Paul Kaiser
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Ugh! Sidebar not showing in IEHowdy,
I visited your site, and it seems even more messed up right now.
Can you:
1. switch to a different theme.
2. delete the current install of cutline theme.
3. reupload cutline theme and then switch back to it?The problem you might be running in to:
If you put some content in either the main area of your page or in the sidebar of your page that is WIDER than said area, you may cause the sidebar to break down to the bottom.In cutline, the main content and sidebar both “float,” and rely on them maintaining their widths to work right.
Let me know if you need more help.
Take care,
PaulForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Featured Image Shows PoorlyHowdy Jay,
Your theme is using the thumbnail version of the image, and the CSS for those images is specifying a larger width / height, so the browser is essentially upscaling the little thumbnails.
Do you know how to regenerate the thumbnails to 280px wide? They are currently 150px, being upscaled to 280.
Go to Settings > Media or something… that is where you can set the thumbnail size. Then do the “Regenerate Thumbnails” you mentioned, clear cache, and check it out.
Nice site. Let me know if this works out.
Take care,
PaulForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Question mark & blue boxes instead of photosHowdy,
Where did the restore end up at on your site?
This might just be an issue of moving some files using your cPanel file manager.Paul
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Dynamically loading content within a pageHowdy,
2 plugins I’ve used to do just this in the past:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-ui/screenshots/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thethe-tabs-and-accordions/
Both are decent. “TheThe” is sort of annoying.
Good luck!
PaulForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Blog Preview Formatting ErrorHey Clay,
Shooting from the hip, here, but that page (a category listing page) seems to be showing an Excerpt of your page, rather than the page itself. When showing excerpts, by default, the HTML tags are stripped and you just get plain text.
One of many possible ways to fix this is using a plugin that allows fancier / marked-up excerpts:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/Now, if your theme is automatically generating the excerpt from the first (n) characters of your post, I’m not sure this plugin will help. But, it will take you like 2 minutes to test.
Let me know how it goes.
Take care,
PaulForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WP form outside of WPHowdy,
Not a good idea.
Technically it is (probably) possible.
You would need to make a PHP file that first loads the WordPress guts, and go from there.
But… yeah, really not a good idea so I’m not going further in to that.However, maybe there is another good solution. What type of form do you need outside of WordPress? Maybe I can still help.
Take care,
PaulForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comments on Pages don't show and can't be leftHowdy,
Just to make certain: The posts on those pages DID show up before the 3.4.1 update?
Can you try switching themes (only for a moment) to see if that makes a difference?
Take care,
PaulForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Undefined index: HTTP RefererHowdy,
What theme are you using?
wp-blog-header.php is loading some stuff from your theme and maybe plugins, which are most likely the cause of your problem.HTTP_REFERER is probably being asked for by a plugin / theme function that is for:
a. analytics
b. customizing welcome messagesLet me know the theme you’re using.
Also, try turning off all your plugins and then re-enabling them one by one until you see the problem return.Take care,
PaulForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can't view imported WordPress.com blogHowdy,
Do your Posts / Pages show up in the back end?
Are you using the same theme you had on WordPress.com? (Not a requirement for it to work; I just want to know.)
Do the same Categories you had on WordPress.com site show in your new site?
I’ll see if I can help.
PaulForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Blog Preview Formatting ErrorHowdy Clay,
I could help you much faster if there is some way you could make the blog visible and direct me to a page that shows the problem. Probably not too difficult to fix.
Paul
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Change style of stories in category listHi again,
Here is my recommendation:
1. skip stories 3, 4, 5 in your main loop (you already know how to do that above.)
2. In your sidebar, include a widget or custom code that does a query for stories 3, 4, and 5.Here’s how to do a custom query:
http://www.sjlwebdesign.co.uk/sjl-blog/index.php/web-design/wordpress/display-posts-outside-the-wordpress-loop/In your query, you’ll need to use the “offset” parameter so you can get just 3, 4, 5:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Offset_ParameterGood luck!
PaulForum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Change style of stories in category listOops, I forgot to ask question number 4:
What page(s) do you want to do this special situation for?
Is it a page where you can use a specific Page Template?
Or, is it on the Home Page?
Or…?This will affect the best approach to the solution.
Thx,
PaulForum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Change style of stories in category listGlad you’re headed in the right direction.
1. Do you have your blog set up to show “newest 5 posts,” then, in “Settings > Reading?” I’m assuming so, but needed to check.
2. You want 3,4,5 to show up in a sidebar, in a widget, then?
— Do they HAVE to be in a widget, or is it okay if they just show up in the sidebar by any means?
3. What theme are you currently using?While you can search on the internet for what you want (mostly) by searching for “access posts from outside the loop,” almost all of these approaches you find are inefficient, requiring a new set of queries.
If you would please answer my questions above, I’d like to show you how to do this WITHOUT all those extra queries.
Paul
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Putting Blog ElsewhereThat’s great–glad to hear it! Have a great day.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Putting Blog ElsewhereThe fastest way I can think of is to create one parent category, and assign all your other categories as child categories.
Example:
Parent Category: News
Child Categories: Local News, Regional News, National News
In a tree it looks like this:
News
* Local News
* Regional News
* National NewsThen, the category page for “News” will show all the posts that are classified with any of the child categories.
Does that make sense?
Paul