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I am using WP Auctions 3.3 in WordPress 2.8.6. It works great with auctions in posts. However in Manage Auctions, the delete function does not work. I cannot delete unwanted auctions.
Thanks
@Chris: are you using any admin-side plugins that may interfere with the code on the page?
Thanks for the fast reply. The only other plugins are Akismet and Google Analytics for WordPress.
Hmm, there should be nothing stopping it. When you click Delete you should be getting a Javascript confirmation. Is this coming up at all? Is your browser reporting any Javascript errors ?
My mistake. The delete functions does work. I had only tried it on one auction. It works fine on other auctions, but there is one which won’t go away. It is not much of a problem now that all the other old auctions are gone.
The bad delete link is incomplete. The link is
javascript:if(‘confirm(Delete auction\’
with nothing following it.
Maybe it will be there forever.
Thanks
Actually .. you might have uncovered a bug there
I’ll take an educated guess here: does your auction name have an apostrophe (‘) in it?
Excellent guess! The auction name is “Reclining Connected Forms”
It was the second auction I created, and I can’t remember the result, but I recall that I had to redo it for some reason. The new version of that auction has no quotes in the name and works fine.
Well, there’s a new version in the works, I’m off to squish the bug to make sure you’ll be able to delete auctions with quotes in them
When using the upload control to upload an image, I get the following message:
Http:error: with photoname.jpg:error #500
There are no errors in the error log on the server.
Folder permissions are set correctly.
Any suggestions?
Hi Darryl, this could be a server issue. Your domain URL goes to an error page though.
Ahoy mate…just purchased the plugin to use on our site…a couple of hiccups:
Styles don’t seem to work at all (tried changing permissions on style folder up to 777, but no go) I assume styles will change text colour for bid description (for example) which currently only prints black and that won’t work on our site.
Can the bid increment be changed? I see others have asked, but no solutions yet?
Otherwise, great plugin! Should be useful for many…
One more thing…we use the “shutter reloaded” plugin and the image popup for WP Auction fights with it – if ye click the image it opens in BOTH – shutter on top, if ye close, the Auction image browser is still there…somewhere I can change this behavior?
BTW, we are using “auction in page”
sorted out the issue with shutter reloaded, it has an option to exclude pages, did that WP Auctions photos work as they should.
Just noticed something with styles – although they don’t seem to change at all in either browser, in IE there is a white background for the text – not in Firefox, there is NO background and text is black.
FYI page is presently here…
http://nolapyrateweek.com/wp/jamaican-pyrate-hideaway-auction
Ahoy Capt. Swallow, the page seems to be empty. (btw, love your username)
Sorry mate – seems I had the page marked ‘private’ instead of just hiding the link, should work now:
http://j.mp/aKvJFZ
I see, that’s actually a CSS issue. Thanks for pointing that out to us.
Here’s the fix:
1. Open up wp_apost.css from the plugin files.
2. The first line has this bit of code in it
.wpauction { background: #fff !important !important;3. Remove the extra !important, so you should be left with:
.wpauction { background: #fff !important;That should solve the background issue.
Remember to save the file/re-upload it to the right folder should you need to.
Cheers, Hyder – that worked brilliantly!
Now…not to be a pest, but do ye have a solution to the styles not implementing – tried after the above fix, but still “plain”.
Looks fine, just might be nice to work the colour angle if possible…
In other news…thought I’d sorted out the bidding increments fix, but not quite…think I’m missin’ extra bits o’ math following the
“helper function to calculate increment based on amount…”
Changed value, looked like it worked, but after someone bid, the next amount is + $5 instead o’ + $100
Help?!?
Hi there,
The next version of the plugin (currently in test) will have an option so you can configure your increments. Can I suggest you revert your code back what it originally was and hold on for the next version.
Configuration options give us the flexibility to roll out new fixes and functionality retaining any configuration changes you make. If you start playing around with the code we won’t be able to support you if/when you break the plugin
Owen
No worries mate…all sorted
The more I see o’ this plugin the more I like it (and the support has been pretty spectacular)!
BTW, I asked a styles question previously (they don’t seem to work on a page inclusion)…if they only work with the pop-up, can I use the pop-up from a link on a page/post?
Thanks again in advance…yer champs…
Yes, you can use the popup from a link in a page or post. Here’s the code for that -
< a href = " http://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-auctions/auction.php?ID=1&height=710&width=805&modal=true " rel="nofollow" >Link TextPlease remove the spaces.
1. Change the “ID=1″ to your auction ID, it’s available from your Manage area.
2. The class=”thickbox” is important for the auction pop-up to appear.
For the life of me I can’t figure out what you mean by styles not working in a page inclusion. Sorry.
Cheers for that code snippet.
The style issue – under “other settings” in the main plugin admin is a dropdown for styles, which I assumed would alter the look of the auction – it has no effect on an auction posted on a page (as opposed – I assume, to the auction pop-up).
Maybe I answered me own question?
One other suggestion – if I may – in the auction, it says “Going For” above the opening bid, perhaps “Opening Bid” would be more specific.
We are still unable to upload photos inside the plugin when we are setting up the auction. When we try to upload the photo, it gives us this message: “HTTP error: photoname.jpg:error #500″
This was in the error log:
http://darryl.wyomingnetwork.com/wp3/wp-content/plugins/wp-auctions/jq_upload.php?image_num=undefined
Can you fix this?
Problem #2: When we set the auction up to require bidders to register, the only screen they get is a WordPress login screen, and has no other option to register. We noticed this on the other sites on your live auction page. They have a link saying: “Only registered users can bid on this auction. Please login or register an account” When you click this link all you get is a login screen to Word Press. Where is the register option for the prospective bidder, and especially where can we customize the fields that they would enter for registration, i.e. name, address, etc.?
Problem #3: In our testing of a Buy Now item in the auction, once that was clicked, it gave no option or instruction to the people about purchasing it…it just closed the auction. We re-listed it to make it appear in the auction list again, but it still showed the old bids. We deleted the auction, and it still appears on the front page of the auction, but not in the actual auction page.
1. The image upload won’t work with MU setups, we have a fix on the way which will address this. It is expected to be released within this week.
2. If you do not enable registrations on your WordPress blog then no one will be able to register. Enabling registrations is available on your General Settings page.
3. Buy It Now by itself will send the information via email to the buyer once the information is entered and the buyer clicks on “Bid Now”. You can test it on our site, the link to demo it is above.
1. What do you mean by MU?
2. We enabled the registration in the General Settings to allow anyone to register, and also required it in the wpauction plugin settings to “Yes, only registered users can bid”. Now, the only thing that appears on the auction item is a login link, but when clicked, that takes you to a WordPress login screen with no way to register, no registration buttons.
3. Yes, we got the buy now email. We still cannot delete the auction. If you go to the link that we’ve given you, you’ll see what we’re talking about at the bottom of the page. It is not listed at all in the manage auctions.
1. Photo upload control is now working.
Request: could you give us some code for resizing the auction screen to adjust automatically to whatever the screen resolution? The individual auctions popup is set too tall, and people cannot see all of it, and then some scroll bars won’t display it all either. We reduced the size of the popup window, but then we get even more scroll bars, and the content of the window itself does not resize.
Update: we figured out on item #3 that it was attaching that auction within the page, and when we deleted the place where it was calling to that auction, then it would disappear.
We decided to can #2 for now since it is not working, but we’d still like a solution to why it goes to a wordpress login page.
thank you.
The popup height and width is non adjustable, there’s just too many variables to adjust to reduce it.
May I suggest using the Auction in a Post feature. No popups involved. If you link it directly to the post it is being held in then the sidebar will link to the post as well.
hi there…
the bid history does not take the time zone from my wordpress blog setting, i am in the uk and it seems to display another time zone..
can you help..
cheers
Stephen
Is your blog time set on your local time?
yes its set to utc…
We’re looking into this issue. Thanks.
I have a suggestion – as something was pointed out to me by a bidder.
If there is a way to record an IP address and/or anything to prevent someone “false” bidding (or at least track if two bids come from two totally different IP).
Something that would add a little more than just name and email…and avoid having to make people log in (we don’t really use that on this site).
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