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  • I am at my witts end here. I have a domain which happens to have to hypens in the domain. http://news–reference.info/
    Whenever I install wordpress in a domain similar to this for example with two hypens the default theme fails to work. You can see the results by looking at the page?

    The admin panel is fine only the regular blog is messed up.

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  • Haha, for some reason, a filter is being applied to your CSS and such URLs. Seems you’ve found a bug.

    When typing in a post, a double dash is replaced with a long dash (–). For some reason, it’s doing it in your URLs:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://news& #8211;reference.info/wp-content/themes/default/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

    (I added a space to get it to show up right.)

    I’ve filed a bug report for you on your issue: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1729

    Meanwhile, edit your header file and manually set the URLs to those items (CSS, feeds, etc.) instead of using bloginfo().

    Thread Starter tonyagee

    (@tonyagee)

    ok, I have brought up the header template. not sure exactly what the correct command to manually set the url is. php is not my strongest suit.

    No PHP needed. Just use HTML.

    Replace all instances of bloginfo('template_url') with like http://news--reference.info/wp-content/themes/default/, etc.

    Could he just install wordpress using his IP number as opposed to url? Would that work?

    Yeah, that’d probably work too.

    Thread Starter tonyagee

    (@tonyagee)

    Nope that works fine as long as you never use the actual domain name. As soon as you change the info from ip to webdomain its back to broken.

    So unless you want to edit the templates etc. Thats where its at.

    No, just change the WordPress URL to yout IP address and leave your blog URL as your domain name.

    It’ll be fixed in WP 1.6: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1545

    Meanwhile, open up /wp-includes/default-filters.php and comment out or delete this line:

    add_filter('bloginfo', 'wptexturize');

    Thread Starter tonyagee

    (@tonyagee)

    You’re my personal hero Viper 🙂 Works perfectly…

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