Cypher

I am a man actually, but glad you got it fixed. 🙂

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The about page is indeed a “page”. You can call the header/footer/sidebar by creating a template called about.php in your /wp-content/themes/<your-current-theme> directory which makes calls to get_header, get_sidebar, and get_footer.

My current about.php looks like this:

<?php
/*
Template Name: About
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="content">
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post">
<h2 class="pagetitle">About Me</h2>

<dl>
<dt>Author:</dt>
<dd><?php the_author(); ?></dd>
<dt>Bio:</dt>
<dd><?php the_author_description(); ?></dd>
</dl>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>

<?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>

<?php endif; ?>
</div>
</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

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Intriguing idea for a plugin. I will play around with it to see what I can come up with.

No timeframe though, as I’ll be on vacation for the latter part of this month.

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You provide a default gravatar for everyone to use as a “fall-back” option. Basically you send a query for a given email address to the gravatar.com site, if it has a gravatar associated with that email address, it will be returned to you, otherwise it will use the default gravatar you would have given as part of your query.

The gravatar query is something along the lines of:


http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php? gravatar_id=279aa12c3326f87c460aa4f31d18a065
&rating=R
&size=40
&default=http://www.somesite.com/someimage.jpg
&border=FF0000


This is all on one line of course. 🙂 But, anyways, the “default” portion of the URL tells gravatar.com to return that image if it can’t find a valid gravatar.

So in your example, if person “X” didn’t have a gravatar, you would display the default gravatar for them. The moment they get a gravatar, it will be automatically returned from gravatar.com without you having to do anything.

I hope I make sense. 😉

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WordPress is a PHP program that generates XHTML dynamically each time a visitor comes to your site.

No static HTML/XHTML code is stored in files or databases, the content is generated each time.

Where exactly do you want to add this snippet of code? If the sidebar, then edit /wp-content/themes/<your-theme-name>/sidebar.php and add the code there.

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The time it takes to run the upgrade.php script should be no more than 30 seconds. In most cases, if everything worked properly, it returns almost immediately.

If it’s been running for 5 minutes or so, it’s probably stuck in some loop somewhere..

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Here are my page rules:

RewriteRule ^(contact-me)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(weighted-words)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(about)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(archives)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(plugins)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]

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I use dashes in my page permalinks and they work fine. I haven’t tried underscores though.

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