jonimueller
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can I do it with wordpress?Joomla has a really high learning curve, IMHO, and Drupal isn’t that much better. Plus Drupal sometimes wigs out and changes permissions capriciously. I suggest CMS Made Simple along with a module called FEU (Front End Users). Users must register/login to view private content but they are allowed to upload their own files.
http://www.cmsmadesimple.orgWordPress CAN do some of these things, and the day that it has a robust Private Login/Members only feature, that’s the day I’ll forego all other CMSs for WP. But we simply aren’t there yet. These plugins *might* help you on your way:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members-only/
http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/registered-users-only/Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: cross-posting to TwitterI think there are plugins that do that. Here’s one I’m using, but the problem may be that I’m not sure you can add things to the sidebar with the Prologue Theme. (I’ve tried, without success.)
http://rick.jinlabs.com/code/twitterAnd Alex King has Twitter Tools; I’d be inclined to start with Alex’s plugin as he knows WP backwards and forwards and inside out! 🙂
http://alexking.org/projects/wordpressForum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Magazine Style@op .. If you want to use this great little script to resize your images, I think it’s an elegant solution to what Mores suggested.
http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/timthumb-php-script-released/@briantokyo: Well that explains why MY blog is still there! {{snort}} (No one comes to visit it!) 😛
Seriously, I’ve heard rave reviews of DH and others like yourself who must have had bad experiences. But for a start, it’s pretty cheap with discount code and I’ve had several sites (not just blogs) hosted there for over four years now without any problem.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Import Problems Help me please!And then UPGRADE or risk a hack.
You can always use WordPress.com with domain mapping, as explained here:
http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/how-do-i-take-wordpress-out-of-my-url/But you won’t have as much control over your own themes, plugins and presentation as you would on a self-hosted blog.
C’mon, man, web hosting is dirt cheap these days. If you sign up with Dreamhost and use one of their codes, you can get a year’s worth of hosting for less than the price of a mildly fancy dinner for two.. about $27. 🙂
Surpass Hosting (which I highly recommend) has packages for as low as $6/month, pay as you go.
Also, who is your Internet Service Provider? They sometimes have free space for their account holders. You can’t always attach a domain to it (well, not EASILY), but it can be done sometimes.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Theme Hybrid – Opinions pleaseGreat resource you have there, Justin. I’m definitely bookmarking it. Nice clean presentation, makes the substantial amount of content easy to locate. Two garter snaps from me. 🙂
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Magazine Style@mores .. a LOT of folks don’t surf with their browsers at full size; I have a couple of honking 22 inch wide screen monitors. Why? So I can cram more windows on them. This means surfing with smaller browser windows open. So don’t knock it… B-)
I do, however, agree with your assessment of the poor treatment of those thumbnails.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Fetch Random Post in WP 2.0.11 Possible?Nah, that didn’t work, but I did find a plugin (Sobek’s Posts in Categories) that might do the trick. I’ve got this site kinda sorta ported to WP 2.5.x .. but there’s some stuff that doesn’t work (Mini Blog) and I’m not willing to give that up just yet! 🙂
Thanks, Otto.
Update: That didn’t work either; it requires at least 2.3. So I’m just going to keep the status quo, and when I want to change out the quotation, I’ll just make the others a draft and make the one I want published. It will work for now. 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Fetch Random Post in WP 2.0.11 Possible?Nope. This code:
<!-- DISPLAY RANDOM QUOTE --> <div id="quotes"> <h2 class="headline">Someone Else Said it Better</h2> <?php $rand_posts = get_posts('numberposts=1&category=47&orderby=rand'); foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) : ?> <p class="rand-quote-text"><?php the_title(); ?> <?php endforeach; ?> <?php the_content(); ?> </div><!-- /quotes -->throws out this error message and an odd post, not the latest one and not the one in category ID 47:
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'rand' in 'order clause'] SELECT DISTINCT * FROM site_posts , site_post2cat WHERE post_date <= '2008-09-02 12:30:11' AND (post_status = 'publish') AND site_posts.ID = site_post2cat.post_id AND site_post2cat.category_id = 47 GROUP BY site_posts.ID ORDER BY rand DESC LIMIT 0,1I’m off in search of a plugin…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Fetch Random Post in WP 2.0.11 Possible?Hmm. Think this might work. I’ll let you guys know.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_postsForum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: WordPress Theme Design BookHere’s a freebie in PDF format .. nice if you have a PDA, Nokia N800/810 Internet Tablet, Smartphone or other device that reads PDF files ..
http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/niche-sites-wp/It has some WP stuff, but just touches on theming.
And here’s another free PDF, how to make a magazine-style theme for WordPress:
http://www.balkhis.com/web-designs-resources/how-to-make-a-magazine-style-theme-for-wordpress/Fire up the old PDA, folks!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Problems with CSS paragraph spacingFirehog is notorious for caching issues. It looks fine to me too, FF3.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Mandigo theme – changing link colorFor some god unknown reason, the anchor (link) styles are in a separate stylesheet called schemes.css. Hopefully, it appears in your list of stylesheets for that theme under the Design tab.
Here is the code that needs to be changed:
a, .posttitle a:hover, .entry p a:visited { color: #2E8FC6; } a:hover { color: #0F3461; } .datestamp { background: #A3CFEC; border: 1px solid #0F3461; } .datestamp div { background: #1C5B9E url(images/cal_bg.jpg) repeat-x; }Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Keeping a post to the topThere are several “sticky” plugins that do that. Go to the Extend tab on this site and click Plugins. Type “sticky post” into the search box and see what you come up with.
Make sure that the plugin you choose is compatible with your version of WP. Some plugins are written for older versions of WP and may not have been upgraded.