Eric Mann

One thing that I see right off the bat is a breaking line in your first function, show_authors(). Your echo statements:

echo '<li><a href="';
bloginfo('url');
echo '/people/#' . $user->first_name .  '">' . $user->first_name . ' ' . $user->last_name . '</a></li>';

… will actually end up breaking across multiple lines. I’d recommend replacing it with a single-line echo:
echo '<li><a href="' . get_bloginfo('url') . '/people/#' . $user->first_name . '">' . $user->first_name . ' ' . $user->last_name . '</a></li>';
This will prevent your line from breaking and will echo back your

• seamlessly. Using get_bloginfo() rather than bloginfo() will also let you display things in-line because it returns data rather than echo it back by itself.

Of course, if show_authors() is already working just fine for what you need, don’t change anything!

I think including both functions in the same <?php ?> call will help, and you say it’s working so far … Have you tried adding functions back in one at a time to see which one(s) break?

Interesting problem … can you post your theme functions file for us to look at?

Use the WP pastebin so we don’t take up too much forum space: http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/

Do you have any redirection plugins, or log-in styling plugins installed?

I’ve found a similar problem elsewhere in the forums. It looks like some hosts have problems with the file_get_contents() function (some commercial hosts don’t have something enabled, your system might be doing the same thing).

They’re solution was to add their own function and then call it instead:

function my_file_get_contents($url) {
    $ch = curl_init();
    $timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
    $file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $file_contents;
}

Then change the $badge_url line to:
$badge_html = my_file_get_contents($badge_url);

You can add the above function directly into the functions.php file of your theme and it should work just fine. Let me know if it doesn’t.

@jeremyclark13 – sorry, completely forgot about the pastebin. 🙂

@linter – try setting the first number in both the margin and padding definition to 0px, then slowly add to it until the page looks right.

What kind of environment are you running on your local machine?

Dobo12 –

I looked at your site, and it should be fairly easy to add the counter on your WP blog. Go to the Theme Editor (in the ‘Design’ menu) and open the file ‘footer.php.’ Add the following code where you’d like the counter to appear (I took this code off of your existing site http://www.accd.ge):

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://counter.top.ge/cgi-bin/cod?100+25150" type="text/javascript"></script>
<noscript>
<a target="_top" href="http://counter.top.ge/cgi-bin/showtop?25150"><img src="http://counter.top.ge/cgi-bin/count?ID:25150+JS:false" border="0" alt="TOP.GE" title="accd" /></a>
</noscript>

This should add the same counter onto the bottom of your WP blog.

… then again, looking at your blog (www.accd.ge/giga), I already see the counter on the bottom. Have you already solved this problem?