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  • Weirdest thing. When I make changes on my site and upload them, wordpress either chooses not to show them, but shows them and also keeps the old stuff. Like on the left sidebar it says karan.copperbecchco.com and then the link to administer. No where on my site do I do anything to call up that lone link. I also cant replace the word says in comments anymore with something else even though I made the change. I’ve even tried deleteing and reinstalling my layout.

    WP 1.5.1

    Help?

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  • I found it a little difficult to understand the nature of your problems.

    Do you mean when you make changes to your theme layouts, the layout changes don’t take effect?
    Have you checked your code for missing pieces?
    Have you tried with a different layout/theme?
    How are you uploading the files to your server?
    Are the files in the proper locations?
    Did the layout/theme(s) you are using ever work? If so, can you go back and compare them to the changed files to see what’s different?

    Good luck! 🙂

    Thread Starter blckleprd

    (@blckleprd)

    my themes work. But for instance on my site I want to change from “NAME said” to “NAME thought”. I changed it and uploaded the new copy of comments.php. I then tried deleteing and re uploading and activating my theme. I did a sitewide search in dreamweaver for said and it turned up nothing. There is no difference between the files on my server, and on my comp.

    Can you give us a link to the site?

    have you tried clearing your cache?

    Thread Starter blckleprd

    (@blckleprd)

    ive tried clearing my cache dozens of times. my site is geekramblings.com

    Okay, I don’t know if what I’m about to offer will help, but let’s start with the basics. First of all, you need to validate your site. You have two head tags, one with profile and one without extra added to the tag. Get rid of the second one. Then go through and clean up the rest of the stuff.

    Second, it took a long time for your page to load. I looked at white nothing for well over a minute. Check javascripts, image files sizes, and make sure the whole thing validates as much as possible to streamline the stuff on the page because no one wants to wait that long for anything on the Internet. You said your site was greekramblings.com but it redirects to something else, which can also explain some troubles and time delays.

    Third, I think you are using fixed widths, which doesn’t shrink down with smaller view screens, but that’s not what ales you.

    Fourth, and more specifically, your template files are filled with template tags. These automatically change if used dependent upon what is going on. For instance, what you are calling “Admin” is “Login” when I view the page because I am not logged into your site. It is generated by a template tag called wp_loginout() and looks something like this:

    <li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>

    You can learn more about it at http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author_login. If you don’t want it, delete that tag from your sidebar.php.

    That is probably the problem with some of the other things.

    To find the “Fred says”, look in your comments.php template file for something like this (from Default/Kubrick):

    <li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>" id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
    <cite><?php comment_author_link() ?></cite> Says:
    <?php if ($comment->comment_approved == '0') : ?>

    And change “Says:” to “thinks” or whatever you want. Save it and upload the file to your server in the Theme folder that you are using.

    Thread Starter blckleprd

    (@blckleprd)

    ill validate my site. The redirect is a dns problem and dyndns.com said theyd fix it. But I have done the change from fred says to thinks but ti doesn’t show as a change. Also the Stuff section is going to be completely removed and an rss link moved to the top.

    Thread Starter blckleprd

    (@blckleprd)

    oh yeah. Thankyo all so much for your help.

    Thread Starter blckleprd

    (@blckleprd)

    It turns out the only place in which I have trouble is my comments file. I can’t figure out why changes dont take place, and am pretty frustrated. Would it be possible for me to put my code up somewhere so you guys could see it and help me out? I’m using no plugins that would interfere with, say, the caching of the page or the like. I have also tried clearing my browser cache.

    Very, very mad….

    Thanks!
    Karan

    You can put your code at http://phpfi.com

    What theme are you using, and does it have its own comments.php?

    Thread Starter blckleprd

    (@blckleprd)

    my theme does have its own comments.php.

    http://phpfi.com/62777?lang=php

    I’ve had similar problems with Dreamweaver; for some reason it will make weird changes to templates. I would suggest just using a notepad editor or the Theme Editor from within the WP-Admin interface – this solved a lot of problems for me, as DW was doing weird things to my code in between the local file moving to the server.

    Thread Starter blckleprd

    (@blckleprd)

    Yea. The problem was dreamweaver was set to make things xhtml compliant. And it doesn’t know how. I just use dreamweaver because it as a really nice code view and code lookup feature. I do all my stuff by hand. Tedious, but so worth it.

    Thanks!

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