Michael Bishop
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Getting the most out of our blogsa google search will return scores of blog posts about “Top 10 WP Plugins”, and a search of these forums will also return several threads about essential/favorite plugins.
I don’t think we need another thread, just MVHO.
Another amendment. As I do have some affiliate links for Siteground on a site I run (though I don’t use them), I was concerned with this reaction, and contacted them inquiring into their boasts of being a “top WordPress host”. They assured me the attacks were coming from multiple IPs, and have since helped the OP resolve the issues and have the site back up.
If anyone has different information, I’d love to hear it.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Need a plugin built for $$Money$$http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-pro
might be worth a shot as well.
Contact email is in post, thread closed.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: A great template!– preferably completely changeable graphics “in the panels around the blog text”, bar that, to change the top logo and perhaps change background. Is this easy, or do only certain templates allow this?
This is usually done by changing the images in your theme, either by replacing image with a new image of the same name, or adding the new image and editing the CSS– left sidebar that doesn’t scroll with the page so you have it clickable no matter where you read.
There was a plugin to achieve this, but not sure the name off the top of my head– say, 5 or 6 clickable categories at the top that lead to a completely other page, i.e. all panels change content
not sure about that, you might want to read through the codex (http://codex.wordpress.org) about the differences between categories, posts and Pages– text flow with inlaid pictures and blockquotes must work 100%.
Again, a CSS issue. Some themes will have CSS in place to float the image either left or right, you simply add the class to the img hmtl Blockquotes are the same, CSS. Some will have it coded, some won’t– ability to put the occasional gif anim in a few places
Another CSS issue, unless you are wanting to put it in a post– retro style (think old computer CRTs), wouldn’t mind some shades of blue or Zbrush color scheme though
just gonna have to wade through themes.wordpress.net or do some googling– smallish fonts for the text More CSS
– maybe smileys/icons in the text are possible?
smileys are built into WP and there are a few plugins to extend themIt really sounds as if you need to adopt a theme that suites you to a degree, then slowly work on customizing it.
Blog_Design_and_Layout is a good starting point, and just digging into existing themes, pulling relevant code, CSS, and hack away.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Images next to post titlesIt will be difficult to have it above the title text, as the template calls the post title, then the content, so you’d have to create a class that moved the image above the post.
Currently you are using an align on the image, you really should use a class to float the image. Since you are using a modified version of the default theme, there’s already classes for such. .alignright .alignleft.
So your image code would be
<img class="alignleft" src="somelink" alt="image" title="title" />Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Modify Publish Line in PostsCan you be more specific as to what you mean by “published lined in the posts”?
Do you mean the date? Yes that is configurable, and is theme dependent.
You would need to edit the template tags within the specific templates.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Using the WYSIWYG editor for pluginsNo, there’s no simple way to simply call the editor for the plugin area.
I’m sure there’s a way to add it, but would require rewriting the plugin.
What plugin are you using that has such a field that would require the editor?
I’d like to amend my comment. The server my sites are on have been going down for the past 24 hours, and ultimately my host determined it was a similar issue with a blog on the same server. They indeed addressed the problem on the server side by blocking the offending attacks, not by disabling the site being attacked.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: using wp for main domain and a sub domain, please helpEveryone starts out a newbee at some point. That’s why the forums are here. It doesn’t matter which install you change the prefix on.
You only need to alter the config.php file, no need to upload all the other files again.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Keyword hellDon’t add so many combination of tags. Each tag is basically a “keyword”. So adding if your post is about apples, bananas, and cherries, don’t tag your post apple banana, banana apple, apple cherry, cherry apple, etc.
Simply use apple, banana, cherry.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: using wp for main domain and a sub domain, please helpNo, that doesn’t sound right. You will need to install WP in both your home directory, and the subdomain. If you intend on using two different themes, you will need to change the prefix for one of the install in the config.php file.
I’m not familiar with “installatron” so I can’t say what the process is with installing scripts.
Truthfully, if you are going to host your own blogs, you should really familiarize yourself with FTP and learn to do this manually. Installing_WordPress is a good place to start.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Dusk 1.2Actually, Google isn’t a friend on this issue. The download link for the theme is http://beccary.weblogs.us/dusk.zip , which wasn’t working earlier.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Using the WYSIWYG editor for pluginsCan you be more specific on how you want to “use” it with plugins?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Blocking Anonymous Proxiesmypenza – how recently did you use Bad Behavior. I believe since 2.0, a lot of those issues have been resolved, I think the current version is 2.0.8
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Editing WP pages in Frontpageperhaps the issue is with index.html vs the index.php file. tricknick didn’t mention the name of the page uploaded.