Doodlebee
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Sliding tag cloud ideaIt’s flash.
Looks like some kind of flash actionscripting that uses XML to pull in the words submitted by the end user. It’s call “Mood Train” or “Word train” (they used it during the US election too) but I can’t find any sources on the actionscripting. If you could find it, you’d probably just need to parse the tags put on posts, and that would be about all she wrote. But it might be custom actionscripting.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Possible to use WordPress technology on my site?Short answer: yes.
You can run an entire website with only WordPress, or you can “add it on” to an existing site and have the theme match your existing site. it’s done all the time.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Posts show pending comments where there are noneThat looks like a trackback, not a pending comment.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Listing post without meta-tagsCould you just not look in the back end? When you list all of the posts in he back end, the ones that don’t have any tags are marked as “no tags”.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Page Links not working…Sounds like your host is running PHP 4. My host runs both, actually, so I can pick and choose which version I want to use. Running PHP 4 is currently the default, so if I don’t take my “extra step” then my PHP files are prompted to download instead of displaying.
If this is the case (and you’ll have to ask your host, because this is a hosting thing, not a WordPress thing), then open up your .htaccess file (if you don’t have one, just make one) and at the very top, put in this:
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .phpSave, upload to server – and now your pages should parse instead of download. (Again, provided your host is set up to run this way. If not, you’ll have to ask them what’s up.)
You can certainly try this and see if it works without contacting your host. If it *doesn’t* work, then you just delete the .htaccess file. No harm, no foul.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: can a PDF be added?Short answer: yes.
I’m assuming you’d also like to know how. When you “write post” there’s a bunch of little buttons near the “Title” part. If you hover over them, one of them says “add file”. It’s just like when you add images – same thing. Upload your file, insert it into the post. There you go.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Links all redlink?
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: transferring hosts?Sounds like the domain name changed nameservers before you backed up your data. If your old hosting account still exists, then you *should* be able to either look at the original email they sent you when you signed up, or contact the old host, to find out what the IP address is for the site so you can go in and retrieve your information. Alternatively, you could log in to wherever it is you manage your domain names (Verisign, Network Solutions, GoDaddy, etc.) and change the nameservers *back* to the old host. When they resolve (could take up to 24 hours) you can log back into your old hosting area as you would have before and back up your files and database. *Then* you’ll have to change the nameservers back to the new host, wait again for it to resolve, then upload your backups.
Bascially, a backup should have been done *before* you changed hosts. Hopefully you still have hosting time remaining on your old hosting account. If not, then you might get lucky and ask them for a backup before they delete your stuff (they’ll probably charge you for it), provided they haven’t done it yet. If they have, then yeah, everything’s gone.
but the codex has instruction on moving your wordpress information to a new server (aka switching hosts) here.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: please do not dictate how we should do with our markupsHello! I will address a few of these, if you don’t mind 🙂
1) Actually, you can use whatever you want. You aren’t forced to use UL if you don’t want to. You just have to customize what you need to have done, depending on what widget you choose to use.
2) that’s the “wpautop” filter. There’s lots of questions on how to remove it. But in this case, your best bet is to either write a function to display the button exactly how you want to, *or8 just don’t put any line breaks in your code. no line breaks = no extra paragraph tags. (Yeah, that one annoys me too).
But your best bet is to just wrote a customized function for stuff like paypal buttons, and have the ability to insert whatever variables you need to.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: previous_posts_link returning the same entriessorry for the delay – been busy here. This has been covered on the forums several times. You basically need to add some code to your query to fix it. Any of those results will have the necessary code. This one in particular lists the solutions that work the most often.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: previous_posts_link returning the same entriesMy guess is you have a query running on that page?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Site stopped working.. wordpress can’t find themes or plugins…and what did you do before “all of a sudden”?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Cannot find stylesheet in themeIs the *stylesheet* in a folder below the theme folder? The stylesheet has to be in the top-level of the theme folder. It can’t be in a subfolder, or it won’t be found.
Also, if your stylesheet doesn’t have the necessary code at the top, WP won’t recognize that it’s there. it *must* be named “style.css” and it *must* have the proper code at the top of it, first thing.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: WordPress MU as a CMSWell, this is the *WordPress* forum, not the *WordPress MU* forum. Everyone here knows a lot about WordPress, but not so much about MU (although some of us do.) If you want reallyreat information about MU, you need to ask over there.
That aside, “MU” stands for “multi-user” – which really means “multi-blog”. WordPress.com is a WordPress MU setup. One installation of WordPress, many separate and individual blogs. You sign up for an account and you get your own blog.
If you want *one* blog, with *multiple* contributors to it, to be used as a CMS, then you just want WordPress. It does that just fine.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Get current type user in PHP