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Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Full screen editing with formatting buttons@seacoast – ??? When I tripped over a feature that I didn’t know existed, I found an inconsistency in the UI. I called it a bug.
@j.musick – probably. Is there a way to transfer it, or should I start over? [I’ve been doing other things for a long time and hadn’t focused on the “requests and feedback” folder. I’d been using extend/ideas for that.]
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Questions after transfer to self-hostedSince they are both coming from WordPress.com, something might have gotten confused in the site move. You may want to ask the WordPress.com support. But they may want the full headers.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Questions after transfer to self-hostedCan you ask one of them to send you the headers of the two different messages?
Or are you “following” yourself? Do you get two copies? Can you look at the headers and see where the messages are coming from?
If both the old and the new site are shown in the headers, it’s possible that the WordPress.com folks (who are moving towards centralizing the stats functions) may have migrated your subscriptions.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Question mark box instead of picturesNot my problem, CadrysKitchen’s … But the images appear to be showing just fine –hence my question asking for any lessons learned in getting it fixed. Thanks!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Question mark box instead of picturesLooks like you got this fixed? If you learned anything, please share. Thx.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How can I make a data base with filtering and search in WordPress?Starting with a search for “gigs” at http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins and reading through some of the information found there turned up:
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/gigpress/
but you may want to look at the other options.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Lost all my linksI looked at your site with firebug (for more info, see this post)
and it looks as if you are talking about the Post titles which are now white (#FFFFFF) the same color as the background.
Firebug tells me that on line 398 of style.css there are the lines:
#inner-content a {
color: #FFFFFF !important;
font-weight: bold;
}Changing that #FFFFFF to #000000 (black) made the titles reappear.
To fix this you need to figure out what changed to make that rule active — and then change it back.
Hope that helps.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Questions after transfer to self-hostedSo before http://poeticaperture.com went to your WordPress.com site? And now it goes to the site on Bluehost?
Do you know if you changed Registrars (say from WordPress.com to Bluehost) or did you just change the information about the domain at your former (and current) registrar (e.g. GoDaddy)?
When you login to WordPress.com with the account you used to edit the old site, do you still see it listed (assuming, of course, you haven’t deleted it)? When you then go to its dashboard, and click Domains under Store, do you see an alternate address ending in wordpress.com?
Your answers to the above may affect my answer to #1, but my guess is that you’ll want the WP.com redirect.
2. Sounds like you have that right.
3. The blogs you follow are tied to your login account, not the old site so those shouldn’t change.
4. Did you do n export from WordPress.com and import to your new blog? Any chance you might have run the import more than once?
5. One big deal with self-hosted WordPress is that you have access to many more themes. It looks as if you may have just moved over the site that had been using the Twenty Ten theme, one of the defaults. Yes, a redesign of the sidebar is needed (that didn’t come over on the export/import), and it looks as if you’ve done that. You may want to schedule some time to browse the theme repository and see if a new look would be warranted.
6. As in #1, you should still see your old wordpress.com site when you login to WordPress.com — it’ll have a different address, but I’d expect that the history and stats are still there.
Hope that helps some — best wishes with your new environment!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to take my site offline until it's fixedThere are plugins to do this, but sometimes you need a way to do this outside of WordPress. I’m assuming you and/or someone else still needs access to the site while it’s being fixed/verified.
Here’s how I do it.
1. From http://whatismyipaddress.com get your current IP address.
2. Create a simple “downtime.htm” file, e.g.,
This site is down for maintenance. Check back tomorrow.adding whatever HTML/CSS you like and and ftp it to the home directory of your website.
3. Get a copy of the .htaccess file from your current site’s home directory (via ftp, probably). Save it in a safe place.
4a. Make a copy of the .htaccess file and at the top of the file put the following lines, replacing xx.xx.xx.xx with the IP address you got in step 1.
order deny,allow deny from all allow from xx.xx.xx.xx ErrorDocument 403 /downtime.htm <Files downtime.htm> allow from all </Files>4b. Add another “allow from” line with the IP address of anyone else who needs access to the site while it is being fixed.
5. FTP the modified .htaccess file back to the server.
When you’re done, put back the original .htaccess file.
Best wishes on getting it fixed!
I’d also like a way to change the owner of an event so someone who “takes over” maintenance of an event can be given the rights to change an existing event without being given the capability to edit all the posts. I realize I can change the post_author in the entry for the event in the posts table. But that seems awkward. Thanks so much for the plugin -and apologies if I missed where this was mentioned above.
I’ll second the suggestion to make a link to an external page an option along with location, etc. While it’s possible to put that info in the description of the event, I’m working with people who’d appreciate the reminder to add that when appropriate.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: First Day running WordPress, I broke it! PLEASE helpOn the other hand, if you were activating a plugin, you weren’t using WordPress.com.
It sounds as if the clinic has WordPress (from ww.wp.xz.cn) installed on a web hosting service — and the hosting service (might be a local group, might be a national one like those listed at http://ww.wp.xz.cn/hosting/) almost certainly has a way to reach *their* technical support. Find the name of the hosting service, and then finding their website may get you on the right track. They’re the ones that can help you recover the FTP access that you need.
All the best.
I, too, would like an easy way to designate multi-day events. It does work if I make it a one-day event starting on the first day and then configure it to repeat, say, 3 times for a 3 day event.
This seems like a kludge, though I don’t have real recommendations on how to change the display to show the event continues for more than one day, particularly in the date-oriented event-list format.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to remove the search boxIf you’ve already set up a child theme for your site’s modifications, try putting
.searchform {
display:none;
}into the child theme’s style.css.
If you haven’t done that, see http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes for info.
I didn’t look at Suffusion directly, just at the style information on your site (using Firebug, a Firefox plugin which is invaluable for such things). So let us know if that works.
Are you using a child theme of Twenty Eleven – as described here?
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_ThemesIf you are, then you shouldn’t need to copy functions.php wholesale — just copy the functions that need to be modified. The file referenced above, twentyeleven/functions.php, would never need to be changed.
Doing it that way might not solve this problem for you immediately, but it should make it easier to debug.