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I’ve been going around with this for a few days now. I’ve got secretcrush and its running and working well.

The problem is it will ONLY work with ip or hostname. Not with name. No matter how many times I try to set it to name, it defunks back to IP. I’ve tried in safari, firefox (mac AND pc), and in IE7 the dropdown box to select which option you want doesn’t even show up.

I’m running wordpress and the cookies for peoples names on my site are the default comment_author_

If i look in the database there is NO entries in the visits table for any visitor_names

It’s as if it isn’t posting any of the information to the DB.

Am i doing something wrong? I’ve tried deactivating and reactivating the pepper with no luck.

Okay, I’ve discovered two problems with Secret Crush and Wordpress. If your Wordpress installation is in a directory off of root and Mint isn’t in that directory as well, Mint doesn’t have access to cookies set by Wordpress. (This isn’t affecting you Kristin but included here in case someone runs into this problem.) You need to change the way Wordpress sets cookies by adding the following to your wp-config.php

define('COOKIEPATH', '/'); // don't limit WP cookie access to just the wordpress directory

A new version of Secret Crush is available to resolve your problem Kristin.

Ah, you’re still having a problem with cookie access. Your wordpress installation is setting a cookie for www.yourdomain.com instead of just yourdomain.com. For the highest level of compatibility it should be setting a cookie for .yourdomain.com.

Because Mint is installed on just yourdomain.com it can’t access cookies set by www.yourdomain.com. That’s not a Mint or Wordpress specific issue, it’s just way the cookie crumbles—delicious pun intended.

I’m not sure how to go about getting Wordpress to play nice on this particular detail.

what about for subdomains? the same thing?

Scratch that. I’ve got an easier fix. I’m just posting it here incase someone else is having troubles.

I just went to my wordpress options in the admin admin and changed the:

WordPress address (URL): and Blog address (URL): from http://www.wiphey.com to http://wiphey.com

Tested it with a friend and it worked!

Don’t you hate it when you spend hours fiddling with something and it turns out to be something THAT simple..

thanks for the help guys :)

Interesting… if I change the domain to have the “www” prefix in my Mint preferences, things seem to work fine. The only problem is that the preference doesn’t stick… the next time I open up Mint prefs, it has reverted back to the non-www domain?

Does SeceretCrush work with an install of Wordpress on a subdomain ( sub.domain.com ) , with Mint installed on the regular domain (domain.com)?

Is there a way to play with things to make that work? Thanks! ( and would it make more sense for me to start a new topic, eh?)

Blogography, Mint will always trim the www. so that the cookies it sets are more universal and can be found whether someone visits your site at domain.com, www.domain.com, sub.domain.com, or domain.com/path/.

Kristin, there is a problem with our Mint if you can’t save your Preferences. Try adding &errors to your Preferences url.

Nebagakid, this is borderline new topic. Try adding the following to your wp-config.php:

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.yourdomain.com'); // don't omit the leading `.`.

Kopanas, create a new PHP document containing the following:

echo '<pre>';
print_r($_COOKIE);
echo '</pre>';

Do you see your nickname in that array? What index contains the nickname? That’s the identifier you should add to Secret Crush.

hmmm… can’t add a PHP file to rails application… I thought I could in the public folder but didn’t render… just outputed it. I am going to have to find another solution.

The crushes pepper seems to be working with WP (i think). I have it set to name in the preferences and it is logging the cookies set by those that comment, however, crushes is showing the URL they entered instead of their username. Is that the way its suppose to work?

Here is a screenshot: http://fenicle.com/crushes.png

Here is my dir structure if it matters:

WP: /

MINT: /mint/

Yes. I am using 2.04

I don’t see anything different when I go to /?preferences&errors

When I set it to name and then save, it just takes me back to the mint page with the IP’s showing, and then if I go back to preferences&errors again, IP is selected and not name.