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Comment on Awesome Bug Tracking and Project Management by John

John — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:03:58 +0000

My current job used Mantis, and I really hated it. The UI is so confusing and looks like it hasn’t been updated since 1999. We considered JIRA and fogbugz, both are quality bug trackers. At the end of the day though our company wasn’t willing to fork out the dough for either… both would have cost us in the thousands.

So a buddy and I just built a bug tracker (www.thekillingjar.com). Would love to get your take on it. The idea is to have great UI, make it affordable for small companies, and keep it dead simple.

It might not be what you are looking for, as you seem to be interested more in the project managment and planning aspects of JIRA and less concerned about the straight up bug tracking.

Still would love to get your feedback on the UI.

Comment on Show Only Children Pages on Parent Page by Fandy Akhmad

Fandy Akhmad — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:32:09 +0000

Thanks for your tutorial,
I have problem, friend. I want to show the current parent title and children title in sidebar continuously, based on page active.
Example :
My Page :
Info
>Contact

If i selected Contact, i want to show parent title ‘Info’ too. So, the display like this in the sidebar:

INFO
– Contact

Here is my code :
post_parent);
$children = wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&child_of=’.$post->ID.’&echo=0′);

if ($children) { ?>

Help me.. please.
Thanks before

Comment on Get Title for the Top Level Parent Page by Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:16:55 +0000

Hey Paul,

I’m not 100% sure if it’s tested against that bug or not, I haven’t had a chance to actually test that.

I’m running 3.2.1 and the code seems to be working just fine for me.

If you get a chance to test it out, please let me know how the tests go.

Comment on Get Title for the Top Level Parent Page by Paul

Paul — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:14:33 +0000

Hi Jonathan

Does your code work against this bug ?
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10381

From your experience with latest WP (3.2.1) does get_post_ancestors() always work as expected ?

( If both of your answer is yes, then maybe the ticket is already fixed. )

Thanks a lot.

Comment on Awesome Bug Tracking and Project Management by David

David — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:50:01 +0000

You are SO right with useless UI’s of some of there tools.

We’ve used Jira in the past on some engagements and we also use Countersoft’s Gemini.

The best bit about Gemini for me is the inline editing in the items grid – make things SO much quicker during morning meetings! Our Visual Studio devs love their Gemini add-in because it has screen capture baked in.

Nothing major but these small things do sometimes make a difference.

Comment on Google+ Feature Suggestions by Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:56:46 +0000

Seems silly, gpl.us redirects to gplus.name now..it’s so much longer than just using gpl.us as the domain. weird.

Comment on Google+ Feature Suggestions by Max

Max — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:34:33 +0000

They definitely should buy GPl.us!

Comment on WordPress Tutorial: Using SSH to Install/Upgrade by Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:40:25 +0000

Sorry, nope, no follow-up on this.

WordPress 3.2 actually made HUGE improvements to the upgrade system so it should be easier to follow and setup now.

Comment on WordPress Tutorial: Using SSH to Install/Upgrade by Scott Lee

Scott Lee — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:01:00 +0000

Hey Jonathan, has there been an update to this yet? I’ver searched WPVibe and came up empty.

Comment on Get Title for the Top Level Parent Page by Bruce Newburger

Bruce Newburger — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:04:22 +0000

Jonathan, I spent a good deal of time looking for such a function. Yours got me close, but as it was written, still returned the immediate parent. I was able to get it to work by combining the last two lines to:

echo get_the_title(end($ancestors));

Your explanation of the code gave me a clue to make this change. Thanks!