Doodlebee

If you want to use your theme on an outside-of-wordpress site, you just add require(‘PATH TO wp-blog-header.php’); Then you can use *any* WordPress calls on an outside site – including the theme stuff. That requirement *has* to appear before anything else – including the Doctype.

The only issue is, if your site is .html files, it won’t work – your files have the parsed as .php. So you either have to use a .php extension for your filenames, or use your .htaccess to make the files parse the .html as .php.

Yeah, a folder called “2.9.2” is what as created for me, as well.

Honestly, I don’t know. I know if I’ve ever wanted to move my svn directory, then I’d rename it and move it to where I wanted it to go. However, I usually keep my svn installations in a separate directory from my other development installs.

Sorry I couldn’t help more!

services are running…. not a problem

Okay….but that’s not what I said. I didn’t say your services weren’t running – I said it sounds like you haven’t finished properly configuring your environment. A “localhost” server *usually* runs with an IP address of “192.168.x.x”. “127.0.0.1” is basically the *computer’s* address – not the server address. Sounds to me like you’ve started it, but haven’t edited your Apache to use the directory you want as the “server”, or you’re putting your files outside of the “server” directory that Apache created for you to use. You might want to look at the XAMPP documentation and find out what you need to do to finish configuring your localhost environment.

I have.

I used Liam McKay’s tutorial for them. (as a note, he has updated this year-old tutorial to streamline it, and it’s terrific. I have it running on WP 3.0 beta – but I haven’t tried to add checkboxes or anything to it yet – so what I’m about to share is for the older stuff)

Anyway, I had a site where I needed checkboxes, textareas, dropdowns, radio buttons and I got it to work. Now I have to dig for it…. ah – here it is.

If you’re following Liam’s tutorial, then in the “new_meta_boxes()” function (be aware that I changed some of his names because I wanted to use a different set of field for pages over posts, and they couldn’t have the same names) – put the following:

function new_meta_boxes() {
  global $post, $new_meta_boxes;  

  foreach($new_meta_boxes as $meta_box) {
	$meta_box_value = get_post_meta($post->ID, $meta_box['name'] . '_value', true);  

	if($meta_box_value == "")
	$meta_box_value = $meta_box['std'];  

	// we want different types of fields - not just text input.  Let's create the variety of types.
	$hidden = '<input type="hidden" name="' . $meta_box['name'] . '_noncename" id="' . $meta_box['name'] .'_noncename" value="' . wp_create_nonce( plugin_basename(__FILE__) ) . '" />';
	$label = '<span style="font-size:1.1em; color:#999; margin-bottom:0; padding-bottom:0;">' . $meta_box['title'] . '</span>';

	if($meta_box['type'] == 'text') {
  	  $input_type = '<input type="text" name="' . $meta_box['name'] . '_value" value="' . $meta_box_value . '" style="width:' . $meta_box['width'] . ';" />';
	} else if($meta_box['type'] == 'checkbox') {
	  if($meta_box_value == "yes") $checked = 'checked="checked"';
		$input_type = '<input type="checkbox" name="' . $meta_box['name'] . '_value" value="yes"' . $checked . ' />';
	}

	$description = '<span style="font-style:italic; color:#999; margin-top:0; padding-top:0;"><label for="' . $meta_box['name'] . '_value">' . $meta_box['description'] . '</label></span>';

    echo '<div style="font-size:1em; width:48%; text-align:right; padding:3px 5px 0 0; vertical-align:top; float:left;">' . "\n";
	echo $hidden . $label . '<br />' . $description . "\n";
	echo '</div><div style="width:50%; float:left;">' . "\n";
	echo $input_type . "\n";
	echo '</div>' . "\n" . '<br style="clear:both;" />' . "\n";
  }
}

Hope that helps!

Do you just open up your terminal and type in the SVN command? You dont’ explain what process you take, so I’m assuming that’s what you do. if so, that’s incorrect. You have to use terminal to change the directory to where you *want* to put the files. Once you do so, you *will* get a directory – it won’t just install the files.

For example, if you want to install the current nightly build, you open up Terminal (which is Mac, so if you’re on a PC, you have to use some other utility) and it’ll tell you what directory you’re currently in – which is generally the root user area. You need to change your directory to the localhost directory. So for me, I would type in “cd \Desktop” and then “cd \Websites”.

THEN I would type in svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.9.2

In fact, I just did it, and I now have the SVN of 2.9.2 in my Websites directory (which is my root localhost – in the folder called “2.9.2”)

Does that help?

This isn’t really a WordPress issue, it’s an IANA one.

You might find this article to be interesting – it’s one of many you’ll find if you Google about non-ASCII characters in URLs (Webmaster World has a couple of discussions on the issue).

The end idea is, of course, that it *can* be done. It’s just whether or not you actually *want* to do it. The IANA standard is English (or ASCII characters), and there’s a lot of discussion on the subject right now as to whether or not it’s a good idea to mix or alter the standard, and if you’ll take an SEO hit. But the IANA does have lists of characters you can use in your URLS.

And another idea is to install WordPress in your language, and it might be possible that route – but I’ve never tried it myself.

Wow – I just found this, thanks to someone who emailed me about this issue! I thank you for the compliment, bipolar, (and thanks, Michael, for your awesomeness, yet again!) but I should let you know that the code you’re using is pretty old. (As a side note, I didn’t invent it either – I found it here on the forums, and I’ve searched for it to see who to give proper credit to but haven’t been able to find it again – it may well have been MichaelH!) I know the post is dated this year, but I do indicate in the content that I got the code a long time ago – which is true. I initially found it for a WP 2.0 site I was developing… I think about 2 years ago? Anyway, I’ve since found out that it messes with your RSS feed, and I still haven’t been able to figure out how to fix that yet. The “custom fields” thing is new to me too – especially since the original site I was using it on used a ton of custom fields and worked fine.

But again, that was 2.0.

I know there has been several changes since then. 😉

I’m going to update my original post to reflect these issues. But I can say this: because of how WP has developed, this code is pretty much pointless. There’s a lot of functions that are now within WP that pretty much make this code obsolete and unnecessary to use – especially with the issues it presents.

Like I said, I’ll update the post to make note of the issues that are coming about – but I will also post something that might be able to help those of you who want to use something that has the same end result, but works a LOT better than this old stuff.