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This plugin is driving me nuts! What am I missing?! (6 posts)

  1. timmy77
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Can someone please help me?

    I am using wpmu 2.6.5
    I am trying to get this plugin to work:
    "blog topics"
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blog-topics/

    I followd the installation instuctions, but the tables are not created in the database. And when I add a new topic, it does not show under "Blog Topics Management".
    There are 2 tables which should be created automatically, but it's just not happenning.

    So I created the 2 tables in phpmyadmin, I used this query for cets_topics:

    CREATE TABLE cets_topics (
    id int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
    topic_name VARCHAR(55) NOT NULL default '',
    active int(1) unsigned NOT NULL default 1,
    UNIQUE KEY id (id)
    )

    ----------------
    And I used this one for cets_topics_relationships:

    CREATE TABLE cets_topics_relationships (
    blog_id int(11) unsigned NOT NULL,
    topic_id int(11) unsigned NOT NULL,
    UNIQUE KEY id (blog_id, topic_id)
    )

    .
    But still, no topic is added and the tables are empty even if I add topics.

    Help is badly needed

    P.s I had previously installed that plugin after a fresh wpmu installation, but after I added some other plugins I went stupidly to phpmyadmin and just dropped the 2 tables cose I wanted to install the plugin again ! I which I never did that :(

  2. timmy77
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Ok folks .. I know most of you are busy with the latest version...
    But, I’m sure someone with good mysql knowledge would easily know the right query to run to create those 2 nice tables. Therefore, I urge this someone just to have a look in the file cets_blogtopics.php:
    http://svn.wp-plugins.org/blog-topics/trunk/cets_blogtopics.php
    and tell me what do I have to modify in the queries so that the 2 tables which I want to manually create will be the same as if they were created by the plugin itself.

    I hope this is possible!
    .

  3. SteveAtty
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Well I just put the cets_blogtopics.php file in my mu-plugins folder and went into my admin panel and the admin screen for it is is there and the two tables wp_blogs_cets_topics and wp_blogs_cets_topics_relationships are both created

    So drop those two tables you created and use the names of the ones I've mentioned

  4. andrea_r
    Moderator
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Yeah it worked for me too.

  5. timmy77
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    SteveAtty,
    I think your reply might help.
    I will add wp_blogs_ to both queries and run them in sql and see if the tables are created properly, cose for some reason the tables are not created atomatically in my database!
    I will tell you if that works...inshallah

  6. timmy77
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    SteveAtty,

    Thank you.
    Adding wp_blogs_ to the names of tables was just what's needed. The queries worked fine.
    But unfortunately the plugin does not work correctly in displaying the Arabic font, even though I've changed the collation to utf-8!
    Also I ran a check for the whole database and found many errors. Therefore, I will delete everything and reinstall wpmu.

    Ahh.. all the problems I've faced with wpmu are related to language issues. If my site were in English, wpmu would have been a piece of cake.
    I think after I'm done with this site, I'll search for a nice niche and start another blogger site in English, build it on wpmu, and just throw it in cyberspace.

    I wish me good luck :)
    .

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