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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Theme change after 2.8 upgradeTo change the name of the theme make sure you change it in style.css (look for Theme Name: WordPress Default and change it to something unique) and also change the name of the directory (folder). If you don’t change both you risk having your customised theme overwritten whenever you upgrade WordPress.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Google Indexing: Is it my theme?That site is extremely slow to load. Search engines don’t wait around so if a site loads slowly they tend to just move on.
It also has a robots meta tag in the header:
<meta name=’robots’ content=’noindex,nofollow’ />
Did you just put that up or did you forget to allow indexing in your WordPress settings?Page load time could be speeded up by reducing the number of images that display on your home page, or compressing the images or making them smaller.
Hope this helps.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Why does my page take sooo long to load?You have 47 scripts on your site and the multiple scripts for Feedburner, Flickr, and Adsense are really slowing things down. The image replacement script also seems to be loading very slowly.
Try reducing the number of scripts or combining them.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Ideas Forum/Communication ChannelsA good example of how messed up the communications channels are exists right in this forum thread. Just following the comments is hard when there are off-topic posts and spam amongst some very worthwhile feedback.
The barriers to contributing here are huge. The core team may know what they want to do and what they are working on next, but for anyone trying to find that information its like asking how long is a piece of string. There appears to be no reasoning given as to why some tickets on trac languish for years, and again no reasoning behind new functionality that gets thrown in without use cases or any discussion that end-users can contribute to. If any actual planning goes into development its certainly not obvious.
It is not practical for anyone wanting to contribute to have to watch trac, the development blog, the official wpdevel blog, mailing lists and the forum just to try to work out what is happening.
I am in agreement with Denis, Demetris and MikeSchinkel so won’t bother repeating their comments. However, I want to emphasise two – a roadmap so that everyone knows where development is heading and what new features are planned, and a slower development cycle.
Thanks for initiating this discussion. I hope it doesn’t end up like development discussions or trac tickets – going nowhere and wasting people’s time.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How to remove the […] from the excerptIf you simply want to remove the […] and replace it with something like “read more” (or whatever you want), just do this…
//function to replace invalid ellipsis with text linking to the post function elpie_excerpt($text) { return str_replace('[...]', '<a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . '[Read More …]' . '</a>', $text); } add_filter('the_excerpt', 'elpie_excerpt');You can add a line break too, if you want. I’ve explained it all here: http://lynnepope.net/the-excerpt-revisited
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Running very sloooowwwwHave a look at your theme and plugins. Your pages have an awful lot of JavaScript and CSS that has to load on every page – these should be in external files so they can be cached by the browser.
You are also calling JQuery twice, which is not needed and will be slowing the site down.
There are a couple of repeated meta tags too so it really looks like you should be cleaning up your theme.Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Update to 2.7.1 not workingYour server setup may be preventing the download. Just download manually and do your upgrade as normal.
It would also be a good idea to contact your host and ask them if their server settings are blocking upgrades.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Go Daddy database connection issues on new installTo get the host name to use in wp_config for databases hosted with GoDaddy, just read this GoDaddy FAQ: http://help.godaddy.com/topic/67/article/39
Once you set up your database, make a note of the host name, database user name, database name and password. Use these to complete the WordPress configuration.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Transitioning from .html to WordPress, SEO ConcernsSet up WordPress so your pages have the exact same URL. These will be missing the .html extension then either use .htaccess to redirect each link to the same content on WP or add a directive in .htaccess to add .html to the end of your WP permalinks.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Pointing to externaly hosted style.cssIf they are both on the same domain you should be able to simply import the main stylesheet into styles.css
Backup your styles.css then remove everything except the information at the top, between the /* */ tags.
Add @import “URL”;
with URL being the path to your main css.Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: CSS Hover Issue in Internet ExplorerYou are very welcome 🙂
If you haven’t already got it, grab the Web Developer Toolbar extension for Firefox. It has a whole lot of nice features to help with design, including one-click buttons for checking that CSS is validating (which can be used on local files as well as pages that are already up).
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do you change the […] in an excerpt to a link?Glad it helped Raimy 🙂
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: GPL limitationsThe GPL is a copyright license that gives everyone the right to use WordPress, hack it, modify it, turn it inside out if they want, but if it is then redistributed it must be distributed under the terms of the GNU/General Public License.
There is no restriction on the types of sites it can be used on, whether for-profit or not. There is actually no restriction on selling WordPress either although anyone would be nuts to do so since it can be downloaded freely by anyone.
If someone wanted to fork WordPress and use it as a base for developing a CMS they can do this too – as long as the license is complied with and the resulting code is under the same license. (WordPress itself was created from pre-existing GPL code).
So, in a nutshell, those people on Serendipity don’t know what they are talking about!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: CSS Hover Issue in Internet ExplorerFix the CSS errors that you can see here: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css21&warning=0&uri=http%3A%2F%2Flifespotlight.com%2Ftestspotlight%2F
That will help you see where your CSS is going wrong.If you are looking at your site in Internet Explorer 6 do yourself a favour and upgrade. IE6 does not handle :hover and :active states very well.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: New Site looking for creative feedbackFor most sites, the purpose of having a site up is so that people will read the content. It’s impossible to read the content on your site because there is just too much going on visually.
I recommend you change the background colour and the colours of the sidebars. And make sure your text is one colour and easily readable.