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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Any way to make links searchable?Yeah, this is a huge limitation for using Blogroll to manage links/resources. Even the Search Everything plugin doesn’t find content stored in blogroll links or descriptions.
Definitely something to add for next release, imo.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: searching blogroll linksI want to know this, too. I even added display of descriptions hoping that on displaying the links and descriptions in a WP Page that Search Everything would find content in those blogroll descriptions. It doesn’t.
Any ideas, anyone?
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Conditional Tags Feature Requestbut just so you know… and when you don’t want a custom page template, you can use conditional code like so:
if (is_page(3) || is_page(4) || is_page(11)) { whatever } else ....to add the same thing for multiple pages.
hth
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can I add a stylesheetno problem. glad to help out. I’ve certainly received my share of help here!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: who decided to put “browser happy” in WP?neither would be adding it, if you wanted it. That’s the point. Keep it minimal or is someone making money off the link? I don’t use any pre-packaged templates for that very reason, these days. I have a base set of code snippets, tagstention (for Dreamweaver) and either do the design end, too or do the front/back scripting/programming for a site that comes with a designer’s comps.
I’m just saying that I’ve been asked to remove it in every instance, along with all the other promotional stuff (like “proudly….”) because it just isn’t a required element.
I DO use reliable plugins and donate bucks to the useful, responsive plugin authors to help finance them because it’s worth it to me.
Not whining, just originally asked about it as it surprised me that any advocating would be part of the default install.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Add a hyperlink to Blogroll Link description?anyone? Why in the world would anyone WANT WordPress to remove paragraph tags from a category description? It may TAKE two paragraphs to state things…
And apparently, there’s no real way to stop this… or at least, not anyone who knows about it and who is willing to write it up.
Just commenting out that line in the default-filters.php file causes errors related to line 654 of formatting.php (both files in the includes directory).
HELP, please!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: who decided to put “browser happy” in WP?I think it shouldn’t be there because I have to remove with every WP site I do. No one wants it. Besides my wasted time, I make my sites work with all major browsers, so there’s no real reason to have one over the other.
I may actually advocate for FF and hate IE, but the person wanting the site uses what they want to use. I don’t feel compelled to change their mind about that, unless they are using something like IE5 for mac or Netscape 3 or some other ancient relic.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: HTML use in Category DescriptionThis solution does not work for me. When I comment out the suggested line, I get another error in the formatting.php file for line 654. This is using WP 2.2.1
In fact, I cannot even “uncomment” that line and fix the error. I have to go get another copy of the file, delete the one on the remote server, then upload this fresh copy. It’s truly weird.
I NEED to know how to have paragraphs, etc in category descriptions. WHY did this get screwed up? It ought to be an easy on/off option in the admin if they are going to have the functionality of stripping it. It basically sucks that I (and others, apparently) cannot figure out an error-free way of disabling this (not really useful) feature.
Any ideas anyone?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: edit_post_link() not being written in IE6duh… I am a MORON! I was not logged in so OF COURSE I couldn’t see the link. <slaps head hard /> doh!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Is this possible to do with WordPress?Posts are not static things you upload. They are entries in your WordPress database.
you can, however, create a folder of static files, then use a random function to include one if you are comfortable modifying the php markup in your theme files.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Synchronising sitesWhy? Why not just develop using a sub-domain, then when you are ready to move the files and data to the real location, export the tables as an sql file, make changes (in DW you can add .sql to the file types in your prefs so that it will open the file as a text file) to the blog name and url and email related stuff (email address, username and password). I do a search and replace swapping (for example)
newdomain.com for subdomain.olddomain.com or example.com for subdomain.example.com, depending on whether I am developing on my servers and moving to a client’s server or keeping the domains the same, but ditching the subdomain.Then, install WP in the new location, use phpMyadmin to drop the tables, import your data and upload the custom theme, plugins and modified core files to the new location.
Why go to the bother of having mySQL, phpMyadmin, php, etc all installed locally? Just curious.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Backup and Restore MySQL DatabaseI export the tables for a database to back them up.
in phpMyadmin, I select my database, click the export tab, “Select All” of the tables (there should be a Select All link below the list of tables), then check the “Save as file” option and choose .sql as the type of file and save to my hard drive.
With a .sql file, you can open it and make changes if needed, or scan for issues if you know how.
To restore, I also use phpMyAdmin. I select the database. Then, “Check All” the tables. Select the drop table option in the “with selected” menu and click Go.
Then, click to the Import tab.
Browse for your .sql file and import.
I’ve had great success using this method. HTH
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Static-Front Page option not showingWith respect to the category, that is also controlled from the reading options. I am not sure why you couldn’t see a choice there, since a fresh install would have a couple of categories by default (blogroll and uncategorized)…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Static-Front Page option not showingFirst create a page. Then look in the Reading options in the Admin pages.
The options don’t appear until there are pages.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
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I even have my own personal support person that I can dial directly.
You cannot beat that. Plus their control panels let me do pretty much anything and everything I need to do.
Reasonable pricing, too.
HTH