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rohanquinby on "Active Meter"

rohanquinby — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:57:13 +0000

Lookin' good Dr. Mike...

You can plonk "resolved" all over this one!

Rohan

drmike on "Active Meter"

drmike — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:08:47 +0000

Don't tell my ex. :)

You actually have a Blogroll widget. It's labeled as 'Links' on the setup we have here.

Hope this helps,
-drmike

rohanquinby on "Active Meter"

rohanquinby — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:34:55 +0000

Dr. Mike,

You are a genius. Pure and simple. I am gonna fix that tag and then rearrange my sidebar. I am pretty sure that this will resolve the issue. I was not aware that all my blogroll links would disappear when I added widgets (even though it says just as much on the widget page!)

I do think it's kinda strange that when you add widgets, your normal blogroll disappears. I guess that means that you have to transfer all your links from your blogroll into different widgets on a new sidebar(?). Which is a little inconvenient from a user point of view.

From a design point of view, I think it would make sense if instead, widgets could be placed above or below your default sidebar. After you have gone through the trouble of making a bunch of links for your blogroll, and after WP has gone through the trouble of providing an entire interface for managing your blogroll, why make it all disappear when you decide to get all fancy and add a widget or two?

Or maybe I just don't get it. That's a distinct possibility.

drmike on "Active Meter"

drmike — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:27:28 +0000

Oh, sorry. I missed it. :)

Quick aside: You're missing the trailing '/' mark in the img tag for active meter:

You have to add in the other widgets now. They don't add to the previous sidebar, they replace it.

Hope this helps,
-drmike

rohanquinby on "Active Meter"

rohanquinby — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:54:18 +0000

Hi, just bringing this up...

I know you guys are flat out, but it would be great if someone could take a look at what's happening with my blog. I have had my sidebar down now for two days waiting for someone to take a look.

rohanquinby on "Active Meter"

rohanquinby — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:49:32 +0000

Hi Timethief!

Thanks for the suggestion. If I follow you right, I am pretty sure that I have been through that step.

Beginning with the "activemeter" widget in my sidebar and with no visible links, I went to the manage blogroll page.

In the manage blogroll page, I removed the activemeter text widget from the sidebar. It floated down to the list of available widgets.

I then cleared my cache and navigated back to my blog, and all of my links had returned. Putting the widget back made the site appear as it does now: That is, there is just a widget that says "Activemeter" and none of my links are visible.

Yeah, and having the widget say "activemeter" is kind of contradictory, although I just realised that I had selected an invisible activemeter by mistake. Huh.

timethief on "Active Meter"

timethief — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:23:45 +0000

{just a suggestion}
This is just a suggestion until drmike our Moderator and/or staff can get to your post. Have you tried removing the active meter text widget from your sidebar to see what effect that has? If everything is restored to normal then at least you have isolated the source. The only thing visible in your sidebar is the label "active meter" and as it's an invisible meter having the label at all defeats the purpose, doesn't it?

rohanquinby on "Active Meter"

rohanquinby — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:57:16 +0000

Sorry to bother you, but I am just trying to anticipate any questions you might have...

The last thing I can think of is that in the manage blogroll screen, all my links are toggled as visible, even though they are not showing on the page.

rohanquinby on "Active Meter"

rohanquinby — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:18:11 +0000

Also, just so you know, whenever I remove the text widget, my original sidebar magically reappears...

Bizarre!

rohanquinby on "Active Meter"

rohanquinby — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:25:43 +0000

Hi Dr. Mike...

I know you are busy and have a life, so here are a few details...

I am using Firefox (whatever the latest edition is)

I have cleaned out my cache

I dragged a text widget into my sidebar area and pasted in the Activemeter code

Today, the rest of my sidebar is still missing. It contained my links, etc...

rohanquinby on "Active Meter"

rohanquinby — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:38:33 +0000

Hi Dr. Mike!

Thanks for your reply. I have now added the text widget with the Activemeter html in it and the sidebar that I used to have has disappeared. Yikes!

drmike on "Active Meter"

drmike — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:50:02 +0000

We need to see this happening to see what is occuring. What you're reporting is not standard behavior and, without actually seeing it, we can't help you.

rohanquinby on "Active Meter"

rohanquinby — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:31:54 +0000

Hi, I hope someone can answer this question:

I am about to install Activemeter. I have followed the steps above but when I add the text widget to my sidebar, the rest of my sidebar (with my blogroll, links etc.) disappears.

What can I do to have both a text widget and my blogroll as it usually exists?

Thanks in advance!

silfrenwulf on "Active Meter"

silfrenwulf — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:18:36 +0000

I'm glad Drmike was able to help get you sorted out melissanthi.

Timethief, yes and yes. Well, good enough anyway. Statcounter also does an invisible one too. Although how truly accurate it is I don't know, which is why I'm trying out two different counters at the moment. But I have found that, as Statcounter allows as many projects as you like, I'm able to use it to follow the stats of each of my pages as well.

timethief on "Active Meter"

timethief — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:19:02 +0000

ummm ... it's about the active meter - is it truly invisible and does it work?

drmike on "Active Meter"

drmike — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:57:45 +0000

Not a problem. I just have way too many blogs I'm added in. :)

melissanthi on "Active Meter"

melissanthi — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:30:44 +0000

Thanks again. Just checked, it works. I 'm gonna be removing you from the Admin position in a minute. It was very helpful while it lasted. ;-)

timethief on "Active Meter"

timethief — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:26:08 +0000

@drmike
Can we take it that this is an *invisible* free stat counter that works on wordpress blogs then?

P.S. Don't forget to remove your email address unless you truly want to be deluged. ;)

drmike on "Active Meter"

drmike — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:17:32 +0000

Just to answer your question, I just slid the Text Widget 1 to your sidebar and didn't put anything in the title and the body of the widget and clicked on Save Changes. It didn't show anything when you viewed the blog again. I didn't put anything in the title and, since the title and the body is empty, nothing shows.

Actually works kind of nice with your theme. You don't see it when you view the blog. I know in some themes, you would still get something showing up even if the title is blank.

Please take a quick second and remove me as an admin. :)

Hope this helps,
-drmike

melissanthi on "Active Meter"

melissanthi — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:08:44 +0000

Thank you both so much. :)

melissanthi on "Active Meter"

melissanthi — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:07:14 +0000

Added? But I didn't create a blank text widget as you said. Infact, how do you create one? (I hope this is not a stupid question.)

drmike on "Active Meter"

drmike — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:03:25 +0000

Added. Please double check the browser output for me and see if any hits shows up. I'd check for that tomorrow to give it time. I don't know how often they update their numbers.

Hope this helps,
-drmike

drmike on "Active Meter"

drmike — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:08:33 +0000

If you would like, I would be happy to add this into your blog. Please create a blank text widget with the title you want and assign [email removed - drmike] as an admin to your blog and I'll go ahead and add it in there for you.

I can't get anything done today anyway. It's too loud in here. :(

silfrenwulf on "Active Meter"

silfrenwulf — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:45:24 +0000

@ Drmike - The code's ok, its the kind thats meant to be invisible you see. Seems to be something to do with the Mac from the looks of it but that totally loses me as I have no experience with those.

drmike on "Active Meter"

drmike — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:41:15 +0000

The code in that post, I can put into a text widget without any issue. I can't get any counter to what not to come up though. Is something suppose to appear like a counter?

drmike on "Active Meter"

drmike — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:34:58 +0000

I have to edit the post as a bunch is missing from what we're seeing. (I can see it since I can edit it as a moderator.)

I want is it's seeing the 'java' bit in the link and is being thrown off for that...

Gone to try it.

silfrenwulf on "Active Meter"

silfrenwulf — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 19:04:20 +0000

OK, I'm not a Mac user but those who are suggest that people don't use Safari, from what I've read.
Have you got, or can you download Firefox and then try again? Try that and see if it helps any.

EDIT:
Also I understand there is a browser for the Mac called Camino? If Firefox fails then give that a go.

melissanthi on "Active Meter"

melissanthi — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:56:30 +0000

But it won't paste! Could it be a Mac glitch? I'm a Mac User. I tried both with Safari and Neetscape. Niente.

silfrenwulf on "Active Meter"

silfrenwulf — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:20:08 +0000

Take the code from the Activemeter site, make sure it is not the java one, and don't worry about editing it just yet.
Then copy and paste it in your text widget, and that's where you can edit it.

melissanthi on "Active Meter"

melissanthi — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:13:07 +0000

I can't do it. Everytime I try to get my cursor close to the code text it gets automatically highlighted so I can't delete anything. I don't understand, I really really don't. :-(