coreymcollins

Hi Marcus – so let’s say I use add_image_size to add a new thumb size called “events_thumb”.

Are you saying I can just use #_EVENTIMAGE{ ‘events_thumb’ } to display a thumb in that size? I wasn’t aware that would be the case, as the doc/help page only mentions using ‘x,y’ for width and height.

To recap:
– I want to NOT use TimThumb.
– I want to use WP-generated images, so I chose the “use WP thumbs” option in the plugin settings
– I get the 150×150 thumb, which shows me that the plugin is now using WP-generated thumbs, but I want to use my own custom thumbnail size as mentioned above

Shouldn’t there be a way to set this in the plugin itself, though? What if someone doesn’t want to change the default size for thumbs site-wide, just for the uses of the plugin?

So, I did a little more tinkering. I added to the hosts database:

127.0.0.1 mydev.com
127.0.0.1 site1.mydev.com

I also allowed subdomains in wp-config.php.

So, I was able to add “site1” as a new site. I can go to site1.mydev.com in my browser and get the site to pop up as it should.

However, I can’t login. I’ve got one super admin account set up, not an individual admin account for each site. When I go to site1.mydev.com/wp-login, I enter my admin user/pass. The browser acts as if I’ve entered the correct password, asking me if I want to save the password after I hit submit. I get no message about the password being invalid – but I just get bounced back to the login screen. If I try accessing site1.mydev.com/wp-admin, it’s the same story – constant login box but no dashboard.

I can login to mydev.com no problem and see my site listings, I just can’t access the dashboard of the new site.

Additionally, I still don’t know where I should be putting my new themes so they are accessible on the network. Right now, only Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven are available to be network enabled. I added a theme I had previously built to the wp-content/themes folder, but it doesn’t show up in the list at all. Do I actually have to manually add the theme via a ZIP file? Or should it be showing up?

I’m almost there, so I’m far less discouraged than I was earlier… now it’s just the fine tuning.

EDIT: Now I can’t login to the dashboard at all, for the main WP install or the new site on the network. Bugh.

Got a response on the BuddyPress forums, and it did the trick. Long version below, but the short version: change the “archive slug” and “single slug” names in the “Forums” settings, then create a custom menu. Create a custom link to the new name you specified in the “archive slug” section of the settings, and voila – all set!

Long version:

LiIttle something i learned as a newb.
Activate your forum next thing you’ll want to do is then go to your settings you’ll see forums on the bottom

You’ll see archive slug and Single Slugs rename in the forum base and then in the forum slug below aswell. Because forum actually conflicts with the sitewide forum. let’s say name your sitewide forum bulletin board or support. The group forum natively is the forum on the header menu. Which you can later rename..

Now you want to make a topic go to topic in the forums. Click you’ll see “all forums” and “new forum”
I would click new forums, here you name a topic of interest. let’s say general discussion name your topic and below give a basic Description(optional).

Now you want to save it you’ll then see a link look at the link copy it. but only copy

http://www.example.com/support

Next thing you’ll need to do which is the final step. Go to the appearance section. You’ll see menu which is you site navigation menu. You’ll have a few things you have to do here.

First make sure you make a custom menu or which now the main theme allows you to or you can make a custom menu name.

look at the section on the top left corner a drop-down you click whichever theme is named or you select as your menu save .
Now go down to custom links remember that link you copied earlier(http://www.example.com/support) paste it in there and name it click add to menu.

Now you have a list you can now rearrange move or even create a drop-down menu on. What i did have activity /members /group and with forums i renamed that “group forum directory” moved that slightly to the right which creates a Drop-down, then the site wide forum which i named support or whatever you want to call it. Now save. DONE!!

Go to your site homepage and everything should be there. Best of luck!!

I posted my code above (linked to pastebin), but I’ve come across something just now.

If I use this rather than the first line I have now:
<?php query_posts('cat=-12'); ?>

It DOES work… sort of. It will remove posts in category 12 from the list, but then the older posts link stops working properly. If I click “Older”, it goes to a 2nd page of entries, but they’re the exact same entries as were on the first page.

If you want to take a look at my code linked above and let me know where I may be falling short, that would be excellent. As I said, I’ve done this before with no issue, so I’m not really sure why I’m having so much trouble now.

Thanks!

The really weird thing is that this DOES work if I’m looking at a category page. So if I tell this thing to exclude all posts in, let’s say, the “Food” category – for whatever reason, all of the food posts STILL display on the home page, but they won’t be there on the category page. I just don’t understand why it works for one but not the other.

In the plug-in editor, find the file “contact-form-7/styles.css”

I changed the following and no more borders!

div.wpcf7-mail-sent-ok {
	border: none;
}

div.wpcf7-mail-sent-ng {
	border: none;
}

div.wpcf7-spam-blocked {
	border: none;
}

div.wpcf7-validation-errors {
	border: none;
}