Comments on: Popularity Contest Widget

By: Esti

Esti — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:16:56 +0000

I think this is wonderful – the only thing is, I’d like the percentages to stop showing on the widget – is there any way to do this?

By: Scatterd

Scatterd — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:41:57 +0000

Thank you so much. All works fine now

By: Dean Sykes

Dean Sykes — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:58:25 +0000

@Scatterd – I’ve had a look and can see the problem, basically whats happening is that the title for your articles are overflowing the space provided for them.
This can be fixed by a slight change of the style ‘.rsidebar ul li ul li’ (line 84 of your style.css).
You can either change the height attribute to ‘auto’, which will then display the full title without the overflow happening (e.g. height: auto;) or add

overflow: hidden;

which will stop the overflow but will also not display the whole article title.

The choice is yours!

By: Scatterd

Scatterd — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:22:56 +0000

That would be very nice. Thank you

By: Jack Hughes

Jack Hughes — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:10:53 +0000

@Scatterd – by the looks of it, the widget is using some CSS styles that probably aren’t defined in your template. Will look more closely on Monday when I am back at work and I can talk with the person who wrote the code.

By: Scatterd

Scatterd — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:11:38 +0000

Howdy dudes!
At my blog, the widget dont work correctly. The articlenames are over others… can u give me hints, how to solve that?
When you visit my site, you see the widget at the bottom (the last widget called “beliebte Artikel”).
Thank you in advance!

Chris, Scatterd

By: PzheL

PzheL — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:11:09 +0000

Oh, yea, I added them to the same directory. No wonder! haha, thanks for the help. great widget! =D

By: Jack Hughes

Jack Hughes — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:57:59 +0000

@PzheL – am I reading you correctly, did you add the widget to the folder in which the popularity contest plugin is located? If so, when you upgraded the plugin the widget may have been deleted? I wouldn’t recommend adding it to the same directory. Keep it separate.

By: PzheL

PzheL — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:41:11 +0000

Greetings!

Thanks for the script. However, I encountered some problem upon re-activating the plugin. Initially when I added the widget the popularity contest folder, I was told to upgrade to a newer version. After which the widget disappeared and I was told that my original plugin triggered a fatal error. Kindly assist. Thanks.

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