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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Backup Sob StoriesOkay, I give. Is Tarball and Compress the name of a program or utility? Do you have a link? Or is it something else?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Database plugin?I’m not sure what you are trying to do, but I recommend you just phpMyAdmin:
http://codex.wordpress.org/phpmyadmin
If you can be more clear about what you want to generate, then we can be more specific.
If you want more control over how you view and access your posts within the Admin Panel, try this plugin:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Without the first post…There isn’t a “way”. Just delete it before you import.
Simple and easy.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress Backup Week July 23-30Still, it’s good to know that there are other choices. And having a backup in one of those PLUS gmail…hmmm, that might be a wise way of spreading your options.
My teenage nephew, who thinks he knows everything 😉 (and I’m sure does), exclaimed that this was DUMB! “What if the whole Internet went down? You would lose your backups!”
While his is the voice of ~~experience – eh hem ~~ speaking, it does raise a good point. I think the point comes from playing too many “destruction of the world” videos and watching similar movies, but access to the backups via the Internet takes on a whole new meaning when access TO the Internet is limited.
Such is our life on the road sometimes where it may be a week or more between internet connections when we’re traveling, let alone time enough for long downloads or transfers of files.
Having a variety of backup resources for us works well, so if “something” does happen to our site while traveling, without waiting for long downloads from the email or other online backup sites, we could upload from a backup on our computer or saved CD much faster.
Power in backup diversity. 😉
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: import-mt.php failsHaving battled this myself, with over 500 entires, you have to manually inspect it for the thing that is causing the problem.
I recommend you cut up your import into smaller chunks. If the first one works, great, go on to the next. If the third one borks, then either cut that one up into smaller import chunks until one borks, or go through it manually looking for something that may cause the problem. It could be the use of a code or quote or some combination that causes the problem.
It’s a process of elimination rather than a specific answer because the problem could be a variety of things. The importing works, and the following article gives really good instructions:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_from_Movable_Type_to_WordPressGood luck!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Structured BloggingI don’t know what that website is, but if you would like help with WordPress, this is the place.
What do you mean about “reviews”? You have to be more specific with what help you need.
To get you started, take a look at the helpful advice here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_LayoutForum: Plugins
In reply to: “Un-screwing up” smart quote modificationIf you want them back, either upgrade, if you don’t have the latest version, or if you do, download it again and copy over the appropriate core files.
There shouldn’t be a reason to run upgrade.php, just copy them over and it should work.
Oh, BACKUP FIRST.
😉
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Retaining sidebar elements when switching themesTo retain the customized information in your sidebar from Theme to Theme, you must copy the information from one
sidebar.phpto anothersidebar.phpin the other Theme’s folder.If they are “similar” in layout and form, you can just copy the old one into the new folder and it should work.
For more on customizing your sidebar:
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Plugin for per post xhtml correction?Try RunPHP
http://www.nosq.com/2004/10/runphp-wordpress-plugin/
It allows you to turn on recognition of PHP code within a post on a per post basis.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Editor in post.phpAre you talking about the built-in editor that comes with WordPress? Or the Write Post Panel where you write your posts?
Okay, here is information on both.
How to edit files in the two build-in editors that come with WordPress (one is the File Editor and the other is the Theme editor but they both do the same basic thing. http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_Files
To understand how to write a post and more about the Write Post panel:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts
http://codex.wordpress.org/Write_Post_SubPanelIf this isn’t what you need, let us know.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Google Adsense detectionYou might contact Adsense and ask them. If the ads search for keywords, then you should be using a keyword plugin or adding keywords to your meta tags. If they actually scan the information on the generated page before it generates, then maybe it isn’t getting the information it needs before processing the ads. That could be because of the hard coding.
Check with Adsense on how they handle the process and see if it is getting the information out of synch with your posts.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress Backup Week July 23-30Thanks for the info, bk.
What about other methods of storying backups on the net? Are there backup/storage space you can “rent”?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Header help *any css heads spare 5 mins?There is a very good article that will help you with adding an image to your header and gives you the breakdown of how the header works and how to style it at http://codex.wordpress.org/Designing_Headers
I’ve looked at your site and I don’t see the gap you are talking about. I see a black “border” around your content area but it looks like it belongs since it seems to follow the pattern around.
To help you track down your stray CSS, see:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Finding_Your_CSS_Styles
And we can “see” your CSS so you don’t have to post it here. We’re “experts at this”. 😉
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Posts, Pages and ‘Bits’??You also might like to see this article on adding asides: