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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Post 2.7 Upgrade – Bulk Edit Posts IssueYou could remove that category, like said… I think at that point, you get asked if you want to put the posts in some other category, right?
Not elegant and if you aren’t removing ALL posts from that category, it’s a total pita… definitely something overlooked, especially, if like me, you have 400 posts or so to edit!
hmmm…
Imo, a person should be able to right-click on the category link in the list of posts and be able to choose “remove from this category” or something… I understand that the list of categories displayed when bulk editing cannot show the current category(ies) for posts because they could and likely DO vary…
Anyway, that’s my suggestion. I hope it’s fixed soon. My clicking arm is already tired from quick editing all these posts. I cannot delete the category because I still need it for SOME posts.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: is_category(array());OKAY, it’s like I finally ask here and then I figure it out. Oh well… if that works, then thanks for the help! 🙂
The issue was that it needed (is_category(array(x,x,x,x))) {
someone should update the documentation to indicate that like other conditionals, the parentheses are required around the is_category part, tool…
It says:
is_category()
When any Category archive page is being displayed.
is_category(‘9’)
When the archive page for Category 9 is being displayed.
is_category(‘Stinky Cheeses’)
When the archive page for the Category with Name “Stinky Cheeses” is being displayed.
is_category(‘blue-cheese’)
When the archive page for the Category with Category Slug “blue-cheese” is being displayed.I see that farther down, in an example, it’s used correctly. Oddly, this didn’t cause any problems in an earlier version of WP, only now after updating to the 2.7x version.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: wpautopNevermind. I figured it out myself. There was a functions.php file in the theme that I removed and now all is at least accessible.
Thanks anyway.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: wpautopWow, this is really messed up… I can see the entire site but cannot get to any admin functions… I get pluggable.php and functions.php errors out the ying-yang and don’t know what to do about them.
Other than removing plugin files from that folder, i cannot disable the plugins because I cannot access the admin.
I cannot take down or work on the original site (it has to stay up)
Any ideas anyone?
I am getting this:
remove_filter(‘term_description’,’wpautop’);
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/schobla8/public_html/dev/wp-content/themes/maggieb/functions.php:1) in /home/schobla8/public_html/dev/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850If I comment out that big in pluggables, I just get other similar errors or just the first line…
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Entering new subscibersWhy do you have them subscribing? To get the email addresses? Do you send them anything? Just curious why you wouldn’t want them to be able to update their email address (that’s why they need a password – to login to their profile).
I mean, authenticating who is commenting requires login, too, right? What’s the purpose of requiring sign up if you aren’t actually using that functionality?
Just asking…
but take a look at this plugin:
http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/import-users-plugin-for-wordpress/Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Database Bloat – RevisionsThe revisions plugin is the first one I install.
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/revision-control/There are probably others that are good, too, but this works for PAGES as well.
I’m not personally a fan of this feature, but clients often are — the cool thing is that you can limit the revisions (individually or globally) to just two or turn them off completely.
Do it first and there are no orphaned URLs or 404s, etc.
And though I am sometimes guilty of griping, too, I like learning stuff through the back and forth of the posts, so thanks Otto42 — great job — your replies have educated me often over the past years.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: edited quicktags.js – nothing changesI was just looking over the quicktags.js file and it appears to be much more difficult to modify… if you look down near the end of the file, it looks like you have to not only make your changes up at the top (in previous versions of WordPress) but you have to integrate them into the functions.
Sigh. This was something that I really liked about the way it WAS.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: problem with installationyes, but there are many of these errors when this starts happening… I’m experiencing it, too, trying to go from a fresh host auto-install of WordPress 2.3x, replacing everything but the wp-config.php at the root (which I’ve updated to the 2.7.1 version, manually copying and pasting the pertinent access information)
I’m getting this at an account that uses php5.2.3 and that has safe mode on (not sure if that is okay or not)
Anyway, the errors start with the install OR the upgrade files, always about missing required files…
BUT, I can look and definitely see those files are there… sigh. I’ve never had this kind of trouble even with another domain on the same server…
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrade issuesWouldn’t replacing all the files except the wp-config.php file work? (if you basically are taking an unused 2.3x install and immediately manually upgrading it to 2.7.1? The hosting company is really lame and only offers a 2.3x WordPress installer…
I’m getting a lot of errors about missing files, yet I’ve completely deleted everything except the wp-config.php file (at the root level) that contains all the relevant database references,etc.
I’m getting similar failed to load issues on trying to run the upgrade.php file– references to missing files that AREN’T missing… I can see them in the correct location on the remote server.
But what I also see is a reference to php5— I thought the minimum requirements listed were php4.3 (or greater)?
Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘ABSPATHwp-admin/includes/admin.php’ (include_path=’.;C:\php5\pear’) in E:\sites\www.kinematicscorps.com\wp-admin\upgrade.php on line 16
Note that the wp-admin/includes/admin.php file IS there. If I load that file in the browser, it also pops an error:
Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘ABSPATHwp-admin/includes/bookmark.php’ (include_path=’.;C:\php5\pear’) in E:\sites\www.kinematicscorps.com\wp-admin\includes\admin.php on line 10
IS IT POSSIBLE that the www is a problem? I know that the host doesn’t have the site configured to load http://www.kinematicscorps.com… the site only loads without the www.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: WordPress is NOT user friendlyI have to agree with Otto42 — there are plenty of places like blogger, xanga, myspace, wordpress.com to have a site without knowing anything.
I mean, you can create a website from programs like Word, too… but that doesn’t mean you know html or any of the associated technologies.
php, xhtml, css, javascript, jquery, etc… all are skill sets that require time spent learning the technology. But with respect to installing WordPress, it really couldn’t be easier, from third party installs (nearly all hosts have them) to simply uploading the files and using the install file… of course, you need to put those files on a server that meets the requirements for the software.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Moving WordPress installation – how to control image urls in postscouldn’t you just use the blog_info(‘template_directory’) function?
like:
href="<?php blog_info('template_directory')?>/the rest of the path to the image/name.gif"That way, it doesn’t matter what template you use and the references infer the /wp-content/theme/yourtheme/blah blah
And even if you use that, or the http reference or the /wp-content/theme/yourtheme/ method, the source code parses the path and displays it using the external http:// path… as far as I know.
update: just caught that you are talking about paths IN your posts, assuming made from the write post admin page… you can reference those using /wp-content/theme/yourtheme/rest of path or /wp-content/uploads/ if that is where they are kept… if not using the media library to upload and access images.
And you can change where those images are stored in your settings (from the uploads folder)
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Splash PageNot sure if you still are looking for info, but I ended up using jquery to create a splash page – how you go about it really depends on whether you want the splash to appear with every return to “home” or the front_page() or not.
If yes, you can create divs that are display:none to start with, then use the fairly simple jquery functions to show/hide or fadeIn/fadeOut content in them.
If not, create a new static page with your splash, set it to be the “home” or front_page() using settings.
An example can be seen at fixeselfcenter.com
This uses a static WordPress Page set to be “home” in the settings and then the link “Home” goes to what had been the front_page in the past by referencing its permalink.
That link “Home” uses conditional logic
if (is_page(3)) {} else {echo //code to write the link}to either write the link or not based on whether you are on the perceived home page (page 3) or not.Previously, it had used the (if (is_front_page()) conditional to show that link (since it WAS the front page in the past).
WordPress is cool – a truly easy to use CMS besides the basic blogging stuff.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: jQuery is not working in 2.7 installshould you have to write
echo get_bloginfo? wouldn’tbloginfo('template_directory')work?Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Pages into categories?You may have your answer, but in case the question isn’t just about how to LIST categories rather than Pages, but how to turn a Page into a category Post…
If you’ve accidentally used Pages (Write>Page) rather than Posts (Write>Posts), I don’t think you *can* convert a Page into a Post. Granted… they are all posts but creating posts that are for categories creates extra metadata that is stored about the post.
You may be able to use Tags added to your pages? I’d read up on that. There are ways to call posts (including pages) based on tags.
HTH
Casey