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if it’s ok in testing, perhaps it’s ok. I don’t think anyone can comment on this without knowing more, and perhaps seeing your source code. I would recommend you test it against other widgets/plugins that also use The_Author_Description tag and see if they co-exist.

I use the rewrite rules for a varity of sites, and never have a problem. But I also put the blog in it’s own directory, where it should be if you’re going to mix it with other software/pages. You have your forum in it’s own directory right? Is there a reason you don’t want to do the same for wordpress?

Here’s what I typically do. Perhaps it will be useful for you. I put wordpress in it’s own dir. I turn on permalinks, and let it makes it’s own .htaccess in it’s dir. In the root dir (up one level), I put something like this for .htaccess.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^$ /wordpress/ [R]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /wordpress/&$1

That could be expanded if you wanted to redirect specific pages, but basically, if someone goes to yourdomain.com, they plop into your wordpress blog. You can still have a separate index.html or index.php in the root html dir and it will work fine.

Does this help you?

if you have gd installed (who doesn’t?) you could check to see if a thumbnail exists, and if not, create it. it’s not a big deal to an image of any starting size and thumbnail it to specific dimensions. that would be fine if you weren’t concerned about cropping to a particular center point. you’d still have the option of creating your own custom thumbnail and overwriting the autogenerated one.

Best of luck to you Will. I hope you report back here to let us now how things work out for you.

It sounds like you’ve got some more breathing room now. It’s still important to make it run as efficiently as possible, so you don’t outgrow the new box too soon. I’ve found I often ‘forget’ the problems I’ve had when the spike is gone and things are cruising fine again. If I don’t continue to make efforts to watch and improve efficiency, it comes back and bites me in the rump. I hope you don’t fall into that trap!

Oh, and this says a lot right here ->
<!– Dynamic Page Served (once) in 0.366 seconds –>
<!– Cached page served by WP-Cache –>

btw, anything happening with Tom Jones lately? 🙂

Thanks flammo. Although I tend to not recommend it for a business website, I have used it on a business site or two. I’ve found that most people are running javascript, so it’s not been a problem. My main reason for using it is so I have some position: fixed elements. I like to put a menu bar at the top that doesn’t move.

It can depend on the theme. Some themes even had an option that let’s you specify in the admin panel which side the sidebar will appear on. Almost Spring is one such theme.

Typically you’ll find a float: right (or float: left) for the sidebar wrapper. Look for it in the stylesheet (ends in .css) You can try changing it, and see if it works. Depending on how the CSS was written, it may work fine. But be sure to check all browsers, just because it looks right in one, it may not in others.

If that doesn’t work, then I would suggest you study up on css a bit, or get specific about which theme in your queries here, or perhaps even contact the theme author.

flammobammo, the solution I’ve suggested does not modify anyone’s IE. It rewrites the DOM with javascript, fixing IE’s incorrect interpretation of CSS, removing the need to have a next of complicated hacks in your CSS. One of the important things is fixes is the box model, which is the source of many of the problems with wp templates. It doesn’t require anyone to do anything to modify their IE installation. It’s works automatically when the surfer visits your site. The *only* requirement is that the visitor has javascript enabled, and the vast majority of visitors already have it on.

I’m personally not interested in flash based sites, but I wouldn’t call it a disaster (that’s a bit harsh IMO). But I don’t like waiting. Even for the initial loading. If I was surfing there for the content, I wouldn’t have gotten as far as I did. If you think your intended audience will like what you’ve done, then good job. The site has a very nice look to it. I won’t tell you not to be so heavy with the flash, since, well, I’m not the boss of you.