johnnyb
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [DeadTrees] [Plugin: DeadTrees] Only Amazon?Thanks for all the info, I’ll see what I can pull together for the independent guys. It’ll be at least a few days before I pull it together, if I’m able to.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [DeadTrees] [Plugin: DeadTrees] Only Amazon?So far it’s only Amazon, but how do you envision it working with your preferred site? Would you like to paste in a URL, or is there a bookstore that you recommend that I can somehow deconstruct their URLs and auto-generate them like with Amazon?
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Images missing in imported postsOddly enough, the files have all been imported, (these are images from another blog that I did a WP export on, then imported the exported file into my 3.0 multisite blog), so they’re in blogs.dir/{id} already – except on the “main” blog of the site, (id 1), since I upgraded from WP standalone, not WPMU. Its files are in wp-content/uploads I tried moving its files to blogs.dir/1 but it seems to have a database setting somewhere that tells WP that the files are in wp-content/uploads, so that didn’t work too well.
I added this to my .htaccess:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !johnbeales\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^wp-content/uploads/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]johnbeales.com is the site with ID 1, so it gets its files from wp-content/uploads, but everything else goes to blogs.dir. So far it’s working, if a bit hackish.
I also found that since I had been using a custom thumbnail size that when the images were imported they were not imported at the correct size, so in addition to my path issues I had bad filenames. The Regenrate Thumbnails plugin solved this for me.
I’d still like to not have to be hacking around in my .htaccess, but at least it works now.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Mapping multiple domains to the same blog without redirectingI know it’s a weird situation 😉 I wrote a plugin that executes after the free domain mapper and makes it work. I’ll mark this as resolved.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Mapping multiple domains to the same blog without redirectingI dove into the code of the wordpress-mu-domain-mapping plugin and think that it doesn’t really support having more than one domain active at the same time, (probably related to its caching – which is a good thing).
So, will another plugin let me show the same site at more than one domain, (Andrea – will yours – and how/when can I get it)?
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Mapping multiple domains to the same blog without redirectingYeah, I’ve got sunrise.php in place. The issue I’m having is that when I go to the site’s front-end I get redirected to whatever domain I set as “primary” in the domain mapping plugin, and I’d like to have both TLDs act as primary domains and serve up the site with no redirection.
I realize this sounds strange, but the WPML plugin will then handle things and make sure I don’t have duplicate content issues by serving up a different language for each TLD.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: domain mapping how-to video? Help! :)Does it go to a blank blank page, or a “there’s no site here yet” type of page? If it’s the latter then your DNS has probably propagated, you but you need to tell the server that requests for mappeddomain.com should go to the WP install, (and unfortunately, on GoDaddy, I’m not sure how to do that). On cPanel that would be the parked domain bit.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Mapping multiple domains to the same blog without redirectingHmm. Looks like I was wrong – it sort of works, but all of the admin panels disappear and the primary URL doesn’t always work, (sometimes I’m sent to the subdomain instead of the mapped domain).
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Mapping multiple domains to the same blog without redirectingFound it – it appears that if I installed wordpress-mu-domain-mapping into mu-plugins then things work as I want.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: domain mapping how-to video? Help! :)You might not have to change the DNS records of the parked domain. So long as the A record for the parked domain, (the one you want to map to parkedSite.mainSite.com), points to the server that has your 3.0 Multisite install, I would expect that your DNS good to go.
What you do have to do is somehow tell that server what to do when a request comes in for your parked domain. In my case I used cPanel to set it up as an addon domain and set the home directory as the same as the main domain. This seems to be working for me, (I’m a bit strange in that my “main” WP domain is not the main domain of my cPanel account – otherwise parking should work fine).
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: New Diet & Green Living BlogThanks. I’ll try to keep it interesting as things progress.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: New Diet & Green Living BlogI will try. It’s hard right now since my camera grew legs and left, but I’m doing what I can with my laptop’s webcam 😉
Thanks!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: add_rewrite_endpint() / WP_rewrite::add_endpoint don’t seem to honour $placesSo, I think I figured it out. Apparently I shouldn’t give an array as $places, as the in-code docs say. It works if I set EP_ALL, with no array.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: My New DesignI am getting a lot of feedback!
Now the question is: Is it the fact that the sidebar and Post Meta Data text is not there that’s annoying, or is it all of the fading in and out?
If it’s the fading in & out, would it be better if there was no fading, just instant on/off?
If it is the fact that the text is actually gone, do we have ideas on how I can still show the text, while maintaining the minimalist look? Perhaps if I only show the meta data on the single post page and leave it off of the index page? The sidebar is a bit tougher – maybe a “more” link or something like jeremyclark suggested is the way to go for the sidebar.
I agree that the fading as we scroll is pretty weird, and would like to to be different. I’ve created an interesting problem here.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: My New DesignSo it seems that the faded text is distracting. Solution? Remove the distraction!
I used jQuery to hide the faded text as the document loads, so now it only appears when either it is moused over, (sidebar), or the post is moused over, (postmetadata).
This may be a bit extreme, let me know what you all think. I’ve left the footer kind of faded, but not so much as before, as I think it’s important to have the copyright notice visible by default, even if it’s difficult to read. Also, I don’t expect many people to read it.
We’ll see if everybody hates this or not 😉