WordPress 2.7 Initial Bugs & Fixes

Post by: bingorabbit
Published on December 12th, 2008
Filed under: information.technology,my.reviews,WordPress
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Lately, I have upgraded to the latest released wordpress version 2.7 named “Coltrane“. I have been testing the system and I’m trying to report the bugs I find to the wordpress team, trying to solve them. I have found till now two bugs:

  1. The WYSIWYG editor is messed up when using a plugin named “TinyMCE Advanced”, it replaces the classic wordpress WYSIWYG editor with a more advanced one, very close to Open Office’s writer’s, with the option to cutomize it and add new buttons and place them wherever you want.

    Default view using TinyMCE Advanced Plugin

    Default view using TinyMCE Advanced Plugin

    After clicking the Visual Tab

    After clicking the Visual Tab

  2. The second bug is found on the Comments page – accessed via the Comments button in the left menu -, I found my emoticons listed on a box there in a very strange place, check the next screen shot.

    Wordpress 2.7, Comments' page bug

    Wordpress 2.7, Comments' page bug

So, I will be reporting bugs I find, if you got any, let’s start to help the great team behind this mighty system. I will be posting solutions or tweaks I may find to solve bugs we find. :)

15 Responses to “WordPress 2.7 Initial Bugs & Fixes”

  1. bingorabbit says:
    December 12, 2008 at 6:41 AM

    For error number 2, I had a plugin called wp-grins, it shows the emoticons installed to the system above the comments area to be easily clickable while posting posts or comments, when deactivated, the Comments’ page – in the admin panel – went just fine, I use version 1.5 of the plugin which is the latest version.

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  2. bingorabbit says:
    December 12, 2008 at 7:04 AM

    for the same bug, #2, you can activated the plugin and comment the very last line of the plugin’s execution file “wp-content/plugins/wp-grins/wp-grins.php” where it says:

    add_action('admin_head', 'wp_grins_head');

    This line adds the clickable smilies list under the posting area in the “Add new” post page in the admin panel, these smilies doesn’t work on this page, so you might not need to leave them there, till we have a better solution, at least we can have them on the comment posting form for our users.

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  3. Ahmed El Gamil says:
    December 12, 2008 at 8:28 AM

    Just applied your Tip on Error #2 and it is working like charm :)
    Jzakom ALLAHu Kher..

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    • bingorabbit says:
      December 12, 2008 at 9:22 AM

      This is a special tweak inspired by Ahmed Al-Gamil, who needed to show the whole comment in the dashboard page, under the Recent Comment Widget, instead of having it trimmed then had a “…” added to the end of the comment.

      Go to wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php and go to line 524, change comment_excerpt(); to comment_text();
      This will actually make sense for large comment when using the Recent Comments Dashboard widget to reply such comments :)

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  4. danu says:
    December 14, 2008 at 12:19 PM

    i hope this bugs can be fixed on WP 2.7.1

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  5. bingorabbit says:
    December 18, 2008 at 7:24 AM

    I hope so Danu, thanks for passing by :)

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  6. Equal says:
    December 18, 2008 at 8:41 AM

    i found this bug #1 to in my blog..

    can you tell me how i can fix it??

    any solution??

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  7. bingorabbit says:
    December 18, 2008 at 12:40 PM

    @Equal: Do you have the TinyMCE Advanced Plugin enabled? and which version do you use?

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    December 21, 2008 at 11:39 PM

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  9. ikoko says:
    December 27, 2008 at 4:24 PM

    For bug number 1

    go to Users >> Your Profile

    Don’t tick Disable the visual editor when writing

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  10. bingorabbit says:
    December 27, 2008 at 7:08 PM

    @ikoko: It didn’t solve it..any other solutions?
    Thanks for passing by.. :)

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  11. Web design Brisbane says:
    February 5, 2009 at 2:43 PM

    I have found a bug in 2.7 where it doesn’t allow you to have more than 10 hyperlinks in a post. I’ve deleted all plug-ins, reinstalled WP, used a different browser but to no avail.

    If I try to put more than 9 hyperlinks in a page, when I hit the update button I get a page not found error and the page is not updated. Very annoying.

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  12. zuan says:
    March 2, 2009 at 11:38 AM

    is there anyway around number #2 ? I really want it at my add new post for easy access :roll:

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