Comments on: Integrating Retrospect-GDS with Wordpress

By: Patty

Patty — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:41:35 +0000

Revamping entire site and I tried this with WordPress 2.7 and Retrospect-2.08 No luck

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:43:09 +0000

I haven’t tried it with 2.0.8, so I’m not sure. Has anybody else tried?

By: af3

af3 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:08:36 +0000

please help.

By: af3

af3 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:08:14 +0000

hi, how to do this for 2.0.8 ? thanks in advance

By: Patrick Lawrence

Patrick Lawrence — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:12:38 +0000

The above doesn’t work with the recent 2.0 release. Any chance of getting updated instructions? Do you know if Retrospect 2.x is designed to be somewhat embeddable?

Thanks,

Pat

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:48:00 +0000

Thanks Jake, I updated the instructions with the missing information and also added some info about the DB_HOST problem you talked to me about.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:03:45 +0000

I have a similar problem than the previous posters.

I have followed your article very closely and have verified it
many times, but Wordpress does not show
any Retrospect content when I visit http://myserver.com/genealogy/.

Is your article missing some information when making the Wordpress
Retrospect template (a copy of archives.php) ?

Should in the template be a PHP include($DOCUMENT_ROOT/retrospect/index.php) ?

How does Wordpress know how to include content from Retrospect?

I get Retrospect content correctly when I visit http://mysite.com/retrospect/.

Of course if I rename the retrospect directory to genealogy then I will
get the content, but Wordpress does not wrap Retrospect then..

I’m using mod_rewrite rules in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

I am using Wordpress Permalinks with
Structure: /page/%post_id%
Category is empty..

Can you help me out?

Thanks.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:14:40 +0000

You can change the line $smarty->assign_by_ref('PHP_SELF', '/genealogy/'); to $smarty->assign('PHP_SELF', '/genealogy/'); and that should fix the error.

To modify the template you’ll need to either modify the *.tpl files in /retrospect/themes/default/templates/ or make a copy of the /retrospect/themes/default directory. If you make a copy of the default directory and call it mytheme you’ll need to modify the theme name in /core/config.php to mytheme as well.

By: John Masters

John Masters — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 00:52:46 +0000

Well, my Mom is very involved in researching the family trees, and has lots of information going way back. I’m trying to build her a blog, and plug in her family tree maker Gedcom files.

I followed your instructions…I thought pretty carefully….and I don’t get anything going to http://better.mastersfamily.org/genealogy. I first installed RDS into a seperate subdomain…http://retrospect.mastersfamily.org, where it is working fine. I then loaded their program files to a “retrospect” directory on betty.mastersfamily.org (accessing the same database). Followed all your instructions, and don’t get anything except Fatal error: Cannot pass parameter 2 by reference in /home/mastersf/public_html/betty/retrospect/index.php on line 59

This happens to be the line where I put in $smarty->assign_by_ref(’PHP_SELF’, ‘/genealogy/’);

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. This may be more than I can handle. Also, I was wondering about just making the installation in Retrospect subdomain look the same as her Wordpress Theme. Any more info on how to go about that…is there a simple way?

Thanks,
John

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marlyse.com » Little install woes — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:27:31 +0000

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