Alex Cragg
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: hide event calendar on frontpage or restrict to single pagehave a look at using templates, and different dynamic sidebars depending on the page you are on.
start by looking at these:
http://codex.wordpress.org/conditional_tags
http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Layout_and_Design#Templates
http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Urgent Help: Accessing Dashboardyou can log into mysql and change this back.
follow this tutorial.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: problems with the webbrowsersone of the smiley faces will be from wordpress.com stats, dont no about the other one. Try disabling your plugins in one by one and you will find which other one it is.
Also i would worry about IE, if your sites viewers are like mine, then over 50% will use IE, so id address it.
you can use different style sheets that are browser dependent.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permalinks–numbers or no numbers?its not an answer to your question, but i use the method that creates the structure like myblog.com/post-title, and i can see my css file fine by typing in its path name into the address bar. its not a problem i have ever encountered, and its not even something i do, just use ftp to view my files.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Pages and Searchjust to clarify, do you only want to display the child pages if you are on the parent page? if so, i use a plugin called fold page list It works well.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: blog using WPi like the design, but i have to agree, you dont even have your blog name at the top, and however much i like the site, and however much i might want to find it again, im not going to remember it! The logo is good, but with no text it doesnt help
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Using WordPress for a non-blog website?One of my sites is used as company website, or CMS(content management system), and doesnt use commenting or archiving etc. All of that functionality is created using functions, so the comments section is put in using
<?php comments_template() ?>and you can just delete things like that and they wont appear. This goes for listing posts, archives categories, the whole shabam. I kept a place to put posts, so that i could make announcements etc. A lot of people do this. Do a search for CMS on the forum and you’re bound to get a lot of links to peoples sites so you can have a look. mine is at http://www.epicskitours.com if you want to see what i did.Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: add page to sidebarCSS is just used to style your page, change colours etc, so that isnt what you need to be looking at here.
If you give us a link to your site it will be easier to help, but if you dont have a sidebar.php, is the list of pages in your header area?
If the new page hasnt automatically been added to the list along with your others, then you arent using a function, so the pages will be listed manually, you need to look for something in your files that has this structure, but with your page names.
<ul> <li><a href="http://.........">Page one</a></li> <li><a href="http://.........">Page two</a></li> <li><a href="http://.........">Page three</a></li> </ul>then you need to add another line with your new page’s name and address, but first a link to your site will help
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Making a new functionget_header and get_footer are built in functions in wordpress, and call specific files, that all go to building up the page, but dont link to a specific webpage. to call a php that is not standard, you have to do it slightly differently, using the include function.
so for you, you would put
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/profile.php'); ?>
this functions exactly the same as get_footer etc.if you want a webpage that is your profile, with a different page layout to normal, then maybe you are looking at templates instead.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Quality managed hosting in UKi dont think many hosts, if any, would do the upgrading for you, but some offer fantastico, or one click installs/upgrades. which are hardly a big effort.
dreamhost.com have their own one click install function
bluehost.com use fantastico.both are US though. But i live in the UK and have used both, and never had any problems.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: XHTML Validationworked a charm.
didnt know that adsense javascript worked like that, worth knowing.
thanks guys and gals
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrade Worriesin my experience, fantastico tends to handle the upgrade perfectly well
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: XHTML Validationhmmm… i dont seem to be able to work this out. Ive done some googling and found out some more about nesting comments, putting —- to end one and start another, but my comments are separated by the call for javascript etc.
the article you suggested didnt really help, maybe i missed the point?
i got rid of two of the errors by placing the comments in a div as opposed to the div being included in the comments.
still cant figure this
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: XHTML Validationyeah, i know its no help when people are looking, but i was playing around to see if that was the problem, you must have looked at a time when it was the second way.
its now changed back to
<![endif]-->.when i did change it to the second, incorrect, version though, all the other errors with the goog adsense went away, which makes me think its a prob somewhere with the endif and if Ie bits.
if you could have another look please?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: XHTML Validationyeah i know that. What i meant was i use an if IE to change the css sheet that is displayed, and that if IE statement validates fine.
So the advice the validator gives is hard to follow when it tells you you are doing it right somewhere else!
with reference to the adsense button, the xhtml that isnt validating was copied and pasted from an adsense button that is validating on another site of mine.
This is why i posted! the errors are bemusing and confusing