Title: escdotdot's Replies | WordPress.org --- # escdotdot [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Plugin: Twitter Tools]](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-twitter-tools-1/) * [escdotdot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/) * (@escdotdot) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-twitter-tools-1/#post-1022217) * [@djweaver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djweaver/) I’d like to see this too. Looking at the README [Twitter Tools](http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/readme?project=twitter-tools), this is listed as a “Known Issue”, so perhaps this is in the pipeline? There is also a suggestion this could be made Core, but I doubt that’s really necessary: <[http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=2541>](http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=2541>); * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [Looking for a plugin that puts a box around my post titles](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looking-for-a-plugin-that-puts-a-box-around-my-post-titles/) * [escdotdot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/) * (@escdotdot) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looking-for-a-plugin-that-puts-a-box-around-my-post-titles/#post-596503) * Sounds like a job for a bit of CSS styling. I think a plugin would be overkill, if I understand what you’re asking correctly. * Looking at the default Kubrick theme (depending on what theme you’re using, you may need to change the following), the post title is an h2 heading within a div with a class of ‘post’. So you could add the following to your style sheet: * ``` div.post h2 { border: 1px solid #333; } ``` * which would add a solid grey line around every h2 heading within each post. You just have to remember not use a h2 anywhere else in the post (unless you want another outlined heading, of course). * There’s lots of information on CSS around if you need it. * Hope that helps. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [Can’t see comments caught by Askimet](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-see-comments-caught-by-askimet/) * [escdotdot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/) * (@escdotdot) * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-see-comments-caught-by-askimet/#post-473769) * Same problem here. I’m running WP 2.2.1 on a private server, Akismet 2.0.2 just freshly re-installed, it says there are 214 spam today when there were 212 yesterday, but zero show up in the Comments spam queue. for as long as I’ve been running my blog with akismet (about two years?) this has never worked for me. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [WP2 accented characters changing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp2-accented-characters-changing/) * Thread Starter [escdotdot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/) * (@escdotdot) * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp2-accented-characters-changing/#post-313306) * Hi stratoman, I can’t read German so I can’t tell where the problem is in the texts – but there don’t seem to be any characters that aren’t displaying correctly. Perhaps you could flag where the problems are in some way? * Most of your meta tags in the header are all unclosed, by the way. * And I don’t know if this is an issue or not but the character set for the page is set (in one of the meta tags) as ISO-8859-1 rather than UTF-8 (which is what MySQL is delivering the data as) – you’ll need to do some research on how/if this will affect the display of the characters – I’m just guessing with this point. * Hope that helps! * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [WP2 accented characters changing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp2-accented-characters-changing/) * Thread Starter [escdotdot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/) * (@escdotdot) * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp2-accented-characters-changing/#post-313304) * stratoman, two thoughts – perhaps your wp-db.php has been changed such that it’s not line 43 that is where the extra line needs to go? In my set up, the new line goes immediately after this one: * `$this->dbh = @mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpassword);` * Or, doing a quick search on “unexpected T_STRING” returns results that suggest there is an extra parenthesis/quote mark/white space somewhere in the line. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [WP2 accented characters changing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp2-accented-characters-changing/) * Thread Starter [escdotdot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/) * (@escdotdot) * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp2-accented-characters-changing/#post-313265) * well, I have a solution to my prob. Apparently it’s a bug with mySQL 4.1 * [This post](http://www.etomite.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t2278.html) on another forum gave me the answer. * All I had to do was add the line: `mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");` to the file /wp-includes/wp-db.php right after line 43 (where it makes the database connection). * This fixes posting and retrieving posts with accented characters. But I now have to go back through my posts and retype many of the accented characters (and some quote marks) as they seem to have permanently changed into different characters. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [WP2 accented characters changing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp2-accented-characters-changing/) * Thread Starter [escdotdot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escdotdot/) * (@escdotdot) * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp2-accented-characters-changing/#post-313185) * Thanks for your reply, editor. * If, in phpMyAdmin, I go into the post that I mentioned ([http://www.escdotdot.com/blog/2006/01/07/o/](http://www.escdotdot.com/blog/2006/01/07/o/)) then the phpMyAdmin screen shows the content as “ö” even though it’s displayed as ö on the web page. So would I be right in thinking that mySQL is serving the posts with the wrong character encoding? * I’ve had a dig around in phpMyAdmin but do not completely understand how it works, so may be misunderstanding what it’s telling me, but the localhost screen says that: * > MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8) > MySQL connection collation: utf8_general_ci * However, when I go into my databases’ structure table, the collation for every table is ‘latin1_swedish_ci’. * Could this be where the problem lies (i.e. the mismatch between utf8 and latin1), and if so, what should I do about it? Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total)