Stop SOPA/PIPA Bills

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Dan Zappone
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The Biggest Fight for the Future - by vagabond

If you care about anything in this modern-day, if you are passionate about it in any way shape or form be it your religious beliefs, freedom of speech, democracy, music, science, social networking, climate change, protesting, books, or, well, anything and you use the internet in some way to participate you really, really ought to pay attention to this. Congress scooted the bill around to act as though it was no longer in play but it is. These bills SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PROTECT-IP (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property) Act would quite literally spell the death of the internet as we know it. Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

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You may have heard people talking/blogging/twittering about SOPA — the Stop Online Piracy Act. The recent SOPA-related boycott of GoDaddy was all over the news, with many people expressing their outrage over the possibilities of SOPA, but when I ask people about SOPA and its sister bill in the Senate, PIPA (Protect IP Act), many don’t really know what the bills propose, or what we stand to lose. If you are not freaked out by SOPA/PIPA, please: for the next four minutes, instead of checking Facebook statuses, seeing who mentioned you on Twitter, or watching the latest episode of whatever it is people watch, watch this video (by Fight for the Future).

Stop SOPA/PROTECT-IP

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Stop SOPA/PROTECT-IP

What you can do

Go to Stop American Censorship for more information and a bunch of ways you can take action quickly, easily, and painlessly. The Senate votes in two weeks, and we need to help at least 41 more senators see reason before then. Please. Make your voice heard.

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Lightbox Plus Video Tutorials

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Dan Zappone

I ran across a couple of different videos by other folks show some of the usage of Ligthbox Plus so I thought I’d share them. Thanks to those who created the videos!

Installing Lightbox Plus (August 2011)

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Good plugins lightbox plus Q8lol

From Plugins – Lightbox Plus For WordPress @ Q8lol.me

Lightbox Plus WordPress Plug In Overview (November 2011)

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Lightbox Plus WordPress Plug In Overview

From WordPress Favorite Plugins @ Intentional Magic

Displaying an External Site with Lightbox Plus (January 2012)

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External website inside WordPress using Lightbox Plus

From External website inside WordPress using Lightbox Plus @ HotWPMag

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Lightbox Plus 2.4.5 – WordPress 3.3. Compatibility

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Dan Zappone
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First fire of the season

Lightbox Plus is updated to version 2.4.5 which include compatibility with WordPress 3.3 and also updated Colorbox to version 1.3.19. This is an interim release to bring Lightbox Plus up to compatibility with version 3.3 or WordPress. I am currently in the process of preparing a beta release of version 2.5 which has a major interface overhaul as well as the addition of numerous options such as the ability to position the lightbox in a specific location on a page, the ability to set the position of the lightbox to stay in the viewport even when the page is scrolled, per page usage of Lightbox Plus and the ability to auto-launch the lightbox on page load.

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Beta Testers Wanted

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Dan Zappone

beta test Beta Testers WantedI’m looking for some folks to beta test the upcoming version of Lightbox Plus (v.2.5). It’s undergone some major changes and I’d like to do a little extra testing with it. I’m also looking for some people who might be willing to translate Lightbox Plus into other languages.

Please contact me using one of the following links to let me know if you are interested in beta-testing or translating or both.

See after the jump for details of the new changes.

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Salesforce Add-On for Gravity Forms (bug fix)

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Dan Zappone
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Gravity Forms - WordPress Form Management

UPDATE: The issue issue fixed as of version 1.1.1 so I am removing my hotfix as it is no longer needed. Thank to Zack Katz creator of the Gravity Forms Salesforce Add-on for the quick fix.

I use Gravity Forms for a lot of things.  Recently I needed to integrate some forms with Salesforce the wildly popular CRM system.  At first I developed a more or less manual method to post the form information to Salesforce and redirect back to the confirmation page.  This was impractical in that every time one of the content contributors needed to create form that would post to Salesforce I had to manually build the redirect. By chance I was looking for something else in the WordPress plugin repository and ran across the Gravity Forms Salesforce Add-on.

This plugin is a free Salesforce Add-On for Gravity Forms that adds contacts directly into Salesforce, making lead generation even easier to use with WordPress.  The plugin advertised that it added one setting, a check a box when configuring your forms, and all of those form entries would be added to Salesforce.  There was only one problem.  Checkbox or no the plugin was posting every form to Salesforce, which meant that many forms that shouldn’t be posting contact information to Salesforce were doing so.
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New Forums Soon

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Dan Zappone
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Roman Forum and Colosseum (credit: rmlowe)

I’m switching the forums back to bbPress now that there is a bbPress WordPress plugin for it.  I’m going to try to port all the messages back but there I’m not sure how that will work out.  So please be patient if you feel you need to post to the forums.  I had previously used bbPress but is seemed that no progress was being made regarding development so I switched to Mingle Forum.  Turns out bbPress was more useful – I was able to track topics better and respond better to posts. So that said I need to fix a few style issue and and try to port the posts back to bbPress and then the forums will be available once again.

UPDATE: In retrospect I’ve decided not to import the existing forum content for a couple of reasons.  One, I don’t have the time to do it.  And, two, I’d just like to start fresh with the forums and simplify them.

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New features coming to Lightbox Plus

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Dan Zappone
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Glessner Covered Bridge, Somerset County, PA

I have a number of new features in the works for Lightbox Plus for WordPress and I thought I’d go ahead and mention some of them here now. I was hoping to release the version today or tomorrow but it looks like it’s probably going to be later in the week. In any event I have the following items planned.

Lightbox Positioning

An option to set fixed positioning that will keep the lightobox centered in the visitor’s viewport while scrolling the page.  Also the option to specify the horizontal and vertical position of the lightbox on the page.

Lightbox Plus Interface

Option to turn on or off grouping labels, and a fix for the grouping labels not always saving when changed.  Option to turn of scroll bars even if content overflows the lightbox.  And finally and option to open the lightbox immediately when a visitor lands on the page.

Inline Lightboxes

Ability to set additional option for them such as Overlay Opacity, Overlay Close, Transition Type and Resize Speed.

Lightbox Plus for WordPress Admin Interface

I intend to reorganize some of the elements of the WordPress admin interface to provide a more consistent experience for users and make it easier to find settings.

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Lightbox Plus version 2.4 (PHP 5+ Only)

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Dan Zappone
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Lightbox Plus Demo. Railroad Crossing

Lightbox Plus 2.4 has been released. I have completely removed support for PHP 4 at this point. PHP 4 reached end of life as of August 8th 2008 and WordPress no longer supports it going forward. Do not upgrade if you are using PHP 4. I also added a small patch to the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser to check for the existence of the mbstring library which was causing issues for some folks. Milan Petrovic pointed out a minor bug that was causing syntax highlighter using Alex Gorbatchev JavaScript SyntaxHighlighter to not work. This was traced back to the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser stripping out return. Currently this is set to leave returns in but will be added as an option soon.

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