Lorelle
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: retreiving text from a main pageCan you be more specific? You want to retrieve a post from your database onto Pages or other posts? Are you trying to make a blockquote?
If you can be more specific, we can be more helpful. And check the WordPress Codex for more helpful information.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Chmod 666 is it safe?Change it to 666, edit away, then change it back. That’s what it says to do in the Codex. Do it.
Many people make the change, edit their stuff, and never change it back. So the warning is there for a reason, as are the instructions to change it back.
Your feeds are there, they appear to be working. Did you “ping” your site through Technorati or Pingomatic? It should do it automatically, but do it anyway to make sure.
I’ve found that lately, with everyone interested in blogs and Technorati and such, that it is taking longer for my posts to appear on their site directories and such. Give it a couple of days or a week and see if this is the same thing.
And check out Google Blogsearch to see if you are listed there? If not, submit your site there, too.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Don’t know enough about PHP to correct problem :(It’s not a PHP problem. It is a CSS/HTML problem.
Open your Theme’s
style.cssfile and change the width of the#footerto match the width of the second above.If you don’t know how to do this, then upload your backup or original copy of your Theme’s style sheet and it should fix the problem.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: navigation system…(new to this…)I don’t know what you mean by “truly make a blog/site”. You have one. Now blog.
What you have is a version of WordPressMU, which is a limited version of WordPress. You can only do what the host has setup for you. If you want full customization, then you pay for web space with a web host and you can get the full version of WordPress and install it. The link to download is at the top of this screen. Then you can make it look like the second site you linked to.
YOu can find tons of more information in the WordPress Codex and at WordPressMU. Tht should help get you started.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Automatic Keyword filler pluginThere might be one, but keywords are tricky things. You probably use “the” and “most” and “there” a lot in your posts but do you want those as keywords? And the keywords also include variations on a theme. You may have words that are used over and over again in your post, but they are not the words you want and need in order to set the meta tag keywords values.
Honestly, few search engines use meta tags. They do, however, use their own methods of checking keywords from your titles, links, image descriptions, and content, so high keyword concentrations there can do more for you than listing them in meta tags. WordPress comes so ready and open to search engines from the box, if the manual addition of keywords to your posts is tiresome, just let WordPress do its thing. It does it well.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: strange XHTML errorsI’m not sure but for the first error, set the utf to UTF and move the
<title>Live</title>to below your Content-Type reference since the title is above it and it should be below it.As for the second error, I haven’t got a clue, but it might fix itself with the rest is fixed. Never know.
If that doesn’t help, let us know.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Remove line from first post onlyAre you using a plugin to handle excerpts? Or a plugin to post the “Filed in” information at the bottom of your post? Did you put the
<!--more-->at the bottom of your post? Something is triggering the “Read More” tag to show up. It might be that it is forced into the Theme’s design. Or a plugin is triggering the response.Honestly, this first post will fade away like the rest of them chronologlically, so I’d ignore it. If the next post you make is showcased in its entirity with another “read more” tag in there, then there is something else to track down to solve the problem.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: linking catagories to pageshttp://codex.wordpress.org/Linking_Posts_Pages_and_Categories
Will tell you all you need to know to create links to your posts, Pages and categories.
I don’t understand the last part of what you are asking, but I think you want to add a link to your podcast categories from your podcast post? Just follow the instructions above or help me understand just a little better.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Formatting Static PagesWhat do you mean by static pages? You mean Pages? Then check that link. As for creating line breaks, fonts, and so on styles, see the various resources on the WordPress Codex such as CSS and Blog Design and Layout.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Categories Blank and Archives Throw 404 ErrorThe Theme author might be using one of the template tags associated with categories and archives which forces the categories and archives to display whether or not there are posts. Put some posts into those categories and see if that solves your problem.
Or go into the template files with the categories listings (usually
sidebar.php) and change the Template Tags parameters to not show if there are no posts. Then the categories will disappear until you have posts in them.Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: narchives displaying as code not HTMLThere is no latest version, just a lot of people who adore narchives and find that it doesn’t play well with WordPress 1.5. We keep begging for a new or improved version…but…what can you do.
Your page looks fine to me. I couldn’t find any problems. So it looks like you got it working. There are a lot of instructions on fixing this on this forum, so search for “narchives” to find the tips.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Blix Theme Edits p2There are tons of instructions on how to do this in the WordPress Codex, the online manual.
Start with Site Architecture 1.5 to help you isolate the specific tags you are looking for in their section. Try to match those with your Theme. Then change the part you need change.
For example, search for “Go!” and when you find it in the searchform.php template, change the word to “Search”.
Making your “leave a comment” text or box different is no different. Find the section and then make the changes. You may have to make presentation changes in your
style.cssstyle sheet file to change the look.“Speech Bubble Icon”? Again, look in the style sheet and template files for the reference to that graphic and get rid of it.
See also Finding Your CSS Styles.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Google moving Blogs to blogsearch.google.comCrap! You’re right. Well, you are almost right.
I searched for my wordpress.com site, which is designated as a “blog” for all intents and purposes, and found one link from the Google search and a whole bunch from blogsearch.
Then I used
site:lorelle.wordpress.comon Google and found a ton of stuff.I think Google is changing a lot of things around. Will it be better? Who knows. Try using the above example on your WordPress site. You can use on Google and Blogsearch and see the results are different.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Does WP have a WYSIYG editorThere are several WYSIWYG plugins available and there is work underway to include a WYSIWYG editor in WordPress 1.6, coming soon. It is something a lot of people want but it is also a lot of trouble as they aren’t “perfect”. Serious users usually give up on the novelty of them pretty fast.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins#Posts has some listed there.