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** Test title resulting in a URL with a leading dash

2009-12-27T14:20:21Z

We have detected a condition causing server 500 errors (not a good thing) when the entry title contains non-alpha/numeric leading characters.

The Entry Title is used to create an entry URL with non-alpha/numeric and spaces replaced with dashes. Example:

This is an entry title generates a URL this-is-an-entry-title.html

When a title is entered as:

** This is an entry title ** MT generates -this-is-an-entry-title.html

The leading dash in the URL causes the error. It has been reported to MT support.

Testing Character Encoding from the MT database

2009-11-03T10:48:38Z

Real-estate Con-sult-ant: [rē′ əl, e stā′t, kən sult′nt] - pronoun
The database encoding is set to utf8_general_ci and it appears it displays fine here.
Significant Changes Coming: #4 ACRE® Advisory Board

Example of plugin data without the blog id

2009-10-14T08:55:35Z

Here's an example of the Hybrid News plugin data being stored in the data base without the blog id.

The first entry is one in which the blog id was added manually through the phpMyAdmin UI to get the theme to work.

The second entry was inserted when I added Copyright info to the Theme Options.

This entry has a Featured Image but not designated to be in the Slideshow.

Making tweeks to get Hybrid News to work with MT 4.32

2009-10-11T22:15:34Z

Here are issues discovered with Hybrid News running under MT 4.32:

The Bio author custom field is not registered properly by the plugin. Adding an Author Bio results in a MT error. When the Bio custom field is viewed in the UI, the system object type is blank. Fix is to remove the Bio custom field set by the plugin and re-add it using the MT UI.
The Theme Options are stored in the data base as Hybrid News Plugin data. The options are stored in the data base under mt_plugindata table but the plugindata_key is missing the Blog ID. !Important. (Note: see entry Example ... with screen shot of data base entries)
This test always fails in Entry Summary:
In the Entry Archive, The user_pic has a broken link to Profile View but the necessary setup to link to a "Profile View" page is not included in the header. Profile View is geared to the "Community" template sets. The variable "profile_view_url" was added to the HTML Head to fix the broken link: #)
Various little glitches in the css. I added custom css developed for MT 4.25 test.

First test entry

2009-10-11T20:40:49Z

This is my first test entry of the Hybrid News on MT 4.32

I had to manually fix the Plugin data in the data base because it is being stored by the Plugin without the Blog ID.

Also, MT 4.32 contains a new UI widget called Zemanta. Need to figure out what value this provides. Seems to add another layer of complication for authors using the UI.

I hope it is working.