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For someone as tech savvy and me, admitting that I just don't get something is so damaging to my ego.

The plugin installation page just makes it worse for me as it isn't very clear where to copy some of the files...whether overwriting system files is required or whether editing system files is necessary.

I ran into the same problem Rob did with the SocialShare plugin, once I rename the extracted folder from SocialShare_v1.1 to just socialshare, the installation went fine, but the plugin still did not work and my site started spitting out errors due to files not found and permissions. I had to delete the folders and files and then delete the tables and rows manually from mysql to get my site back up.

Is there a preferred method for plugin installation?
What exactly is required for autoinstall to work? Is this really "auto"?

I would think that simply extracting the plugin archive under the public_html/admin/plugins folder would be enough, and geeklog would know what to do with all the files and put them where it needed them. After all, that is how most other CMS types do it, and even a stand-alone Coppermine gallery does this.

Pictures and Diagrams are great...but become useless without proper steps outlining what the diagram is trying to show.

Maybe I'm not as geeky as I thought I was... :doh:

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Jeff

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J. Singleton, BS Information Security
HackDefendr Security
Cyber Security, Vulnerability, & Social Behavior Research

Hello Jeff,

Here is a standar manual instal for a plugin call myplugin



Automatic install is a great feature but do not work with every environment.

::Ben

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I'm available to customise your themes or plugins for your Geeklog CMS

Wowzers

That was just about too easy. Plugin installed ... Thank-you cordiste!!

BUT

When I clicked on SocialShare from the Admin Only block...I was presented with this:



Line #378 of functions.inc:


Any thoughts?

Oh yea ... This is geeklog 1.7.0, semi-non-production.

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J. Singleton, BS Information Security
HackDefendr Security
Cyber Security, Vulnerability, & Social Behavior Research

Not sure if it helps, but there's a graphical overview of what goes where on the wiki.



The safest method is doing it manually.

The upload is more convenient - it safes you from having to move files around yourself. The downside is that it requires some support from the plugin, i.e. they have to be updated for it. You should be able to upload any plugin, even old ones. Whether it will fully install depends on the plugin. Updated plugins will fully install automatically. In some cases, you'll only have to click on "install" on the Plugin admin panel after the upload. And in some cases, plugins need additional files to be copied around or modified and you would have to do that manually after the upload.

Things are improving as plugins are updated. Plugins without current support will be stuck in a less convenient state, though.

bye, Dirk

Thanks Dirk

I got SocialShare installed successfully (sort of) .. but as you can see from my last post, when I click on the socialshare link under the "Admins Only" block, I get an error. Best guess, the var for 'story_id' has changed in 1.7.0 from what it was in v1.6.x and I should just be able to correct those var calls to make that function work correctly....I'm just guessing.

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J. Singleton, BS Information Security
HackDefendr Security
Cyber Security, Vulnerability, & Social Behavior Research

I installed the SocialShare plugin 1.1 on geeklog 1.7.0.

Automatic install fail because the plugin folder in the archive is call socialshare_1.1 insteed socialshare. Renaming the plugin folders (plugins, admin, public_html) to socialshare solve the problem.

To see the admin page I commented the lines 378-382


and the plugin seems to work...

I found also a missing div on purepro theme. So I added on line 410

::Ben

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I'm available to customise your themes or plugins for your Geeklog CMS

Excellent. I was on the right path.

I took out the whole IF statement and just left this:



Though my right-block with Admin Only menu ended up at the bottom of the SocialShare plugin page. Maybe that extra DIV you added will fix that.

And then I have to add the



To archivestorytext.thtml featuredstorytext.thtml and storytext.thtml



That should do it. I think I got it now ... but wanted to Thank both of you for chiming in. I may not have it fully yet, but at least I know where to go for answers.

UPDATE: That extra </div> correctly put my right block where is should be...Thanks Cordiste! :chestslam:

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J. Singleton, BS Information Security
HackDefendr Security
Cyber Security, Vulnerability, & Social Behavior Research