Sidebar Not Updating Issue - "Github Repos : Status Updating... " about octopress-flat

[alexharris]

Hi,

I just checked on my local instance of Octopress (freshly installed from github), and it appears to be working as I would expect. The tweets themselves are not loading, but they are not loading with the "Classic" theme either, which points to an issue with either Twitter, or the twitter.html aside.

I am attaching a screenshot of the Classic theme displaying this behavior. Is this the same issue you are experiencing?

If not, can you provide a little more info about the exact problem you are experiencing?

thanks,
Alex

[raisedadead]

Hi Alex,

Sorry for the delay in reply...ya I think that's the same issue you have been talking about.

Please check the above screen for the behavior, that I have been getting on my end.

1. GitHub repos don't show up.
2. "Status Updating..." message remains.
3. No sign of the Twitter widget or tweets

[raisedadead]

Hi Alex,

Update: The twitter widget is now visible minus the tweets. Found that

default_asides: [asides/recent_posts.html, asides/github.html, asides/delicious.html, asides/pinboard.html, asides/googleplus.html]

is missing

asides/twitter.html

So that fixes "3. No Sign of the Twitter widget" partially, but again there aren't any tweets. I'll try and debug and keep ya posted.

Any ways thanks a ton for the awesome theme...really like the look and feel.

Have a nice one.

regards,
raisedadead.

[alexharris]

Hi raisedadead,

Can you confirm that the missing aside was from _config.yml? I want to make sure that this was an issue with your specific installation, and not the theme itself.

Regarding twitter not updating, it would seem that Octopress has discontinued support for the Twitter aside, in favor of app.net. In order to display a twitter widget in the sidebar, you might have to manually create a widget via twitter's own widget creator, and embed that directly. Read this post for more information (not sure if it is out of date or not): http://blog.jmac.org/blog/2013/03/30/putting-twitter-back-into-octopress/

Regarding Github repos: I was able to get the sidebar widget to work fine, following the default instructions. Here is how my configuration looks, starting on line 57:

blog_index_asides: [asides/recent_posts.html, asides/twitter.html, asides/github.html]
post_asides: [asides/recent_posts.html, asides/twitter.html]
page_asides: [asides/recent_posts.html, asides/twitter.html]

# ----------------------- #
#   3rd Party Settings    #
# ----------------------- #

# Github repositories
github_user: alexharris
github_repo_count: 2
github_show_profile_link: true
github_skip_forks: true

# Twitter
twitter_user: alexharris6
twitter_tweet_button: true

Basically, all I did was add my github username, set repo count to 2, and make sure the aside was included in the asides array.

[raisedadead]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the tip. Ya the missing aside was from _config.yml , seems it was really a missed config from my end. Sorry about that.

And the twitter tip really worked like charm..! But I am still not able to get the github repos working in the sidebar.
Will check and update you ASAP.

Thanks for all the support anyway.

regards,
raisedadead

[alexharris]

You have the github aside added in config, as well as your github username and "repo_count", as shown above?

[raisedadead]

Ya i have the github aside added in the config and, as well as repo_count set same as you have done in the snippet above. I also thought there might be an issue with my username and tried replacing your username, still doesn't work. I also checked the javascript for the same in a view that the Octopress v 2.0 missed the API changes but nothing your themes's Javascript are at par with the latest code.

Only thing that remains to be tested is that I am hosting the blog on github pages, I'll check with the deploy on my another website's hosting space via ftp and check.

I don't know If that's issue in resolving the scripts locations? Will let ya know.

regards,
raisedadead

[MelonBreadVR]

This is how i fixed it for mine

First there are two js error for the version i got pulled down.

Inside aharris.js

The $(document).ready is not closed properly. missing brackets syntax error.

Inside octopress.js

look for where the .map() functions being call, you need to change that to have 2 parameters instead of one. I found this fix from here http://blog.fire-development.com/2013/03/06/fixing-octopress-when-using-jquery/

want me to make a pull request ? 😄

[alexharris]

Hi Adrian,

Yeah feel free to make a pull request if you don't mind!

thx,

Alex

[raisedadead]

Sorry, Just cleaning up my issues queue. Thanks for your help & support.