I am releasing a major update to Tippy today. In many ways this new plugin is a downgrade but I think the changes will be good.
With version 2.0.0 of Tippy I introduced several new features, including the ability to have multiple tooltips, movable tooltips, and resizable tooltips. As far as I know no one ever used those features and it only complicated the code, causing me to pay attention to things that I wasn’t even using.
With version 3.0.0 I have removed the extra features and am keeping the tooltip pretty basic but very usable.
The biggest new feature is that the tooltip now will fade in and out rather than disappearing immediately. This adds a bit of flexibility to what you can do since users are now able to interact with the tooltip contents without you having to make the tooltips static: See this extra data
You also now have the ability to specify whether or not to display the header with the tooltip: header on header off
If anyone wanted the features available in the 2.x series I can send you the source.
Feel free to contact me with any questions, columcille@gmail.com
Download the changes from the Tippy page.
#1 by Hannah on July 19, 2008 - 1:04 pm
Hello. I love Tippy. Thanks very much for it. :) I do need the features available in the 2.x series, and I’d like to request the source code.
I found 2.0 here, but it doesn’t work with WP 2.6. Is there a way to merge the features of 2.x and 3.x?
Thanks again!
~Hannah
#2 by Chris Roberts on July 19, 2008 - 11:16 pm
I am pondering reintegrating some of the features and making them more part of a default set of options. With Tippy 2.0 the features were there but the whole thing was a little clunky. I have an idea in mind of how to better integrate all the features without making things more difficult for users. Perhaps I’ll bring it all together in a 3.5 version. I’ll post something if I decide to do this.
#3 by calidro on December 2, 2008 - 8:50 am
Hi, I did include some html between the tippy tags but I have problems with the character set, so weirds simbols show up, i formated the text but wordpress change it without a warning.
(sample) Jackie came home from Baron Baptise�s Level 2 teaching training in Montana feeling very humbled and ready to teach and live her life with her heart wide open. She feels blessed to be part of Baron�s
There is a way to include the character set in order to maintain the original text, sorry if did not explain myself properly , english is not my mother tongue.
Thank you in advance for any advice.
#4 by Mr Cakes on December 22, 2008 - 11:28 am
Your plug-in is perfect, except it doesn’t show Unicode characters (like German or Finnish ones), will you be making an update about this issue? :)
#5 by Charles Sebold on January 6, 2009 - 8:50 am
I think I’m having a problem with WP 2.7 and comments + Tippy:
*Warning*: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /htdocs/merbc/wp-content/plugins/tippy/tippy.php:212) in */htdocs/merbc/wp-includes/pluggable.php* on line *850
I haven’t seen it, but I have commenters who have, and this is all they could tell me. (My host doesn’t give me access to error logs, either, sorry.)
#6 by Ryan on January 26, 2009 - 6:47 pm
I have had a few people show me the same thing as Charles Sebold. Any idea what the problem is, and if there is a potential fix?
#7 by Chris Roberts on January 26, 2009 - 8:45 pm
I possibly see the problem. The line in question echos the content to the display when I should probably handle this another way. I’ll fiddle with it and see if I can’t improve this.
#8 by Chris Roberts on January 26, 2009 - 8:59 pm
Found the problem, trying to come up with a fix.
Looks like when posting a comment something causes pluggable.php to call the wp_redirect() function, redirecting to a confirmation page for comments or some such? Not sure. Well the redirect works with a Location: statement sent through the headers, but my plugin is being processed first, causing header data to be sent. Once something posts data to a page, new header info cannot be sent (this is not to be confused with the head tag) thus causing the “headers already sent” error when wp_redirect issues a Location request.
#9 by Ryan on January 26, 2009 - 9:00 pm
Weird, I see there are comments above, but not the content of the comments themselves.
#10 by Chris Roberts on January 26, 2009 - 9:05 pm
I fixed that. :) This is why you should never test on a live system. But I don’t have a test version up at the moment. Can you tell me if you have any plugins installed that affect comments, or what sort of comment filters you might have going? I’d like to be able to test the issue locally but I have to figure out how to replicate the problem on my own end.
#11 by Ryan on January 26, 2009 - 9:18 pm
I can never replicate it for myself. I’ve had two people mention seeing it in the past week.
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/gravel/public_html/wp-content/plugins/tippy/tippy.php:211) in /home/gravel/public_html/wp-comments-post.php on line 79 Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/gravel/public_html/wp-content/plugins/tippy/tippy.php:211) in /home/gravel/public_html/wp-comments-post.php on line 80 Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/gravel/public_html/wp-content/plugins/tippy/tippy.php:211) in /home/gravel/public_html/wp-comments-post.php on line 81 Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/gravel/public_html/wp-content/plugins/tippy/tippy.php:211) in /home/gravel/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850
*Note: It was originally tippy.php:212, but I deleted a blank line to see if the error would change, which it did.
#12 by Chris Roberts on January 26, 2009 - 9:33 pm
Are you running any other plugins that would affect the comments?
#13 by Chris Roberts on January 26, 2009 - 9:57 pm
I think I know more or less specifically what is happening. If a user posts a comment and the blog is configured to display the comment and the user is not logged in, once the comment is posted the user is redirected to the comment on the page. I haven’t yet figured out why this does not affect a logged in user. If you try logging out of your blog and post a comment you should see the problem. Turn on comment moderation and the problem goes away, though some would find comment moderation annoying.
I hope to have a code fix quite soon.
#14 by Chris Roberts on January 26, 2009 - 10:03 pm
Found the fix. I’ll have it packaged soon. Might take longer for the update site to have it ready.
#15 by Ryan on January 27, 2009 - 12:24 am
Excellent work. I’ll let you know if I hear any more reports.
#16 by Charles Sebold on January 27, 2009 - 9:30 am
Thanks for checking in about this. I have comment moderation on and still experienced the problem, but I will wait to see the new version and try it out. Thanks again for your work!
#17 by Klaus on January 29, 2009 - 4:25 am
Hey dude,
love your plugin, works like a charm.
thanks for your excellent work
K
#18 by Cafe on February 12, 2009 - 5:21 am
First of all thanks for the plugin.
I’ve installed it just today.
The problem is I sometimes write in Italian language in my blog, and I notice it doesn’t serve foreign character set,
for example:
I get this character sé when I typed sé.
The character does work in the rest of my blog, but not in the part that use Tippy.
How to fix it?
Thanks in advance, I hope I can get the solution :)
#19 by Carla on April 15, 2009 - 12:25 pm
I need the write in Unicode too… the pluging is perfect.. but don’t work with especial characters like á â à ã ç…. it’s a problem for me =( i’m writing from Brasil…
ps: its strange because the title tippy is working ok, but its inner content don’t… ó_ò
but if escape this, the plugin is great =D
#20 by Carla on April 15, 2009 - 2:08 pm
to fix the problem with the unicode special char I tried this….
in tippy.php (line 200) change
from
… htmlentities($tippyNewText) …
to
… htmlspecialchars($tippyNewText)…
now, the plugin is working well… (until now)
I hope help you =)
#21 by Chris Roberts on April 15, 2009 - 3:26 pm
This will indeed be helpful, thanks