Christopher J. Hradil
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Word optionssimple thing like underline, bold, etc are easily handled by the built in WYSIWYG editor, anything more complex than that and i would approach it by creating css classes and adding the newly created classes to your theme’s stylesheet, then when writing a post just switch to html mode and add things like
<p class="whatever">or<span class="whatever">as neededForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Changed in a line in the wp-rss2.php file…if you have access to phpMyAdmin dump the data and structure separately of the existing database, then do a fresh install of WP (following the standard upgrade procedures, save your wp-content folder mainly), after fresh install is done, re-install any plugins you were using, add and activate your theme. then ‘restore’ the old data using phpMyAdmin SQL window. you may need to restore the data one table at a time depening on what columns, etc have been created by plugins, etc.
….disregard above, i just went clicking around your links above, and it looks like everything might be OK, go to http://sugardeath.net/wordpress/wp-login.php and login (note you may need to re-set your password), disable all plugins, it looks like it’s simply a problem with a plugin.
once they’re all disabled, enable them one by one, if the problem happens again, you’ve found the plugin causing the problem.
also be sure to check your configuration, site paths, etc. as well as your permalink structure, .htaccess file and permissions on .htaccess
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: hover in CSSmany themes (i’ve built my own for my personal site, and do for most client sites) include a means to alternate the style/background, etc for things like comments. What you’re trying to do is possible, you’ll need to implement some type of alternating styles mechanism first even something simple like #contenteven and #contentodd or similar should be fine.
if you take a look at the full posts page which displays all comments you’ll note than many themes have the code in there to do the alternating styles for every other comment, you’ll just want to adapt that a bit for your actual posts. I’m not sure if your particular theme does this for comments, if not, just check out how it’s done with something like default.
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Fatal errorthat site is using the xdforum plugin for wordpress :
http://www.xdweb.net/index.php?page=12what you’re trying to do (load the WP header and sidebar) requires loading WP core, that’s why you’re getting the fatal errors, unknown functions, etc. you can’t just ‘include’ the header.php and sidebar.php from wordpress (because they’re loaded and use functions from WP core) from another application.
I’m somewhat familiar with the vanilla forum system, and as I mentioned the easiest thing to do would be to build a “theme” for vanilla which matches your WP theme (this would include creating appopriate headers/sidebar within vanilla)
if you’re not married to the idea of using the vanilla forums, you could also consider using xdforum (the plugin link above) or bbpress (which runs the wordpress support forums), your integration task would be easier with either of those. I don’t believe there’s a plugin or ‘bridge’ to integrate vanilla and WP as yet.
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: More domains to 1 WordPress siteyou can point the main domain — like http://www.somethingelse.com to http://www.your-real-site.com BUT, things like somethingelse.com/whatever aren’t going to work.
another thought, using more than one domain for the same content is frowned upon by search engines anyway, so I’m not sure what you’re trying to gain, if you’re simply changing domain names, etc, the simple dns pointer should be fine.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: When posting; No permalink Archiveyou need to check the permissions on your .htaccess file, if it’s not writeable by WP, then you’ll need to add the required re-write rules (provided in the admin panel, under permalinks options) manually by copy and pasting. then just make sure the .htaccess file is readable, and all should be OK.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress 2.0: Adding Permanent Re-direct to .htaccessthere’s actually an easier way to do this, just create WP “pages” named the same thing as the old pages but without the .html extension (old_page instead of old_page.html for example), then just create one re-write rule to append the .html to the address (you could also do this with posts/category structure and custom permalinks which end with .html, see the codex permalinks section for more details on this) we’ve used both methods, and both work pretty much the same, something like old_page.html becomes either a WP post called old_page or a WP page called old_page, then by adding the .html either through permalinks or .htaccess you retain the old pagerank since to google, etc, the same page is available via the old URI.
this is a much better strategy than redirecting to new URI’s which can have mixed results when it comes to page rank.
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Problem with Address Bar and CSSi’d set up the wp installation under the new domain, then edit wp-config to point to the correct DB, before doing so, make sure to change all of the appropriate paths/site addresses, etc via the WP admin interface. (also, consider doing a sql dump of the data and db structure through phpMyAdmin, then doing a clean install in the new domain, then importing the old data, either should work equally well.
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Fatal errorif you’re simply trying to adapt or port your WP theme to a vanilla forum theme, you shouldn’t need to be playing with the php. if you’re trying to integrate the two (like single sign on for users, etc) that’s an entirely different matter. i’d suggest simply installing vanilla in a /forums or /support folder, using separate logons for each system, then creating a vanilla theme to match your WP theme.
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Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Cannot send email to wp-hackers?there have been some issues with the wp- mailing lists over the past month or so, occasionally the server for whatever reason seems to be delaying delivery of the mail to the lists, with posts to the lists showing up from hours to a couple of days after they were sent in.
just double check the email address you’re sending to to make sure it’s the proper mailing list address (you can view the appropriate list addresses from within the mailman web manager for lists you’ve subscribed to), as long as you’re receiving the emails from the lists, the ones you send (to the correct addresses) will show up eventually.
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: how to remove the comment rss feedyou can’t really turn them ‘off’, however, to remove them from ‘active use’ simply remove and code/links/icons, etc in your theme’s sidebar.php, then remove something that should look like
<?php comments_rss_link('RSS 2.0'); ?>and related text from either full/single/index/ and /or single.php files as needed, you can also play with the header files (for example on a couple of sites we use things like page-header.php, single-header.php which are different from our main header.php file), then in the needed files remove the<link rel feed...lines as needed.…chris
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: sidebar.phpthe
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>shouldn’t be causing a problem like that (unless there’s something that’s really invalid/broken inside sidebar.php), no matter how bad your css is, it won’t cause a change to, or “break” your permalinks, that being said, i’d start with:1) check permalinks configuration via admin interface
2) check permissions and .htaccess to make sure all is well
3) go over sidebar.php to find the broken code (it’s not going to be some html/xhtml/css causing that kind of problem, that’s going to be some bad php.let us know what happens, it surely doesn’t make much sense, i just checked the site and all appears to be working ok.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: custom htaccess filenameyou can probably coax WP into recognizing an alternate .htaccess filename (I don’t recall off the top of my head whether you can declare that in wp-config, that would be really easy), however i think the easiest/quick and dirty fix would be to create a symbolic link for .htaccess to whatever your host is using (assuming they’ll let you create a symlink), that’s worked for us in the past in similar cases.
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: More domains to 1 WordPress sitei would simply create dns pointers for the domains that you’d like to use to point to the main site.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: How to display all links on a single links pageyou really don’t even need a plugin, you just need to create a links page template for your theme, then see
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_links_list
and also have a look at
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
the links manager tags section is what you’re after.
as far as creating the ‘page’ template, you’ll want to start with:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages