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I am working on a site where I have mostly pages… for example, about-us, products, etc

I am using permalinks in this format:

/%category%/

just for one bit that will use a category and have blog posts.

I am linking to my pages like this:

/about-us/

or, you could use the absolute path, I suppose

http://example.com/about-us/

1) did you try using the ending /?
2) is the page slug “photos”? Keep in mind that when you create a Page, the title you use is sanitized for spaces, etc and a page slug is created. Create a new page and add photos in the title field, add content and save/publish. Now that page slug is photos. You should be able to link to it like href=”/photos/”

works for me, anyway. v2.0.4

wow. I used this idea
<?php echo rand(1, 7); ?>
to pull in a random image and yes, it works (in this case, it is a foreground image, not background via css)

I was hoping this would fix a problem I am having using rotate.php and pngbehavior.htc to present a random foreground image (png32 format). IE doesn’t support png transparency, but pngbehavior.htc fixes that. Only, when the image is randomly selected using rotate.php, it fails to process the png to make the background transparent. Bummer.

So the above rand function works, but NOW, in IE, the whole image is transparent – even the non-transparent bits! I can see that the image is there by looking in the source code… and, of course, it is all working just fine in Firefox. Too WEIRD.

Any ideas, anyone? THis is obviously some issue with when things are processed – the order in which the image is selected and then transparency applied… but I cannot figure out a fix for the life of me. THere’s no flexibility in this – I have to have png32 and it must be a random image.

This is all just in the beginning stages, but if you want to see the missing image, here’s a url:

http://dev.masilva.com/about-ma-silva/

view in Firefox, then IE6

(nothing tested for mac or other browsers at this point, just rough layout, etc)

remember that wordpress creates directories on the fly for posts… so your post may not live in the domain.com/blog directory you have a key for.

I’ve implemented a google map by placing it in a fixed file and including that into the template files, as in the sidebar, index, whatever…

additionally, do you have custom permalinks set up? that also may be changing the actual directory structure for where the map displays. The key is only good for a page IN blog/

not in blog/2006/august/my-post-with-map

OK, what I’ve found is that you have to set the permissions of the wp-content folder to 777 to get it to work – which, I am told, is a BAD thing.

at that point, you lose the error about the dat file.

of course, it’s not a guarantee that the selector will be substituted… mine just goes missing, no flash appears, but it’s a start.

that said, I am going to have to pull this idea out of play, I think… too many iffy things and not enough documentation. I mean, if the permissions need to be 777, just SAY SO. I’ve looked at 4 pages of posts asking about what is wrong and lots of suggesting that the permissions might be wrong, but no out and out statement from D. Chait what the permissions should BE. or which files need different permissions and what those should be.
sheesh.

um, the admin interface isn’t working right for me. Nor is the sIFR replacement – I get the .dat problem mentioned previously in this thread.
error msg:
Unable to open file (/home/[pathstuffremovedhere]/wp-content/plugins/../cg-flashytitles.dat).

1) no replacement happening, likely because there is no .dat file to be found per the msg.
2) on trying to edit the existing flashytitle, I click Edit and it takes me to the edit page but all the applied values are reset to default and the selector field is emptied. Hmm. wtf?
3) on cancelling out of a delete flashtitle, it goes ahead and deletes it anyway.

that said, here are some questions and suggestions?

1) where is the documentation for the actual plugin? The readmefile is, er, minimal.
2) is there a fla file for creating new fonts from flash 8?