Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

An Cailin’s last blog post..And now deep thoughts . . .

You’re most welcome! I’m glad to hear someone found this useful
I took a look at what use you’ve made of the plugin on your site and it looks fantastic!

Its so hard to make it work I downloaded it, extracted it, transferred it through FTP, activated it in my Wordpress…. and put the desired “code” in my title part. And yet, it still wasn’t working. Can you make a detailed step-by-step tutorial on how to install this plugin?

Jhie’s last blog post..Thick-faced feeler

Nicely done, what font do you use for your titles by the way?

Don Wilson’s last blog post..Reading for the first time

Thanks Don. My titles are in Monotype Corsiva. I prefer cursive script over print, but wanted to ensure clarity so I went for a compromise

Jhie, did you change the permissions on your cache to be writable? That’s the only reason I can think of that would keep the plugin from working for you.

Good post. Great plugin. I was using the Image Headlines plugin from Coldforged for a couple years before switching to this improved version TTF Titles.

I wanted to suggest this addition to the code in your tutorial. This is the code to put in-place of your post titles in your theme’s template, as described perfectly in the Gelflings At Play blog post above.

The WP Codex suggests always using a conditional “IF PLUGIN EXISTS”. With this, your blog will continue showing up even if the TTF Titles plugin is temporarily disabled for any reason.

Check out the code (hopefully this will show up)

I’m going to write it again without the brackets to make sur this comes thru

php if (function_exists(‘the_ttftitle’)) { the_ttftitle($before=”", $after=”", $echo=true, $style=”YOUR-TTF-STYLE-NAME-HERE”); }

Here is the Codex article where this is recommended,
http://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Hiding_Plugins_When_Deactivated

Hope this helps!

Here’s an even better code. This has the If…. Else, so that your blog will display the TTF graphic when the plugin is installed / activated, but it will still work showing your ordinary text title whenever the plugin is deactivated.

php if (function_exists(‘the_ttftitle’)) { the_ttftitle($before=”", $after=”", $echo=true, $style=”radio-headlines”); } else { the_title(); }?

Thank you so much for that! At some point when a) it’s not four in the morning :p and b) I get my head back into coding-space I’ll be sure to point people towards your comment and make use of it myself! That helps immensely – thank you for taking the time to let me (and hopefully others) know about this

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Well done! Unlike the author of the topic

Hi

Please, please, please give me more specific information how to use TTFtitles to make plain text, e.g. “Text in the body of your post”, I really don’t understand where to put it in, Which page, where to put it for example. I’m a newbie to this so i pretty much don’t understand anything, but I’ve got the title to work thanks to you. The authors guide was really difficult to understand.

Hi Linus,

When I post, I use the HTML editor, not the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor. This means I can see all of the formatting I use and type it in by hand when need be, rather than relying on WordPress to place things exactly as I want them. Possibly this will make things a tad more difficult for you if you’re not used to doing this.

Anyway, let’s say you want to put a photograph in your post and you’d like to put a fancy title beneath it. I see from your blog that you’re using WP 2.7-RC1, so your layout should be much the same as mine. Click on “Add New Post” at the top of the screen in your dashboard or on the left menu beneath Posts. In order for what I’m trying to explain here to show up, I’ve put spaces between all of the brackets so that they won’t actually run as html. eg. To show you the tag < p > (for a paragraph break), I’ve put a space after the first < and before the second >. The same applies when I’ve shown what to type in for your ttf title. I hope I’m not making this hideously confusing for you

Write whatever it is you’d like to say:

e.g.
This is a photo I took of Gordon Ramsay
< p >
< img src="http://akerlunddesign.se/dev/wp-content/gallery/pol/dsc_0200.jpg" >
< p >

Then. to pop a title beneath it, simply type in:

< ?php the_ttftext("Gordon Ramsay"); ? >

I hope this helps!

THANK YOUUUU! I actually understood your instructions more than the orginial ones. Thanks again!

Hi

I’m doing exactly as you say, but it doesn’t work, altough I’ve tried another PHP command and that doesn’t work either and I know that work. Is there any command in WP where you can press on/off PHP working tags. Do you understand my question?

And thank you so much for the help! I’ve finally got what you mean =)

Nice post, you have just reminded me about how important design principles are.

Install went great, configured, but tested went to crap. I am currently using WordPress 2.8.2.

When I use the tag nothing happens, in fact the words completely disappear. Of course I corrected your php on my site as php won’t fire off if there is a space between the open tag and the first question mark.

Everything seems to work widget-wise until I try to do something in a post using the ‘html’ editor.

That’s good man, keep it going.

Thank you so much. I wondered if you could add how to use TTFtitles in the navigation?

Hi Rob, can you show me an example of what you’ve actually typed into your html editor? Skip the opening and closing so the code doesn’t actually execute and I’ll see if I can puzzle out what’s happening. By the way, which fonts are you using? I’ve been back over to John Leavitt’s forum to refresh my memory on all of this stuff and it seems a lot of people were having problems with Open Type fonts, but True Type was fine. Also, I’ve updated the post above with some pics to show where the initial install is located, etc. and I hope this helps somewhat. The smaller images which open out into a legible size have been picking and choosing whether they display or not so please do let me know if you click on anything and it doesn’t link properly. I’m on dial-up here so I have the joy of timeouts to contend with on top of only having three brain cells to play with!

Tarnya, you are welcome! As I’ve just written to Rob, I wandered through the comment section on the plugin home page. A lot of people there were asking about using the plugin for widget titles and the like. I’m assuming you’re referring to the top line page menu? You didn’t link to a blog so I can’t be sure. Someone did offer up a solution for that but I’m not game to try it myself just now since I’m happy enough with how things are on my blog and simply don’t have the energy to go messing about with something I spent so long on well over a year ago. This is the code a gentleman called Ronnie offered up:

edit: I had to remove the code because there were a number of a href links in there which were executing and trying to disarm it, so to speak, made the code unintelligible. It’s here if you’d like to take a glance at it yourself. You’ll need to scroll through the comments to
“Comment by Ronnie
Made Monday, 11 of February , 2008 at 8:53 pm”

I’ve only taken a very quick glance at my theme files and the only place I can see where this code might go is…. oh, um, afraid I may have got your hopes up there. I just looked again and realised my initial thought was wrong. I can see
php wp_list_pages(‘depth=1&title_li=0&sort_column=menu_order’);

in the header but Ronnie’s code calls to WordPress Login and Out functions as well so I’m now thinking he’s intending it for the Pages Sidebar widget. That’s getting into your basic core files and that’s totally unfamiliar territory for me. I’m sorry! Presumably you can call the_ttftext anywhere by using ‘get’
e.g

the_ttftext(get_wp_list_pages());

but I know there’s some drama with the echo and actually passing the result to ttftext. If that sounds like gobbledegook to you feel free to join me in my brain snap!

This is going to bug me now! I’ll go back to John’s forum and have a rummage around to see if anyone else has offered up a solution – I’ve only read through to April of 2008’s comments thus far so I’m sure there are going to be some more suggestions – and possibly even one I can understand and implement! It’s not something I can do tonight, but I’ll definitely have a look within the week and post again if I find an update.

Hi again Tarnya, after a little more snooping around I found this link which may be of help to you: Working With the TTFTitles Plugin.

I’ll look around again when I’m not so bleary eyed and blurry brained and see if I can find anything more relevant to your query.

I typed this:

in the body of the text. Of course I changed the ‘Your Text’ portion. I tried quotes, single quotes and no quotes but nothing seemed to work. I uploaded Adobes Hypatia font for the TTF, but I also test withthe other two the plugin came with annd neither seemed to work. In addition, I tried to make sure I was in the ‘html’ editor and not the graphical one when putting in the code.

Everything seems to be fin, until I use the tag. Anything I put within the single quotes simple disappears completely fromt he body fo the text.

”

sorry. the tag didn’t appear in the post above.

let’s try this.

<!– –>

If you don’t see the code above this line, i’m giving up.

Unfortunately, I only figured out what to do to make it work on my blog – I’m no genius when it comes to how the plugin actually works. PHP and I are not familiar friends. At any rate, do you have the Exec-PHP plugin? Here is the plugin zip file made by by Sören Weber if you don’t already have it. And here is his exhaustive documentation on it.
If you already have the Exec-PHP plugin installed, then I’m afraid I’m at a complete loss. As mentioned earlier, I fiddled around for ages with the TTF Titles plugin over a year ago and I can’t recall what sort of dramas I had with it, only that I didn’t know where to put things. I wish I could be of more help to you. Are you using it for your blog title and/or post titles? I’m just wondering if it’s only in the body of your posts that it’s failing to work.

Stunning blog and good article. High 5 for u man !

HELP!!!

Hi, great plugin, but I am having problems with special characters like á é í etc. The font HAS those characters, but when the image is rendered a box appears instead of those chars. Any idea?

Hi Gonzalo,

Reading on John Leavitt’s homepage amongst the comments, I found someone else who had the same problem with accented letters and the like. It seems the problem might lie with the font. It seems TTF Titles doesn’t work very well (if at all) with OTF (Open Type Fonts), but only with TTF (True Type Fonts). The person who made this observation in John’s comment section said they found a True Type Font they liked containing the special characters she needed and now it all works perfectly. Will you take a look at your font type for me and see which it is?

just wanted to say thanks for the info. sorted my problem with using more than on TTF Style. Thanks!

thank you. the exec.php plugin fixed the main issue i was having!! merry christmas.

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