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Mr Papa said

yeah, so let us finish the template tag conversion and see if its better for you... \\

Sounds like a good idea for now. I will leave as is until there is an update.

any chance you could relay your experience creating an overlay?  was it fairly simple? did we give enough info and tools?

It all depends on how someone does things. If I would have to say if it was simple then no. I doubt anyone without a lot of knowledge on how php and css files work, would ever be able to create their own overlay.

Also, from what I can see there is no easy way to preview any changes you may make in the overlay. Even when it comes to the 'stock' provided ones. You have to select and save it then go to the site to see what it looks like. Something that's not good to do on a very active site.

Lee H said

Haven't seen it, but good work on the overlay Brandon *insert thumbs up smilie here*

Sorry about hijacking my own thread with several different topics.

I will try and summarize the different things.

1) The latest post widget.

Changing line 37 in sp-recent-posts-widget.php from 'sp_recent_posts_tag' to 'sp_recentpoststag' will fix the php error and show the info. It will not accept any arguments though. To change the default arguments you have to change them here

function sp_do_sp_RecentPostsTag($args='') {
    $defs = array('tagId'        => 'spRecentPostsTag',
                  'tagClass'     => 'spListTag',
                  'topicIds'    => 0,
                  'orderByGroup'=> 0,
                  'limit'        => 8,
                  'showForum'    => 1,
                  'showUser'    => 1,
                  'showAvatar'    => 1,
                  'avatarSize'    => 25,
                  'avatarClass'    => 'spAvatarTag',
                  'showDate'    => 1,
                  'showTime'    => 0,
                  'niceDate'    => 1,
                  'listTags'    => 1,
                  'listClass'    => 'spListItemTag',
                  'linkClass'    => 'spLinkTag',
                  'echo'        => 1
                  );

in sp-RecentPosts-tag.php

If the line 37 error could be fixed for future updates then, even if you lose the hard coded args, at least it wouldn't error out if someone overwrites the tag files.

2) The error log, from the original post here.

I am still getting the notice but am not seeing any real issue from it so I won't worry about it unless you care to try and debug or something.

3) My WordPress theme uses a similar color overlay. See attached on how they show them. Maybe something like that would work for Simple Press?