bSuite 4

bSuite is a set of tools that help surface interesting and relevant posts, help your users navigate your content, and help authors develop and publish content. Take a look:

Gallery

cache-friendly stats	search word highlighting
related posts	easy options

Features

Cache-friendly stats tracking and search word highlighting.
Widgets to show popular posts, and recently commented posts.
Inserts list of related items for the current page or post (also available via widget or template tag).
Offers tools to make it easy for readers to link, share, and embed your content.
Adds a number of shortcodes that make it easier to build and manage content. Need a table of contents for a post? A listing of all sub-pages for the current page? bSuite makes all that easy.
Makes the search return results in relevance ranked order, showing both pages and posts.
Adds excerpt, tag, and category inputs to the Page editor.
Includes a generic tag importer that can import tags from the post content (useful for those importing content from other platforms or working with content created before WP 2.3; bSuite Tag Importer must be activated separately).

Details

Hey! Here’s a cool thing: the list of pages and their contents up there is automatically generated using the shortcodes in this plugin.

License & Warranty

This software is provided as-is, with no warranty of any kind — use it at your own risk and don’t blame me if it makes your mother complain about your haircut — under the terms of the GNU Public License.

Language Translations

RU translation provided by FatCow.com.

Bugs

I’m certain there are bugs in here, please report what you find in the comments below.

121 Responses to “bSuite 4”

zild
March 19, 2009 at 9:16 am

Im also having this error.. how do i fix this?

Warning: array_slice() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in …/bsuite.php on line 2007

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nueman
March 20, 2009 at 9:33 pm

Warning: array_slice() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in …/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bsuite/bsuite.php on line 2007

what with this error?

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keeira roney
March 23, 2009 at 8:48 pm

well i keep having a dream that some ones drivi ng pass my house shooting at the house next to mine and they see me see them shoot and they start shooting at me and i just dont know what to do im scared to sleep in my room does this dream mens that it’s going to happen

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Bangladseh
March 28, 2009 at 4:42 am

Same happen to my site that Jon said. Need a solution/help.

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Report
April 1, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Any luck on how to solve to issue that Jon said.

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Rob
April 7, 2009 at 7:09 am

hmm, seems a usefull pluggin, I will give it a try on my wp blog.
thanks for your contribution

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Chris (Amateur Traveler)
April 8, 2009 at 10:03 pm

When I try and install the 4.0.5 version I get:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /bsuite/importer_bstat.php on line 277

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Host
April 14, 2009 at 3:33 pm

I got this error when I active it:

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Fatal error: Call to a member function bstat_insert_term() on a non-object in /home/*******/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bsuite/importer_bstat.php on line 277

Any one solve it why it happend?

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Casey Bisson
April 19, 2009 at 3:45 pm

@Chris & @Host & others: The error about importer_bstat.php is because the bStat upgrader is being activated before bSuite. The newly release 4.0.6 version removes the upgrader, so this shouldn’t be a problem in the future (unless you’re trying to upgrade a bSuite 3.x install). Simply delete importer_bstat.php and importer_tags.php and try reactivating.

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Casey Bisson
April 19, 2009 at 3:47 pm

I’ve fixed the situation that led to warnings about array_slice(). It was sloppy on my part, but you also may want to suppress warnings/error messages in your php install for security reasons.

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EL
April 20, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Hi Casey,

Bsuite calls an older duplicate version of JQuery from the WordPress installation when I use your plug-in on my site (I already have the most recent version installed for other programs). Is there a way to cancel the JQuery loading option in the head (this should be an options item in the settings configuration)?

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- Casey Bisson
  April 21, 2009 at 8:33 am
  
  @EL: is the version of jquery you’re using registered with the wp scripts functions? If it is, bsuite should be using it.
  
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EL
April 21, 2009 at 5:41 pm

I did a little bit of reading on this, but have not figured out how to do it (use “wp_print_scripts,” “custom_add_javascript,” and “wp_enqueue_script” features in the functions.php file). I simply included a call for the script in the head section of the theme: custom and the jquery library. Everything is working, but I think the files are getting a little confused when I switch back and forth between the dashboard and the site itself. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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- Casey Bisson
  April 22, 2009 at 9:25 am
  
  @EL:
  
  I think you’re on the right track. It’s probably loading different versions of jQuery in dashboard and on the site itself, but that shouldn’t be problematic. Can you say more about what you mean by “the files are getting confused”?
  
  Your site looks great, btw. It doesn’t look like you have bSuite activated now, so I can’t see for myself the conflicts. I can point you to another theme that uses a lot of JS (and uses the WP functions to avoid conflicts): P2 http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2 . Take a look in the functions.php http://svn.automattic.com/wpcom-themes/p2/functions.php , specifically at these bits:
  
  if (!is_admin()) add_action( 'wp_print_scripts', 'prologue_javascript' ); function prologue_javascript() { ... wp_enqueue_script( 'p2js', get_bloginfo('template_directory' ).'/inc/p2.js', array( 'jquery' ), '200903301' );
  
  If you use the wp_register_script() function to register your version of jQuery, it will replace the built-in version. Something like this:
  
  wp_register_script( 'jquery', get_bloginfo('template_directory' ).'/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js', array(), '200904221' );
  
  Then, for completeness, you should register and enqueue the other scripts used in your theme:
  
  wp_register_script( 'theme_functions', get_bloginfo('template_directory' ).'/js/functions.js', array('jquery', 'theme_domtab'), '200904221' ); wp_register_script( 'theme_domtab', get_bloginfo('template_directory' ).'/js/domtab.js', array('jquery'), '200904221' ); wp_register_script( 'theme_featured', get_bloginfo('template_directory' ).'/js/featured.js', array('jquery', 'theme_scrollable', 'theme_functions'), '200904221' ); wp_register_script( 'theme_scrollable', get_bloginfo('template_directory' ).'/js/scrollable-1.0.2.min.js', array('jquery'), '200904221' ); wp_enqueue_script( 'theme_featured' );
  
  (my guess about the dependencies of each script are just guesses and used to illustrate how it works.)
  
  Once the JavaScript is being loaded via the WP functions, WordPress will automatically manage dependencies and eliminate redundancy. So if you have other plugins that call jQuery, they’ll all use the same jQuery that you registered.
  
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EL
April 23, 2009 at 3:04 pm

Thanks for the compliments, and for the valiant effort at getting the code right. I tried a few things out, and it broke my javascript. So for now, I think I’m going to leave things as they are. I have the code references in the section of the site, and this seems to be a one solution recommended in the WordPress codex. The documentation for wp_register_script, and wp_enqueue_script is minimal and almost non-existent. Someone needs to write some plain language description and upload it to the codex site.

Regarding possible conflicts, I have “firebug” running in the background, and I think “it” gets confused, and slows down the site (giving me the appearance of a conflict … just things running really slowly). I never had a bug, although I find all the javascript in the WordPress administration pages to be slow, quirky, and a tad buggy. I read they are working on a major overhall of the “script-loader.php” core file for WordPress 2.8, so I think they know there are some inconsistencies with how this is done. Most people are just running a theme with minimal adjustments, but I’ve been adding and discovering some features that I like with javascript, particularly with the many scripts that run on the jquery library.

Thanks for the help (as always).

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Franz
May 9, 2009 at 4:44 am

Just upgraded to bsuite v 4.0.6. Until today everything was ok. Now I’m getting a non fatal error:
WordPress database error: [Duplicate key name 'search']
ALTER TABLE wp_bsuite4_search ADD FULLTEXT KEY search (content, title)

Any idea?

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- Casey Bisson
  May 15, 2009 at 9:59 pm
  
  @Franz:
  It’s a bug in WP’s database table creation function, it doesn’t know how to handle fulltext indexes and so keeps trying to create them.
  
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Saif
May 9, 2009 at 12:55 pm

Hi

I’ve installed this on 4 of my sites and everything is great except the incoming search terms.

On three of my sites bstat is not recognizing any search terms that are used to find the sites. It still indicates that no search terms have been used to find the site from any search engine even though I know that is not the case as I access the sites through search terms myself.

Any idea what may be wrong?

Thanks

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Baba
May 10, 2009 at 12:48 pm

Really like this plug but is there anyway to exclude the related posts element from Pages? Love it on the Posts.
Thanks.

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Saif
May 11, 2009 at 7:01 am

Any help on why my bstat searchphrases table is not populating?

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Dusit
May 11, 2009 at 7:56 am

How to show the related post just only the single post page, now it show on both home page (bottom of each post) and single post page?

Thanks

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Saif
May 18, 2009 at 9:47 am

Any feedback on why the search phrases table is not being populated?

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enli
July 4, 2009 at 5:39 am

Hi, I just install bsuite and absolutely loving it. I wanted to ask if exact matching of incoming search queries is possible? Currently all phrases are matched and it makes landing page ugly.

e.g. If search query is “restart x server on jaunty” then on the landing page plugin highlights all words containing x like extra, xmas, index etc. which shouldnt happen. Only word x should be highlighted. Can you please implement this idea?

Thanks for making great plugin
-EnLi

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Hitendra
July 23, 2009 at 5:15 am

Hi,

I added bsuite to my local installation of wordpress, and it works fine.

When I have uploaded to my online webserver, it did run the stats until the 16th but after that it isn’t.

It tried clicking the force migration button but still the same. While the one on my system works fine.

Can you please let me know what might be possibly wrong.

Also, I cannot see the bstat tables either online or offline generated in the database.

Can you please let me know if i am missing something here.

Thanks

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Joe
July 23, 2009 at 11:04 am

“Insert share links at bottom of posts” option is not visible in the admin area, and the template tag doesn’t seem to work! Running WP 2.8

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Ben
July 29, 2009 at 10:47 am

Bsuite and Scriblio are exactly what I’m looking for to catalog my US comic/DVD/CD collections, but I would like to use a larger image for the icon or an image that can be clicked on which then opens with lightbox. I forget which items I own when I go to the shops, so a full catalog with images and descriptions are useful for viewing on my phone.

Where in the CSS or php is the image size handled? I’ve used firebug to debug the page, but I can’t find the relevant tags in the code.

Apart from this little niggle, it’s a great plugin combination for wordpress

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Stop Dreaming
August 4, 2009 at 5:46 am

Useful Article, thx a lot for teaching me

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Alec
September 24, 2009 at 3:42 pm

Hi,
I just activated this plugin and the page showed me:
PHP Warning: shell_exec() [function.shell-exec]: Cannot execute using backquotes in Safe Mode in D:\webs\chi\news\wp-content\plugins\bsuite\bsuite.php on line 2208 PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in D:\webs\chi\news\wp-content\plugins\bsuite\widgets\cms.php on line 203 PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in D:\webs\chi\news\wp-content\plugins\bsuite\widgets\cms.php on line 217
Can you tell me how can I correct this? Thanks!

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- Casey Bisson
  September 25, 2009 at 11:03 pm
  
  @Alec: You should turn off error reporting to the browser.
  
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Brian
November 1, 2009 at 12:43 am

watching bstat reports for the longest time suddenly it just stopped collecting data. 0 page loads shown and 0 visitors. Google is also embedded on the page revealing visits all day long but nothing in the bstat reports. Does anyone know what happened?

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- Casey Bisson
  November 2, 2009 at 8:04 am
  
  Two places to look: are you getting new hits in the “incoming” table? If so, then the cron may not be working. Otherwise, there’s a problem with the JavaScript collector.
  
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Chris Jowaisas
December 31, 2009 at 1:33 pm

If we want to change the number of related posts displayed from 5 to 3, do we edit the following numbers in the last two lines from 5 to 3 in the bsuite.php file:

// bsuggestive related posts
add_filter(‘save_post’, array(&$this, ‘bsuggestive_delete_cache’));
if( get_option( ‘bsuite_insert_related’ )){
add_filter(‘the_content’, array(&$this, ‘bsuggestive_bypageviews_the_content’), 5);
add_filter(‘the_content’, array(&$this, ‘bsuggestive_the_content’), 5);

Thanks

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rosewing
January 1, 2010 at 2:47 pm

hi,

i have trouble with bsuits now, why my bstat reports doesn’t work anymore?

0 page loads and 0 visitors in last 24 hours:

thanks.

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Leah
January 3, 2010 at 11:31 pm

Hi-
thank you for creating this great plug-in.
I only have one concern/question:
can we stop the plug in from automatically adding an id to the heading tags?

this creates invalid code so when I validate the html on pages, I have to turn the plug in off,
and manually remove all the id’s, then validate etc. I would rather just have the headings be left alone.

Sincerely,
Leah

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Mike
January 14, 2010 at 1:09 am

The “post loop” widget is part of bsuite but I can’t find any documentation about it?

Thanks
Mike

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Nick Ciske
March 5, 2010 at 1:38 pm

Anyone else having issues with bSuite and WP 2.9.2? If I activate bSuite, I can’t view my edit pages/post screens in the admin.

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- Nick Ciske
  March 5, 2010 at 1:48 pm
  
  This is the new error I get when bSuite is activated: Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /wp-includes/general-template.php on line 366
  
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Christopher Woods
March 20, 2010 at 10:01 pm

The Post Loop feature also seems to be broken using WP 2.9.2 … (incomplete) error message here when attempting to use the Post Loop widget:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [serverpath] /public_html/wp-content/plugins/bsuite/widgets/cms.php on line 203

Unsure as to the root cause of this, not a bsuite expert but I do like the plugin’s features. Seems a shame to have to disable it

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Li-An
April 2, 2010 at 4:23 am

Hello, I’ve seen you create a bSuite Drop Folder Media Uploader plugin but I could not find any information of how it runs on your blog. Any detail ?

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- Casey Bisson
  April 3, 2010 at 6:41 am
  
  @Li-An: yeah, I just posted it, but haven’t had time to document it. Short story: you can specify a directory on your host filesystem to watch. When new files are dropped there they get inserted into the blog. If you put the pictures in a named folder, it will create a post with that name and gallery with those pics. If the folder name is numeric, it will add the pics to the post with that ID number.
  
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  - Li-An
    April 13, 2010 at 3:26 am
    
    OK, thank you for your answer !
    
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Li-An
April 13, 2010 at 3:52 am

bSuite Post Icon broken in WP 2.9.2 ?

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- Casey Bisson
  April 15, 2010 at 7:55 am
  
  Yes, the feature is replaced with WP’s built-in post thumb. See http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/ for mire info on that.
  
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Li-An
April 19, 2010 at 8:44 am

OK. Thank you.

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Steve Fosdal
July 10, 2010 at 11:20 am

When trying to view the front page of my site, I am seeing endless redirects after installing bsuite (4.0.7) and scriblio (3.0-a1).

nothing was changed after doing an install. I am using the default theme for WP 2.9.2.

Any ideas?

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- swb
  September 29, 2010 at 1:20 am
  
  We have the same issue: default instillation of bSuite and Sciblio leads to the endless loop. Does anyone know the workaround? Thank you!
  
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Kathleen
July 30, 2010 at 6:19 pm

We have found Apache log entries that may be related to updates that occur in the wp_options table. The MySQL log says that the updates have to do with bSuites. Does bSuites cause regular updates of the wp_options table to occur? Thanks in advance.

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Brian Hill
October 18, 2010 at 4:49 pm

When adding this feed in shortcode to a page it does not show up. Here’s the shortcode [feed feed_url="http://205.186.161.103/indoor-rackmount/st-series-outdoor-and-indoor-nema-enclosures/?feedpages&child_of=92" count="7"]. It seems to be something with the link because I have tried other feeds and it works. Thanks for the help!

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Casey Bisson
October 31, 2009 at 1:51 am

Try one of the older versions. I think 4.0.6 has no WP 2.8 dependencies:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bsuite/download/

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Chris Buck
September 23, 2011 at 1:16 pm

I’d love to use the bSuite plugin, but none of the widgets are displaying in my sidebar. I have the widgets set to display on the default sidebar for individual posts. I’ve tried widgets on pages, xwidgets, and everything else. The bsuite widgets won’t display anywhere? Please help?

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