bgracewood
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: thumbnail sizeI’ll add another voice requesting an easy way to specify alternative thumbnail image sizes!
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Better by farYah thanks – I just dropped the footer anyway. I’ve got a WP credit in the right-hand navbar, so there’s no point having the footer.
Did some colouration too. I think it looks nicer now.Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Webfroot.co.nz — Not your ordinary WPI like it. A lot. And I’m a kiwi too (Auckland), so I’ve obviously got style. 😉
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Better by farCorrection: I’ve realised that a newline before the opening < blockquote > tag will force WP to close the preceeding < p > tag. My Bad.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: DIV-Tags instead of P-Tags for ParagraphsOK – accept my apologies! I managed to get it to work by putting a new line before the
< blockquote >and after the< /blockquote >. I like that it does all the < p > tags correctly now. This feature is kinda hidden though isn’t it?
Thanks guys – sorry for dragging this topic off-topic!Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: DIV-Tags instead of P-Tags for ParagraphsSorry, I didn’t mean to dredge up an argument. I’m honestly asking if there is a cleaner way to add xhtml-valid < blockquotes > to my posts. Does tcervo’s solution solve this? Should I resort to using a < span > for my blockquotes?
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: DIV-Tags instead of P-Tags for ParagraphsWhy not? “Semantic elegance.” Ps define paragraphs, so paragraphs should be put in Ps. A list is a list, a paragraph is a paragraph, etc, etc.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but a wordpress “Post” is not necesarily a paragraph, so I am also of the opinion that enclosing posts in < DIV class=”post” > is more correct than P is it not?
A post could contain a paragraph, at which time the poster can quite happily use P tags. But equally a post could contain an image, or a blockquote or an object even.
I’ve got pretty much the same issue as @dogfood, whereby if I use a blockquote in a bare post, it invalidates the page as xhtml. I have to instead close the built-in < p > tag, then re-open it after the blockquote.Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Better by farOk, so I’ve discovered that wordpress wraps the content in < p> tags.
If I close the < p > tag before the < blockquote > then re-open it after, XHTML is happy. This seems a bit of a hack. Is there are way to remove the default < p > tags from the content? Presume I have to hack the wordpress default functions?Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Better by farAck! What’s the best way to do an xhtml-compliant < blockquote >?! It complains about ‘not being allowed’, so I presume it’s not a valid tag anymore?
I tried a < span class=”blockquote” > and added margins etc. to the .blockquote css class, but it looks nasty.Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Better by farAh thanks guys… the ‘latest searches’ thing buggered up when there was a long url sent from Google. It caused the left nav-bar to grow because IE doesn’t deal with the ‘overflow’ tag properly 🙁 Removed for the mean time, but I’ll hack the referer plugin to truncate the search terms later.
Thanks for pointing out the <img /> tag thing. I’m still getting used to xHTML unclosed tags!
What do you mean Root? The bottom bar? How do I make that stick to the bottom, rather than live below the content?Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Better by farYeah I’ve double checked my time offset and it’s all good (see my test post!).
Good point about the dates. Might look at putting them black-on-white.Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Better by farYeah I was just mucking about with the header – all fixed now.
Strange with the calendar! Would that be to do with the server time? It’s on a hosting system who-knows-where, but it’s only 3 hours away from July down here in New Zealand.