WP Likes 2.0

getting the following error: Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: Unable to call wp_likes_render::post() in /wordpress/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 166

How can i make a translated version… and when you update this plugin again i dont have to modify eveery time the words that are not editable in the admin panel?

I’d like to suggest a feature change that I’ve been looking for since forever. I would like to have more options other than “likes” for people to choose from.

The options should be in the form that can replace a quick comment for people with no time and help categorize the posts by popularity.

For example you can have the following options: Funny, Insightful, Sad, Awesome etc. This way visitors can select how the post appeared to them rather than just “Liking”. Then new visitors would have the option to find out all “Funny” posts while you’ll be able to see in your dashboard which of your writings got the best in each category.

Of course, the best would be the capability for the admins to define which categories they wish to have available.

I’ll see if I can modify the plugin to do this but my javascript is non-existent. If you can code this, I’ll be spreading the word to the end of the world out of joy

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /wp-content/plugins/wp-likes/likes.php on line 73

@Michele, @Tahina
Thats because you have PHP4.x on your server.
I strongly recommend you switching the version of php to 5.x from your hosting cpanel.

Sure, if you think it’s best, although it could simply be a simple option in the config menu.

Let me know if you do code this.

I am using the WP Likes plugin and want to continue using it but i am noticing that the text ‘0 People Like this Post. Like’ are showing up on the front page and all other pages but do not function like they do on this page: http://www.yabberit.com/archives/54

Please help

I try to translate the text, but despite this, I have a visible “You” instead of a swedish “Du” left when clicked. The result is half English and half Swedish. Please, you can mark up the code so we can see where to change the outgoing texts.
I have seen the same problem at other Swedish (bexs.se) sites using your otherwise nice code.

Hey Aakash !

I am using your plugin and liking it (lol) i have customized the strings (in the code, not the backend) to make it usable in Spanish. (you can see it in my blog above)

Could you post the changelog for 2.0.2 just to see if the work of changing the strings again is worth it?

Regards
Akex

Thanks for the quick response! WordPress wouldn’t be the same without awesome authors like you!

I’ve been playing with the CSS and code, but I can’t seem to get the “Like” button to stop jumping down 3 pixels when clicked.

http://boomer-living.com/wp/2009/06/thinking-of-a-career-change-five-tips/

Anyone have any suggestions?

@mike add a css style like this to prohibit that jump from occuring-

.wp_likes a.like:active{
padding-left:20px;
}

@Jacob
There is a PHP error occuring in your case, the macro ABSPATH is not being set in wp-config.php file.. which version of wordpress you on?

hello,

great plugin and only one I found that does what I want.. I was wondering whether it was possible to make it so that the Like_count is on the same line as the unlike link.
I’ve been trying but with no luck so far..

thank you for any help,

mat

Hey!

thank you very much, that did the trick indeed!

For me the CSS did not fix the image jumping away, but I replaced the spinner.gif with this (http://www.in-mediakg.de/contact/pic/loading.gif) and it works fine now!

greetings from germany,

mat

HI there,

I get an error when I try to visit my dashboard:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_add_dashboard_widget() in …/PATH/wp/wp-content/plugins/wp-likes/likes.php on line 62

I read your above comments and I’m have PHP 5.x

@Tobi I was getting this error too, and have found that pulling all the hooked functions out of the classes into globals “solved” the problem. It seems add_action cannot handle the “class::function” syntax?

I’m using WP 2.8.4 from a fresh install, PHP v5.1.6, Fedora 6.

I’ll continue to investigate why this is happening (a php setting?) and post back if I find anything (although I’m sure you’ve moved on by now!).

I’m getting this error when I try to add new articles. It also displays the Like button and the ajax loader. Any ideas on a fix?

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/41/d186519353/htdocs/wp/wp-content/plugins/wp-likes/likes.php:215) in /homepages/41/d186519353/htdocs/wp/wp-includes/classes.php on line 1586

I’ve disabled it for now sadly. When a fix is available I’ll enable it again. I love the plugin.

Sorry the above post is missing some php delimiter characters: it should say “newlines outside of the in included library and class files”

(hope that comes out right!)

e.g. there is a newline after the closing ?> at the bottom likes.php – perhaps this is causing it?

Yes there was, I removed the extra blank line after that. Still does the same thing.

According to the error, this line is the problem:

‘if($settings->customRender==’true’) echo $returnStr;’

However, I can’t see anything wrong with it.

Aakash,

This fixed the problem for me. FYI, my PHP version was:

5.2.102.0

Love this plugin and love the support!

you need to edit the CSS code in settings area. People in comments above have posted no. of ways to move around the like buttons.
Let me know your requirements so that I can give you the exact CSS code to be put under settings.

How can I get the Like/Unlike line to show up on the SAME line as my “Posted in X category, X comments” line?

I want it to be like this: http://boomer-living.com/wp/2009/08/embrace-the-salesperson-within-and-ace-the-job-interview-2/

But when I insert the function right after the X category X comment line, the Like/Unlike appears on the next line.

Here’s my code:
Posted in | <img src="/images/iconcomment.jpg” style=”vertical-align: bottom;” />

An excerpt of my code:

have problems using the Like button on my site, it is already there but it just doesn’t show when people press on it.

I am not sure what is wrong, please advice

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /web/htdocs/www.justintimberlakeitalia.com/home/wp-content/plugins/wp-likes/likes.php on line 97

Why??

Fantastic plugin works super! but I was wondering if it’s possible to move the plugin to somewhere else in the template to fit better?

Hi – a very cool plugin. I was wondering how to call the plugin code to be used at both the start and the end of my posts.

If you look at my site, tshirtalert.com, you will notice that I have put a piece of text labelled “Like” at the top of each post, and also in the footer of the footer of each post. Now I would like to link these pieces of text up to your plugin – I just have no idea how to do it!

Hello, congratulations for the plugin. I installed it on my blog but I have noticed an issue if WP Likes is also present along with Lightbox 2.8.2 (http://stimuli.ca/lightbox/). Lightboxes it stops working, generating javascript errors. If you disable all WP Likes back to work.

I have stories that go over more than one page. I love the “like” button but is there any way to have the Like button appear BELOW the next page buttons. People don’t realise there is more than one page because the like button comes up ahead of it. You can see what I’m talking about on this page here: http://www.jscribes.com/salt

Thanks

First of all, forgive me for late responses. I have been really busy with college and stuff and hence couldn’t look into the issues.

@tee I hope you have figured it out. A small CSS hack would have done the trick. And thats one of the best customizations of the plugin I came across

@Ting that may be because of jQuery taking time to load as bunch of other heavy stuff loading on the page.

@Sax, Maxime very common error caused when the web server is still using PHP 4.x Upgrade to PHP 5.2.X

@Karly nice find. will fix that one soon.

@Jake I would suggest putting the theme template code found under WP likes settings to both top and bottom area of a posts.

@alex soon. I need to be careful in handling the session cookies or this could turn into a major security threat.

@David I am testing this LightBox plugin right now. If you can give me the javascript error being generated at your end, this will help me in debugging the issue.

@Bronte as I have suggested to others, you can call the plugin code(found under settings) in theme template files and render the plugin wherever you want in a post. Also I will be posting an update which checks if there are more than 1 pages in the post and renders accordingly.

@Stuart you want to modify the sidebar widget text?

The sidebar widget to show the most liked posts is not XHTML valid.

@izdale, thanks again its fixed with today’s update.
@David the protoype js framework is causing problems with jQuery, you can update the plugin and try, I have patched it to be make it more compatible with other plugins.

Now, as of today your blog RSS feed can show the like count of your posts!

Hello, Im trying to set up the “most liked” stats on my about page (http://tinyurl.com/mbangert)...

I’ve been doing some trial and error and almost managed to do so:

This is what I add:
php if(is_callable(’wp_likes_render::sidebar’)) wp_likes_render::sidebar();

It does work, but I also get this error message:

Warning: Missing argument 1 for wp_likes_render::sidebar(), called in …wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()’d code on line 10 and defined in /homepages/2/d40919988/htdocs/mathieu/wp-content/plugins/wp-likes/likes.php on line 406

Warning: extract() [function.extract]: First argument should be an array in …wp-content/plugins/wp-likes/likes.php on line 407

Do you have any idea what the argument should be to render it correctly?

Thank you,

Mat (http://tinyurl.com/mbangert)

Sorry to bother you. Just a quickie.
Ive just done afresh install of wordpress 2.8.4 & my only plugin is wp-likes. Unfortunately Im getting the link but only a spinning loader which never stops.
Im running php5 according to my hosts.
Any ideas? Sorry to ask.

@Mat you can try doing it this way- wp_likes_render::sidebar(array()); Wordpress sends some default params which are used by theme files.

@Lee that was because of wp_head() not being called in theme template.

@Maxime will see whether WP-Cache has an API.

Hmm, may have worked around it by adding “align:right” etc to CSS. Wish there were a more direct way.

I’ll say it again–LOVE the plugin!

Using WPMU, and the plugin works except for the widget….from what I can tell the problem happens at the sql statement….

$sql=”SELECT post_id,p.post_title AS title,count(post_id) AS num FROM $wpdb->likes,$wpdb->posts p WHERE p.id=post_id GROUP BY post_id HAVING num>1 ORDER BY num DESC LIMIT 5″;

Any ideas on what needs to be done to get this to work with WPMU structure?

Also, I noticed you define $wpdb->post=$wpdb->prefix.”posts”; but in the query you say $wpdb->posts p WHERE (why is the posts plural in the query, when you defined the path above it as singular)

Thanks for your hard work!

I just attempted to post an update to what I said above, but it isnt showing…is it possible its in moderation?

I noticed you replied to lee about the spinner constantly spinning…mine is doing the same thing. Clicking the like link just refreshes the page, other than that it just spins and spins, I checked and I believe wp_header is being called

there is no error at all. It just spins, then when clicking the “like” link it just refreshes the page and wp_head() is in the header

?php wp_head(); ?

[...] WP likes [...]

@shedmore sorry, just noticed it was in akismet spam queue!
It binds your like with prev session if present otherwise IP. This makes sure that a person never likes the same post twice and whenever he revisits the post, he can see that he liked it.
Most wordpress blogs have not more than 2-3 registered users so I thought of sticking the ‘like’ with IP instead of user. However thats not the case with WPMU! I think I need to re-work it for WP-MU.

Hi, I tested this plugin in a test installation of wordpress and it works well; then I installed it in my blog and there is the link “like” but clicking it nothing appears. I thought to problems of compability with other plugins… How can I solve?
Thanks!

Is it possible to get rid of the word “You” after you have liked a post? I’m wanting to mimic the way the Like feature works on Tumblr. A gray heart, darkening a bit on mouseover to like a post. Then the liked post will have a red heart. The red heart could then be clicked to unlike a post. Thanks!

Hi,

I love this plug in. Its simple, and is exactly what I need. Unfortunately, the Top Liked Posts is not loading on the widget or the dashboard. Even after I like a few posts, none show up in either place. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks so much.

I’m getting validation errors on my pages because WP likes adds a tag even though there is no paragraph to close.

I would really love this plugin…if I could get it to work. Activation seems fine, and the thumbs up link with the text “Like” shows up but when I click it, nothing changes. That is, I don’t see any black box above the thumbs up right now, and after being the first to “like” a post, still no black box with the number of likes. Any suggestions?

Sorry I’m not code-saavy.

One more thing…wp-likes doesn’t seem to be working on my category pages where I use the_excerpt instead of the_content. When the excerpt is displayed, wp-likes shows as plain text. Is it possible to get it working with excerpt or have wp-likes not show at all with excerpts?

Sorry for the ignorance, life’s been tough last month.

“Clicking the like link and loader spins forever”
There is a php error from backend. Check the plugin folder permissions, they should be 755. You can see your server error log for more debugging info.

“Clicking the like link- nothing happens, not even the loader shows up”
This is a frontend javascript error. Mostly caused if jQuery is not being loaded. Check your browser error console for more insight.

@Shane noted. Will try to do something like tumblr in next release

@Idolon From what I have seen on most blogs, the wordpress code doesn’t close its when the plugin is invoked. What version of wordpress you on? The fix is for this is to remove the leading in first ECHO, likes.php file function- wp_likes_render::post().

@Nancy this should be relatively easier to fix. Can I see the page where plain text is appearing when the_excerpt() is called.

@Eric, Dustin What wordpress version you on? you can try adding a call to wp_likes_render_sidebar(null) in your theme file.

I want to suggest more words that could be with modified text (like Unlike Button Text, Like Button Text, Like Text, Like Actors). At first I would like these words to be available with their plural forms.
In Bulgarian language you can say “Like” in 3 ways. For example “Харесвам” is for I like, “Харесваш” is for You like and “Харесват” is for They like. Also I would like there to be and the pronouns “You”, “They” and etc.
Also and the Like Actors. They have to be with their singular and plural forms.

Thanks.

The widget does not show up.. Don´t you know why? Thanks

@Aaron
Your theme is interfering with WP Likes, its unnecessarily appending some text to response, which is breaking the JSON.