BigSnit.com » WordPress http://blog.bigsnit.com From Podcast to Broadcast Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:01:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Kimili Flash Embed borks WP 2.7 http://blog.bigsnit.com/2008/12/16/kimili-flash-embed-borks-wp-27/ http://blog.bigsnit.com/2008/12/16/kimili-flash-embed-borks-wp-27/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:30:53 +0000 Robert Ouimet http://blog.bigsnit.com/2008/12/16/kimili-flash-embed-borks-wp-27/ Maybe it’s just my installations, but after upgrading WP to version 2.7 (which I love), my content input window in visual mode wasn’t working properly. no text control menus and text wasn’t visible.

After trouble shooting plug-ins, guilty party was Kimili Flash Embed.

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One of the great things about WordPress is the sheer volume of plug-ins created to provide all sorts of functionality and features. Sometimes they choke, and my fault for not re-checking what was happening after I installed this one.

All’s well and back to normal.

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The WP forum ‘closed’ topic on image upload problems does mention this, but I hadn’t gone back to that doc since reading it the first time (trying to solve other image upload problems).

The WP forum seems to indicate its an issue especially for Linux, but the WP Image uploader for definitely doesn’t work with WP on my Intel Mac when running Flash 10.

Fortunately I was able to find my old Flash V9 player and reinstalled it.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164999?replies=1

Here’s the error message I get inside WP CMS:

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Error #2176: Certain actions, such as those that display a pop-up window, may only be invoked upon user interaction, for example by a mouse click or button press.
at flash.net::FileReferenceList/browse()
at SWFUpload/SelectFiles()
at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
at flash.external::ExternalInterface$/_callIn()
at <anonymous>()

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In my heart I’m still a capitalist…the most powerful thing you can do is marry profit motives with community motives.

- open-source software creator and entrepreneur Matt Mullenweg

I’ve just posted the interview I did with Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, when he was in Vancouver for Northern Voice.

The podcast is on the At Large Media website.

The interview followed his keynote speech, which is also online here.

Special thanks to kk+ for helping arrange this.

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Matt’s the founder of WordPress, the blogging software that runs this web site and millions of others.

I’ll have a feature interview with Matt in podcast coming in the next few days, but in the meantime, wanted to give everyone a chance to hear his presentation in full.

It’s on my blog at At Large Media.

UPDATE: We’ve been getting a lot of traffic on our Vancouver server for the audio file (yippee) thanks to stumbleupon and Mr. Robert Scoble (thanks RS).

So, if you have any problems with the link above, you can try this version which is on a server in Toronto.

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Matt Mullenweg photo by kk+ , Vancouver fashion photographer, used under CC license
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Sometimes it pays to wait a few days before upgrading. From the fine folks at Wordpress…

Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.

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