Marc
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Turn on, Turn offShort answer: No you have to edit the index.php and possibly the comments.php (if displayed) files to remove it.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Text changed to italics, Please helpI agree! I dumped the page when it was at mid-May posts and was only half finished loading.
That’s what archive are for guy, dump that stuff.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: legal blogging question… and people hot link images all the time, but i understand from a law perspective why this is a no-no.
Because “people hot link all the time” that makes it ok? Sorry just like copying someones images without permission that is theft of the other sites bandwidth.
Hot linking should be avoided also just to prevent the possibility of legal problems.
OUCH! Nice shot Whooami
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: shifting templateIt must be a problem with IE, everything is in line with Firefox.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Moving WordPress to a New ServerThis may help.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: wrapping text around a picture in a postIt would help if you provided a link to your blog.
You note the use of the Black Letterhead theme and it more than likely has the css coded for text wrap but without a link it’s hard to determine the form it takes.
Check your stylesheet for a section on images that may get you started.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Any Suggestions To Get Rid Of This Cyberstalker?apparantly, you’ve ticked someone off. it’s not up to us to figure out who…
Exactly… then has the audacity to spam the WP forum airing their complaints.
Be gone with you.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: I am being PlaigarisedBased on the “greetings-new-readers” post which shows that author copied the entire post they are in fact in violation of the Fair Use policy. Here is part of the applicable section:
Fair use or fair practice is utilization of a portion of a copyrighted work “as is” for purposes of parody, news reporting, research and education about such copyrighted work without the permission of the author.
He/she clearly hasn’t followed that guideline.
While I wouldn’t suggest you not place a Creative Commons badge on your site (by all means go ahead) in reality it will more than likely be ignored by scum like this.
Recontact the persons host with the reference to the Fair Use link and see what happens.
I would also recommend you install the Blog Copyright Plugin. It places a notice at the end of every post you publish to your RSS feed.
If a site scrapes your feed via some type of “auto scraping software” the notice will appear on their site as well with a note to contact your “legal department.”
I have a feeling the scumbag you are having the problem with is manually stealing your posts but the plugin still goes a long way in stopping others from theft of your copyrighted work.
For anyone that is interested to see if their own work has been copied to other sites use the Copyscape website. Interesting enough it will even return cases of your own site quoting other sites.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Where do I edit any of these template files?You should also see at the bottom of the edit window “if you had write permissions…”
Or something close ( don’t remember the exact phrase) You need to either go thru your CPanel via your host or via an FTP client, access the theme files, and chmod the files to 666. Once that is done your save button should appear.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: How can I change this?The file you are looking for is the sidebar.php file and it contains the blogroll list. However to change that list you need to go thru your dashboard under the links tab.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to access the source code of my blog and change things.From the Dashboard and under the presentation tab select “Theme Editor.”
There you will find all the files that make up the design and layout of your theme. Select the one for the stylesheet and look for this code:
body {background: #fff;
font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #333;
text-transform: lowercase;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
text-align: center; /* IE 5.5 hack */
either delete the text transform section or change it from “lowercase” to “none”
NOTE: you wil need to ensure your theme files are “writable.” Either through your hosts CPanel or through a FTP client chmod the files to 666 so you can modify them.
Here is a chmod Tutorial
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: About repairing the Navigation panelIt would help if you gave a link to the page referenced. The only link provided goes to a non-WordPress site.
However replacing the sidebar with the original should not be a problem unless you modified it in a way other than what you describe.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Where is main WordPress HTML file?There is no html file as such. The html you see in the source code is produced by the PHP coding contained in your template files.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Why would a post show on an individual page and not the index?Nevermind running a scan on the database cleared the problem.