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the problem is mainly that you don’t have any spaces in that big-ass line of text.

Where did you expect it to break for wrapping purposes?

I’m so glad to have been party to a thread which involves an actual bona-fide database backup, around here.

good luck 🙂

oh Whooami is going to be pissed she missed out on another dogpile 🙂

You’re welcome. Get you another drink? 😉

Actually I understand where you’re coming from. I don’t much like the idea of being spammed when I can’t find what I’m looking for.

Especially on 404 pages, since the reason I can’t find it is because the idiot site owner took it away, or moved it without adequate redirection. What the hell is that all about?

If you get 404s, you should aim to fix them, not consider it a good way to make a buck.

*hands you back your drink, after sneaking a sip*

‘Adsense for Search’ is designed for search results pages, or 404 pages where keywords are evident.

Lets say you’ve hit a 404 page with the url yourblog.com/deals/cheap-viagra/ … adsense for search is designed to display ads for cheap viagra based on either the search string you used, or the URL on your 404 page.

The idea being that if you can’t find what you wanted to find, you may as well leave via a somewhat-related advertisement.

This differs from regular adsense, which looks at the contents of the page, to determine what’s relevant.

here’s your original thread, it wasn’t deleted.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/178975

you can find your threads by clicking “view your profile” on the upper right hand side of this website.

to address your question though… your 404 page should be part of the theme you’re using. If your theme has a 404.php, edit that.

If it doesn’t have one, you can create one, making sure to include the basic elements

<?php get_header(); ?>

  [your 404 page layout goes here]

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

I understand that you said you don’t know PHP, but surely you can cut and paste, right? If you can’t then perhaps you need to re-examine what you hope to achieve.

What I’m about to write isn’t necessarily directed at you, but at everyone who expects to be able to change their theme/blog functionality:

Blogging is easy, but changing your theme requires becoming an amateur web-designer. It’s important to understand that one thing has nothing to do with the other. If you can write, you can blog… but if you want to be a web designer (even just so you can customise your own blog) then be prepared to learn the language(s) of the web.

“I know how to critique logos, I dont know how to design them, i don’t have a degree in design, i’m 15 after all
I designed those logos while in school in around 20 min”

Webmeba, you can’t have it both ways. Either you’re a brilliant 15 year old, like I was, and your opinion matters… or you’re “only 15 after all” and nobody should should listen to you.

Which is it?

You have a big mouth on you… time to own it, or re-evaluate how it’s working for you.

For the record, 20 minutes is about all you can expect to get for $25, so that wasn’t the issue. Nobody expects a marketing team to run focus groups for that amount of money.

I think I’ve proven my point though… it’s easy to criticise, but when someone asks you to come up with the goods, everyone runs away.

I’ll give you credit Webmeba, for at least submitting something, even though you ignored the brief, initially.

exactly.

also, it would be nice to get back the right side of the profile page, where the threads you’ve started show up.

it’s been a while since the update… time to get some of this stuff sorted out 🙂

cheers.