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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Uploading videos larger than 8MbOh. Shoot. Sizewise that’s not a problem.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Uploading videos larger than 8MbWhy don’t you just upload it to youtube and embed the youtube code? Easy peasy, and it looks nice.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Won’t work in IE! STUPID INTERNET EXPLORER!!!I am having an IE problem as well. My blog works fine in explorer and firefox (and has for several months) but after backing out an attempt at an upgrade to wordpress 2.6.3, I can’t get into my wp-admin in explorer, but I can in firefox. Ideas?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: no admin centerAlso, I don’t want to redo the upgrade until I can get back into my admin center to reset to the default template and turn off my plugins, which I can’t do when I can’t get to my admin center…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: no admin centerI don’t understand what you’re saying.
I used fantastico to do the upgrade, so that wasn’t done manually.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: favico not displaying, footer split on some pages, amazon ids messedThanks, that’s very helpful. I have been running validation on the site and on various pages but I must not have thought to do it on that one. That should really help me track down the problem.
Weirdly, it displays correctly in Firefox.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: favico not displaying, footer split on some pages, amazon ids messedWell, I did a search on favico not appearing and, while I don’t understand why mine suddenly disappeared when the code didn’t change, I did modify a line in the template (functions.php) from this:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/favicon.ico" />to this:
<link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="http://thebetsygspot.com/favicon.ico" />Not sure why the template designer got so fancy with something so simple.
Still having the problem with the footer and I can’t seem to track that one down…I got a fix from amazon on the other problem and haven’t tried it yet.
Could really use help on the footer separating thing.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Custom Field used to display different sidebarActually, I just tried it and it worked, so no need to answer. Awesome.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Custom Field used to display different sidebarI am trying to do something similar, except I want only certain posts to display a particular ad. I have only a sidebar.php file. Am I to understand that I should create a new template file called sidebar2.php, place the ad in there, and use the code above (with the correct ID)? Or create as many sidebar#.php files as I need to if I end up having other ads that go only with a particular page?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Conditional phpI hope someone will delete that. So sorry, let’s try again.
I have tried this 100 different ways, but I can’t figure it out.
I am using a plugin called Post Links to post related links per page, and also to do them conditionally. Because it’s in the sidebar that’s already a nested list, I had to wrap part of it in an li tag. The problem is that the blank li leaves a space if there is no list.
Here is the page with the related links. Here is the page without the related links. Here is the code, which I did not write so speak slowly:
<?php $args = array('format' => 'ul', 'div' => 'post-links', 'title' => 'Related links' ); ?> <li><?php post_links($args); ?><li>I’ve tried wrapping the li tag around all kinds of things, get the look I want, but can’t get rid of the dang space when I do.
Thank you, brilliant people, and I hope I don’t mess up this post a second time.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Top-to-bottom gradients in sidebarsUh, light dawns. I did not get that you would put the second gradient color in the background. Der. You should write doc.
Whether it’s a small theme element is a matter of opinion…but I wasn’t trying to be clever, I just didn’t get it. Thanks for being so clear.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Ugly gray background box on refreshJoni, Agreed. There are two things: how it works and how it looks. Supposedly someone like me should only be mucking with how it looks, which should limit me to having to know CSS. Can’t seem to keep my fingers out of the “how it works” pie, though, especially when it doesn’t work as it’s supposed to.
If I was doing coded typography as far back as ’78 (and I even know what coded typography is) I think we’re probably in the same age range, Joni. End of the baby boom.
Thanks for the nice social visit!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Ugly gray background box on refreshThank you, I.
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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Ugly gray background box on refreshIvovic…If you had any idea what I’ve managed to accomplish in the past three weeks…
Custom Image Header is a feature of some templates that I knew about from WordPress.com, and since when I started this venture, I couldn’t figure out where people were getting their header images from, I felt I needed a template with Custom Image Header.
Since then, yah, I think I know how put an image in there, like my logo on the right…and I used “display: none” on the original title so that it would still be found by search engines…
And fixed a bug in the theme too…Not bad for a writer, non-programmer who did coded typography before you guys were probably born… 😉 (seriously…)
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Ugly gray background box on refreshOkay, template designers…Please don’t EVER put colors–or any other formatting–in the php files…
It was in the theme functions and if y’all do a refresh on my site now, the only hideous thing you’ll see are those sidebars.
Thanks everyone.