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paypal has an air of unprofessionalism about it. It’s strong association with ebay makes it seem like the choice of back-yard flea market hockers everywhere.

… and it is.

it also dilutes your brand and does nothing to mask the fact that you’re offloading your payment processing to a 3rd party. This isn’t trivial to people who are less familiar with what paypal does. All of a sudden they find themselves on another website at the absolute worst moment — when it’s time to hand over their money.

Up to that point they’ve made the decision to trust YOU, now they have to make the decision to trust paypal, and with ebay scams getting so much bad press, only the savvy can be trusted to differentiate.

Beyond that, using paypal absolutely screams “I don’t make enough sales to warrant a better payment gateway” — Is that the message you want to be sending?

It’s not paypal’s fault (except for the huge per-transaction fees)… it’s just a symptom of being the people’s choice at the grass-roots level. Sometimes a little exclusivity and obscurity is a good thing.

No idea, personally – I’ve never had occasion to look for it.
I’m sure you’ve found it by now anyway.

yes, that’s right… wp already redirects, so you don’t need the rewrite rule.

As for the codex suggesting that the URI should not include the www, that’s largely due to personal preference and the difference between one or the other is negligible, as long as you pick one and stick to it.

Some people prefer to write their addresses as mysite.com, others feel that http://www.mysite.com reduces the need to use the http protocol prefix.

Personally, I don’t care, but I will note that even the auto-linking algorithm here will convert sites either with http:// or www. but will not recognise sites without a leading prefix, suggesting that if you want your links to be machine-readable, you should include a prefix…. and if you’re including a prefix, then certainly the Ws are far easier to type all the time, right?

Anyhow, if they both work when typing the URL into your address bar, but only one remains there to be copied/pasted into people’s links, then you’re all good.

no problem 😉 Happens all the time.

I’m glad you’re taking this all in good stead… If every image is valuable, then all you really need to do is present it in a way that demonstrates that value.

At the moment you have the equivalent of a shoebox full of assorted pictures – what you really need to do is make it into more of a gallery.

Mind you, I don’t envy the job, you weren’t wrong when you said you had a lot of work to do. That’s a huge number of pictures to correctly index, label, tag and describe.

A very ambitious first web project. Kudos.

Good luck to you.

I’ve got a few specific ones in my style sheet as well. For some reason well-nested classes sometimes don’t activate unless you’re extremely explicit.

Anyway, I’m glad you sorted it out in lieu of hacking the core code.

did you try .page_item a:hover?

that helps you… but it doesn’t stop you polluting other people’s blogs when you’re really trying to be nice.

usually they work out fine, so you don’t just want to turn off pings, but sometimes it just pulls the most stupid part of the page – including parts from the header if the link is at the top of the post, etc.