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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Sort by custom field, or lack thereofThanks… the first link gives some specifics on how I could exclude posts with this custom field from my query, which does take me to a working answer, but a kludgey one, as I said. And meta_query is nice – surprised I’d missed that – but I’m not seeing a way to use it to solve this problem with reasonably elegant code. Actually, I’m not seeing a way to use it here at all, which makes me wonder if I’m just being dense.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Saving post doesn’t work, goes to front pageOh, local like that. That makes more sense then. Yes, if it had 469 million other WP users I expect the solution would have been much easier to find, and I wouldn’t have bothered to ask here in the first place. Cheers!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Saving post doesn’t work, goes to front pagePlease, I made damn sure there was no crazy Word HTML that could be causing any nasty problems. Why would bad HTML lead to a problem anything like this, anyway? Is that actually a thing that happens? Formatting madness sure, but randomly being directed to the front page of my domain?
As I said, it happened when my post included any formatting at all. Why do you think mine was ‘a local problem’? It strikes me as being an obvious server-side problem. I’m sorry, but I don’t believe for a moment that using a different browser would have made a blind bit of difference.
ANYWAY. Thanks for trying to help, even if I do disagree with almost everything you said.
As it turned out the solution was this: I emailed tech support for the hosting company. Apparently they ‘disabled the mod_security for [my] domain.’ That fixed it. So if anyone else has a similar problem and manages to find this thread – try that.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Saving post doesn’t work, goes to front pageObviously, Word is hell to work with, but if someone sends you Word documents and asks you to make a web page, what are you going to do? Usually I just cut out all that cruft with an electronic scalpel.
ANYWAY, the latest WordPress has a nifty little ‘Paste from Word’ function to deal with all that nasty unwanted code… and regardless of that, it turns out to do the same thing with any formatting at all. An em tag throws it for a loop. It’s really very strange indeed.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Saving post doesn’t work, goes to front pageThanks whooareyou – that’s pretty much what I figured!
…anyone?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Saving post doesn’t work, goes to front pageIf nobody replies to my plea for help and I still have no idea how to fix it after a day, am I allowed to bump the thread or is that really bad practice?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Index of titlesAhh, thanks a lot! Yeah, Feedburner’s ‘BuzzBoost’ is exactly what I was looking for. Blog index now integrated beautifully with a ‘static’ page. Cheers!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Export WordPress linksIt’s not working for me – when I try to import direct from http://www.mimeomai.f2s.com/oolong/ac/sourceprt.php it gives me ‘XML error: syntax error at line 1
Inserted 0 links into category 1. All done! Go manage those links.’
Interestingly, saving the file and then importing it gives me the subtly different ‘XML error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 68
Inserted 0 links into category 1. All done! Go manage those links.’
…any suggestions?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Livejournal Like Cuts?See some examples of LJ ‘cuts’ – http://0olong.livejournal.com/ – ( Old Job ) and ( New PhD ) are two LJ cuts within the same entry. It does sound like they’re quite a lot like ‘more’ in WP, but the ‘more’ text is customisable, you can potentially have more than one in a single entry (though on LJ clicking one reveals them all) and the tag encloses the text it replaces (not sure how exactly ‘more’ works on WP).
kiteless’ terminology makes perfect sense if you’re an LJ user!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Image borders (i.e. borders around the page using images)Thanks folks – especially omann0. I eventually had to resort to putting the main content inside a div with that background (hence it now requires a fixed width for the main content, which is somewhat unfortunate… also the border has to be around the content, rather than the page, which is annoying in general but fine in this particular case).
It‘s now looking pretty good I think, except that for reasons I cannot fathom there’s a little white gap between the top border and the main content.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Image borders (i.e. borders around the page using images)Thanks vkaryl… I realised I can use the Web Developer Toolbar to outline block-level elements, which seems to be telling me that the borders really are only as long as they look, as opposed to being covered up by something.
I also realised the layout is horrifically broken in IE. Oh dear. It seems to be completely ignoring the margin-top property of the top border div, and the side divs (with height set to 100%) are… ooh, maybe 20px high.
This may be a good time for me to go to bed.