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Found out this plugin conflicts with a Pretty Photo plugin I was using, discontinued use.
I did find out what was causing the caption to show up with the grey bar, apparently, it was pulling the first text it came to for the post excerpt, and if an image with a caption was placed before the main text, the caption was included.
The image thumbnail selection seems to be random, I have been in contact with the author of this plugin about using the WP “featured image,” for this, but, so far, I have yet to hear back.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Recent Posts Slider] [Plugin: Recent Posts Slider] Images Still Not ShowingI couldn’t find it either, you whould think the author of the plugin might jump in to support his plugin instead of someone else jumping in to offer a code fix. Seems to be a norm at this time, there is another slider plugin going unsupported as well, broken, and not a peep from the author!
Hey Cat,
I don’t know who your host is, but I am sure you can do better with someone else. I have never had a problem where Go Daddy blamed it on the other guy, in fact, I have never been in a situation where I was left still having a problem, they always stayed on the phone until the problem was solved. There was this one time where I crashed everything I owned due to me getting a .htacces file wrong, talk about a panic! LOL! They were right there with me, working to get it up, awesome support! It sounds like your current host is kinda lame, I would move. Call them, and talk about moving, most likely they can assist with moving your sites.
BTW…… my sometimes girlfriend, (depends on how mad at me she is that day) Mattie says you are totally missing out on a branding opportunity by not using some type of swan in your logo. 🙂
T.
Well, there’s a first time for everything……… LOL!
Ya, your first error was not checking the box…. 🙂 And you did mention it…. 🙂
Lynda is great, I have been doing my own sites since the Internet was dial-up, and I have found there is always something new to learn, no matter how much experience I have.
You should know what type of server your sites are on, most hosts offer both Windows and Linux.
Love Go Daddy, you should try it…. 🙂
Good luck, let me know how it goes… 🙂
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Hey Cat, I know, you are busy writing your book…
Ok, you have a lot going on as far as issues, but, I will try and cover them.
I think more knowledge about the basics of WP might help overall, a good source is http://www.lynda.com they have several courses on WP, everything from the basics to advanced, it’s $25.00 USD per month. You will need the training, a self hosted blog requires more work with plugins, theme management, and a big one security. There are also courses on Google Analytics and other Google product, site SEO, all very valuable to a self hosted site! There are rewards to having a self hosted site, (money) but it is also a lot of work, for a lot of people WP.com is ideal because they take care of all that stuff for you, I would say if you are committed to moving from WP.com, education is an essential, it was for me.
Don’t bother trying to locate an earlier version of Importer, the current version is not broken. Just try re-importing your content, it should overwrite what is already there, just make sure you check that box to down load your media, and yes, your other site on WP needs to still be live. I f you want to delete your content, go to your posts and pages admin panels, check all, then from the bulk settings select trash, or delete, I can’t remember which it is… but, it’s simple, oh, and don’t forget to empty your trash.
If you get that error message again, contact your host’s technical service for help, I am hosted at Go Daddy, they have excellent service! if you are not on Go Daddy, move! BTW….. WP runs best on a Linux server, make sure you are on Linux, they say a Windows server is just as good…… SURE it is…. LOL!
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Been MIA for a few days….. sorry…. I did want to follow up, Cat, did you get your blog content moved ok??
T.
I have been in contact with Matt Mullenweg about this issue, he has had one of his folks “Otto” contact me, I have passed along the links pertaining to the problem, hopefully, there will be some help soon. WP has a great community, always willing to help, love it!
Cat, it is possible to leave it there, being the type I am, I would delete it and start fresh, but lets see if there is some help from WP first. Where you have missing images check the path and look for errors similar to my above post, that will give you a better idea of what is going on.
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So Cat, are you exporting from a wordpress.com blog? 800 posts is quite a bit to go through! I am thinking the problem might be on the export side, or the import side, I have thought of a way to test it, but have not done so, busy with other things. Here is my thinking on a test, you can download previous versions from the WP .org site, I would delete the version you have then upload the previous version and try importing your exported XTML file with it, if it did not work, I would try again with the next previous version and so on, if none of them worked, then it is the export function that is the problem. I do not think there is anything that can be done on wordpress.com about the plugin version, but, if your blog was self hosted, I would do the same test in the reverse, exporting until you find one that works. The only difference in the test would be I would match versions in the sending and receiving end. This plugin was working until just recently, surely one of the earlier versions will do the trick.
I do not think WordPress intentionally caused this problem just to make money, I sure it’s just a case of someone getting a little too code happy with the bells and whistles! LOL!
T.
I’m hoping at some point the plugin author, (WordPress.org) will notice the issue and fix it. I am used to developing complete sites in a “development” area, then exporting the whole thing to the client’s site, that way the down time is only limited to the time of the WP install, and uploads, now this problem totally screws up this process!
On my last install, (thankfully not for a client!) I had noticed that it kept the links to the images that were back on my MAMP server where the development was done. The path was http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/DSC_2091.jpg, when it should have been http://www.thebikersgarage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DSC_2091.jpg, my fix was to upload the images to the media library and manually edit the links. Fortunately I didn’t have a lot of images, but if this had been a client’s site with over one hundred images, oh my!
I hope someone notices this soon and gets it fixed, the way it is now, I’m going to have issues making new sites for clients! Perhaps if more people tagged it as “broken” on the plugin page, it might get some attention.
T.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Unwanted WidgetsAh, yes! In the past I have already had widgets ready and installed them, so the others never showed up, this time I didn’t…. my bad! LOL!
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I have had the same problem, posted twice about it, so far, no response.
T.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Removing a "Reply" BoxFound it! Thank you! You know…. they could have just left things as they were, sure, it’s cool, but not very intuitive, sometimes, simple is best….. LOL!
Thanks again for your help!
T.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Removing a "Reply" BoxHey Sweeper, thanks for getting back to me, I am not seeing a tick box on any pages any more like there used to be, and, I am not seeing it anyplace else, say in the “settings” area, did they move it to some cleverly obscure place I am not aware of??? I am not seeing those options on the posts either, as well as the “allow pingbacks” options. Not really understanding why all of those things are gone….. not happy at this point, I’m off WP for a few months and this happens!
I’ll look at the theme PHP, but it’s not the way I want to go, I have one theme that is not causing this issue, it’s one I bought call “Atlantica” but it’s not the theme I want to use!
T.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Broken ThemeThanks ThumNet, it is nice to see a developer on top of any issues that arise with their theme. Graphene is a beautiful theme, you should be proud!
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