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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: image linkFirst of all, avoid dumping images in your wp-content folder. Try using a wp-images or images folder for all your images. It can be under the wp-content or in it’s own folder.
Second, are you looking for the image in your Preview of your Write Post Admin panel or on your site’s web pages? The second link should work IF you have
wp-contentin your root directory.Also see:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_ImagesForum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: blog archive posts to be seen on sidebarForum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: some sidebar contents not shown in inside pagesDifferent Themes change their sidebar contents. In the Default WordPress Theme, there is no sidebar when viewing a single post page. In others, they change the contents on the sidebar. You have one of those themes.
You can add the information you want back to that sidebar, if you figure out how the Theme is changing the content.
Some call a second sidebar, something like
sidebar2.phpas the sidebar for the single post template file. Others use conditional statements in their sidebar to generate content based upon what page is being viewed.All of this is in your
sidebar.phpor another sidebar in your Theme folder.Also see:
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: New Plugin: WP-Dash for Testers/DevelopersDo what? How do you add ?install to the URL – where? in which file? Yikes.
This is really slick but the errors are a bit painful. I visited the Dashboard page and it’s blank. I clicked on Select Widgets and “launched all three” and nothing happened but more errors. I hunted all around my admin panels and there are no widgets there. Hmmm.
Thanks.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: installation help with exhibitFirst, visit the author’s website, usually linked to from the Plugins panel. Find out if anyone else is having the same problems and has found a solution.
Second, contact the plugin author directly if no answer is found on their website.
Third, search through this forum to see if anyone else came up with a solution.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Next and Previous links appear in too many placesDid you replace the code in the spot where your original code was? Or just added it so you have it “everywhere”?
If you are using the
single.phptemplate, then you can put the code there and it will only show up on single post pages.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Possible to add custom emoticons?Yes. Start here:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Rotate the Header Image.First, begin with the Codex article listed above: http://codex.wordpress.org/Designing_Headers
In the new version, the style sheet is called
style.cssand it is found in EVERY Theme, not where the oldwp-layout.csswas found. So you need to change the styles in your Theme’s style sheet, and the header is controlled in theheader.phptemplate.Better yet, start with these, too:
Introduction to Blogging
First Steps with WordPress
WordPress Lessons
New to WordPress – Where to Start
Finding Your CSS Styles
WordPress Blog Design and Layout
Using WordPress Themes
WordPress CSS Information and Techniques
Creating individual Pages
Stepping Into Template TagsForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Previous & Next: how to delete text?Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Organizing pagesSee:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Horizontal_Menus
http://codex.wordpress.org/Styling_Lists_with_CSS
http://codex.wordpress.org/Dynamic_Menu_HighlightingAnd there are a bunch of threads on this forum about “folding pages” which seems to be another term for dynamic or drop down menus. Search for that.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Adding my photo to my blogsSee http://codex.wordpress.org/Designing_Headers which covers a ton of information you need to know about WordPress headers and header images.
Also see:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Images
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons
http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_LayoutForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to remove all references to comment from static page?>>>Once I understand it, I’ll probably use comments.<<<
Yikes, well then keep your original Theme and all the changes you make around with the comments in them.
I just checked your site from the link up top, and you have other problems going on, like the inability to even click a title on your page to get to the individual post, but let’s stick with comments for the moment.
In the lastest version (check DOWNLOADS at the top of the screen), without any plugins I got maybe 5-10 comment spams a week. I have a top page ranking site with over 700 articles. Before the latest version, it was a magnet for all freaks, whackos, and time wasters. Now, almost nothing. Comment spam, for the most part, is controlled and controllable.
With no comment spam coming in, I started to get worried. What if the new process was cutting out GOOD comments? So I installed Paged Comment Editing Plugin from Coldforged which allows me to SEE what WordPress is catching. I was stunned at how little was actually coming through. Using the plugin, click on “include spam” and you will see what is being caught highlighted in a pink background. I can easily delete these, removing them from my database and saving some space. Nice.
Then one day I got hit by about 25 viagra/casino spams. After several months with only the occassional irritant, I was pissed, so I added Bad Behavior Comment Spam Plugin. Again things trickled down to a nothing and I got paranoid again. Comments were being bounced by Bad Behavior before they even got to the comment stage, but it was “too quiet”. So I added Bad Behavior Stats to My Dashboard so I could keep track of what it was doing. WOW, it was catching A LOT. On average, it nails 400 known comment spam spiders, robots, etc., weekly.
But you see what happened? WordPress stopped the majority of the comment spam out of the package. I got paranoid when it wasn’t there so I added plugins to help me deal with MY paranoia not with the lack of spam!
Quit ripping and tearing up your Themes and pick a great one and enjoy the ride. Comment spam is the least of your problems with WordPress. Coming up with good content that attracts visitors and keeps them returning is YOUR biggest problem. 😉
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Dashboard Too SLOWI just checked with Firefox with a cleared cache reloading and the counter at the bottom of the page says loaded in 0.20 seconds. I’m on a medium cable connection with massive stuff running via the Internet. I also use the ShortStat plugin on my Dashboard, which might even slow it down more.
Consider clearing your cache and temp files and trying again and checking for any plugins you have installed that hook into the dashboard.
Also, check to see the loading times of other Admin Panels like the Manage Posts to see how they compare speed wise. Basically the Dashboard is a glorified feed reader and it comes in faster than my own feed reader, so something else might be going on.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Full access to drafts?!About using the page number to access your “drafts” and view them, this is a great ability that I’ve never heard of before, and it’s AWESOME. But why doesn’t it do the same with future published posts? Is there something about the “publish” that returns a 404 while a draft doesn’t?
Now that I know about this, I’m totally in favor of having a button or something that allows viewing of drafts before publishing. Wow.
And I saw that you “converted drafts to notes” and just wanted to add that the new plugin by Chris J Davis, Notepad, allows for Quick conversion of Notes to Drafts. It also features a Press It feature like WordPress that allows one click adding of web page information to your Notes, awaiting your attention later.
http://www.chrisjdavis.org/cjd-notepad/
While this doesn’t address the issue, it is another options worth considering if this worries you.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to remove all references to comment from static page?Every time you change themes, you will have to dig into the theme and remove all the references to comments. Pick one.
The http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages article on WordPress Pages and template for Pages talks about how to create a
page.phpor edit the one you have so you can get rid of the comments there.After having a comment-less site (and not needing one, either) for over 10 years, I was extremely nervous about the comments feature in WordPress. Now, I’m thrilled and grateful. It adds another dimension of interaction to my site, adding to the content. We get few comments, and I’m fast on the comment delete button trigger for nonsense, but for the most part, they are a really nice feature. Trackbacks are really a great feature, lending credibility to an article.