converting2wp

[One question per post, please.]

Yes, I do all my CSS edits in Dreamweaver. Your theme has a style.css file. The path to the theme file, if you’ve got any questions, will show in the Manage Themes administrative subpanel.

You may want to take care if you plan to update the theme, and if you’re using a theme that has an extensive system in the WordPress admin to change style characteristics, your mileage may vary. But for simple themes, style.css is where most things are set.

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As for your second question —
o Do you want the e-mail sent to the administrator? all subscribers?
o By “response” do you mean “post” or “comment” or both?
o Do you mean “posted by administrator” only? or posted by anyone?

Maybe you could make the clarifications in a new post with a more appropriate title.

Thanks and I hope you get comfortable with WordPress and grow to like it!

Many thanks to you both. I haven’t tested yet, but I expect you’ve given me exactly what I need. While the PHP.net references may have seemed to be obvious places for me to check, as only an occasional programmer whose brain is still crufty with rules from other languages (and with, obviously, an incomplete understanding of the differences between setting and declaring variables) your pointing them out was very helpful.

I’m not entirely sure I understand what you’re asking, but have you tried

<table>
<tr>
<td>[picture]</td>
<td>Put the text you want between the "table data" tags</td>
</tr>
</table>

If you’re actually putting text between the “</td>” and the “</tr>” then that’s invalid HTML and results are unpredictable.

However, in the interest of moving forward, I did just investigate another solution.

I installed the Search Regex plugin. [It appears to be the search and replace plugin that’s had the most recent development and its version 1.4.11 is compatible to WP 2.9.2 which is what I’m running.]

I used it to make the following replacements:

 ->  
— => —
’ => ’
” => ”
“ => “

and things look much better.

A “thanks for submitting the form” page is one thing. A page (or e-commerce system) that actually *uses* the data from the form is another. It sounds as if your question is related to the one I asked in http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/399486?replies=3 — but I don’t think my strategy is optimal, and it may not work for you. But I thought I’d share here in case you have a better solution.

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@onewordsmith In the top right of the forum pages you’ll see

Welcome, onewordsmith! View your profile (Log Out)

Click the “View your profile” link, and it will take you to a page with the threads you’ve started and/or commented on.
The one you want is
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/400999?replies=2

PLEASE do not add comments to completely unrelated threads.
</offtopic>

[Of course, how s/he’s going to find this comment … But maybe it’ll help someone else.]

Okay, I’m still missing something basic. I’ll admit it’s probably PHP rather than WordPress, but here’s my situation.

functions.php:

global $testvar;
add_action( 'hook_defined_in_plugin1', 'my_process_plugin1_data');

I’ve written “plugin2.php” and installed/activated it. Its code contains

global $testvar;
function my_process_plugin1_data( --args as from plugin1-- )
{
	global $testvar;
	$testvar="this is in the data processing function";

}

Finally in a PHP template file for a page displayed after my_process_plugin1_data executes, I have

global $testvar;
echo "<br />Confirm var value===".$testvar."===</br>";

but $testvar shows up as an empty string.

I’ve confirmed the hook/action works — in the template file I can retrieve a cookie that’s set by the my_process_plugin1_data function. But I just can’t seem to get the function and the page communicating through a variable.

I’ve searched the docs and the book “WordPress Plugin Development” — but nothing jumps out as the step-by-step way to set up this communication.