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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: getting a wp_list_pages fatal error after deleting entire line!P.S. sorry about some of the messy tagging above. It’s late, it’s hot, I’m tired, and am befuddled. mea culpa.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: getting a wp_list_pages fatal error after deleting entire line!hi all,
The blog URI isn’t the above one, but kudos to figuring it out from my profile :); that’s the temporary Classic template that is the placeholder until I recreate my format that matches the rest of my site layout.
The one in question is currently in a test section on the server (http://dialogicconsulting.com/TESTBLOG. So far I’ve only modified the style.css and sidebar.php files.
The index.php file is still the original Classic file, which is only a couple of lines:
<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>since I’ve been editing the sidebar first, this is where I’ve been running into the problem:
http://dialogicconsulting.com/TESTBLOG/sidebar.phpIt still neeeds work, (you can see an example at http://www.dialogicconsulting.com for what it’s supposed to look like) but I’m less concerned about perfecting the format than correcting/understanding the fatal error.
I’m definitely one of those people who know just enough to be dangerous, so probably have done something that made sense to me but not to php..
In the meantime, I’ll search my PC and server for any other possible occurances, but appreciate any other help you might have.
hsc
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Missing tabs in Administration Menugreat idea — thanks again!
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Missing tabs in Administration MenuThat did it — THANKS!
I keep forgetting that the main login is admin. I kept trying to log in under the display name listed under the admin user, and of course it didn’t recognize it — and the other user (also for me) I set up is only a 1; guess I should change that.
Thanks again!
hsc
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How do I test themes on live blog?Hi — I’d like to use http://boren.nu/archives/2005/03/08/preview-theme-plugin/ but when I click on the link on the site, it opens up a page of code.
This doesn’t happen when I click on the theme switcher link (although that’s not what I’m interested in.)
Any advice on how I get this plug in on my server?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Starting over with 1.5 — can’t open style.css!!Thanks Podz; I downloaded Pspad and am now able to open the files without extra stuff. 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Can’t make right-click or Press It workfigured out the Press It to links toolbar. Am still stymied by the right click. Again, any thoughts appreciated.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Can’t make right-click or Press It workHi, tried the above but am still having both problems.
I upgraded to 1.5, deleted the Press It from Favorites, added it back, and still can’t get around the pop-up blocking problem. Perhaps it’s a particular problem with IE?
I also still can’t get the right click to work. (Never worked in 1.2 either, now that I think about it. I resaved and reran the registry edit after the upgrade, but still get the same error message as stated above.
Finally, I would like to drag the Press It link to my link toolbar, but I can’t figure out how — as soon as I hover over it, it opens. Basic question, but how do I drag the link?
Thanks for any help,
hscForum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Starting over with 1.5 — can’t open style.css!!Hi and thanks for your responses.
Regarding the css files, I downloaded them from the WP site; this was my first attempt at opening them. Strangely, it opens nice and cleanly in Wordpad, but I know enough to know that I still shouldn’t use it as a text editor. I’ll check out the above sources.
RE: the encoding, thanks; I’ll see if I can work out what that means and whether I can fix it. The blog is only a small section of my website, but I use the_exerpt_reloaded to pull the lastest blog pulls onto my homepage — thus, only the blog pages and the site homepage, http://www.dialogicconsulting.com, are php. Right now I’ve temporarily fixed it by using <sup> tags, but it screws up the areas that are underlined.
Thanks, I learned most of this when I first set up the blog, but in the ensuing months it’s slipped through the ever-enlarging fissures in my brain….
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrade from 1.2x to 1.5OK. thanks for the plugin info — I just reinstalled it into the new plugins folder and all is well on my homepage again.
Now I just need to recreate my custom WP layout. Sigh. But at least it’s all there!
Thanks all,
hscForum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrade from 1.2x to 1.5OK, given how much time I originally spent on this, I should know the answer, but I cannot find the plugins admin page. What am I missing?
Do I use the browser to go to the plugins folder? Because when I go to the standard admin (write, edit, etc.) I don’t see any plugins option.
Also I was unable to successfully complete the theme transfer, and in doing so seem to have lost my entire format — but am assured by everything I read it will be easier to recreate than under 1.2 🙂
thanks again for the help,
hscForum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrade from 1.2x to 1.5A related question. I upgraded to 1.5 from 1.2, ran the upgrade, uploaded the index.php file, made the changes. The WP blog seems to have upgraded successfully, BUT….
I’m having two problems: (1) it says to upload the style sheet to the new theme directory and rename it style.css. I’m not sure which of my original files this is. I thought it was wp-layout.css in the main WP directory, but for some reason I am unable to upload this file into the themes directory. Am I working with the wrong file?
(2) I had a homepage using the_exerpt_reloaded. Now, not only doesn’t the excerpt pull work, the rest of my home page content is missing too. I’m sure it’s related to the error message: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: the_excerpt_reloaded() in /www/d/dialogicftp/htdocs/index.php on line 61
Any help appreciated — right now my business site is effectively down until I get the second point fixed.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Retrieving wordpress info (excerpt) via HTML or JavaScript?A few more questions now that I’m in it:
I switched to the_excerpt_reloaded so that I could limit the length of the content excerpts. It’s working great except for two things
(1) I have forced_more_link set to false — the problem is that there’s no return following excerpts that are less than what’s been established — so the next excerpt title doesn’t start on a new line.
(2) any ideas how to determine the width? I’ve tried tables, divs etc and can’t make it seem to “listen” to the parameters.Any help appreciated 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: please HELP with the_excerpt_reloadedoops, meant to say”
see http://www.dialogicconsulting.com to see the problems live
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Retrieving wordpress info (excerpt) via HTML or JavaScript?Thanks, Kafkaesqui – This did work!
It was easy to turn the index page into php, but I confess it took me several hours to figure out where in the file the extra code should go. I finally figured it out, though, and have it just like I wanted it (If you want to see it, it’s at http://www.dialogicconsulting.com).
It’s a bit of a workaround, as Publisher automatically creates its own .pub files which are then automatically turned into HTML — so I won’t be able to reopen this in Publisher to edit; but since I only plan on having the extracts on the indext page (outside of the WP pages), now that I’ve kinda figured it out, I figure I can hand edit if I need to redesign or change content in Publisher.
Again, thanks for the help!