Helen Hou-Sandi

Does http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/4725/how-to-change-a-users-role provide any new leads? Don’t know how that would go over in multisite.

Ah, it seems to me that the space (%20) is what is making it unhappy. I’d advise you to go back and change your username using the same method to chimpdaddy without the space. Be sure that user_nicename is the same.

It should just re-install the core WordPress files and leave your customizations alone. It’s like running upgrade, only it’s using the current version instead of a newer one. Try that first, and then we can dive in FTP if that doesn’t work.

Sounds like that file (and perhaps others) are not complete for some reason. class-simplepie.php is significantly longer than 1267 lines (over 15,000 actually). Try deleting and re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders.

Not 100% sure how Weaver works, but the CSS you need is:

#ttw-head-widget ul {
	list-style: none;
}

I was out a lot longer than I thought 🙂 I made an example metabox that works: http://pastebin.com/fx854tXb

In prose, you take the values of the checkboxes, implode them with a comma as the separator (but the separator can be anything, really), and then save the CSV. Then, when displaying the metabox, you explode the CSV using that same separator and then check if the value of the checkbox you are currently displaying is in the array produced by explode. Hope that helps!

They suggest the same plugin because, well, it’s pretty awesome 🙂 And thank YOU for being receptive to concerns and other ideas. Sometimes people understandably get a little sensitive, but we’re all just trying to help each other out and get things done the best way possible. I always worry for those who have to continue to maintain a system that’s gotten out of hand, because I’ve been there. Sometimes it’s nice to use a plugin or at least write your own functionality plugin – then you can transfer the features even if the theme gets completely overhauled.

So, for a custom taxonomy, you can add it to multiple post types by using an array for the $object_type argument (the second one) when registering your taxonomy. You can then associate the product with a category. So, even though maybe in terms of concept, the product isn’t really in that category, it’s now related to it in some way. Then, in the theme, look for the product’s category or categories, then use a separate query to pull in the latest item from the category in the relevant post type. So, an example query:

$custom_query['post_type'] = 'post';
$custom_query['posts_per_page'] = 1;
$custom_query['tax_query'] = array(
	array(
		'taxonomy' => 'tax_name',
		'terms' => array($category->slug),
		'field' => 'slug',
	),
);

$queryObject = new WP_Query($custom_query);
// The Loop...
if ($queryObject->have_posts()) {

	while ($queryObject->have_posts()) {
		$queryObject->the_post();

		// loop-type stuff to display your latest driver
	}
}

Note that the array value for terms probably would not work at all. You’d have to determine the category slug (probably using wp_get_object_terms()), and do a foreach if there’s more than one category.

Thanks for posting all of your code, too. If we need to reference it again, it’s there. I did notice that you are using nonces 🙂

ACTUALLY, I just remembered you’re doing something outside of WordPress. If this doesn’t work, try error_reporting(E_ALL); at the top of your custom file instead. There are some other methods of turning on error reporting globally, so if those don’t work, there are some other options.