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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: when click Title, would like to go directly into Edit modeThat was my thought. If you turn the title into the Edit link, then anyone not registered and logged in will not see it, and that would include search engines.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: installing wordpress to subdomain – localhost?Excellent; glad it’s sorted out!
(Isn’t this fun? <grin>)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Read more not workingGlad it’s sorted out. Perhaps you can mark this thread [Resolved].
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Change configuration to point to localhostExcellent!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Read more not workingWell, by coincidence, there’s a similar current thread in which it was discovered that the blogger was using the WYSIWYG editor for posting, and the more tag wasn’t working … but there’s a built-in solution for the WYSIWYG editor:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/128872?replies=7
Hopefully, that’s it.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What have I done? Moved WP to a new host.Okay. Good on you for figuring it out.
I moved a number of blogs to a new server a few months ago, and found instances in which the mysql database dump (the .sql file) could not be imported via phpmyadmin. I ended up importing via SSH in a couple of minutes.
Earlier, I’d posted how to do this; the commands may be slightly different on your server, but these are the basics: Cron and mySQL Database Backups
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What have I done? Moved WP to a new host.> the name of the database is different than what it was in the old blog. Does this matter?
Absolutely. You’ll need to update wp-config.php with the new data — otherwise, WP can’t access the database.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Variable Length SidebarYou’re going to have to play with sidebar.php and style.css.
I haven’t looked at your code and CSS, but I think the easiest way to go about this is to attach (in the CSS) the sidebar background to the body of the sidebar area. Then add the top and bottom, respectively. You *could* do it with divs (rather than spans). You’ll probably have to play around with the CSS to get it to line up correctly.
Tip: because browsers tend to display things a little differently (at least some of them), it helps terrifically if the background widths are even numbers of pixels … that is, 180px wide (rather than 179px).
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: installing wordpress to subdomain – localhost?Good point, jonimueller. I used to do this manually, but in cPanel, there are three steps:
(1) Create a database
(2) Create a new user (and password)
(3) Add the user to the databaseThat sets up the new database, and allows that particular user to use it. In such a case, the DB_HOST may be localhost, or may not … but at least the database is usable.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to show intro in frontpage, complete when clickedAh. Didn’t know that (I’m a coder). Thanks.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Read more not workingBy the way, Options > Reading > Summaries has to do with RSS feeds, not what appears on the blog’s home page.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Read more not workingI think I answered this in another thread, but
<!--more-->certainly does work. Look at it in action here: http://wewantorganicfood.com/All I did was add the
<!--more-->tag in the spots where I wanted it to appear — and you can see that the images (which are above the more tag) still appear.If you want to only show excerpts in posts (on the blog home page), then edit index.php in your theme, and replace the_content with the_excerpt. However, this can have its own problems.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: installing wordpress to subdomain – localhost?One last thing: if your web hosting account uses cPanel, and you set up a database via cPanel which you named “blog”, cPanel appends that to your username. So if, for example, your username is “user1”, cPanel would change it to this:
user1_blog
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: installing wordpress to subdomain – localhost?Ioncube is for other stuff; I’d be highly surprised if it’s being used by WordPress.
Just for understanding, the actual location for blog.domain.com would be domain.com/blog. How you set up domain.com/blog to be accessed as blog.domain.com is another matter, however.
Lastly, on some servers, this:
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
might need to be this:
define('DB_HOST', 'site.com');Since you can access blog.domain.com; it would appear that the subdomain (blog.) is set up correctly. Since accessing the install.php gives us the usual “Error establishing a database connection”, that indicates that either (1) the database is not actually set up yet, or (2) the info in wp-config.php is incorrect.
Check those, and try install.php again. If that doesn’t work, contact your host to ascertain what DB_HOST should be.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Change configuration to point to localhostpaulgweb, I’m not quite sure what your question was, but based upon what you said (and I’ve not dealt with the WP 2.x versions):
– the database specifications are in wp-config.php
– there are no settings to be set in install.php; you just input the database data in wp-config.php, and then run install.phpDoes that help?