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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Manage>Files clear cache?it is most likely at:
/wp-content/themes/nameofthemefolder/style.css
where nameofthemefolder is whatever folder your theme lives in… for example, if you are using default or classic, substitute that for “nameofthemefolder”
make sense?
And, if you can see your directory structure (on the remote server), you should be able to see the name of the folder that holds your theme files
HTH
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Reversing the Order of your postsI think you’d just build a query
<?php
if (is_archive()) {
query_posts("order=ASC");
}
?>I’m no php/wp expert, but I think if you put that just above the loop in your archive.php file, it should work
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Manage>Files clear cache?I found I had to open a working linked page, update and do that 4-5 times to clear this list of links (which are really only the last 5 urls accessed…right?
I agree, though, a “clear list” button function would rock.
As a sidenote, I opted to modify my WP files and commented out the Recent files list (in wp-admin/templates.php) and add to the common files list all files that the client might want to edit (I’m no plugin builder).
Finally, you can typically avoid “no such file exists” errors by appending the proper path structure. Otherwise, if the file is at the root level, just use the file name
so you might use something like:
.htaccess
/wp-includes/js/quicktags.js
/wp-content/themes/mythemefolder/myfile.phpremembering that your header, footer, sidebar, category templates, etc are all within a theme folder. Sorry if this seems simplistic, but I’ve only worked on one WP site and it helped once I learned this.
Because I am building this for a client and I am responsible for all upgrades to WP, I don’t mind modifying some of the admin pages to incorporate changes that make the client’s job managing content easier… and my client didn’t like the “no such file exists” error in the manage>files (recent files) list.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WP for a non blog website?Hi, Kutitots
Have you thought about writing an article on HOW you set up the products section of your site? I’d be interested in reading that!Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WP 2.0 – htaccess overly aggressive? 404’s galoreBrianarn’s solution worked perfectly for me as a DH user. I **am** using /%category%/%author%/%postname%/ in my custom permalinks and am able to access the stats now without issue.
WP2.0.2
1) edit the .htaccess file via the Manage>Files admin page (no direct editing or ftp)
2) use this fix:
# WP Fix
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/stats/(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/failed_auth.html$
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
</IfModule>
# END WP fix# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php
</IfModule>
# END WordPress3. note, I believe if you use FAlbum, that set of rules should remain at the top. I placed the above code below the rules for FAlbum
HTH, AND THANKS! to Brianarn
PS. I posted this solution over at the DH forums, too, so that others don’t spend the hour I did, pulling out hair, etc
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: UserExtra plugin conflict with Falbum?OK, I’ve found a temporary fix for this by commenting out line#766 in userextra.php where the code is:
add_filter(‘the_posts’, array(&$userextra, ‘filter_posts’));
it seems to prevent the issue but I believe the issue is related to this plugins ability to limit editing of categories for specific user levels – not sure why it kicks in just for viewing any category. The userextra fields for allow and disallow categories is present on installing and activating this plugin. I did not alter those, nor have I used them… as I am not sure how to.
For anyone who knows the plugin author or is familiar with this plugin.. do you have falbum running and are you seeing any related issues?
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: MUST I LEAN HTML AND CSS?I think you are delusional to think you can modify a wordpress site to get the results you want if you think you don’t need to understand xhtml and css.
honestly. When things blow apart or when you need to understand a “block” of content, if you don’t get html and css, you won’t know how to fix things.
That’s comparable to saying you don’t need to understand the big picture of what a dynamic site is all about to use wordpress. Maybe you don’t, IF you just use it as it comes – out of the box – but to make any mods, you WILL need to know what controls what and how.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: plugin readme.txt filesI typically unpack into the plugins folder so that I
a) have the zip file there in case something gets corrupted and I need a new set of files (don’t want to have to go get it again)
b) I extract per the author’s suggestions and this is where the issue exists. Why do plugin authors’ assume their readme file is the only one?
c) not all plugin authors place their readme file inside a folder with the other plugin files.It’s just a suggestion. By doing something like geoposition_readme.txt as opposed to readme.txt, I KNOW which file goes with which php file. Seems logical to me to prefix your files with the plugin or author name (or some combo of both) to prevent exactly this kind of problem. Keeps the files closer together in the directory, too.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Is there a way to modify the login form?don’t forget to modify the wp-register.php file as well…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How can i make the sidebar “inline”1) copy all the code from sidebar.php
2) presuming you understand css layout and have a design all ready for it, you’d paste it into a footer.php file
3) modify the relevant css to change how sidebar ul and li tags (even nested ones) are rendered… to float the list items.You have to have a pretty good understanding of CSS and xhtml. Expert, actually. Which means you have to edit style.css
Otherwise, I’d suggest finding a theme that already uses a horizontal navigation layout.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: photo gallery which uses wordpress pages?FAlbum (flickr album) does, though getting it to work in a custom theme is a bear… besides the directions provided in the wiki at Randombyte (http://www.randombyte.net/wiki/falbum/falbum), you have to meet these standards if your wp theme is custom:
1) the opening body tag MUST be in header.php
2) you have to modify wp-content/plugins/falbum/wp/album.php to modify it to conform to your custom template, or the “large” view of your image can blow your layout apart.And of course, this presumes you store images a flickr.com
HTH
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: HOW MUCH COST FOR USING?well, tell us the prank – some of us are new here. And, OTFLMAO, ladydelaluna on the fiscal butt rape and story about your dad.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Quiz Pluginanyone else finding that the links above are not working? I’m looking for a quiz plugin, too, but can’t get to wander’s site.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to collect more data when user registers?I know you can modify all the admin pages, and wp-register and wp-login… but you’d probably end up also having to modify the database (to hold the info) and the profile pages (so users can modify the data)
I posted a question about this, too, asking for someone to contact me as I would pay them to guide me through what I *think* I need to do.
No takers so far…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: paging not working?Hi, moshu… sorry to bug you again, but I have a related question. Same site: http://schoonermaggieb.net
I have set up a “bread crumb” page title trail in my pages (for instance, the Ship’s Library pages) so that if you click to go to SnapShots (using the menu in the left sidebar) the page “title” looks like:
Ship’s Library >> Snap Shots >>
The link up (ship’s library) is working, thanks to the insight you provided in this thread… but here’s an odd thing… on the snapshots page, one of the posts includes a link that opens a slideshowpro flash slide show. That works ok (still need to tweak it a bit) BUT, if you click UP (on the Ship’s Library breadcrumb link) that post’s link is no longer there! The TEXT of it is, but the link is missing.
Any ideas about that? I’ve noticed that happening using excerpts as well – if I set my category templates to use the_excerpt rather than the_content html formatting goes missing – for example, strong or em tags display in the excerpt but when you click to see all of the post, they don’t.
What’s that all about?