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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: suggest me plugin for site mapIt’s at “http://gigaom.com/sitemap”. Anyway, I would suggest contacting them. That may be a manually created and maintained sitemap like my own site index.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Adsense for Search on own pageThat’s why I didn’t know about it. I don’t use AdSense for search.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: New to WordPress, mysql, and apacheThat’ll do it.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: I have lost both sidebars when using an iframeAlthough I don’t recommend the use of an iframe, the first problem that I’m seeing is the use of XHTML self-closing (“/”) in the initial iframe tag. That’s preventing the closing iframe tag from being used. In fact it’s not even making it to the browser. Here’s what I’m seeing on your page when I view it on my end:
<h2 class="post-title">Useful Gambling Books and Guides</h2>
<div class="post-content">
<iframe src="http://www.highstakes.co.uk/affiliates/index.php?a=spreadbuddy" frameborder="0" width="100%" scrolling="no" height="2000" />
</div>Notice that the closing iframe tage,
</iframe>, has been truncated. I don’t know if fixing this will eliminate the whole problem, but it’s a good starting point.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comments and missing URIA site link and the theme you’re using might help as well. We’re good, but we ain’t that good.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: I have lost both sidebars when using an iframeI don’t think that anyone can help you much without a link or some code to look at.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Adsense for Search on own pageSince we can’t go to your page and test this through your Google search option without contributing to ad fraud and violating Google’s AdSense policies against directing people to your ads, we won’t be able to help you until you post the code itself here or give us a link to where Google has it posted.
I’m not trying to insult you or push you away from seeking actual support help here, but, if we’re not careful about this kind of stuff, then we’ll end up with thousands of posts here every day saying something like, “My AdSense seems to be broken; could you test it by going to my site and clicking all my ads repeatedly.” That would make us no better than Blogger.com.
Anyway, I hope that you come back with the actual code, because I’d be interested in using something like that myself.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: New to WordPress, mysql, and apacheWhile it is true that you can just FTP your files to your hosting service, the actual server it goes to must still support MySQL. That underlying database functionality is the core of what makes WordPress work. You might want to check with your hosting service to see if they can just move your domain over to a server that supports that or check out a new hosting service. The WordPress minimum requirements are actually pretty basic and hosting services that offer them are numerous and cheap.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t add links categories (in 2.0.4)Personally, I gave up on the link manager a long time ago. I found that I had a great deal more control by building my links manually and placing the code in the sidebar text widget.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Burton ThemeI’m going to assume that you’re actually serious about getting input on your theme and not just trying to get people to view your ads and possibly click on them, because that would be a total misuse of this forum.
The theme needs a lot of work. You’re right not to release it yet. However, it’s not a bad beginning. There’s some good underlying structure. The rest of this post lists a number of problems that I see, and it’s up to you if you want to put the time into fixing them.
It’s a very wide, rigid design that won’t fit on some screens. The Google Search box makes use of table-based layout and even has tables nested in tables. The column dividers simply stop at different points in the middle of the page. There’s also not much demonstration of widget integration, and there’s not even the most basic accessibility options covered like ALT attributes for all images.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Put AdSense next to the post instead of top of postI use the AdSenseDeluxe plugin which allowed me to customize various ad sizes. I can pick from these various sizes at the time I create a post, use the one that best fits the size of that post, and drop it right in where I want it. Also, I wrap all my ads in DIVs to position them based on CSS classes I added into the theme CSS. It all looks fine and validates perfectly to XHTML 1.0 strict.
BTW, I place AdSense in every single post even though I display five posts per page. I let Google sort out which are the first three and drop the rest. It doesn’t hurt anything to have more than three; it just ignores the rest. This way I have an ad display even if someone views a single specific post or category.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: moving from wordpress.com to wordpress.orgSorry, but, speaking as someone who tried that route, I gotta agree with Otto42. It’s a pain in the butt. Check out this thread on the subject:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comment FunctionsI finally traced the problem to the global apply_filters() function defined in wp-includes/functions.php. That filter limits the function to two arguments. Does anyone know how vital the limitation of two arguments in the apply_filters() function is to the global functioning of that filter?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: WordPress for profitIf they’re trolling to exploit a WordPress weakness, they can pull the specific version directly from the meta tags. “Powered by” is just one possible hook.
Speaking of which, there’s a ridiculously large number of blogs still out there running under 1.5. Why climb the tree, when there’s so much ripe fruit hanging from the bottom?
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Please note, that’s a reference to the amount of work necessary to hack an exploit and has no correlation to the actual content of any such blogs. :->Forum: Plugins
In reply to: any plugin to insert flash in posts?PodPress uses Flash to put media files (including movies) into posts and pages. You might try that to see if it supports Flash movies.