Post Teaser 3.10 released!
Plugins, Post Teaser, WordPress October 2nd, 2007I’m still learning my way around the WordPress Plugins directory and repos. Preparing for a release can drain the energy out of me.
What’s new in 3.10
- Post Teaser now in Greek. Many thanks to Alexander for the translation.
- Added a FAQ entry. I have had quite a few queries about why Post Teaser failed to split some/all of the post. I’d figure that need to be addressed in the FAQ.
For users that is waiting for a fix or feature enhancement, I’m sorry but none made it to this release due to me busy schedule of late. I’ll still try to get one release out by the end of the year and hopefully be able to fix some issue at that release.
So be warned. For non-Greek speaking folks, there is little point in upgrading to 3.10. In fact, there is no point upgrading even for Greek speaking folks. Just grab the translate file form the repos and follow “Is this plugin available in other languages? in the FAQ. It will work just fine with 3.9. The only reason for the version bump is due to how WordPress Plgins directory is organized (details too boring to include here).
If you want to upgrade for the sake of a higher version number, here is where you get the latest Post Teaser.
November 25th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Hi, thank you for your plugin, this is good work!
But I have one problem – when I click a button “Update Options”, I get the message “Cannot load post-teaser.php.” This is bug or problem with my hosting?
Thanks.
November 25th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
P.S. WP version 2.1
November 25th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Hi Alex,
It is not really a bug but a design limitation that I should probably fix soon. The reason you are getting this error is because you have installed post-teaser.php in a sub-directory off the wp-content/plugins/ directory. What you need to do is to move the post-teaser.php file into the plugins directory instead of a sub-directory.
That should solve your problem.
November 27th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Hi Han,
thank you very much, it works! 😉
November 27th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
I have another question…
Can I change Your plugin (or WP scripts) so that it does not remove link from short version (tag ) of posts in RSS Feed ? Can You help me?
November 27th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
ops… tag [description]
Thanks…
November 29th, 2007 at 12:28 am
Hi Alex,
PostTeaser does not process feeds at all. If there is something that is removing links in your RSS feeds, it is not PostTeaser. I am not sure what would remove links from RSS feeds. Sorry, can’t help you there.
December 31st, 2007 at 1:03 am
Hi Han, Happy New Year!
Can You please add an ‘exclude’ field (options page) in the future version of your plugin?
something like this: if ($id=$exclude_post_id) { plugin show full post } …
Thanks!
January 31st, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Hello
i just installed the post-teaser, but always when I activate it, all my right side with the widgets is disappearing down under the text. (www.vs-link.ch/blog) What can I do? Thank you very much for your help
January 31st, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Hi Martin,
It looks to me that Post Teaser may be incompatible with some other plugin or something you have in your theme. Can you try to disable the other plugin one by one until the problems goes away? Then let me know what is the last plugin you’ve disabled to make the sidebar appear again.
Also, please note that Post Teaser currently has an issue with WordPress 2.3.2 and I’m trying to find more time to diagnose the problem. If you want to know when I have a fix for the WordPress 2.3.2, you can subscribe to the RSS of the blog with the RSS link in the footer. The problem you are having does not seem related, so you can also try the diagnostic I’ve mention above first.
Hope that helps.
January 31st, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Hi Han
thanks a lot for your quick answer!
I tried out the diagnostic with the plug-ins. but there are still the same problems, also when i have only the Post Teaser Plugin activated.
And yes, i have installed the WordPress 2.3.2. When do you think there is a solution for this kind of problem? Thanks a lot for your answer! Martin
P.s. or do you know about other similar plugins? thanks
January 31st, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Hi Martin,
In that case, the problem may be related to your theme. Can you try with only Post Teaser turn on and change your theme to the standard default WordPress theme and see if the problem is still there?
There is a few plugin that is available in the WordPress plugin area that does the same thing as Post Teaser, however, I don’t think any of them is paragraph aware. If the paragraph aware feature is not important to you, they will work just fine. Do a search for “teaser” on http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins you should be able to find a few.
As for when can I come up with a fix, that will depend on how busy the next few weeks are going to be. I’ve just finish my projects today and hopefully I can find some time before the next wave of work comes in. Hopefully soon. If you want to wait, just subscribe to the “Entries RSS” at the footer of the blog. You’ll get notify when I post. I’ll definitely post about the new release.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Hi Han
just tried it with the WP standard default theme. It s still not working. Thanks for your link, but I think I ll wait until you post about your new release. Because Post-Teaser is a lot more user friendly than other teasers.
Thanks. Have a nice day. Martin
February 1st, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Hi Martin,
Thanks for the vote of confident. I’ll try my best to get the fix out soon, so hang on.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:26 am
Martin,
I’ve tried setting up a WordPress 2.3.2 test blog and have tried PostTeaser on it and it seems to work fine. I could not figure out what’s the difference between your installation and mine. The only thing I can think of is there is something in your post that is causing an error in PostTeaser and stopping the sidebar from showing. Sorry, I’m at a lost as to how to find the problem.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Fan-f**ing-tastic. THANKS! Using it on http://www.aftenmagasinet.no – works perfectly!
February 28th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Hi Gunnar,
Glad you find Post Teaser useful. However, I urge you to watch your language, even though self-censored. There are children using Post Teaser, you know. 😉
April 20th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Hi,
I’m using your plugin, nice piece of software.
I DID upload it in plugin dir (not subdir).
If I edit options, I receive “cannot load …” error,
but options are actually changed, so it is a minor annoyance, but I wonder what the reason is
April 21st, 2008 at 12:29 am
Vincenzo,
The only time I’ve seen this behavior is when I move post-teaser.php to a sub-directory. There must be something different in your installation that causes this behavior. Can you give me more details? Specifically, what version of WordPress are you using? Which version of PostTeaser have you installed? What other plugin you have activated? What OS platform is your web server on?
I’ll can’t say much without those information.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:39 am
This is exactly how things went:
– WordPress 2.5 running on Linux (i can’t tell you more , because my site is hosted by a ISP, I just have ftp access)
– Uploaded correctly in plugin dir (not subdir)
– Activated plugin from Dashboard
– I wanted to hide “..expected download times…word..” etc, but I had not realized that I could have done this via Option page, so I changed the code using the built-in wordpress editor, but nothing changed
– Then I read that I could have done via Option, I did, got “cannot load…” but achieved my goal, beacause unwanted extra info disappeared
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:40 am
….using version 3.10
March 2nd, 2009 at 7:38 am
Hi Han,
First off, let me say THANK YOU for the Post Teaser Plugin. I works very well. However, I have a proble. I posted a comment earlier today, but I guess you deleted it. My problem is this: I created a page on my wordpress blog and then on that page created a loop to display all of the posts from one category. I wanted the title and the excerpt to be displayed for each posting. When I visited the page, I noticed that the excerpt was replaced byt the content(the entire posting pictures and all) So I could use a little bit of help with a worka round to display ‘the_excerpt’ instead of ‘the_content’. Do you have any thoughts?
oh yeah…the reason I think that it might be Post Teaser causing interference, is that when I unistalled Post Teaser the excerpt for each post was displayed perfectly.
Thanks again
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:50 am
Hi Sean,
Your earlier comment was not deleted but it was in the moderate queue waiting for my approval. I don’t always get to check the queue so sometimes, there will be delay.
As for your question, Post Teaser replaces ‘the_excerpt’ with Post Teaser own routine that does not use the content in excerpt. The whole idea of using Post Teaser is to do away with the excerpt thing in WordPress and automatically generate the excerpt from the full post. What you have explain (if I understand correctly) is the expected behavior of Post Teaser.
In the event I’ve misunderstood what you are trying to tell me, please correct me.
And Thanks for using Post Teaser!
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Hi Han,
Thanks for the quick reply, Is there anyway I can deactivate the post teaser plugin for custom wordpress pages that are created through the admin section? I really like the way the post teaser works on the home page and the subsequent history pages, but I would really like to turn it ‘off'(so to speak) on the custom pages such as ‘about_us’ or ‘contact_us’. Since I created my ‘open_source_alternatives’ page the same way that the about_us page is created. I would really like to use the ‘the_excerpt’ function. Do you have any ideas.
Thanks
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Hi Sean,
Post Teaser IS designed to ignore ‘single’ pages. Examples of ‘single’ pages are full post page, or special pages as you have mention. Have a look at my plugins page and of course this page for example. Post Teaser did not change anything on these two pages.
I’ve heard reports about similar problems before but after I’ve given some help, I was just told it has something to do with the theme and did not give me any more details.
One thing to look out for is that Post Teaser checks for if $single is set to true and if $sem_home_page is set. Changing these in the theme or in other plugins that is run before Post Teaser, it will affect if Post Teaser will perform the tease.
Hope that helps.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:08 am
Hi Han..
Thanks again for the quick response I have looked at the code for post teaser and I have looked at the code for single.php and page.php. I even made a new page template and nothing seemed to work. I also changed my theme to wordpress default. That didn’t help either. I am beginning to believe there maybe no quick answer to this problem. The moderators at wordpress told me it sounds like a plugin issue. I really don’t know, but I really really want to find out how to fix it. Right now the page takes quite some time to load.
do you know of any other plugins that might run before post teaser?
here are a list of the ones I have installed:
Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
Bookmark Me
Break Out Of Frames
Contact Form 7
Exec-PHP
Google Analytics for WordPress
Google XML Sitemaps
Hotlink 2 Link
Please Link 2 Me
Post-Plugin Library
Post Layout
Post Teaser
Redirection
Similar Posts
Subscribe To Comments
Target Blank In Posts And Comments
WordPress No Pagerank
WP-EMail
WP-PostRatings
WP-PostViews
WP-Print
wp-Table
thanks for all of your help so far 🙂
sean
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:54 am
Hi Sean,
I have had a look at the list and there are mostly plugins that I’ve never used. I’m afraid I can’t pin-point the exact plugin that may interfere with Post Teaser. However, my best guess will be among those that modifies the post text and maybe also those that does layouts.
Having said that, the best way to find out is to disable all plugins except Post Teaser and see if the problem exist. If it does not, then you will need to narrow it down by turning on one other plugin at a time until you see the problem. One other plugin at a time meaning turn one of the other plugin on and if it is still fine, turn it off and turn on another plugin.
Once you see the problem, it means that the other plugin is not compatible with Post Teaser. Let me know what you have found.
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:49 am
Hi Han..
I deactivated everyone of the plugins except for post teaser and Exec-PHP. the problem persisted. I will have to do some extra digging.
thanks
Sean
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:04 am
Han.. I ended up having to goto the Evermore plugin. I really want to stay Post Teaser as it has much better features. Anyway, its up and working now, so I just wanted to say thank you very much for all of your help. 🙂
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Just installed 3.11 and when i try to update i get this
Cannot load post-teaser.php
i tried to move it out of the folder and got the same issue
using wp 2.7.1
April 6th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
jason,
Where exactly did you place the post-teaser.php?
May 28th, 2009 at 4:20 am
Post teaser (v 3.11.3) was working very nicely UNTIL upgrade WordPress from 2.6.2 to 2.7.1. Now it causes a php execution timeout (30 seconds). The error is:
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /usr/home/web/users/XXXXX/html/blogs/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 166
May 28th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Hi Kerry,
Do you by any chance use
<!--more-->in your post? If so, please send me a note with the contact form on this site. I’ll get back to you for a temp fix.February 3rd, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Great plugin.
I was hoping to possibly use this plugin as an indexer. So, when someone clicks on a category, they get a full list of all available blogs (Title only) instead of the full blogs.
Have tried to set the word count to Zero, but that does not work.
Would be great in any future updates, if you could add a feature where only the title is displayed, so readers can then just click on the title to read the full post.