Hotaru Pre-beta 0.8 testing bug report thread

[nothingman]

2 Quick questions (apologies if this is the incorrect thread).
- I've activated all the sidebar widgets, how do I go about having them displayed in the sidebar of the main site? For example, the "Sidebar Comments" plugin? Do I need to do this.
- How do I go about removing the "A New Sidebar" and "Hello Universe!" thingies from the sidebar and homepage?

[JonH]

In response to Nick's thread here, I figured I would start this thread under the "Core" forum for any small bug reports.

You can get 0.8 from the SVN trunk - Tortoise SVN will do it all for you.

(I moved nothingman's post to here but since nothingman's post time was before mine it's 1st)

[Nick]

2 Quick questions (apologies if this is the incorrect thread).
- I've activated all the sidebar widgets, how do I go about having them displayed in the sidebar of the main site? For example, the "Sidebar Comments" plugin? Do I need to do this.
- How do I go about removing the "A New Sidebar" and "Hello Universe!" thingies from the sidebar and homepage?

Okay, that's an easy one. Go to Plugin Management and uninstall the "Hello Universe" plugin. That will solve both problems!

[nothingman]

Thanks Jon, thanks Nick.

Some feedback (with a query):-

1. I used the upgrade option and I got the following error after completing the installation.



2. I'm not sure if the following could be called a bug but the header formatting looked liked this after a fresh install. Clearing the FF cache solved it for me BTW



3. When I use ONLY one smiley on the comment form, the comment does not appear. But if i use a smiley along with some text (or use two smileys for a comment), the comment appears.

4. How does one go about using gravatar? I installed the Gravatar 0.6 plugin, but when I clicked Account on the home page, all I got were options for changing my email add, password etc.

[Nick]

Thanks Jon, thanks Nick.

1. I used the upgrade option and I got the following error after completing the installation.

2. I'm not sure if the following could be called a bug but the header formatting looked liked this after a fresh install. Clearing the FF cache solved it for me BTW

3. When I use ONLY one smiley on the comment form, the comment does not appear. But if i use a smiley along with some text (or use two smileys for a comment), the comment appears.

4. How does one go about using gravatar? I installed the Gravatar 0.6 plugin, but when I clicked Account on the home page, all I got were options for changing my email add, password etc.

1. Reinstalling the Submit plugin should fix that.

2. The real question is what does a regular user see? We can't expect them to clear their browser cache, so I'm not sure about this yet...

3. Do you have Akismet installed and active? Maybe Akismet is catching those single smilies? Check Comment Manager to see if the comment is pending.

4. Gravatar is an admin option, not a user option. Check the Submit and Comments setting pages. If the user's email is registered with Gravatar, their avatar will show. Don't forget to check your avatar rating as mentioned here. If your avatar is rated PG or above, you will need to change the rating setting in the gravatar.php file itself.

[nothingman]

3. Do you have Akismet installed and active? Maybe Akismet is catching those single smilies? Check Comment Manager to see if the comment is pending.

I have installed Akismet but it is disabled/inactive (unchecked). I checked Comment Manager, and the status of the 'single smiley' comment was pending. Would this mean that I need to uninstall Akismet? (My assumption is that having Enable or disable Akismet for posts unchecked under Akismet Settings means that it is disabled/inactive :-/

4. Gravatar is an admin option, not a user option. Check the Submit and Comments setting pages. If the user's email is registered with Gravatar, their avatar will show. Don't forget to check your avatar rating as mentioned here. If your avatar is rated PG or above, you will need to change the rating setting in the gravatar.php file itself.

Thanks, I got it working now.
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EDIT 1:

5. Is there a way for the admins to manage users (like say, reset a user's password, change a user's email address etc)?

EDIT 2:

6. The profile page for a user on the main hotaru demo page looks quite different from the one on my test site. For example, the gravatar of the user and the Latest Activity sections are missing on the "user profile" page of my test site. Are these unavailable for this release? :-?

[Nick]

3. Akismet - Okay, I can confirm that's a bug. Ticket #57

4. Does your avatar show up in the Gravatar Verification Tool?

5. To edit a user's name, email address or role, click their name, then click Account. You can also access their account in the User Manager. You can't edit someone's password, you can only edit your own. A user can change their own password or get a new one from the log in page if they forget it. See attached screenshot.

[Nick]

The profile page for a user on the main hotaru demo page looks quite different from the one on my test site. For example, gravatar of the user and the Latest Activity sections are missing on my test site. Are these unavailable for this release?

6. Go to Admin -> Maintenance, clear the database cache and then reload your profile page. That should fix it.

[Nick]

Latest updates:

- Fixed the Akismet enable/disable problem.
- Got smilies showing in Comment Manager and Sidebar Comments.
- Added the posting time to comments in Comment Manager instead of just the date.
- Made Gravatar use just one image for the default avatar (instead of 6 images of different sizes) and it now check's your theme's images folder for the avatar before defaulting to the Gravatar folder.
- Made Akismet report posts as ham or spam to the Akismet server whenever a post's status is changed or a post is deleted (it only did this with comments before). This means that if lots of people use Hotaru, then we can train Akismet to correctly mark posts and comments as ham or spam.

Those updates are on the SVN trunk. If you update your files (no need to reinstall or upgrade), you will need to reinstall the Akismet and Smilies plugins so their new plugin hooks get registered.

Thanks for the feedback. Keep it coming!

Edit: Changed "Account" in the navigation bar to show the user's avatar and name. Reinstall the Users and Gravatar plugins after updating your files to commit #578.

[Nick]

Changeset #581/582: Caching and other changes to cut database queries down from 400+ to less than 100. There's a new cache folder called "html_cache". You need to give it write permissions.

Update:

Changeset #583/584: Fix for user_ip mistake in the updateUser function. Fix for pending posts being visible to users without global post edit permissions. Added pending counts for Post, User and Comment Manager plugins. New "Stop Spam" plugin.