EddieG
Forum Replies Created
-
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Featured Image Hijacks Thumbnails?There is a problem with this, esmi. Briefly, the aspect ratio of the header image (4.7 to 1) and the aspect ratio of a thumbnail (1:1) are radically different. This suggests that the two want to be 2 different images.
This is the type of image that would be appropriate for a header. This is an image that would be appropriate as a thumbnail. This, on the other hand, is the thumbnail 2010 Featured Image produces.
I can set 2010 thumbnail image dimensions “correctly” until the cows come home, but I will never end up with the thumbnail image that I deem is appropriate. It is an impossibility. For me, using it as you call “properly” is not satisfactory. Hence, my question about a workaround.
Thanks
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Gravatar Will Not Verify WPOK people. I got Gravatar icons now! This turned out to be a (user related) Gravatar configuration issue. Who would have guessed that when you install a new Gravatar email address the icon defaults to NOTHING instead of the only image available. Man, these turkeys even work on my local machine now! Hot Damn!
Now that you’ve helped me iron this out, I expect hovercards will fall easily into place.
Thanks for your time.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Gravatar Will Not Verify WPThis looks promising. It never occurred to me that Gravatar might have multiple locations for entering email addresses. Swell UI. I went to Manage Gravatars, rather than the Gravatar Profile, and added my email address.
…………………………….
Well, I sure got results on the Gravatar Manager. The new email address is now attached to my avatar image. Confirmation email has arrived. Attempts to “verify” my site continue to get bogus error message.
…………………………….Deactivated Simple Local Avatar plugin. Deleted my local avatar image. Went to Discussion Settings and set default avatar to Blank. Made two replies to your test message. Cleared browser cache and reloaded. Result = I have no avatar. Yours and one other Gravatar image displays properly.
…………………………..I’m not even going to ask about hovercards.
Thanks for your help.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Gravatar Will Not Verify WPYes, that’s right. My own Gravatar does not appear on my own site. I had to install a plugin to get an avatar to show up.
Please note that both my gravatar and my hovercard work perfectly on this site. My Gravatar acct. had no email address assigned to it at all.
Please also note that with no email address defined in my Gravatar acct., I was still able to verify FaceBook, G+, LinkedIn and Twitter.
This is my Gravatar profile.
…………………………So, I went to my amancooks.com WP user profile and double-checked my email address (I don’t need to enter it when I post, I’m the admin). Then I went to Gravatar and entered the exact same email address in my contact info. Then I tried to verify my site again. Again I got the error message about the API.
I can see your Gravatar just fine on my site. I can see my own Gravatar just fine on other sites. I can’t see my own Gravatar on my own site.
Thanks
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Gravatar Will Not Verify WPPerhaps my question has been too general.
I use the WP 2010 theme (the style.css anyway), and the bbPress 2010 theme.
Since these are pretty much WP standards, I would assume Gravatars work OK with these themes. Am I mistaken?
OR — Perhaps I am not asking my question clearly enough.
I want Gravatars (my own included) and even hovercards – to function on my site.
Is this possible?
Thanks
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Gravatar Will Not Verify WPZoonini,
Thank you for helping me test this. You have demonstrated that your Gravatar icon can appear on my site. Alas, you have not explained my Gravatar error message. You have not explained why my own gravatar will not appear on my own site, either localhost or remotely hosted.
I go to certain sites and I find this feature is working. I go to other sites and I find this feature is inoperative. I search for help on this issue and I find unanswered queries.
Any help at all would be valued.
Thanks.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Gravatar Will Not Verify WPHow to See the Message
1.) Go to the Gravatar site. Log in to your account.
2.) Go to My Account | Edit My Profile | Verified Services
3.) Select WordPress from the dropdown list
4.) Input your WP site name, your WP Admin Login ID, and your PW.
5.) Press Verify. Maybe you will see the error message I have quoted above. Or maybe not.As a result, there will be no Gravatar avatars (what a mouthful) on your WP site.
Is this a 3.2.1 issue? Or does it possibly have something to do with me trying to migrate from dev to production?
I have seen a couple of other posts with the same problem.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Moving content only to a testing domainIt’s happening to me too. Same steps, same error message. It is a bit of a pain.
What say ye, Support people?
Thanks
WP v3.2.1
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] Cloud Flare Feedback?When you have a resource-hungry app, and a shared server, it is easy to drive your app beyond its means. I did just this this past week.
When you have a cache plugin, and a minifier plugin, and then a cache proxy after that, dev gets tough. Latency builds.
You can turn all this stuff off before dev. Or, you can do dev on localhost.
IMHO, it is best to give CloudFlare a clean copy to work with, then stand back while it does its thing. If you can do that the results will be good.
Ed
……….It helped me, Leonard! Thanks!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] Cloud Flare Feedback?Dave,
It is noticeably faster, yes, but sometimes it seems to have “gone to sleep” and needs a sec to wake up. Note that it only caches certain of your records, not all of them.
Changing your DNS server takes about 20 seconds. Since installing CloudFlare I have changed many of my files many times without issue.
The Google Apache module mod_pagespeed may pick up the fine-tuning process where CloudFlare leaves off, and can be used in conjunction with CloudFlare. I aim to try it but have not done so yet.
