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I have a small shareware and consulting business and I also fiddle around in my workshop. I take pictures of my extended family and have several hobbies, lurk on various newsgroups, and am very knowedgable about computer stuff. I own a two main computers, including a AMD Phenom II (quad core) desktop and an IBM Thinkpad laptop. I have a number of other machines in various states of functionallity.

Interests

Computer Programming, Science Fiction, Model Railroads, Rock & Roll.

  • Member Since: June 14th, 2009
  • Location: 51 Locke Hill Road, Wendell, MA, 01379 USA
  • Website: deepsoft.com
  • Job Title: Owner
  • Employer: Deepwoods Software
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  • Committed [2973109] to Plugins SVN:
    Release 3.5.8.4.

  • Committed [2973108] to Plugins SVN:
    Sanitize and Escape everything.

  • Posted a reply to Web Librarian Widget Missing in WP 6.3.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You do know that you have to be logged in as a Librarian user. The…

  • Committed [2955420] to Plugins SVN:
    Minor fix to Export code (better checking).

  • Committed [2955412] to Plugins SVN:
    Update Tested up to

  • Committed [2955407] to Plugins SVN:
    Fix security issue: ...

  • Posted a reply to Issue in German form, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I have no control over the German version and don't specificly support the German version.…

  • Posted a reply to Issue in German form, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You seem to be using an old (EOL) version of PHP (7.2). I don't know…

  • Posted a reply to Issue in German form, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    OK, Just a month and year (jan/2022) work on my test install (Linux (CentOS 7),…

  • Posted a reply to Issue in German form, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I don't know what to say. Does it work with just numbers (1/1/2022)? That might…

  • Posted a reply to Issue in German form, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You have to use slashes (/), not periods (.), and three character month names (Jan,…

  • Posted a reply to Issue in German form, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Are you sure you have the locale set right?

  • Posted a reply to Adding SGR to a custom form in a plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I think I figured out how to do it, but it is not working --…

  • Posted a reply to Adding SGR to a custom form in a plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I understand about the add_action() call, in that [my] customSgrRenderList() function will get called somewhere…

  • Posted a reply to Adding SGR to a custom form in a plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    It is not clear how to use this. Where does the string added to the…

  • Created a topic, Adding SGR to a custom form in a plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I am updating a plugin that creates a custom frontend …

  • Created a topic, Successor to Techozoic Fluid?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    What is the status of Jeremy Clark and Techozoic Fluid…

  • Committed [2754193] to Plugins SVN:
    Updated .pot file.

  • Committed [2754185] to Plugins SVN:
    Small bug fixes.

  • Posted a reply to short-codes, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Check this FAQ question: https://wordpress.org/plugins/weblibrarian/#search%20does%20not%20work%20-%20sends%20me%20back%20to%20my%20home%20page

  • Posted a reply to short-codes, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The short codes are enumerated starting on page 3 of the PDF user manual, available…

  • Committed [2732056] to Plugins SVN:
    Tested up to: 6.0

  • Committed [2729344] to Plugins SVN:
    Update Tested up to: -- 5.9.3.

  • Posted a reply to Non-english languages and unicode, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I have no plans to make any updates, except for possible bugs and/or security fixes.…

  • Posted a reply to Patron email and reminder, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    There is not presently a reminder function. At this point I am not adding new…

  • Posted a reply to I can’t create a new patron anymore, invalid date of value, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Exactly what error are you getting? I cannot reproduce this error.

  • Posted a reply to Check out, holding and requesting not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I can't replicate your error. I don't know what is going wrong. You do have…

  • Posted a reply to Check out, holding and requesting not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    For the checkout, you need to *lookup* the patron, before you can check something out.…

  • Posted a reply to Limit the number of hold for a book, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You would make the changes in the main php file: WebLibrarian.php, in the method "PlaceHoldOnItem".

  • Posted a reply to Inventory of books, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    There is no book inventory feature. Each *physical* book (copy) needs to have a unique…

  • Posted a reply to Delete Circulation Types, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You can't delete circulation types from the admin pages. The circulation types are in the…

  • Posted a reply to Error checking out! Result code is 0., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I cannot think what could be wrong. Note there is a proper order to setting…

  • Posted a reply to Thai language shown as ‘?????????????’, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The plugin is probably not written with non-USA language use properly implemented. Sorry, about that.…

  • Posted a reply to Are Patrons linked with users, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Patrons are not automagically linked to users. The Librarian can do that and users can…

  • Committed [2381112] to Plugins SVN:
    Fixed collection sorting. Released 3.5.7.

  • Posted a reply to Sort books by title does not work either on dashboard or front-end, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    OK, it works if the search term is non-empty... OK, it looks like a SQL…

  • Committed [2381098] to Plugins SVN:
    Fixed collection sorting. Released 3.5.7.

  • Posted a reply to List checked out items, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Well, my test site is working just fine. WP 5.5.1, WL 3.5.6, PHP 7.3.21, DB…

  • Posted a reply to Search Form, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    In the appendix of the user manual is a description of the style sheet class…

  • Posted a reply to Keyword list, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This would require some custom PHP code.

  • Posted a reply to Field Type (in collection) required / dropdown, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You need to define one (or more) circulation type first. Look on the sidebar menu…

  • Posted a reply to No results from Amazon – change in API?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Yes, Amazon changed their API. I don't have the time or interest to update the…

  • Posted a reply to An Admin cannot be a librarian?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You would have to hack the PHP code to add the librarian privs to the…

  • Posted a reply to format of pubdate, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    YYYY-MM-DD eg 2020-07-01

  • Posted a reply to format of pubdate, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    It is actually a SQL date, but the month day is not displayed.

  • Posted a reply to Allowing any user to be a patron, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Correct. *Patrons* don't check out items. Patrons are not "users", although it is possible to…

  • Posted a reply to Allowing any user to be a patron, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    First of all, *Patrons* don't checkout books. This is NOT a "self-service" library plugin. It…

  • Posted a reply to Allowing any user to be a patron, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The *librarian* (see page 2 and 3: "User Role Setup") creates patrons on the backend…

  • Posted a reply to Allowing any user to be a patron, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Patrons and users are separate, although it is possible to link a user to a…

  • Posted a reply to Deprecated use of contextual_help, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    It is unlikely that I will fix the contextual_help feature. If it is not working,…