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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Uploaded images becomes corruptI’m also getting this problem when uploading from MarsEdit. It used to work OK around version 1.5.1 or so, but now it doesn’t.
jod, there is no option to change the upload type in MarsEdit, that’s because it’s always text encoded (which is what I presume you mean by ASCII). More precisely the image is base64 encoded and included in an XML-RPC request.
Furthermore, there’s no such thing as a binary image upload to wordpress. You may be getting confused with FTP transfer mode which needs to be set correctly if you are using FTP to get images onto your web host.
This problem has nothing to do with FTP.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do I take out an enclosure?Can I add my voice to those who think this feature is a Bad Idea, or at least not well thought through. I highly recommend that this feature be removed (or at least disabled by default) ASAP.
Here is my reasoning. Some RSS clients like NetNewsWire (which BTW is NOT a specific podcasting client) can be configured to download enclosures automatically. This is a feature, and a good one IMHO.
So wordpress users that are unaware of this feature and unintentionally link to someone else’s media file may be triggering all their subscribers to automatically download that file.
Matt, you will have a hard time talking to the client authors trying to convince them to turn off the automatic enclosure downloads in order to prevent accidental bandwidth leaching like this.
I realise that wordpress is trying to help me here, but at a conceptual level I don’t see how linking to an audio or video file should automatically imply that you want to include it as an enclosure. The suggestion in the other thread to only enable this feature when a specific attribute in the link (I think rel=”enclosure” was suggested) sounds like a great idea to me.
In the meantime there needs to be a way to disable this feature (besides the hack mentioned by andper above).
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: issue with kubrick, sidebars, and ieHmm. OK I just tried removing all images from my sidebar and I *still* got the problem.
I can reproduce the problem with the following as my sidebar.php:
<div id="sidebar">
<ul>
<li>Hello.</li>
</ul>
</div>Which makes me think this is a CSS issue.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: issue with kubrick, sidebars, and ieAlternatively is there an easy way in the sidebar.php template to detect IE and hence substitute text-only links for images? (ironically it’s the “get firefox” banner that is causing the problem on my site)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: HOWTO: Set up a Local Mirror of Your WordPress Blog on MacOS XThat’s great, thanks macmanx!