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# BinkyM

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WordPress Mobile Pack - Mobile Plugin for Progressive Web Apps & Hybrid Mobile Apps] Turn off comments on static pages](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turn-off-comments-on-static-pages/)
 *  [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turn-off-comments-on-static-pages/#post-2122932)
 * yardbird99:
 * You’ve just helped me with this aggravating puzzle. Thanks for the concise solution
   to this problem which ought not be a problem!
 * (“Screen options”? I thought that had something to do with video features, like
   invert the display or something! Why on EARTH would I think that WordPress features
   are hidden in there? Like “Turn comments off”? Who doesn’t know anything about
   the user experience and usability? Oh! I think I know who!)
 * I appreciate your message a lot. Whoever thought up “Screen Options,” not so 
   much.
 * Binky
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Skysa App Bar Integration] [Plugin: Skysa App Bar] Feedback on Ease of Use](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-skysa-app-bar-feedback-on-ease-of-use/)
 *  [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-skysa-app-bar-feedback-on-ease-of-use/#post-2588233)
 * Hi, Skysa:
 * I have just a little bit more feedback: I *loved* he ease with which I could 
   modify the colors of the Skysa bar! I works very nicely and the breadth of options
   is awesome! The only quibble I have is that there’re times when I’m not altogether
   sure what, exactly, I’m modifying. *If* you can come up with a visual to show
   us the changes as we go along so we can see, on the fly, what our changes look
   like, that’d be just *too* awesome!
 * Failing that, slightly more descriptive descriptions will help out a lot. Thanks!
 * WRT the help.txt file, I guess I foiled you because whenever I download something,
   I immediately open it and peep what’s inside. As a looong (and I *do* mean loooong…
   I’m talking thirty years!) I like to open things and see what’s inside, hence
   my spotting the text file and reading it. My bad! I guess most users read it 
   the way you intended for it to be read. I’m prolly an outlier. Ooops!
 * This is really a cool tool, and I can’t wait to have content (and users!) to 
   be able to take advantage of it!
 * Binky
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Skysa App Bar Integration] [Plugin: Skysa App Bar] Feedback on Ease of Use](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-skysa-app-bar-feedback-on-ease-of-use/)
 *  [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-skysa-app-bar-feedback-on-ease-of-use/#post-2588231)
 * Hi, Skysa:
 * Since I’m still setting up my blog, I can’t tell you how easy it is to use the
   bar yet, but I can tell you about ease of installation, and it was pretty darned
   hard to find my Bar ID: I was clicking all over the Skysa site looking for it,
   and a couple of times, between page loads, I saw it flash by, and frustratingly,
   I couldn’t stop the page loading to get at it. I *finally* got it when I went
   to My Apps: Manage, but it shouldn’t have been that hard. It should have been
   the first thing I saw as soon as the ID was available, ie, as soon as I’d provided
   my site URL. Don’t hide it and make us hunt it down, kay?
 * Suggestion:
 * The readme.txt file oughtta be readme.html so that we needn’t keep twitching 
   to another app to read it. Since we’re gonna be working in our browser anyway,
   we may as well be reading that file in our browsers.
 * Otherwise, the menu *looks* really pretty! I’m off to go see whether I can edit
   its color. Thanks for the nifty little tool, and good luck in the future!
 * Binky
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [My admin name shows and I don't want it to](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-admin-name-shows-and-i-dont-want-it-to/)
 *  Thread Starter [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-admin-name-shows-and-i-dont-want-it-to/#post-2646079)
 * Oh, esmi! You just gave me an idea: I’ll just go modify the theme to show what
   I _want_ it to show! Der! All this banging my head on the desk, and all I had
   to do is a small modification! What have I been thinking?! (I clearly haven’t;
   it’s been a couple years since I built any blogs, so I’m out of the habit.)
 * Thanks a million for the inspiration! Big smooches and huggies, sweetie! You’re
   the best! Sometimes it helps to talk things out with someone, and it clearly 
   worked here; I appreciate you a lot!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [My admin name shows and I don't want it to](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-admin-name-shows-and-i-dont-want-it-to/)
 *  Thread Starter [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-admin-name-shows-and-i-dont-want-it-to/#post-2646075)
 * And the name you use isn’t showing up on _your_ blog, esmi?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [My admin name shows and I don't want it to](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-admin-name-shows-and-i-dont-want-it-to/)
 *  Thread Starter [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-admin-name-shows-and-i-dont-want-it-to/#post-2645952)
 * That sounded like the answer, esmi, but that didn’t do it. it’s still showing
   my username instead of the name I want displayed.
 * I’d go into the database and change that name by hand, but I still don’t want
   whatever name I choose to be shown. It shouldn’t be this hard! It oughtta do 
   as it says it’ll do.
 * Am I the only one who picked a username besides the default “admin”?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [My admin name shows and I don't want it to](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-admin-name-shows-and-i-dont-want-it-to/)
 *  Thread Starter [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-admin-name-shows-and-i-dont-want-it-to/#post-2645940)
 * Hi, Esmi:
 * The theme switch idea was excellent, but it didn’t yield any results; my secret
   admin name still shows.
 * I only have one plug-in (Akismet), which I disabled) until I get this problem
   solved, and disabling that didn’t change anything, either.
 * Nertz.
 * Good suggestions, though!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [“Full URL path to files” to get images is what?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-url-path-to-files-to-get-images-is-what/)
 *  Thread Starter [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-url-path-to-files-to-get-images-is-what/#post-852512)
 * Okay, Otto; you’ve finally gotten through to me, and I can see things clearly
   now. Thanks for bearing with me.
 * The Media Library sure is cumbersome, tiresome, and painful, though; sometimes
   it takes two or three tries before an image “sticks” the way I want it to (ie,
   right-aligned, full-sized, without a link to the image), and unless I give it
   a caption, I get no alt text (so I have to remember to type it in by hand once
   the Media Library has inserted my image), so it was quicker do it on my own the
   old way. Still, if this is the “correct” way, I suppose I’d better get used to
   it.
 * Teaching old dogs new tricks sucks. Nevertheless, I appreciate very much your
   making the effort!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [“Full URL path to files” to get images is what?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-url-path-to-files-to-get-images-is-what/)
 *  Thread Starter [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-url-path-to-files-to-get-images-is-what/#post-852436)
 * I see what you mean now, but it’d sure get tiresome having to type an entire 
   URL every time I want to add an image. (And no; I don’t move my sites like ping
   pong balls; they’ve stayed in one place for nearly four years).
 * Grrr; I’m getting tired already just thinking about it! But thanks for cluing
   me in!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [“Full URL path to files” to get images is what?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-url-path-to-files-to-get-images-is-what/)
 *  Thread Starter [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-url-path-to-files-to-get-images-is-what/#post-852175)
 * Ripose, I have “wp-content/uploads” in the “Store Uploads In This Folder” box,
   but have completely discounted that box, as I don’t think of my images as “uploads”(
   which, now that I think about it, is dumb; I most certainly AM uploading the 
   files, but via ftp and not via WordPress).
 * > Either use an absolute image path or use the WordPress default.
 * So what you’re saying is that I should use the ENTIRE path including the “images”
   subdirectory, and simply refer to my images as “image.png,” without the subdirectory?
   Is that right? And then leave the “Store Uploads In This Folder” field blank?(
   I feel as if I’m getting warm!)
 * With regard to reading the sticky, I gather you’re pointing me to item number
   eight. I hadn’t thought I was using a custom directory for my images, but rather
   keeping all my WordPress stuff together in one place (ie, all my theme and images
   together). Huh; didn’t realize that was something that needn’t “fixing,” so I
   didn’t know to look for something like that. I appreciate your help there!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Unable to Turn off Graphic Smileys](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unable-to-turn-off-graphic-smileys/)
 *  Thread Starter [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unable-to-turn-off-graphic-smileys/#post-831533)
 * > It’s a wiki — anyone can adjust it
 * Haha! Anyone just _has!_ It’s been corrected now. Now I can help contribute in
   some small way. Yet another thing I didn’t know I could do. I’m always too busy
   mucking about in WordPress to pay attention to these things. Thanks for letting
   me know how I can help others out with the dox.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Unable to Turn off Graphic Smileys](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unable-to-turn-off-graphic-smileys/)
 *  Thread Starter [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unable-to-turn-off-graphic-smileys/#post-831519)
 * Thanks a million, HandySolo; you’re a doll! I’m afraid I’d looked there several
   times, but because WordPress renders everything in such small type, it just plain
   escaped me. I should be good to go now!
 * (And someone should fix the documentation so other folks don’t go chasing down
   blind alleys!)
 * > you might want to turn off the visual editor
 * Huh; hadn’t crossed my mind. Oooh! I just tried it, and I can see my HTML! Yay
   for me! I like it like that! Thanks for that, too; that’s great! I hadn’t known
   that was an option!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Duplicate blogs: one can’t connect to database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-blogs-one-cant-connect-to-database/)
 *  Thread Starter [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-blogs-one-cant-connect-to-database/#post-704651)
 * HandySolo:
 * I’m sorry; there was a miscommunication here. Unbeknownst to me, the database
   had been deleted, and the blog I *thought* I was looking at was using a different
   database, but I was looking at another config file for a defunct blog which *
   also* referenced the same deleted database. User head gap. I’ll smack myself 
   in the head with a hammer for you.
 * Binky
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Duplicate blogs: one can’t connect to database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-blogs-one-cant-connect-to-database/)
 *  Thread Starter [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-blogs-one-cant-connect-to-database/#post-704614)
 * HandySolo:
 * They are? I had no idea. Hold on a sec; gonna go rename the directories. Naw;
   that didn’t help. The new 2.3.3 blog now is in a directory with the same name
   as the old 2.0.2 blog, and WP is still grumbling about the same nonsense. Is 
   there something else I’ve missed? Maybe some permissions that haven’t been set
   yet because the upater’s been farting around with this dumb directory-naming 
   nonsense?
 * Binky
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Database change between 2.0.2 and 2.3.3?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-change-between-202-and-233/)
 *  Thread Starter [BinkyM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binkym/)
 * (@binkym)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-change-between-202-and-233/#post-704581)
 * moshu:
 * That’s how I woulda done it on my own blog, but this being someone else’s blog,
   I didn’t wanna disable them all and then try to remember what had been on and
   try to re-enable just those. (He has an awful lot of them, and only some of them
   are enabled. Me, I immediately rip out ones I don’t plan to use as I’m an anal-
   retentive type.)
 * Fer sure, it woulda been easier doing it the “all-off” way!
 * BTW, I *did* google the error message and several pieces of it, and the sticky
   post didn’t turn up in the search. I tried several ays to find it before posting
   my question. (I know how irritating it is when someone asks a question that’s
   been answered already, lotsa times!)
 * Binky

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