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Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Would love it to give feedback on my blogObviously it’s the Blue-Grafixx 1.0 theme by Alice. The new top graphic is nice but other than that nothing sets it apart.
As far as appealing to a “large audience” most bloggers do but that is hard to do with the millions that are around now.
If you write well on a subject you enjoy and that gets through to your readers the traffic will come. However, you have to make a decision are you blogging for an audience or yourself?
If you intend on writing about IPod’s as your latest post does or other techy things do it. But throwing up posts on your sick green frog will only be of interest to a very small circle of friends and family.
Anyone else that is interested in your other posts more than likely won’t be bothered to wade through the personnel posts to read what they came looking for.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How long it will take to approve a wordpress theme..What “WordPress.net?
There is WordPress.org where you are now and WordPress.com where free hosting of WP blogs is available.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: New Look ThemeFunny for us, but not so when “John Law” comes knocking looking for the thief.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .com to .org migration – url problemFor everyones general interest this problem was solved via finally getting the .htaccess code entered correctly.
Specifically a modification of spencerp’s code above.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /motorsports/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /motorsports/index.php [L]
</IfModule>RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^motorsports.cranialcavity.net$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.motorsports.cranialcavity.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://cranialcavity.net/motorsports/index.php [R=301,L]Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .com to .org migration – url problem1. It doesn’t seem to matter how the permalinks are set in the root blog. And to clarify, the only blog that is having the problem is one just imported from WP.com. The other three on the domain are ok.
2. I’ll give the almost pretty idea a shot. I have been reluctant to mess with the options section again. Last time I did it trashed the entire blog and I had to clear the database and reimport data from WP.com blog.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .com to .org migration – url problemAgain, no luck with your code spencerp.
It still kicks over to the base blog. when you add “index.php” to the url in the address bar it displays the correct blog however the individual posts still return a 404.
I’ve got to take a couple hours break at the moment before my head explodes. With luck another idea will pop into the thread.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .com to .org migration – url problemThis is what is in it now. Note, I updated the permalinks to cranialcavity.net/motorsports/post title and the following is what WP gave for the .htaccess.
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RewriteBase /motorsports/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /motorsports/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
~Also it gave the “if your file was writable” if you know what I mean. Obviously because the motorsports dir didn’t have one. I created one with the code given and the new p-link structure was created. BUT the problem still persists AND individual posts give a 404.
I’ll go in a use your code to see what that does.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .com to .org migration – url problemLet me rephrase that spencerp. The base blog on the domain is cranialcavity.net/index.php, a political blog
The blog I have migrated over from WP.com is Asian Motor sports, and it should display at cranialcavity.net/motorsports.
However it doesn’t it redirects to the political blog plus the 404 because they are on two different databases.
When adding .index.php to the motorsports url it calls up the correct blog with the correct database.
Hope that straightens out any confusion.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .com to .org migration – url problemspencerp… that the exact problem.
When going to cranialcavity.net/motorsports it’s actually redirecting to the base blog on the domain. The 404 is the result of not being on the same datebase I assume.
Add the index.php to that url and you arrive in the correct place Asian Motor Sports.
Go figure.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .com to .org migration – url problemNo go Firas! I followed Podz instructs to the letter, no change is the result.
In fact both fields when called up in phpmyadmin were correct.
The ‘siteurl’ option_name was set to cranialcavity.net/motorsports
And the “Home” table also was at cranialcavity.net/motorsports
As a precaution I saved each as they were written but it resulted in no change in blog behavior.
Anyone else want to take a stab at the problem?
Is it possible because I have not set my permalinks that my contribute to or be that cause? Currently they are set at the default (?p=xxx)
Oh joy…. just noticed going to the Dashboard ver 2.0.5 has been released. Guess I should have waited 24 hours to start this move and with the latest WP ver.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .com to .org migration – url problemThanks spencerp will do if my site ever comes back up.
The reason I attempted to add “index.php” at the end of the url is it will actually call-up the blog if you use the entire url i.e. cranialcavity/motorsports/index.php
Without that “index” suffix it trashes the entire blog, even the dashboard.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .com to .org migration – url problemThanks vkaryl, I didn’t expect a response from someone with no experience with the problem. Funny thing is, actually sad, I had this problem once before in setting up my original WP blog after moving away from MT three years ago.
Firas, I’ll give your suggestion a shot when the site comes back up. Normally the host is pretty reliable, only 4 outages in 3 years. But this time even the hosts site is down.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .com to .org migration – url problemStill no interest in this problem. Oh well not that it makes much difference at the moment.
My host has decided that it would be “nice” to crash the server I’m on.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .com to .org migration – url problemNo takers yet?
That’s OK, sooner or later someone will.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: a rantOne thing is missing here. krautland has mentioned coding yet he knows html.
Fine not a problem, WP shouldn’t need any sort of coding. Except what everyone so far has missed: the coding involved in what he wants to do, the design side and that involves CSS coding.
Not to sound like a smart a** but I’m afraid the state of net design now dictaes some knowledge of CSS.
And I’m not afraid to say, every blogging platform today will require you to learn the CSS side of coding if you want to “personelize” your blog.
The CSS is only one file, don’t be intimidated by all the other files. That one CSS file determines the look of every page of your blog.