Comments on: Solvent

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:14:22 +0000

I’m very glad to hear that it still works. I know it is now lacking some of the bells and whistles that other 2.0-compliant plugins have, but just the fact that it works is good news. I hope that someone eventually decides to take over maintenance of the plugin; I just don’t have the time or the will when I can scratch my itch another way.

Thanks for the update!

By: WindyWeather

WindyWeather — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:36:26 +0000

I too am using Solvent with WP 2.0.3,4 and I have not noticed issues with it. The reason that I use Solvent rather than Front Page Categories is that I, and my clients, want to post articles that show up in archives, via the category and other navigation, but not on the front page.
Front Page Categories requires setting a special category and this category appears in the category list. Also there is some confusion about whether that “past events” category must be the only category for a post that is to be “slippery”. There are a number of reasons for tossing an article off the front page, and not all of them have to do with any particular category.
Solvent is much cleaner, or articles are much cleaner when posted with Solvent, or something like that…

Solvent Lives on.
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By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:16:41 +0000

Due to a lack of time, and the fact that I’ve started using an alternate solution on the site I created this for, I’m officially “de-commissioning” the plugin. Anyone who wants to take the code and run with it for a 2.0-compliant version has my blessing. To those of you who have been waiting, my apologies. I really do hope someone comes up with a reasonable solution.

For anyone who’s interested, my solution on the other site is to have a “Past Events” category which is omitted from the category list using Ryan Boren’s Front Page Categories plugin. Now when I want a post to disappear, I change its category, and voila!

By: Vixx

Vixx — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:30:36 +0000

Hi.

Is there any word yet on a 2.0 version? I’m new to this plugin, but on installation I’ve had no extra option appear after activating it.

I have my fingers crossed!

By: Garrett

Garrett — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:15:21 +0000

Hi Chad,
I’ve upgraded to 2.0 and I still have the slippery option. The only problem is my mp3 link does not work when I choose it. If I leave slippery unmarked and the post hits the home page and the mp3 link works. Any idea what the problem is?
Thanks, Garrett

By: Lance Brown

Lance Brown — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:35:19 +0000

Chad,

I love this plugin, but it does appear that you are right in assuming it doesn’t work in WP 2.0. I don’t see the option on the post page anymore, and my attempts to add a custom field to make the post slippery were unsuccessful.

Is there any chance you could point the way to how I can patch or fix Solvent for 2.0? I’m itchin’ to have it working again ASAP. It was quite the jolt to see that it wasn’t.

Any pointers you could give would be great.

By: EnlaceZapatista

EnlaceZapatista — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:30:55 +0000

Man, thanks! we love you!

your plug-in save our live!!!

it’s fantastic! it works perfect!

thanks!

By: yuval

yuval — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:58:03 +0000

Using wp 1.5.2, in line 99, I had to change SCRIPTNAME to SCRIPTURL.

By: yuval

yuval — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:56:18 +0000

Using wp 1.5.2, I had to make the following change (diff format follows):
99c99 if(preg_match('|post.php|i', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URL']) && $_REQUEST['action'] == 'edit')

I am no WordPress/PHP programmer, but I hope this change is in place. It did it for me

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:32:49 +0000

Neweol: what you really want, it seems, is the Adhesive hack on which this is based. Kimiko: I'm thinking about, in the next version, pulling twice as many posts as I need before running the weed-out routine, to minimize the effect. David: that stumps me for now, because using is_feed is exactly what I intended to do in the next version. I'll try and take a look at it. Thanks for the comments!