After implementing this tag into one of the posts (which worked fine), I realized that the RSS feed of my blog now only showed the first page of that multipage post, without any comment or hint that only one page was shown to the readers of the feed. This is certainly not the way it should be, because that way, some readers might miss out on things if they only read the feed.

I posted this problem on the official WordPress support forum, but got no answer so far. So, I also tried the German WordPress forum, and a guy called Maxe came up with a nice link only two ours after my post that solved the problem.

The solution is quite simple:
Hook into the filter the_content and check if a feed is requested or not. If it is not a feed, then just return what the function get_the_content() has produced (which might be one of multiple post pages, if you used the <!–nextpage–> tag). If it is a feed, though, replace what might just be the content of one page of the post with the whole original post content from the database. That’s it!

You see: without this plugin, only one page of the post is shown by the function get_the_content() , since that function doesn’t actually make a difference between a post and a feed. The difference is that – provided you use wp_link_pages() in your theme – the different pages numbers will be visible to the reader. In the feed, they are simply missing.

Since I think it is hard to find the actual link for the solution, I take the liberty of reproducing the original source code here. If there are any objections to this, please let me know.

There are 5 easy steps to get “Full Text Feeds”:

1. Copy the code below into a blank text file.
2. Save the file as “Full Text Feeds.php”.
3. Upload the file into your plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins/).
4. Got to your WordPress dashboard (/wp-amin/) and choose “Plugins”.
5. Activate the “Full Text Feeds” plugin – done!

From now on, your feeds should always show the whole contents.

And here is the code with all the credits. Unfortunately, the Plugin URI leads to a file-not-found error, which is also a reason why I post the source code here – I couldn’t find anything about this on Simon’s website (@Simon: if you can provide a working link, I’ll put it here).

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Full Text Feeds
Plugin URI: http://simonwheatley.co.uk/wordpress/full-text-feeds
Description: Fixes a bug in WP's feeds whereby they are only served with the first page.
Version: 1.1
Author: Simon Wheatley
Author URI: http://simonwheatley.co.uk/
*/

function ftf_full_text_for_feeds( $content ) {
if ( ! is_feed() )
return $content;
global $post;
$content = $post->post_content;
return $content;
}

add_filter( 'the_content', 'ftf_full_text_for_feeds', -100 );

?>

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Full Text Feeds
Plugin URI: http://simonwheatley.co.uk/wordpress/full-text-feeds
Description: Fixes a bug in WP's feeds whereby they are only served with the first page.
Version: 1.1
Author: Simon Wheatley
Author URI: http://simonwheatley.co.uk/
*/

function ftf_full_text_for_feeds( $content ) {
	if ( ! is_feed() )
		return $content;
	global $post;
	$content = $post->post_content;
	return $content;
}

add_filter( 'the_content', 'ftf_full_text_for_feeds', -100 );

?>

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Dear Vodafone Support-Team,

since I have been on hold on your hotline for over 40 minutes now, I can as well use the time that I have to listen to the music to simultaneously write you a complaint email.

I am still being charged for accessing Twitter from my mobile, although I did exactly as I was told. I am using a Nokia 6303 Classic. To acces Twitter, I go to Menu -> Internet -> Bookmarks, where I have saved http://m.twitter.com as a bookmark.

Every now and then, the Twitter mobile website redirects me to http://mobile.twitter.com, which has nothing to do with what I type into the browser – it’s a feature of Twitter. You should check your software if http://mobile.twitter.com is included in the “free-to-access” filter.

I have already complained at the Vodafone Shop at Doncaster SC. I was refunded the $3 that were incorrectly charged. I was told that the way I access Twitter is totally correct and that I shouldn’t be charged for that.

In good belief that the error would have been fixed after my complaint, I tried accessing Twitter again today – and was charged AGAIN!

So, I decided to call the hotline an hour ago – I must say that I have never had to stay on hold for that long, no matter what hotline I called. This is really bad customer service, but you’ll probably know that already, as it was being discussed even on TV. Feel free to pass this complaint on to your supervisor.

The first call went nowhere – after the friendly computer voice got my PIN, I just heard an engaged line, then I was thrown out of the system. 2nd try, more luck: I got to a real person straight away. Unfotrunately, that guy couldn’t help me at all. In the end, he told me that I had to access Twitter via the “Vodafone Central” app. I told him I wasn’t using a smartphone, but an old Nokia 6303 Classic. He told me I should click on the “Vodafone Central” link, then. THERE IS NO SUCH LINK! Then he wanted to pass me on to a technician to help me setup my phone for Vodafone Central. I waited for 30 minutes, hung up, tried again, busy line, again, busy line – and now I have been on hold for 15 minutes already, being told that “we will be with you soon”. This is really, really bad. I just hung up.

Here is my question again:

HOW DO I SETUP MY NOKIA 6303 TO ACCESS TWITTER FOR FREE, AS YOU ADVERTISE IT?

Please, check my usage log and refund me the 80 cents that you charged me today.

I was thinking of going on a Vodafone infinite iPhone plan next year, but I guess I’ll have to think about that. I have no experiences with your competitors, yet, but it can’t be much worse that this.

Kind regards
Marco Luthe

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Version 3.0.4 of WordPress (…) is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.” (end of quote)

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The HTC Desire HD caught my attention:

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A new iPhone 4 (32GB) without contract would be AU$999 from the Apple Store. The HTC Desire HD is around AU$630 without contract according to Shopbot.com.au and gets really good reviews from CNET Australia.

HTC Desire HD with Vodafone AU

With Vodafone AU, you get a 24 months contract with the HTC Desire HD for AU$60 per month (total: AU$1,440) at the moment, whereas the 12 months plans start with AU$85 (total: AU$1,020) – both plans include the phone, 1 GB data and infinite calls and texts within Australia. If you buy the phone on your own, you can get an infinite plan (including 1 GB of data) for AU$45 on a monthly basis.

Take 24 months at AU$45 each and add the AU$630 for the phone, you’ll be at AU$1,710 – which means owning the phone and being able to cancel the plan within one month. The 24 months contract is the cheapest altogether, but you’re bound for two years. Take the 12 months contract and add another 12 months with AU$45 per month, you’ll be at AU$1,560, owning the phone after one year and being released from the contract.

It sounds like the last option is the best… if the phone is going to be unlocked after the first 12 months and no additional fee is charged for doing so. If so, the unlocking fee should be less than AU$150 to still make this option cheaper than buying the phone upfront yourself.

What about the iPhone 4, then?

iPhone 4 (32GB) with Vodafone AU

If you choose the iPhone 4 (32GB) as your smartphone of choice, you can also get either a 12 months plan or a 24 months plan with Vodafone AU, which both include the phone. Without the phone, you can choose the same AU$45 plan as the aforementioned one for the HTC Desire HD.

The cheapest 24 months plan with the iPhone 4 (32GB) is AU$69 per month, which makes a total of AU$1,656. The cheapest 12 months plan is AU$100 per month, which makes a total of AU$1,200 after 12 months.

Doing the same calculation as for the HTC Desire HD, we’ll be looking at this:
24 months are AU$1,656. 12 months for $100 plus another 12 months for AU$45 each would be AU$1,740. Buying the iPhone upfront from the Apple Store and using the AU$45 “phoneless” plan results in a total of AU$2,079. Again, the 12 months plan would be the best option if no unlocking fee applies.

Unfortunately, at this time you’d have to wait 4 weeks to get an iPhone from Vodafone AU.

BTW: For Australia, you can easily find out the cheapest plan that suits you at www.whistleout.com.au.

Which phone and plan to go with?

It seems like the HTC Desire HD is a bit cheaper than the iPhone (but you’d have to add a microSD, I suppose, since the internal iPhone 4 memory is 32GB if you choose the bigger one, the HTC merely 1.5GB). The HTC Desire HD has the better camera resolution (8MP compared to the iPhone’s 5MP). On the other hand, the iPhone has the higher display resolution and more network band options.

What appeals to me with the HTC Desire HD is the bigger display, the cheaper price, and the open source idea of the Android system. On the other hand, the iPhone has probably been tested for a longer time now and appears easy to handle out-of-the-box, integrating seamlessly with iTunes and docking stations.

What do you think? Should I go iOS with an iPhone 4 or Android with the HTC Desire HD?

And will 1 GB of data be enough, no matter which smartphone I’d end up buying?

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So far, I find Dymocks to be the best store for books. You can order online or buy in one of their many retail stores. There is one close to where I live, so I decided to choose that one as my new book store. Just like Amazon, you can create wishlists, which was very important to me, since I like to keep a list of interesting books. You can also become a Booklovers member, which means that you get a rewards card to collect points whenever you buy there. So far, it has also been the cheapest store I could find.

You can also buy books at Borders, either online or in one of their many retail stores. Unfortunately, this store seems a bit more expensive than Dymocks, and you can’t keep a wishlist online. Borders also has a rewards program. I like Borders at Doncaster Shopping Town, since I got to know the nice Magazine Coordinator who is trying to order in a nice watch magazine for me.

For all thins electrical, I’d recommend Dick Smith. For CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays, JB Hifi is probably the best choice.

Of course, you can always have your books, CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays and electrical thins shipped from Amazon.com, which seems quite a fair deal if you earn your own Aussie Dollars, since the AUD is very strong at the moment. Unfortunately, you’d then have to wait 18 – 32 days for the delivery from the US.

In terms of contact lenses, I recommend clearlycontacts.com.au. They have the option to send an invoice to you which you have to pay within 30 days. That way, you can pay after you know what you got. Also, the customer support is very friendly and helpful. Concerning the price, they were able to provide me with a full year’s supply of PureVision® contact lenses by Bausch + Lomb for $169.39 including shipping. The optometrist I went to wanted to charge me $280 for a half-year’s supply (based on 3 contact lenses per box, which I still believe to be 6, which would have made it $140 for half a year). So, buying online was way cheaper, which I can understand, since the optometrist can’t order in such a huge amount (and keep them in stock) to provide cheaper prices.

If you are looking for perfume, I found nothing cheaper than the MyChemist pharmacy chain so far. They often have discounts on the big brands. You can also shop online and join a rewards program.

Last, not least, here is a list of websites that might help you compare prices:

• shopbot.com.au
• staticice.com.au
• myshopping.com.au
• au.shopping.com
• getprice.com.au

Don’t hesitate to leave a comment if you know of any good (online) stores in Australia.

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This release fixes issues in the remote publishing interface, which under certain circumstances allowed Author- and Contributor-level users to improperly edit, publish, or delete posts. These issues only affect sites that have remote publishing enabled. (end of quote)

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I tried to redeem the code using my normal (German) user account, which wouldn’t work, since the DVD was bought in Australia, so the code would only apply in the Australian or New Zealand shop of iTunes. I tried to change my account to Australia, but that didn’t work, since I needed an Australian credit card.

I almost gave up, thinking “I can still do this as soon as I have an Australian credit card”, when I stumbled upon this article about how to create an iTunes account in a different country without having to put in your credit card details.

Guess what? It worked! And I can also still use the music and movies I bought with my German account.

Thanks, mate!

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fixes a moderate security issue that could allow a malicious Author-level user to gain further access to the site (…) (end of quote)

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After my family and friends said good-bye to us at the Frankfurt airport last Thursday, our first aim was Singapore, where we arrived approximately 13 hours after take-off in Frankfurt. After 2 hours waiting time at the Singapore airport, it took us another 6.5 hours to arrive at Tullamarine airport in Melbourne, Australia.

Everything went quite smoothly – we had only 74 kg luggage altogether, which gave us an emergency reserve of 6 kg (since we ordered our tickets with the IOM, we had 40 kg + 7 kg hand luggage each).

I was a little concerned about my hand luggage, which slightly exceeded the allowed 7 kg, but no one really bothered. This is different to the Australians: when I left from Melbourne to Germany before, they actually weighed my hand luggage.

Also, customs/quarantine was much easier than the last times. Since I was now a migrant and no tourist anymore, I just had to declare my wooden guitars (which stayed intact, thank God) and our shoes (which were thoroughly cleaned, anyway) – and that was it. No X-ray, no further inspection.

Well, I didn’t have anything else to declare, anyway, but Australian customs/quarantine are known to be very strict, so even if you are on the safe side, you always feel a little awkward. But I think that is exactly the image that they want you to have, so that you don’t even think about trying something unlawful.

The Australian government names 7 things you should do first if you are an immigrant:

1. Apply for a tax file number (TFN),
2. register with Medicare (= health insurance),
3. open a bank account,
4. register with Centrelink,
5. register for English classes (no need to),
6. enrol your children in school (no need to) and
7. apply for a Driver’s licence.

I already registered with Medicare yesterday, which only took about 10 minutes. That seems unbelievably quick for a German who is used to wait for days until the membership is approved.

Centrelink was no great help, I have to get in contact with immigration about how to get my work documents translated. Next thing on my schedule is to apply for a TFN online.

The jetlag still has a hold on me. I hope that is gonna be over in a couple of days.

Think we’ll go for a walk soon, since we have a terrific 30 degrees here.

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I only just managed to set up my new German blog, marco-in-australien.de – so, if you are German and you are interested in how Australia appears to one, have a look at it.

I don’t quite now how I am going to handle blog posts about Australia on two different blogs (one in English and one in German)… but you will find English posts under this page/category named “Down Under”.

Hope we’ll stay in touch – I’ll certainly miss the one or the other…

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Why? Because I like the interface of Google Mail a lot. No matter where you are: you just need a simple browser and you have access to all your emails with a very sophisticated, browser based technology that is permanently updated and improved.

[Well, it seems like an automatic BCC functionality still hasn't been integrated - that's fine, I do not need it any more...]

To backup my emails, I use Thunderbird Portable, because the full version would need to be installed properly – and I do not like that, as I said earlier. With Thunderbird Portable, just add your Google Mail account as IMAP, then go to “File -> Offline -> Download/Sync Now” – and Thunderbird Portable will download all your emails for offline usage resp. backup purposes without having to install the full version – plus: you can easily move the eMails AND the portable app on a USB stick.

I use Google Mail for every eMail I write, and all my different eMail accounts are redirected to my Google Mail account. Today, I made an interesting observation:

• I added a new eMail address on my website, which is just a redirection to the regular one which is then being redirected to my Google Mail account.
• Then, I wanted to see if that newly created eMail address worked, so I wrote a test mail using my Google Mail address (and the interface).
• You would suppose that the same eMail then shows up in your Google Mail inbox, because that is where it was redirected to in the end, right? Unfortunately, that eMail never showed up in my inbox (although it was redirected right back to that Google Mail account).
• I contacted my website provider – they said that the eMail had been properly handed over to the Google Mail server. It should therefore appear in my inbox unless it was filtered as spam.
• So I waited a while and also checked my spam folder – nothing.
• Then I sent an eMail to one of my other website eMail accounts that are redirected to Google Mail – and that worked! Also, eMails sent via the web interfaces of my other eMail providers worked fine, also.

And here is the “impossible-to-anticipate” solution to this problem:

Google Mail only shows those eMails in the inbox where the eMail address that you are sending it to (which is then being redirected right back at ya) is authorized to be used with Google Mail via registration under “Preferences”.

Comprende? OK, I will try to explain:

Let’s say “A” is your Google Mail account. “B” is an eMail address on your website redirected to “A” which is already authorized to be used by “A”. “C” is the eMail address that you newly created on your website. It will be redirected to “B” (which – as we know – is redirected to “A”).

You can send as many eMails from “A” to “C” as you want – it will show up in the “Sent” folder, but not in the inbox. If you send an eMail from “A” to “B”, it will show up in the “Sent” folder as well as in the inbox. The difference is that “B” is authorized to be used by “A”. Authorize “C” to be used by “A”, and it will work as well – at least, it did in my case.

Actually, this is a pretty odd behaviour… or is it not?

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Ich habe mich daraufhin an den Sony Support gewendet. Dort wurde mir empfohlen, das Notebook in einer Vertragswerkstatt reparieren zu lassen. Also brachte ich es persönlich dorthin und schilderte das Problem. Ich konnte online den Status verfolgen. Als ich es abholte, konnte ich vor Ort kein Fiepen feststellen – allerdings war auch kein USB-Gerät angeschlossen (damit wird das Fiepen manchmal in Verbindung gebracht). Man hatte das Motherboard getauscht und wohl auch irgendwas am Lüfter geändert.

Zu Hause angekommen dauerte es allerdings nicht lange, bis das Fiepen wieder da war. Es ist extrem nervig.

Zusätzlich beklagen sich einige über den unruhigen und lauten Lüfter. Nun, er ist in der Tat manchmal sehr unruhig, und verglichen mit einem Dell von einem Freund ist er schon recht laut. Das Fiepen macht mich allerdings verrückt, so dass ich schon zufrieden wäre, wenn das endlich mal behoben würde. Aber leider tut sich nichts.

Wen es interessiert, der kann u.a. hier einiges darüber nachlesen:
www.hardwareluxx.de/community/f100/neues-sony-vaio-f11-part2-712445.html

Ich bitte nun alle Betroffenen, meine Petition zu unterschreiben, die ich heute erstellt habe:
www.petitiononline.com/sonyvaio/

Auch über Twitter und Facebook könnt ihr gerne darauf aufmerksam machen – je mehr ReTweets, desto besser:
twitter.com/Saphod/status/24595710176

Über eine rege Beteiligung würde ich mich freuen. Vielleicht hilft das in Verbindung mit einem späteren Brief an Sony, dieses Problem endlich in den Griff zu kriegen. Das Notebook ist an sich echt klasse, aber das Fiepen macht ein vernünftiges Arbeiten in ruhiger Umgebung nahezu unmöglich.

Danke im Voraus!

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Photo taken by Tim Engelhardt.

Ruth and Brookln, what can I say? I loved it!

Thanks for a wonderful “cosy” evening and all the best for your future career!

• “Rue Royale” on Facebook:
  www.facebook.com/pages/Rue-Royale/21996735616
• Official Website:
  www.rueroyalemusic.com
• Twitter:
  twitter.com/RueRoyale
• MySpace:
  www.myspace.com/rueroyale

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• Flickr Photo Album For WordPress:
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After giving up on other plugins like Slickr Gallery or Falbum, this one seems to work quite nicely (after adjusting the template, that is, which took quite some time).

Unfortunately, there are still at least two three issues:

1. In the title bar, every child page to my photos page shows a “404 File Not Found” error, although the page is being displayed correctly. It works well with the main “/photos/” link, since I have created a page with that name. I know this issue is a known bug, but has anyone found a solution to this, yet?
2. Private photos can be excluded, but they are still counted, which means that e.g. one of my albums shows only one public photo, but can be clicked through 8 pages that show no photo at all. On top of that, the photo count (… – … of … photos) is wrong. How about not counting the private ones in the first place? This should solve the problem (because I think the paging is calculated by the number of photos altogether divided by the maximum number of photos shown on one page), but I don’t know where in the code the actual count is being made.
3. In the tags template, “Umlaute” (ä, ö, ü) are not linked correctly, therefore e.g. clicking on “göttingen” leads to “g%C3%B6ttingen” – which, of course, does not result in a valid request (I have taken the tags from the main template so far).

I hope there will be an update soon that fixes those issues.

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When displaying how many comments a post has, WordPress determines the link to the comment section in two ways. If there is a comment, the anchor will be “#comments” (id=”comments”), if there are none, the anchor will be “#respond”, which leads directly to the comment form (“Leave A Reply”).

People who are interested in viewing the WordPress source code should look at the function comments_popup_link(), defined in wp-includes/comment-template.php on line 946ff (WordPress 3.0). The decision wether to use “#respond” or “#comments” is made on line 974ff.

In the WordPress template I use (cover-wp with some adjustments), the ID “comments” is used within the single.php or page.php and encloses the call of the comments.php. No problem here. Since that does not change and the single.php always exists, the anchor “#comments” should always remain existent.

The ID “respond” is being used in the comments.php… and there lies the problem with the Disqus integration: Disqus replaces the default comments.php with the one located at wp-content/plugins/disqus-comment-system/, and in that comments.php, there is neither a definition of an ID “comments” nor of an ID “respond”.

Therefore, the anchor “#comments” still worked on my site (as we now know, it is defined in single.php, not in comments.php). But since the Disqus comments.php was missing the “respond” ID, this anchor led to nowhere (every time a post had no comments).

The easy workaround is to add

<a name="respond" />

to the top of the Disqus comments.php (plugin version 2.33.8752: line 8 after the remarks) – now, both anchors will be found wether Disqus is enabled or not.

With other templates that define both IDs within the comments.php, none of both anchors would work with Disqus at this time, since those IDs are not defined within the Disqus comments.php, yet.

Therefore, you could just try to add

<a name="comments" />
<a name="respond" />

to the top of the Disqus comments.php.

I have already notified the Disqus helpdesk (thanks, Ryan!).

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In the meantime, I managed to add this feature by using the ping-/trackbacks that are stored within the WordPress comments table (mostly, this will be wp_comments).

This is what it looks like (see the original post):

How it’s done:

I wrote a function named DisplayPingTrackbacks() which achieves the goal. In the single.php, I simply put it before comments_template() is called by WordPress, which – in my case – looks like this:

<?php DisplayPingTrackbacks(); ?>

<div id="comments">
	<?php comments_template(); ?>
</div>

Here is what the function looks like (added to the functions.php in the theme’s template directory):

function DisplayPingTrackbacks() {

	// Do not do anything if Disqus is not installed
	if(!dsq_is_installed()) return;

	$current_post_ID = get_the_ID();

	global $wpdb;

	$sql = 	"SELECT comment_author_url, comment_author FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_post_ID = $current_post_ID AND comment_approved = '1' AND (comment_type = 'pingback' OR comment_type = 'trackback') ORDER BY comment_date ASC";

	if ($post_pingtrackbacks = $wpdb->get_results($sql) ) {

		$number_of_pingtrackbacks = count($post_pingtrackbacks);

		if ($number_of_pingtrackbacks == 1) {
			echo "<div id='pingtrackback'><h3 style='font-size:14px;margin-bottom:10px'>One Pingback/Trackback</h3><ul>";
		} else {
			echo "<div id='pingtrackback'><h3 style='font-size:14px;margin-bottom:10px'>" . $number_of_pingtrackbacks . " Pingbacks/Trackbacks</h3><ul>";
		}

		foreach ($post_pingtrackbacks as $post_pingtrackback) {
			echo "\n<li><small><a href='";
			echo $post_pingtrackback->comment_author_url;
			echo "'>";
			$author = $post_pingtrackback->comment_author;
			echo html_entity_decode($author);
			echo "</a>";
			echo "</small></li>";
		}
		echo "</ul></div>";
		}
}

Now, I only hope that ping-/trackbacks are still stored within the WordPress database in the future and that they don’t get lost because of the Disqus plugin…

[Update from 2011-01-03]

It seems like the Disqus Comment System had a major overhaul, which also means that it now shows ping-/trackbacks that are stored in the WordPress comments table. Nice, but I’ll still stick with my aforementioned workaround, since I do not like the formatting of the Disqus system’s built-in solution.

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Since WordPress 2.9, you can now use the auto-embed feature, which makes it much easier to embed videos.

It was a little harder to reach the same goal here, but I finally managed: here’s a little plugin that uses the embed_oembed_html-filter to add a small note above the video if a feed is being displayed.

Download the plugin “WP-AddVideoEmbedNote” (v1.0)!

Let me know what you think. You can also take a look at this support topic on wordpress.org where I tried to find out how to achieve this task.

BTW:
Let me take the opportunity to point to a bug in WordPress 3.0 concerning embeds and rss feeds.

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In order to find out how to proceed, I sent an email to the help desk and got the following response from Ryan (quoting):

Hi Marco,

In this case the best way to do this is to delete your site shortname in Disqus and create a new one to start over. If you have any trouble with removing it, shoot me your shortname and registered email address in a new email message.

Thanks,
Ryan (end of quote)

Well, actually, it wasn’t that easy. Here is what happened:

• I deleted the site and all comments from Disqus using the “Delete site and comments” button at the bottom of the “Settings -> General” page.
• Next, I registered the same site again.
• Clicking the “Export Comments” button using the WordPress plugin lead to the “Sorry, something went wrong…” message. Disabling and enabling the plugin again did not make a change – exporting the comments wouldn’t work.
• I had a hunch that it might have had to do with the Disqus API key that you can get at disqus.com/api/get_my_key/ (as described here). So I disabled the plugin, deleted some lines from the WordPress database (see below) and enabled the plugin again – and it started as if it was installed for the first time, retrieving the correct API key (just changing the API key directly within the WordPress database didn’t help).
• After that, the “Export Comments” button worked perfectly.

Here is the SQL statement you need to find the lines within the WordPress database:

SELECT  *
FROM  `wp_options`
WHERE  `option_name`  LIKE  '%disqus%'

Problems with Facebook Connect

After “re-installing” the plugin, I had to fill in the “Facebook Connect” API key. Since I did not know where to get it from, I tried “(Click here to get one)” on the “Settings -> General” page within Disqus, but Disqus just could not finish the retrieval. Then I found this article which describes how to retrieve your API key from Facebook by using this link: www.facebook.com/developers/apps.php.

I was surprised to see at least 10 entries referring to Disqus. As is seems, the connection worked in the first place to create a new API key, but it could not be completed for Disqus.

Everything is fine now… I deleted all entries but one and used the API key from the remaining one.

Sometimes, it’s a rocky road to find the solution – but persistence is not (always) futile.

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BTW: I am always amazed by how quickly the Wikipedia articles are updated – especially the English ones…

Here are some impressions from Hannover, Germany:
(Feel free to leave some links or opinions to YOUR impressions in the comment section.)

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[Update from 2010-07-03]

Here are some more impressions – this time after Germany made their way into the Semi-Finals by “annihilating” the Argentinians 4:0:

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[Update from 2010-07-07]

“You can’t always get what you want…”

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