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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Backing up contentAnd all the information and instructions you need for backing up your entire site is at WordPress Backups.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Doocy MiniPosts – how to display post title/permalinkYou have to use whatever tags that the plugin recommend. Check the documentation and see what it says and contact the author. The plugin may or may not use typical WordPress template tags.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: When Posting a help questionAnd if this isn’t enough, see Getting_More_Help and Using the Support Forums.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Home Page link on ImageAnd if that doesn’t match your header layout, see all the instructions at Designing Headers.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress as cmsActually, there is no “best way” but a decision about which CMS features you want and then adding them. What CMS features do you want? Then we can direct you to the right resources.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comment tagged as spam show upYou can change the number of links which trigger moderation in the Options > Discussions panel. 3 links triggers potential spam.
You can look carefully through the text in the comments to find out what might be triggering recognition of comment spam and then remove those keywords from the built in spam words list.
If you are using Spam Karma, then you can adjust the level in the Options.
For more information, see Fighting Comment Spam in WordPress.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Add “Last Updated” for the Page itself.Simply edit the Pages template file and add the link from this plugin (install the plugin first) http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/last-modified/ wherever you want it. There are a couple other plugins that will also do this.
You can find more information at http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Meta_Data_Section
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: pretty permalinks w/ dropdown catsPermalinks are created when a person visits your site. In the most basic explanation, when they visit, the browser checks the
.htaccessfile which instructions the bowser to display the “pretty permalinks” link in the address bar. These are also created, using WordPress’s functions with the “post slug” on the Write Post panel.Is the drop down cats function in your actual page set there with a plugin or by the template tag in your template file? Or are you talking about choosing from a drop down menu in your Administration Panels?
YOu can see more information on this at http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/dropdown_cats
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: children-category with parent template?See Category Templates for a variety of ways to do this. On my site I had more than 30 category template files until I changed to the one category template with variables listed in the article which allows me to customize each category page with those variables. You can check it out and see the instructions in the article.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Issue with Sidebar….Without specific issues to direct us to what the problem is, the picture only tells part of the story. Part of that story is the validation errors that need to be fixed. From there, you are going to have to be more specific. Is it the fact that the main white area doesn’t go down all the way? Point us after you get the errors fixed.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Adding sidebar to Contact FormForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: parent categories not showing in permalinksI haven’t found a consistent way to have the name of the category show up in any permalinks. I know that if you have the latest Apache version on your site, there are some plugins that will allow you to use categories in your permalinks, but it is not for the timid and weak hearted and I think it has problems, too.
http://isaacschlueter.com/2005/08/category_permalinks_in_apache_1_3/
http://boren.nu/archives/2005/03/07/reduced-rewrite-plugin/Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Dice Rolling PluginCheck any of the PHP or Javascript script places to see if they have something like that. I’ve not seen a specific WordPress plugin, but you can create a template Page on your WordPress site that has a plugin in the template file that will generate any PHP script that will do that. I’m sure there must be something like that as many students do random scripts which return random numbers as part of their studies.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Can’t add my feed to My Yahoo…See Search Engine Optimization for WordPress in the Codex and then contact Yahoo. If your feed validates, then there is little we can do.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Disable comments completely – not workingFirst of all, which version of WordPress are you using? Make sure it is the latest version available from the DOWNLOAD link at the top of this screen. The spam fighting tools are amazing that come built in.
Second, try two of the best comment spam fighting tools. Bad Behavior and Spam Karma 2. Both of these plugins will put an end to your comment spam woes.
In other words – put back the core template files that you removed unwittingly and give these a try.
To totally turn off comments, then in your Administration Panel, go to Options > Discussion and turn off comments there.
I have several websites all using Bad Behavior (BB) and a couple using Spam Karma 2 and I have little or no problems with spam and these are heavy traffic sites.
For more information, see Fighting Comment Spam in the WordPress Codex.