Year: 2019 Q2

May 2019

July 2019

This is a quick test to try out the new years and month options added in version 2.3.20… this looks like it might end up being version 2.4.0 at this rate. Yup, it will be a major release.

Test 1 – Show it All

This test should show everything: Years, Months, Weeks, Days… and the rest.
[tminus t="+410 days +10 sec" style="c-3po"/]

Test 2 – Omit Years

This test will omit the years, resulting in expanded months.
[|tminus t="+410 days" omityears="true" style="c-3po"/]]

Test 3 – Omit Months – Keep Years

This test will display the years, but convert months to weeks.
[tminus t="+410 days" omitmonths="true" style="c-3po"/]

Test 4 – Omit Years and Months

The title, pretty much says it all. No years, no Months… just a whole lott’a weeks:
[tminus t="+410 days" omityears="true" omitmonths="true" style="c-3po"/]

Test 5 – Omit Years, Months and Weeks

Days for days…
[tminus t="+410 days" omityears="true" omitmonths="true" omitweeks="true" style="c-3po"/]

Test 6 – Omit Weeks Only

No weeks, but the rest.
[tminus t="+410 days" omitweeks="true" style="c-3po"/]

Test 7 – Omit Months and Weeks

No months, no weeks.
[tminus t="+410 days +10 secs" omitmonths="true" omitweeks="true" style="c-3po"/]

Test 8 – Omit Years and Weeks

No years, no weeks.
[tminus t="+410 days" omityears="true" omitweeks="true" style="c-3po"/]

This is a test of print-pro-matic using wp_localize to pass js vars to the js file. it also passes print-only elements.

Like this one with the .printonly class listed in the shortcode

And here is the shortcode:
[print-me print_only=".printonly"/]

Actually, this should not be passed via shortcode, but rather only defined in the option page.
[print-me /]

This is just a simple test where we pass some pause_time and a special target

[print-me target=".print_this" do_not_print=".printomat" pause_before_print="4000"/]

This is a test where a scroll-to target will open an expand, however will then scroll back to the top of the page–or actually an element at the top of the page defined as:
<h2='top'>Scroll Target at Top<H2>

Scroll Target at Top

This is just some filler text to move the expand item a bit further down the screen. In fact, why not just throw in an image and save us all a heap of blibber blabber text. Here is a photo of a donkey stuck in a manhole cover. Silly donkey, you are not a man… you’re a donkey.

Now we place an expand element with a defined ID and scrolltarget value:
[expand title="trigger text" id="monkey" scrolltarget="#top"/]

So navigating directly to
https://spacedonkey.de/3439/scroll-targets-and-url-hash/#monkey

will scroll down to the monkey element, open it, then scroll back up to the top element. This bouncing around is quite annoying.

Introducing: hash-trigger

This is a test where we introduce a new attribute called hash_trigger. This is an secondary id that will be use to expand but not scroll to a collapse element based on the url anchor hash. For example. We create an expand element like so:
[expand title="trigger text" id="smashing" hash_trigger="pumpkins"/]

Now when we link directly to the page with the url anchor hash of #smashing it will scroll to and expand the element above as normal. However, if we use the url anchor hash of #pumpkins it will only expand the element and NOT scroll anywhere , providing:
1. there is no other element with an ID of pumpkins
2. there is no scroll-to attribute defined on this expand element.

Note: to assign the hash_trigger using the roll-your-own method, simply assign a data-hash-trigger attribute to the trigger element:

<div class="collapseomatic" id="smashing" title="trigger text" data-hash-trigger="pumpkins">trigger text</div>

Collapse-Pro-Matic version 1.3.15 introduces a couple new features dealing with secondary triggers and excerpt filtering. The following demonstrates the new features by using a filter to add a second trigger with it’s own swaptitle to all excerpts.

The following code, when placed in the child-theme’s function.php file, will add an extra ‘…read more’ trigger to the end of all excerpts. The data-swaptitle attribute defines the swaptitle for this extra trigger.

 add_filter( 'colomat_excerpt', 'my_excerpt', 10, 2 );
 function my_excerpt( $id, $excerpt ) {
     $excerpt .= ' <span class="collapseomatic" id="extra1-'.$id.'" data-swaptitle=" ...read less"> ...read more</span>';
     return $excerpt;
 }

Then each shortcode that contains an excerpt will include the second trigger:

[expand title="I am a little tea-pot" excerpt="short and stout"]Here is my handle, here is my spout.[/expand]

And here is an example of the above in action:

Next, what happens when there are multiple triggers with swaptitles? Let’s see.

[expand title="main trigger" swaptitle="main trigger swap" id="mankey"]this is the hidden text for this multi-target test[/expand]
<div id="extra1-mankey" class="collapseomatic" data-swaptitle="Trigger 2 Swap Titlte">Trigger 2</div>
<div id="extra2-mankey" class="collapseomatic" data-swaptitle="Trigger 3 Swap Titlte">Trigger 3</div>

This is a little test of how to embed an image in a guttenberg expand shortcode block. The issue this aims to resolved can be found here.

since there is not an easy way to ‘insert’ an image inside a shortcode, the raw html will have to be placed. First we insert an image in a normal Gutenberg block:

Then we need to grab the html for that image by editing the block as html. The source for the above image is:

<img src="https://spacedonkey.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/The-Big-Lebowski-the-big-lebowski-31504499-540-720.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2398"/>

So we paste that in the shortcode block… so all togher it looks like:

[expand title="click to view image"] <img src="https://spacedonkey.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/The-Big-Lebowski-the-big-lebowski-31504499-540-720.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2398"/> [/expand]

And here is an example of the whole shebang in action:

click to view image

This is a countdown timer that actually counts down to 15:15. However, it should display that it is actually counting down to 16:15. so an offset of + 1 hours.

So how is this done?
As of T(-) Countdown Control version 1.8.9 the target can be filtered with an offset by adding the following to the child-theme functions.php file:

add_filter( 'countdown_offset', 'my_offset', 10, 2 );
function my_offset( $id, $target_time ) {
    if($id == '3411'){
        $target_time = $target_time + (1 * 60 * 60);  
    }
    return $target_time;
}

This is a test using the ew expand_all and collapse_all callbacks to automatically scroll to the section currently being viewed. The issue is that when expand/collapse all is clicked, large amounts of content is suddenly added to–or removed from–the page. This new page length will often re-flow the page, causing the user to loose their place in the currently viewed content.

The Idea is to implement the following:
1. Create ‘section headers’ that will automatically update when the users scrolls past them.

<h2 id="section-1" class="section">Section Title</h2>

2. Add some javascript that will saved the currently viewed section id to a variable.

 jQuery(document).ready(function () {
        jQuery(document).on("scroll", onScroll);
        var currSection = null;
 });

function onScroll(event){
        var scrollPos = jQuery(document).scrollTop();
        jQuery('.section').each(function () {
            var currElement = jQuery(this);
            if (currElement.position().top <= scrollPos && currElement.position().top + currElement.height() > scrollPos) {
               currSection = currElement.attr("id");
            }
        });
    }

3. After expand/collapse/set all is triggered, all call back will be created that will scroll the page automatically to the section header that was last viewed.

if(typeof currSection !== 'undefined' && jQuery('#' + currSection).length ){
   setTimeout(function(){
      scrollTarget = jQuery('#' + currSection).offset().top;
      if(typeof colomatoffset !== 'undefined'){
         scrollTarget = scrollTarget + colomatoffset
      }
      jQuery('html, body').animate({scrollTop:scrollTarget});
   }, 700);
}

Demonstration:

Scroll down a bit and then click the Expand All link placed in the header at the end of the menu. All ‘read more’ content should be expanded and then the page should scroll back to the section that was being viewed. The effect is more dramatic the further down the page is scrolled.

Section 1: Aaeton

Aaeton was a planet of the Aaeton system, in the Core Worlds region. During the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire, an Imperial bioweapon activated on the planet. During the last days of the Republic, the government of Aaeton had authorization to allow its citizens to visit the generally off-limits neighboring world of Ragoon VI.

Section 2: Aaghra

Aaghra was the first planet from the star Zug in the Zug system of the galaxy’s Core Worlds region, not far from Coruscant,[1] the most politically important planet in galactic history.[2] It was a moonless world of molten rock.[1]

Section 3: Aar

Aar was a planet[3] in the Aar system[1] of the Nijune sector,[2] part of the Outer Rim Territories.[1] It was homeworld to the Aar’aa species, reptilian sentients often employed as enforcers by the Hutts, a species known for its many crime lords.[3]

Section 4: Aargau

Aargau (pronounced /är-‘gou/)[5] was a planet in the Zug system of the Core Worlds region, not far from Coruscant and the Corellian Run. It was run by and served as the headquarters for the Bank of Aargau, which was part of the InterGalactic Banking Clan. Numerous other banks and corporations were also based on Aargau, including the Z-Gomot Ternbuell Guppat Corporation. Aargau was an exceptionally wealthy world, due both to its status as a financial center, as well as the planet’s vast reserves of rare and precious metals.

Section 5: Aargonar

Aargonar was a dusty, desert-climate planet located in the Borderland Regions of the Mid Rim.