Kontera Control Being Updated:
Would you like me to test with your theme?
Would you like me to test with your theme?
I’m updating Kontera Control to work with Wordpress 2.3 and address pesky issues that Tricia of Feverish Thoughts and Loren of Today’s Gizmo’s alerted me to. Guess what? You can help me.
If you use Kontera Control and have experienced any problems or observed any strangeness, please:
- Describe the problem.
- Tell me the name of your theme.
- Describe any widgets or other plugins you use — comments and categories widgets and plugins are usually the most crucial ones for me to know about. (If you don’t know your plugins and widgets off hand, I’ll ask you by email.)
Why will this information help me? Consider what happened with Tricia’s Theme.
Tricia had an issue with Kontera ads appearing in posts in the ‘Sponsored Category’ after she widgetized her site using the Raindrops theme — the plugin had worked before widgetizing.
Deactivating the widgets did not cause the error to go away. (It’s odd the error doesn’t go away when you de-widgetize … but… whatever.)
By testing Kontera Control using Tricia’s theme on my test blog, I discovered the precise incompatibility which is: The Rainbows widget somehow fills the global “comment variable” (called $comment) in a way that causes it to be “true” even outside comments.
This is a bit pesky, and caused my Kontera Control to fail, because I anticipated that “$comment” would be “false” outside comments. Silly me. 
(Turns out it’s very, very easy to work around this. But, I need to figure out precisely what went wrong first.)
Anyway, if you are having an issue, give me as much detail, and as soon as possible. That way, I can get the fixed version of KC out by Friday, (which will make Tricia very happy!)
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Hey Lucia thanks for working on this for me. I’m not sure if you saw the problem occurring when widgets were off, but I just wanted you to know that I’ve left my gardening blog widgetized. I never did turn widgets off again. I’ve only got a few posts on that one that have Kontera in it that shouldn’t and I don’t plan to add anymore of those Kind of posts until this is fixed. well I hope that will be the case.
@Tricia– When I first installed your theme, KC worked fine. Then, when I installed widgettedfied, it broke. So, I’m assuming since you didn’t notice the problem until after the widgets, that’s what happened with you too. (It’s very weird, but…)
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