Garrett Cobarr
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Pro Bono Project: Need Some Help with Code.Out of curiosity, how can you tell by looking at the site that it is a child theme or not?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Pro Bono Project: Need Some Help with Code.Thank you, I will check with the my collaborator, not sure if he used a child theme.
Mike, one interface/user experience I would add…
When you are editing the look and feel of a page, it requires a constant back and forth process, sometimes called ‘scrubbing’. Make an edit and then look at the results, repeat.
I do this with 2 tabs open. The problem is that when I click on one of the Update Options buttons, after the save, it always scrolls to the top of the window.
It would be a huge convenience and time saver if it returned to the last scroll position.
I would adamantly and respectfully disagree.
There may be an argument for an improved interface for the various controls but reduce the ability? What you’re seeing laid out before you is power, the power and ability to, in great detail, control the look of your form, user experience and behavior of backend.
My form perfectly matches the look and feel of my site, no other contact form would have given me this level of design control. WholeThinking | The Conversation
It is a bit daunting o learn but Mike offers a huge support section and some great tutorial videos, bottom of page.
I am having a problem but that relates to an upgrade change in WordPress 3.2, I am sure it will be resolved.
Better late than never…
In the very long process of sorting this out, it somehow rectified itself without any further effort on my part. I believe that it had something to do with the server on which I am hosted. MY big mistake was having too many things take place at once, tough to know what the culprit was at the time.
If it can be avoided, I could not at the time, I would suggest not moving your website, doing a major upgrade of WordPress and changing to a new email system at the same time. At some point in digging through it all, something fixed itself.
I breathed a sigh of relief when this got rectified but I still have a significant problem with the form regarding the CAPTCHA and CSS styling, so noted here.
Thanks so much for your rapid fire response Mike, email and forum. Unfortunately your suggestion did not work.
I do not remember if I mentioned it was visible before my upgrade to 3.2 and my site move to a new service. In fact, I am going to table this problem for now because I have a bigger with the plugin.
Fast Secure is not sending email right now, I am writing another post about that issue. I will post a link here to that issue once I am on the other side of that problem.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Fluency Admin] Upgrade to version 3.1.4 of WordPress, breaks current FluencyAdditional information:
When I upgraded via the admin notice I get, in this case 3.1.4, I instead was upgraded to 3.2. A bit of a mystery here.
Fluency website has some info in forums that big changes were made in the WP 3.2, someone else reported the same problem I am seeing, 2 columns side by side that are crunched.
Dean is working on the fix. I shall be patient.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Is installing easy?Mercime (BTW clever username) I asked a similar question but did not get much of a response, “Advantages / Disadvantages of One-Click versus manual install of WordPress“
Can you elaborate a bit on why manual is better than One-Click?
I am in the midst of moving my site from one host to another so I am facing this issue very soon, so am trying to get as many learned opinions as is possible.
Thanks.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: htaccessSome more on .htaccess…
A question and reply in these very forums: .htaccess permissions
The venerable: htaccess-Guide
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: htaccessDo you still have a .htaccess file in your directory?
If you do there are some things to keep in mind. First I am no expert on the subject but I do know that .htaccess is a powerful tool, in which, you can get yourself into some serious trouble.
This link will tell you how to avoid getting access to the file itself:
Preventing Viewing of .htaccess fileHere is the WordPress Codex on setting permissions correctly:
Changing File PermissionsIf you are using .htaccess to control access to the site itself via passwords, this will generate encrypted entries for your file: Byte Converter
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Is installing easy?Many hosts offer something called One-Click install. Its almost that easy, especially if you are just going to start blogging.
Moving an existing site: content or design is a bit more complicated.
I asked this question because on my new host a number of people asked how to install manually on their grid-server hosting. If there is some trouble in a manual install, why do some people prefer it?
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: TUTORIAL: Filtering Yourself from Google AnalyticsJust to let you know I read your reply. I need to ponder this a bit, a step may have been missed. This may take me a few hours to get back to you.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: TUTORIAL: Filtering Yourself from Google AnalyticsNo problem, its great to help when I can, still fairly green about WordPress myself.
My primary browser is Safari on a Mac but I have Chrome and Firefox for testing. ( I suggest that you make sure you install your cookie excluder on all your machines and all your browsers ( so easy to forget one ).
I opened Firefox and chose my bookmark for the page setting the cookie ( yes I keep it in a bookmark for convenience, never know when you will have to reset it after a cookie clean out ).
After setting the cookie by going to the page, I opened the Firefox Preferences and chose Show Cookies. Firefox shows cookies as a group for each site, click on the little arrow mark to open and show the cookies for your site. There should be at least 4, if not 5 of them.
Firefox does not display values in each cookie until you select one of them. Safari does this at glance in columns. This may be why you did not spot your value, it may be actually be there but you have not seen it yet. The cookie that contains my value is named _utmv but I am not sure if it is the same for everyone.
One way of testing in GA is setup 2 profiles: one with your filter and one with none. Watch over several days, you should see the one without the filter build numbers faster than the one with the exclusion filter.
Hope this helps.