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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Shorten Post Lengths on Main Index?http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt or use the “excerpt” field in the “add post” UI.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: What File Lets You Change RSS Register Appearance In Side barYou’ll want to change one of the template files in your theme. Probably sidebar.php, but I don’t know your theme so you might need to look around for it.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: HTML Editor is mangling my codeThis is a “feature”. If you find it as annoying as most other users, upvote http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=437
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: New posts are inserted in middle of blog?Take a look at http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop and see if you can correlate any unique features of the posts to how the loop would be ordering the posts. Perhaps you’re ordering by category, or tag?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 500 internal server error after uploading themeThe 500 may also be in your browser cache. Try ctl-f5 to force a new reload. You may have inadvertently put/removed files from the wrong directory, in case you will need to reinstall WP. Of course, DWD may very well be correct and godaddy is having issues with your server.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How can I list all posts with a specific tag?http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts#Tag_Parameters might be what you’re trying to do
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Distorted images in blog themeSeveral different sites work as expected with every browser but IE8? Sounds like an IE8 problem to me. You’ll probably need to write specific CSS to handle that browser.
Or you could scale the images to the proper size and change the template accordingly, which would probably be a more robust solution in the long run.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Error 404 – Not FoundThe first place I’d look is the error log for the server to find out what file it’s not finding. Work backwards with that information and you should be able to discover what’s happening quickly.
As an additional troubleshooting measure, disable permalinks and see if it still happens. If it works without permalinks, something is wrong with your .htaccess.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Not Images or Theme??I think you are correct. In the top directory of your wordpress install there is a file called .htaccess. It contains the rules that rewrite the urls from what WP likes to the human-readable, SEO friendly URLs. Something is wrong with yours; it’s grabbing too many URLs and redirecting them to /
I recommend making a copy of the existing file, then deleting the original. Go back to your admin panel > settings > permalinks and select “save”. This will create a new .htaccess that should work.
If this doesn’t work, you will need to examine the .htaccess file for errors. The reference is available at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/ > select the version of httpd you are using, and look for “mod_rewrite”.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Analytics for GengoThe wassup plugin shows a country code next to each request, and google analytics has a ‘by country’ breakdown. There’s a really good google analytics plugin too. Both are findable at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Already installed & e-mail adressPay it forward to someone else someday 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Page Template Not Displaying Specific Category Post ProblemI’m not able to follow your problem description. As near as I can tell, this might have your answer:
http://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+list+posts+in+category&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-aForum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Help…5 minutes has turned into 5 days…Perhaps the error is cached by a proxy or your browser. Are there any tables in the database now? It looks like you’re using IIS, have you tried restarting it?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: First Available Theme is empty/blankhrmm, that is interesting. I wonder if the theme information is somehow malformed in that theme, which causes an error in the case where it is the first listed theme.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Security Prompt for Comments SubmissionUnfortunately, that’s one of those “I’ll know it when I see it, but I don’t know what I’m looking for until I find it” kinds of problems.
You may be able to get some assistance from the template developers, or you may have to hire a template whiz.