writer for a website called www.tap-repeatedly.com and we are in the process of needing an experienced coder/programmer (wordpress experience would be great!) who can iron out some of our websites current kinks. We have recently changed themes, and have a list of 7-8 issues which need addressing (mostly visual), that sadly our limited knowledge of CSS or PHP hasn't be able to rectify as quickly as we would like.

To give a brief overview, Tap-Repeatedly (or Tap as we are known) offers a diverse mix of article-based content to a large expanding readership with recognition from Kotaku, Rock Paper Shotgun, 1UP, The Escapist and Dubious Quality. Many of our writers are professional analysts within the games industry.

Although Tap offers predominantly editorial content, we do have a long history of reviews, previews and “First Impressions” pieces, with an archive of over 400 reviews.

There is the potential for payment, while we can offer a fantastic community, staff access to restricted forum boards, as well as an opportunity to example any of your written works to us, with the prospect of becoming a staff writer.

If you would like to contact me, to discuss this further please do not hesitate to email me on [email protected] or please reply to this thread.

Thank you!

Imy · 30 Jun 2010 at 10:50

If you list the issues you're having someone might be able to suggest a solution to one or more of them.

Clownst0pper · 30 Jun 2010 at 11:55

Apologies

, I wasn’t sure how much detail to put in my first. Briefly;

We are currently using the Luxury wordpress theme.

1) Get the “in-themed” feature slider working (see the Luxury theme demo page below) – we want it to display above the blog (with the blog below)

You can see how the feature banner should look on the demo page here:

http://themeforest.net/item/luxury-wordpress-template/full_screen_preview/83220

2) Find out where the CAPTCHA went and why it’s not displaying

3) Get the ‘I’d Tap That’ comments to show a snippet of the comment, not just the post that was commented on.

4) Set up a square iconizing for header graphics and launch the built in “recent posts” footer

5) Find out where/how we can customize the info that appears in post kickers

6) Get the Favicon back

7) Find a working inline Editor plug-in for our theme. (minor niggle)

www.tap-repeatedly.com

Edward01 · 30 Jun 2010 at 23:52

Clownst0pper said:
Apologies , I wasn’t sure how much detail to put in my first. Briefly;

We are currently using the Luxury wordpress theme.

1) Get the “in-themed” feature slider working (see the Luxury theme demo page below) – we want it to display above the blog (with the blog below)

You can see how the feature banner should look on the demo page here:

http://themeforest.net/item/luxury-wordpress-template/full_screen_preview/83220

2) Find out where the CAPTCHA went and why it’s not displaying

3) Get the ‘I’d Tap That’ comments to show a snippet of the comment, not just the post that was commented on.

4) Set up a square iconizing for header graphics and launch the built in “recent posts” footer

5) Find out where/how we can customize the info that appears in post kickers

6) Get the Favicon back

7) Find a working inline Editor plug-in for our theme. (minor niggle)

www.tap-repeatedly.com

1) Honestly can't see what you're talking about.

2) Could be wrong but it looks like it is pointing in the wrong place. First thing to try is uninstalling then re-installing the latest one. Could be the jump to 3.0 has screwed your plugin.

3) Navigate to the widget file, find the code that displays the comment and scan it for some code containing comment_author. Somewhere underneath use the get_comment_excerpt tag with some php and html for styling and jobs a gooden.

4) 'Square iconizing'? - Guessing the recent posts is built into the theme and you just have to enable it in the theme admin page.

5) Which info in particular? Should all be in single.php or single-loop.php

6) Favicon working in Chrome and IE8, what browser are you using?

7) Honestly wouldn't bother. Will add MORE jscript to your page, slow the site down and will never work as well as you hope. Besides, as long as you're logged in there is a nice little 'Edit' button under every article that will take you straight to the post page. Saying that, here's two I found quickly , though I've never used them so no idea what they're like.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/inline-editor/
http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editor

Hope that helps!!

PS you need to put a border around your search box, you can't see it at all in chrome.

PPS you also appear to be loading Jquery twice. Could do with speeding the site up a bit.

Clownst0pper · 1 Jul 2010 at 07:42

Edward01 said:
1) Honestly can't see what you're talking about.

2) Could be wrong but it looks like it is pointing in the wrong place. First thing to try is uninstalling then re-installing the latest one. Could be the jump to 3.0 has screwed your plugin.

3) Navigate to the widget file, find the code that displays the comment and scan it for some code containing comment_author. Somewhere underneath use the get_comment_excerpt tag with some php and html for styling and jobs a gooden.

4) 'Square iconizing'? - Guessing the recent posts is built into the theme and you just have to enable it in the theme admin page.

5) Which info in particular? Should all be in single.php or single-loop.php

6) Favicon working in Chrome and IE8, what browser are you using?

7) Honestly wouldn't bother. Will add MORE jscript to your page, slow the site down and will never work as well as you hope. Besides, as long as you're logged in there is a nice little 'Edit' button under every article that will take you straight to the post page. Saying that, here's two I found quickly , though I've never used them so no idea what they're like.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/inline-editor/
http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editor

Hope that helps!!

PS you need to put a border around your search box, you can't see it at all in chrome.

PPS you also appear to be loading Jquery twice. Could do with speeding the site up a bit.

Thank you Edward!

Addressing point (1) is a top priority at the moment. From what I can understand of the theme, the feature banner which you can see working in the themes demo (http://themeforest.net/item/luxury-w..._preview/83220) won’t seem to work in the blog itself.

As you’ll notice on the demo, the feature banner is separate to the blog. We want the feature banner, as it is in the demo, to the above the blog to replace our existing rotating banner. To not have them separate. So that the new feature banner stretches all the way along the top of the blog, with blog posts underneath and headers above it. I think it will require some coding though to get them both working on the same page as opposed to a “Home” page containing the feature banner, before then clicking on the “Blog” page to see latest posts. We want them merging.

6) I’m assuming it might not be working in Firefox for some users. It’s started working for me!…

Regarding your PS and PPS, any ideas on how to fix those issues?

sparkey196 · 1 Jul 2010 at 09:27

1) The theme will come with instructions for making the slider work. Make sure you follow them exactly.

Also it looks like you haven't set the home page to use the correct template file. Go to Settings -> Reading. Change "front page" to the luxury home template.

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Clownst0pper · 1 Jul 2010 at 10:29

Thank you Sparky, I've just messaged you.