so i’m assuming this plugin is dead. does anybody know of alternatives

i run my own server. I was running through Cloudflare but I’ve deactivated that. I’ve deactivated Cometcache. Still, just dead. Now it’s dead on all my sites. Even the Piklist settings page doesn’t save its settings. It reads them fine, but it doesnt save them.

Could this have something to with with the upgrade to .9.8 or whatever.

<?php
/*
Title: LP Publisher Book Promotion
Priority: high
Post Type: post,page,book
*/ 
 
 global $wpdb;
 global $current_user;
 
 echo "<h2>Promote a book</h2>";
 
 $book_details    = $wpdb->get_results("select book_id, title  from avatar_books");

 $choices[0]='---';
 foreach ($book_details as $book) {
     $choices[$book->book_id] = $book->title;
    
 }
 
 if ($current_user->ID == 1) {
 piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'select'
    ,'field' => 'is_excerpt'
    ,'label' => 'Book excerpt'
    ,'description' => 'Is this article excerpted from a book?'
     ,'value' => ''
    ,'attributes' => array(
      'class' => 'text'
     )
    ,'choices' => array(''=>'','y'=>'Y')
  ));

  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'select'
    ,'field' => 'is_excerpt_complete'
    ,'label' => 'Is Complete'
    ,'description' => 'Is this excerpt a complete chapter?'
     ,'value' => ''
    ,'attributes' => array(
      'class' => 'text'
     )
    ,'choices' => array(''=>'','y'=>'Y')
  ));
 }
 piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'select'
    ,'field' => 'book_id'
    ,'label' => 'Promote a single book'
    ,'value' => ''
    ,'attributes' => array(
      'class' => 'text'
     )
    ,'choices' => $choices
  ));

 /*
  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'select'
    ,'field' => 'output_style'
    ,'label' => 'Output style'
    ,'value' => ''
    ,'attributes' => array(
      'class' => 'text'
     )
    ,'choices' => array(''=>'---','full'=>'Full','compact'=>'Compact')
  ));
*/
 
     piklist('field', array(
 'type' => 'text'
 ,'field' => 'promo_header'
 ,'label' => 'Promo Header'
 ,'description' => 'Title used to introduce the ad at the bottom of the page'
 ,'attributes' => array(
   'size' => 50
 )
 ));  
  piklist('field', array(
 'type' => 'textarea'
 ,'field' => 'alt_book_description'
 ,'label' => 'Alternative Book Description'
 ,'description' => 'Replace the description in the database with the one here'
 ,'attributes' => array(
   'rows' => 5
   ,'cols' => 50
   ,'class' => 'large-text'
 )
 ));
  
  piklist('field', array(
 'type' => 'text'
 ,'field' => 'alt_title'
 ,'label' => 'Alternate Title'
 ,'description' => 'used in the widget title and elsewhere'
 ,'attributes' => array(
   'size' => 50
 )
 ));
  piklist('field', array(
 'type' => 'text'
 ,'field' => 'widget_blurb'
 ,'label' => 'A short blurb used in the widget footer'
 ,'description' => 'Should fit comfortably in a widget sidebar'
 ,'attributes' => array(
   'size' => 100
   ,'class' => 'text'
 )
 ));
  

/*
echo "Finally, choose the elements of the book display you wish to suppress. ";
piklist('field', array(
'type' => 'select'
,'scope' => 'post_meta' // Not used for settings sections
,'field' => 'suppress'
,'value' => 'option2' // Sets default to Option 2
,'label' => 'Suppress'
,'description' => 'Choose elements of the book display to suppress'
,'attributes' => array(
  'class' => 'text'
   ,'multiple' => 'multiple'
)
,'choices' => array(
  'none'    => 'none'
 ,'title' => 'Title'
 ,'author' => 'Author'
 ,'isbn' => 'ISBN'
)
));
*/

?>

This won’t help. these have been working without hitch until just recently.

ya. i read that. something is not right though. As you can see in the screenshot the widget itself is just a blank box. When I add the widget to a sidebar I get a dropdown to select the widget. when I add and save, the widget does not provide any output, even though it probably should, I think.

here is the code for global-scholar-article-form.php

<?php
/*
Title: Global Scholar Article Widget
Description: Output article information, social links, etc.
*/

piklist('field', array(
  'type' => 'text'
  ,'field' => 'article_widget_title'
  ,'label' => 'Title'
  ,'description' => 'Title'
  ,'value' => 'Global Scholar'
  ,'attributes' => array(
    'class' => 'text'
  )
));

?>

and here is the code for global-scholar-article.php

<?php
/*
Title: Global Scholar Article Widget
Description: Output article information, social links, etc.
*/
?>
<?php echo $before_widget; ?>
 
<?php echo $before_title; ?>
 
<?php echo $after_title; ?>
 
<?php echo 'Put some stuff here';

?>

<?php echo $after_widget; ?>

that did the trick.

you folks have a rockin plugin here. I love this

that fixed it up. i’m still not getting the author field though. so I can’t select an appropriate author for the article

not today. thursday maybe