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I’m not quite certain from the jpg image you posted what it is you want to achieve. Are you saying you always want images to be at the top right?

From what I can see looking at your source code,

I’m guessing that if you add this to the stylesheet and fool with the stylespecs, you’ll be able to achieve what it is you want:


.post h2 {/*stylespecs*/} //headline of post
.post small {/*stylespecs*/} // dateline
.post .entry {/*stylespecs*/} // whatever is in the post
.post .entry img {/*stylespecs*/} // image in post
.post .postmetadata {/*stylespecs*/} // 'posted in' details at bottom of post


Are you sure that this includes >? There should not be a problem with the greaterthan symbol if it is the first thing placed. But there will be a problem with the lessthan symbol because it is integral to HTML coding itself.

Because the comments can be set up to accept some HTML tags, your user probably has to close any instances of <

What you could try is to make sure that “code” is allowed in the list of allowed tags in kses.php

Look for:
if (!CUSTOM_TAGS) {
$allowedtags = array(

Then scroll down to

'br' => array(),

If the following is NOT there, you can add it on the next line:
'code' => array(),

You can then make some sort of note to tell your commenters that if they wish to use the symbol <, they must surround it with the HTML tags of <code></code>

(I HOPE this post made sense and that it came out correctly! It’s extremely difficult to post coding examples in this forum.)

edit: Apparently you can also override kses.php by creating a ‘my-hacks.php’ I’m afraid that I threw caution to the winds and edited my kses.php directly….

You’re very welcome. Glad it’s working, Bella!

I think you are on the right track, Netdetective, to customize an existing theme that is as close as possible to what you want. That is what I did….

I would definitely not use Frontpage. and I know nothing about Dreamweaver. But if the coding that is on your page now was produced by Dreamweaver, then I would advise against it as well. There are many many HTML errors on the page.

I use a simple text editor (editpad) to encode pages. (I’m not an IT designer or professional web designer either.)

Look for:

<li id="linkcat-2"><h2>Links</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href='http://mugglenet.com/' title='All things Harry Potter'>Muggle Net</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.theonion.com/content/index' title='News Source'>The Onion</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.blingo.com/friends?ref=mn9mry5Ai%2BUZ7nzBZucpGHFSUcU' title='Search and Win Prizes'>Blingo</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.illwillpress.com/' title='Foamy Rocks'>Ill Will Press</a></li>

</ul>

And just BEFORE add

<li><a href='http://newlinkaddress/' title='brief description of link'>Link Name</a></li>

Hope that helps.

edit: posted before Bella had replied…. I’d have to look more closely at the coding to see where the link would be inserted to get it closer to the top of the page… maybe someone will get to it before I do. I have non-keyboard tasks I have to do now….

I’ve pretty much given up trying to guess how or why IE behaves (or should I say, ‘misbehaves’?), melbell.

As is written in “The Browser Wars”:

Internet Explorer has become the bane of any forward-thinking web designer’s existance. With the onset of advanced CSS layout techniques, IE6’s rendering engine has been exposed as buggy and unreliable.

whole article here:
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/browserreview.html

I realize that I’m replying rather late to this thread, but these sites may offer better answers:

http://www.positioniseverything.net/ie-primer.html
http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html

Some servers (mine is one of them) do not even allow permissions of 666. I have wordpress .htaccess set to 644 and it works just fine.

I can change the permission to 666 but if I do, it causes wordpress to fail entirely.

I find it a bit disturbing that the wordpress codex suggest chmodding to 666 rather than 644.

600 User can read, write; everyone else has zero permission
644 Everyone can read; only User can read, write.
664 Everyone can read; User and Group can read, write.
666 Everyone in the world can read, write. (not really a good idea, I would think.)

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_04.html#AEN2862

macmanx, scroll up to see that allow_url_fopen() is enabled on my server. However, looking at phpinfo, i see no mention of mod_rewrite.

I took a look at
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

and see a hint about why trackbacks are not working. My server does not allow 666 permissions on folders. The closest I can use is 644. This is getting to be WAY too hard for what’s left of my mind. Perhaps I will just remove the recent trackbacks/pingbacks from view on my sidebar (I’m running wp1.5) – out of sight, out of mind.