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Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: www.johnbeales.com – re-designNice, although the font size is rather small in my opinion. Bit of a strain, which makes me not want to bother reading the content.
It’s also not quite XHTML valid, which seems to be the result of your posts rather than the theme itself.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WORD CUT & PASTE PROBLEM: NO GRAPHS HELPIt boils down to this:
you CAN copy and paste from MS Word, and (some of the time) it will show up on your site in an acceptable manner. Sometimes, however, it will not.
The additional formatting that results from using Word can do strange things to your overall layout and theme, and certainly affect the presentation of the given post in different browsers (e.g. firefox, opera, and so on). It will also break your XHTML validation.
I understand the convenience of it; it’s the medium I work in, and having to copy and paste things into Notepad/whatever before pasting into WP, and then formatting again, is a pain beyond belief. But the alternative for visitors to your site is ultimately worse.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Seeking a WordPress Mentor/GuideI would argue that you can only be guided if your questions are specific enough. It sounds like you either need to learn some coding, or pay someone to code it for you.
If neither are real possibilities, for a good starting template, which you can then go CSS-mad on in order to transform it into a Japan-style blog, why not try the Sandbox: http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/
Add some widgets for the Yen/Dollar conversion, perhaps a flickr/whatever widget for your photos, and so on. Widgets are literally a drag and drop process, so even someone like me can handle those.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Making All Sidebars the SameUsually in Scott’s themes, he provides an Options Page in the Presentation Menu (in your Admin panel.) One of the options is to have the individual pages as either single column, or incorporating the menu.
Certainly this is the case with veryplaintxt and, I think, barthelme. I would presume it’s the same for blog.txt, as Scott has the menu showing up on the individual pages on his own site: http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/08/06/sandbox-now-available/
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Member Information ManagementThanks for this.
That would, if I’m reading it right, only list site authors? Ideally I’d like to list everyone who registers on the site, whether they post or not.
Looks like I may have to just add people’s profiles manually, and separately…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Steady Theme?Just to add myself to the mix, I would wholeheartedly advocate what moshu said, both on validation and looking at other themes.
The one you’ve got at the moment looks strangely antiquated, and not particularly professional; you’d be much better off, IMHO, with a “jazzier” theme and, whilst you’re at it, you can also get one that validates, thus taking care of all your problems.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Blog header alignmentFunnily enough, it looks fine in Opera.
In IE, however, the site is screwed. Not only is your header wonky, your sidebar is at the bottom of the screen, and your pictures overlap badly. Try fixing your errors so the site validates as XHTML:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.explorewindows.com%2FBlogs
Oh, and you may just have to wait more than 7 minutes for any other responses. Patience is a virtue, and all that…
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Looking for suggestions for a catagory pluginSamsarin, you are a wonderful, wonderful person.
Many thanks for the widget; works flawlessly on my site.
(Just as an FYI, however, I believe the widget (at least) breaks XHTML validation.)
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Plugin to handle membership infromation?Any chance of widgetizing this/making it a lot simpler? I have no idea where to start with those instructions (which freely admit you need some php knowledge.)
Alternatively, can anyone recommend any other member management plugins out there? Desperately needed…
Many thanks.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: now-reading library problemJust try taking:
<div id=”content” class=”now-reading primary narrowcolumn”>
out of the library.php and see what that does (you can always put it straight back.) I had some issues with now-reading and getting it to work with my site, and I eventually managed to get my header and footer in there, although it still doesn’t look overly pretty.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Why link single-post header to Permalink?Joel, of course, may not be listening (the thread is nearly a year old, after all…)
As an aside, I keep the permalinks there as much because that is what people are used to when they visit a weblog, as I do for SEO purposes.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Looking for suggestions for a catagory pluginsamsarin,
I’d like to implement your drop-down box, but I’m using widgets. How would one go about implementing it (given that my sidebar.php is largely redundant)?
Or are you planning on making a widget out of your excellent article?!
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Is there a way to remove the categories all together?If you simply want them to stop showing up on the homepage, remove that section in your sidebar.php. Should look somthing like this:
< li id=”category-links”>
<h2>Categories</h2>
< ul>
<?php wp_list_cats(‘sort_column=name&hierarchical=1’); ?>
< /ul>
< /li>Unless you’re using widgets, of course…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: New Theme: BookishBookish…but sexy!
Good job.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Sidebar widgets and only showing on homepageThanks for the link, Sam.
I must say I’m reluctant to take the plunge and try this plugin without some seal of approval from Wp users; I really don’t want to have it buggering up my site in any way. I’m considering setting up a test site first to see how it goes.
Has anyone used this plugin, and can anyone give any feedback? Is it substantially better than WordPress Sidebar Widgets?