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links no longer clickable....ugh. (10 posts)

  1. Jaybot
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    http://myalternativemind.net

    my links are not clickable anymore, you can't leave me a comment or anything, and when you try and click on my recent entries area, you can't click.

    what happened?

  2. ClaytonJames
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    I just came from your site, and they all worked fine for me.

    Clear your browser cache and try again.

    I visited in Firefox and IE7. The only problem I saw was that your home page aligns left in IE7 instead of center. Your About page and the links all worked though.

  3. Jaybot
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Hmm.. I'm on a Mac, and I was using Safari, the links arent working for me in Safari, but they do in Firefox.... They used to work in Safari, but I'm not sure why they arent anymore... Do you have any idea why?

    And Is there anyway that I can remove the home and about pages from the top? or even move them to the left a few spots so they arent over the header?

    and one last thing, on the top of my blog can i turn that grey area into a black area? it's quite annoying.

    thanks for your help.

  4. kmessinger
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Links work fine in IE7.

  5. Jaybot
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    I'm just going to start over again, oh well. I've gotten the hang of it...i think ;D
    Thanks for all the help ~:)

    I just have a few more questions before I redo it all again...

    -On the TOP where it's gray, how do i change that to black?

    -Can I remove the HOME and ABOUT buttons on my header, or at least move them a few spaces to the left so it wont be hanging off the side?

    - I want to add something to the bottom footer, but when I go edit the footer.php file, i get an error.. Is there a way to change it?

    Thanks everyone.

  6. Jaybot
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    bump...

  7. ClaytonJames
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    I want to add something to the bottom footer, but when I go edit the footer.php file, i get an error.. Is there a way to change it?

    Yes. Encrypted footer contents can be a pain, but that's another issue. (Several actually). Are you attempting to edit it from the WordPress Admin area or on your Mac? You don't say what error message you get...

    Recommendation- edit the footer.php file on your Mac or pc with a text editor and then upload the modified file back into the folder of the theme your are modifying. Make a back-up first.

    On the TOP where it's gray, how do i change that to black?

    The style sheet, "style.css" most likely holds those values. You will need to do some reading to understand more than just the basics about css. No easy answer there.

    Can I remove the HOME and ABOUT buttons on my header, or at least move them a few spaces to the left so it wont be hanging off the side?

    Yes, you can... (header.php may contain some of the information pertaining to the tabs you want to change, if it can't be done through page management to your satisfaction), but again,as far as positioning or layout, a basic understanding of both css and and some knowledge of the possible repercussions of changing code in the header (or anywhere else for that matter), would be valuable. No real short answer there, either.

    Perhaps you could see if your theme author/developer offers custom support. Those types of changes would most likely be very familiar to the author. I don't think I would expect that type of support to be free, though.

  8. Adam Brown
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    You've got an important validation problem that may be causing you problems in certain browsers. It may even be causing your links problem.

    At the very top of your blog's HTML source, I see this:

    <title>My Alternative Mind | "WE CAN GET DOWN, LIKE THEIRS NO ONE AROUND"</title>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

<title>  </title>

    That first <title>...</title> should not be there; the DOCTYPE declaration should come before anything else. The contents of that title tag should be where the empty <title> tag is a few lines later.

    Probably in your theme's header.php.

  9. Jaybot
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Yes. Encrypted footer contents can be a pain, but that's another issue. (Several actually). Are you attempting to edit it from the WordPress Admin area or on your Mac? You don't say what error message you get...

    I'm on a Mac, and I've tried editing it in Dreamweaver, and the wordpress admin area, both are no go. The error I get is

    Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: data error in /home/jaybot/public_html/wp-content/themes/nightlife/footer.php on line 8

    The style sheet, "style.css" most likely holds those values. You will need to do some reading to understand more than just the basics about css. No easy answer there.

    I will look into that, but I am completely lost. Have any sort of direction, or what to look for? lol.

    Thanks again.

  10. ClaytonJames
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    The theme you are using contains a base 64 encoding scheme designed to discourage users from changing sponsored links in the footer. Here is the content of your footer:

    <? eval(gzinflate(base64_decode('
bZDNasMwEITPNvgdBj9AdDeKAr209wZyXkdrW/hH
qrSJCOThazulpwx7WGbZD2ZOptgFbd0dzh7rznvh
WJuqxDo6GFhOrl/Yon000IQhcnesB5HQKJVzPsw0
8s/NXcfD1c+1uXCbnDA+bm6yHPHtO8kUWSsyoMW+
h2RuB5/ELX3PPKZ/FL5eLrb3z+2EJ+hObqJ2YnSR
GSQNzj68w4oPOcjAM/8hcfHRhsgp4bzbG1erNWdV
arW2sCavyqJ47dilT78=
'))); ?>

    ...anything look familiar, error wise? :-)

    Even so, I cant think of a reason why it would not open on your own desktop with a text editor, as long as you weren't attempting to edit it from within the confines of a compressed folder.

    Here is what it is decoded;

    `<div id="footer">

    <p> designed by: href="http://www.makequick.com">Website Builder Software and: href="http://www.webhostinggeeks.com">Web Hosting Geeks | available free at: Top href="http://www.topwpthemes.com"> WordPress Themes</p>
    </div>

    </div>

    </body>
    </html>`

    (links broken so I don't look like a spammer) :-0

    The theme displays fine here:

    freewordpresslayouts.com

    How does it look in Safari to you on that site?

    I think you have a different issue that is causing those page tabs to drift. A modification? I don't know.

    My advice is; trusting a theme that does not allow you to view its contents in plain text might be a crap-shoot at best, That's not to say that this isn't a perfectly legitimate practice, just to say that it's a personal choice if you choose to use it.

    I'm out of ideas! Best wishes.

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