manstraw

gotcha

the roles manager plugin give you access to a setting for unfiltered html. I haven’t tested it though.

there is also a setting in each user profile for using the visual editor, which you might need off.

and if those don’t do it, you can turn off filtering functions by adding something like this to functions.php in your theme:

remove_filter("the_content", "wpautop");

cruise the wordpress file functions-formatting.php for to see what other filters you might be able to turn off.

You change that picture by replacing the file in the theme you are using. You use an ftp program, or whatever method you used to install your wordpress and theme. If you posted a url, I could be more specific.

He might have some conflicting rewrite rules in another .htaccess file.

Did wordpress automatically make the .htaccess file? Or did you copy the code it recommended and install it yourself? If you installed it yourself, make sure you put it in /journal/, and not the html root.

I don’t have time to study the whole script, but I can give you a quick tip on the code you posted.

if ( $user_nickname<> "" )
echo $user_nickname ;

That bit can be changed to add the word welcome by changing it to the following:

if ( $user_nickname<> "" )
echo "welcome" . $user_nickname ;

As far as asking a guest to register, I would assume this admin bar is only visible if a person is logged in right? If it’s always visible, the above code could be modified. If it’s not always visible, you’d need to find where it decides to display it or not. Most likely where the function is called.

Here is how that above could should be changed if the admin bar is always visible:

if ( $user_nickname<> "" ) {
echo "welcome" . $user_nickname ; }
else {
echo "please log in"; }

You could change please log in to anything, and perhaps even code in an a tag to link to the login page.

Well, it looks mostly correct in the Internet Explorer beta. (I don’t have 6 anymore). I notice you’re missing some <ul> type stuff. The missing alt attributes shouldn’t affect display, but it would be good to include them. Fix up the tags for your lists and see if that solves your problem.

Also, I thought the ie7 javascript tag needed to be in the within head. You have it in body. I’m not certain if it works where you’ve put it. And I also don’t see the js files on your server. Not going to work without them!

The key bit is the global variable $user_nickname. Try sticking that in in the right place. See that one line:

Welcome <?php echo $user_nickname ?>.

I don’t know the plugin you are using, but you said you already found the place you want to have it show up, so I assume you can give this a shot.

glad you got it sorted.

it’s quite possible that the download was corrupt. ya never know.

those automatic installs are not usually kept up to date. something to check before using them. as long as you can manually update/install, it would be fine.