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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comment box not showing up?I can create a problem similar to the one you describe if I leave out
%postname%/from the end of the permalink structure.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comment box not showing up?Sorry to miss you; thought you’d taken off for the night.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comment box not showing up?Could you turn permalinks back on for a bit?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comment box not showing up?Ah! Sorry. If you switch to the default theme, do you still have the same problem?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comment box not showing up?Offhand, I’d say you’ve fixed this. I just posted a comment via the handy link at the bottom of the post on your blog.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: The oddest error I’ve ever seen.From following links in the other threads podz mentioned, it looks like a mod_security issue. ‘mod_security’ is an Apache module. Not all hosts install it; if yours does, you may run into this problem.
For Internal 500 errors (which are also Apache errors rather than WP), if replacing your htaccess file does not solve the issue, you should contact your provider’s tech support. When I had problems earlier this year, the sysadmin said it was caused by “a low limit on the number of concurrent apache processes.” He raised the limit and all was well.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Really Slow Sidebar LoadingIn the section for “Great Sites”, you have a number of lines that are bracketed with
<li>and</li>. Groups of such list lines need to be themselves bracketed with<ul>and</ul>(for unordered lists) or<ol>and</ol>(ordered lists). For example:<ul>
<li>item one</li>
<li>item two</li>
</ul>Also, it looks like most of your image links to outside sites get their images from those sites. Depending on the load for those servers, you may see delays in downloading and displaying their images. To speed that up, copy the images to your own server and change your
<img src=...to reference your local copy.Change all
<br/>to<br />.In places where you do have
<ul>followed by stuff, then</ul>, you often have other html tags, such as<p>and<center>mixed in. This is a no-no.If your sidebar were mine, I’d start over. Pull everything out, then add sections in one by one, making sure it validates each time. Your front page runs to over 5000 lines (as of tonight), by the time all the javascript and frames and yaddayadda finishes loading. I’m not surprised you’re seeing slow loads sometimes.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Problems upgrading from 1.1 beta.Sounds like you may have not run upgrade.php when you went to 1.2. It’s in the wp-admin subfolder. In both 1.2 and 1.5, it makes changes to your existing WP tables.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: recent comments plugin; frustration level high!“parse error” is PHP’s way of saying “typo”. You had a typo in your sidebar, on or near line 37, that prevented PHP from even beginning to evaluate the line in which you called Nick’s Recent Comments plugin.
Should you run into one of these again (I, myself, have seen dozens if not hundreds), check your typing. Most common typos are forgetting closing parens or quotemarks, or leaving out (or misplacing) the statement-ending semi-colon, or mis-keying the
<?phpor?>parts.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Time for July posts not displaying properlyi and j can be hard to tell apart in small font sizes. 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Time for July posts not displaying properlyInstead of ‘g:j A’, try ‘g:i A’.
The ‘j’ will just get you the day of the month. I think you want ‘i’, for minutes after the hour.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: FireFox Bug?Your ‘great deals for the home’ site’s markup does not validate. I think your ads are importing as HTML rather than XHTML. There may be other issues as well with the ads’ formatting, but the main thing is you have to take the outside content into consideration as well as your own, if you want your site to display properly in all browsers.
Firefox may be deficient, but you can’t prove it by this example.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Importing iBlog to ecto/WordPressOnce you get the imported posts cleaned up in WP, you can download them into ecto using its ‘refresh’ interface.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Posting directlyOh. I suppose you could just create a’visitor’ account of a level with posting privileges and publish the login/password on your sidebar… They’d still have to go through the motions of logging in once, but no longer have to register themselves individually.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Posting directlyIt sounds like you need to enable cookies. If you’ve blocked all cookies, or cookies from your own site (!), you will get a login/register prompt every time you do anything that involves updating your weblog’s database.