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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Redundant nextprevious/posts_nav_linkFINALLY I got what I wanted: “Older Posts” and Newer Posts” at the center bottom of each blog page with this code:
<div style="text-align:center;"> <?php posts_nav_link(' · ', 'Newer Posts', 'Older Posts'); ?> </div>Thanks alchymyth for prodding me in the right direction. While the examples may be “quite clear” to you, to me php is still a mysterious bit of business. Thanks.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Redundant nextprevious/posts_nav_linkWell I finally got rid of the two redundant next-previous notations at the bottom of blog pages by using the codex code:
<?php next_posts_link(); ?> <?php previous_posts_link(); ?>BUT instead of saying “Next Page” and “Previous Page” which I find both confusing and misleading, I would like the instructions to Say “Older Posts” and “Newer Posts” However, since there is no text to change, how could I do this?
Anyone know? Thanks for any help you can give.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Media captions vs descriptionsThanks, Esmi. All my images already have as much info as I can squeeze into the title as possible.
But it appears from what you said, there is no way to include extra alternate text for the image unless I write it in captions. And since I don’t use captions, it looks like I’m not going to be able to satisfy google with image details.
I’m surprised more people haven’t come up against this difficulty.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: All images returning 404 errorsFor the benefit of those in a similar situation, the problem has been identified and resolved. The hotlink protection in my host’s C panel has now been turned off, so now those situations will be dealt with manually.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Delete 3rd page of postsBut wouldn’t that be tremendously unwieldy? And repetitive? 300 posts would mean 30 extra pages and all those posts are already listed in the archives. Plus I’m considering adding a category list. Plus an index.
Are you saying there is absolutely no way to cut off the post pages at two pages for a total of 20 posts?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Where is splash page template created?Thanks Michael and lokrin, but I received your info after I had attempted to upgrade. I tried the manual extended upgrade and it failed. Having lost so much time down the tubes and not wanting to waste anymore, I asked my always helpful host, Arvixe, if they could upgrade for me. They said yes and did it in no time – including updating and reactivating all my plugins – for a very reasonable charge. Am mucho delighted.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Where is splash page template created?Thanks, but this plugin doesn’t work for me. Neither does another one I tried. Don’t know why but suddenly couldn’t get into admin plugin page to either activate or deactivate plugins, so had to delete them from folder.
At this point, don’t want to mess with anymore plugins. I know what to do with the splash page once it’s created, in settings, etc. but all I need to know now is precisely where do I go to create this splash maintenance page.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrade QuestionsReally appreciate your replies, stvwlf, and feel better armed to face the dreaded first upgrade…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrade QuestionsThanks for your reply. I had already made up my mind to go for the extended manual upgrade. I have to laugh at your saying it will only take 5 to 10 extra minutes, which is probably so for the experienced here. For a novice, I would estimate anywhere between 5 minutes and 5 days.
And glad to hear any theme problems later should be minor.
In addition to my database and home directory copies, should I maybe also make a separate ftp copy of my new theme and images in case they’re needed somewhere down the line? Or is that overkill?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: malicious javascript or SQL injection attack?Thank you so much for your reply, Alism. I have been on the phone with my host and they so far don’t see anything wrong with my javascript.
They also said that no blog comment could contain anything that could harm the database without knowledge of my password. Do you agree with that?
Again, I feel way better after your knowledgable reply.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: page 2 image problemsOn Monday, I added a sitemap to my blog and also submitted it to google.
And since then, I’m happy to say my page 2 images have reappeared on google image search.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: page 2 image problemsThanks ryans149. Since you didn’t mention it I assume then that google doesn’t pick up these page 2 post images with new URL’s later on as new images, even though they pick up the posts themselves.
Checked the static page codex. I’ll have to think about what to put on that page. If I do mostly post images with a few lines of text, would I link them to their archive page? Also, if the first page is static, what happens to the posts starting on the next page? Do they scroll on and on forever, or if they’re broken up into so many per page, are those pages numbered, which would bring me back to the same problem I have now?
Had been thinking about adding categories in sidebar, so will definitely be doing that.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: changes in WP Editor suddenly not updatingI got lucky. The problem turned out to be a plugin – WP Firewall. I haven’t touched any plugins for almost 2 months and they’ve been playing together very nicely until boom – the update problem. So now when anything goes wrong, the first thing I’ll check will be the plugins. In fact there may still be some hanky panky going on there. It sometimes takes me three tries to log in to WP. A mere inconvenience, now that my update problem is solved.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: changes in WP Editor suddenly not updatingThanks for your response esmi. The list you suggested is mostly recommended for users who have run into problems after updating, which I haven’t done, thanks to all the horror stories I’ve read here. Too many of the update problems users have described seem not to be resolved. For old hands, I’m sure updating is no problem. But for newcomers like myself, who have had to absorb and work through an enormous amount of new info to transform their theme, and who still feel like they’re tiptoeing on eggs (when I looked into permissions, I obliterated my whole site), I’ll be waiting a bit before diving into an update.
However I will take a stab at all those suggestions & give them a try. Who knows, I might get lucky. So thanks again.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Line of text in header multiplies into 2 paragraphsThanks so much for your explanation. But it still leaves the mystery of whatever happened to the line of code from the blog directory that I thought I pasted at the bottom of the header.
That BadBehavior plugin is great, by the way. It stops all kinds of junk from entering my site.