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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can you restrict users to write to only 1 category?I’ve got role manager and limit categories intalled on one of my blogs and they’ve working fine. It’s only version 2.0.3 of wordpress though. Role Manager is version 1.4.4 and Limit Categories is 1.5.2.
Because I have the same version of limit categories, and I don’t have a parse error, I recommend you redownload and reinstall it. A parse error happens before execution. It simply means there is a missed or extra character somewhere. A fresh download/install should take care of that.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Display only one category in sidebar (in separate div)mpavlou, read this page > http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats and scroll down to where it says Categories with Excludes
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can you restrict users to write to only 1 category?For the OP’s requirements, what I’ve suggested is completely appropriate.
And there is an elegant way to restrict a group of users to a group of categories. A combination of the Role Manager and Limit Categories plugins does exactly that. Create a role, limit categories for that role. Done. The OP’s needs are atypical, in that he wants a one to one relationship between category and user, which ultimately makes categories redundant.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can you restrict users to write to only 1 category?Then only have uncategorized as a topic. I can’t remember if a regular Author can create a category, but I don’t think they can. The Role Manager plugin let’s you adjust the capabilities if you need that.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can you restrict users to write to only 1 category?You don’t really need categories. You can simply have everyone post uncategorized (renamed it what you like), and then create links to the authors posts. So instead of a list of categories, you have a list of authors, and clicking an author will bring up a page of their posts.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Moved to new server but get blank white pagewell, I’m starting to think there’s another problem. I recommend you reinstall all the files from scratch.
I sometimes use http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html to see what happens in the response to a http request. It’s giving me this error “HTTP header termination string not found”.
If your database wasn’t available, you’d get a response for that. So that makes me think it’s in the files, or perhaps rewrite rules. Do you have permalinks on? Check for .htaccess files that might already be on your server. Perhaps there is a conflict.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: abuse of poststhose ip lookups aren’t always very reliable. which one did you use?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: I want to redesign my blogwhy are spam, hijack and modlook tags added to this thread?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Moved to new server but get blank white pagehmm, next day for me, and it’s still not coming up.
make a file called phpinfo.php and put this in it
<?php
echo phpinfo;
?>visiting http://sufian.org/phpinfo.php should provide a page of php config values and such. can you see that page properly?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: I want to redesign my blogI have no problem viewing your site.
You basically want to build yourself a custom theme. You’ll stick everything you have right now for your site into a folder in wordpress/wp-content/themes/yourthemefolder, and then replace the body part of your index.php file with a wordpress loop. There’s more to it than that, but I’m talking big picture here. You can use lady’s links for more specific info.
If you look at an existing theme, you’ll see standard website stuff, but with specific items replaced with php calls. You can hard code some of those if you like, your title for example. Some of those items are replaced with php calls so that you can change their values within the wordpress admin area and they’ll instantly be reflected on the site without going in and editing the theme. If you want to do this for yourself, and not release it as a proper theme, you can get away with not doing a lot of those php calls.
The bare essential stuff you need on your webpage is a main loop and a sidebar for blog navigation. Again, more to it than that, but designing a theme for wordpress isn’t that different that what you’ve already done.
Plenty of people who design themes don’t understand php. It’s all pretty cut and paste. Nothing to be intimidate by.
Consider this post more of a pep talk than technical advice.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Moved to new server but get blank white pageif i type a nonsense uri, I don’t even get a 404. i would second the opinion that your dns might need to settle.
this works > http://sufian.org/wp-admin/images/wordpress-logo.png
this doesn’t > http://sufian.org/wp-admin/
I suppose you could have an issue with your wordpress file uploads. You could try uploading them again. Better is to uncompress them right on the server. do you have shell access?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Display only one category in sidebar (in separate div)that page isn’t coming up for me, so I can’t check it out.
But I just remembered the Category Order plugin. http://www.coppit.org/code/ (scroll to the bottom). It lets you custom order the list of categories, and will also let you add spacers, so you can split a category off in the display. I’m not sure how much control you have over how that displays, but it’s worth checking out.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: exhausted memoryglad you’ve got it sorted! and I’m really glad you didn’t have a borked database. and I really should have suggested you turn off plugins myself! it’s the first thing I do when I’m diagnosing anything. I kind of skipped over that with your problem. Fortunately, the force is with handysolo! 😉
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: exhausted memoryI have another thought. I wonder if this could be somehow due to disk space. I wouldn’t really think so, but you seem to be putting a lot of pictures on your site, and they take up disk space. Can you find out how near your limit you are? Do you have some kind of control panel that will tell you?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: exhausted memoryI really think the database got borked, whatever the reason. Does the backup function within wordpress work? I think that plugin comes with 2.0.2. Anyway, what I’m getting at it that you should run a backup of the database, and then get in there with phpmyadmin and see if you can repair the database. I think someone suggested optimizing it earlier in this thread. There are other functions in phpmyadmin that may repair your problem. You can check, repair, analyse, and optimize each individual table in your mysql database.
edut: I just read back and see you did some of this.
I would personally go further, rebuilding the site from scratch. Only to be attempted after a thorough backup of your database and all of your files. Without knowing where the problem is, you may be forced ‘cut butter with a chainsaw’ if you know what I mean.
