Dougal Campbell
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Posting source code and missing tagsTo display code, substitute ‘<’ for all the ‘<‘ characters.
If you type: “<?php blah blah blah ?>”, it will show up here as “<?php blah blah blah ?>”.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Using w. bloggar with WordPress blogIt shouldn’t have anything to do with permissions….
In your w.bloggar “Account Properties”, you should have
Host: http://www.davidmattison.ca
Page: /wordpress/xmlrpc.php
Yes?
And with w.bloggar, setting the “Blog Tool” option to “b2” is probably best. You might also want to check out Zempt.Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Link CommentsHow about if you added a “Links” category to your blog, then at the bottom of your blogroll, add a “Comment on these links” link that goes to your special category? Then whenever you add a new link, also make a regular blog post in your Links category, and people can use that for comments.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: wp-install.php problemIt really sounds like for some reason, your httpd isn’t recognizing the files as PHP code for some reason. You might try looking for help in some of the OS/X specific forums?
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: HTTP Conditional GET in RSSOkay, the servers came back up, and the new code is available from CVS now.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: HTTP Conditional GET in RSSI’ve added Conditional GET support for all three RSS flavors. However, the CVS server appears to be unavailable at the moment. I’ll commit the changes as soon as possible.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Links tooltipsI’ve committed changes to CVS for wp-links/links.php, wp-admin/wp-install.php and wp-admin/upgrade-071-to-072.php for this.
If you have the latest CVS version of links.php, then make sure that in “Options/Link Manager Settings”, you’ve removed the ‘%’ characters from links_updated_date_format. Also, in your template, you have to uncomment this line:
require_once($abspath.’wp-links/links.weblogs.com.php’);Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Links tooltipsI had spotted that Friday night, but didn’t get a chance to update a fix over the weekend.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Beta 0.72 BugsTotally, I just tested the XML-RPC functions, and both the blogger.editPost and metaWeblog.editPost methods gave me the correct error when I tried to edit a higher level user’s post. Can you try your test again, and make doubly sure that you were able to edit a higher level post?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Auto target=”_blank” ??I used to open off-site links in new windows on my blog. But I had a checkbox in my menu area to toggle that feature off. I’d suggest that anyone who wants to open links in a new window offer the user a choice to turn it off like that.
I eventually just got rid of that feature, though. I conceded that it should be up to the user whether they want a new window or not. It’s easy enough to shift-click or right-click the link and choose. And since I use Mozilla as my main browser now, I just middle-click everything to open new pages in tabs 🙂
If you really feel the need to open new windows, here’s the code I used to use:
setTarget Javascript function
Form code to toggle links
As-is, it will open links in window named “ext_link_window”. This way, it will only open one extra window and keep re-using it, rather than opening an entirely new browser window for every link.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: clean urlsAt the moment we’re mostly working on stamping out bugs for the impending 0.7.2 release. Once that version is stabilized, we can start putting the new stuff in. Matt described his vision for configurable clean urls on the developer’s list, and it sounds very exciting.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Category RSS & Category LockingOh yeah, sorry. You did say category, but I had comments on brain 🙂
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: b2 style?Right now, we’re concentrating on features, not style. Granted, we’re making usability improvements along the way, but changing the overall look of the default install is not a top priority at the moment.
That said, we certainly welcome any alternate style sheets that anyone would like to come up with. CSS is <b>not</b> hard to learn. If you were able to learn HTML, then you can certainly learn CSS. If you don’t have time to learn CSS right now, then please be patient, one of our long-term goals is to eventually include some alternate stylesheets, whether created by the development team or contributed by users.
So for now, if you don’t like the default look of the admin interface, poke around in wp-admin/b2.css. You think the fonts are too big? Search for “font-size”, and change it. Don’t like the color scheme? Search for “color” and tint whichever elements you want to. Don’t like the serif fonts? Search for “font-family”.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Edit post errorI just commited a change to b2-include/b2functions.php. See if it helps. It adds the following code near the top:
if (!function_exists(‘floatval’)) {
function floatval($string) {
return ((float) $string);
}
}
The floatval() function was added in PHP 4.2.0, so I’m guessing you have an older version of PHP.Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Drop shadows via CSSThose sites are both using IE-specific functions. Which is fine if the vast majority of your viewers are using IE, and you don’t mind others missing out on the effect.
You could always try something simple like:
/* add a gray “shadow” */
#content img {
border-right: 2px solid #999;
border-bottom: 2px solid #999;
}
It’s not fancy, but it’s easy as pie.
If you want something fancier, you could add a wrapper div around your image.
<div class=”shadow”>
<img class=”photo” src=”…” />
</div>
div.shadow {
background-color: #999; /* gray background */
/* must set the size explicitly to the same as your image */
width: 320px;
height: 240px;
}
img.photo {
margin: -3px 0 0 -3px; /* move the image up/left by 3px */
}