ptvguy
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Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: multiple blogs for kidsJane:
I handle a couple of American public television station websites (hence my nickname) and do a lot of things specifically geared toward schools, educators, and students. However, I also preach Internet safety for kids, and what you’re proposing, although easily done, doesn’t sound very safe. When children get on the Internet and are identified as such, they become open targets to a lot of sick people.
If you’re really going to go ahead with this, then take some serious precautions. (These may be pretty obvious to you, but I’m just making sure that they’re posted with this thread for anyone else who may try this.)
- Don’t use any real names or personally identifiable information.
- Don’t allow comments.
- If you must allow comments, make them moderated and require approval, and only give moderation password access to a responsible adult.
- Post the fact that these blogs are adult-moderated irregardless of whether you allow comments or not.
As great a medium as this is for teaching, it’s also a perfect place for lurking. I don’t think that we should scare kids away from it, but we have a responsibility to teach them the realities of it as well. Exchanging seemingly personal comments and a few jokes with people over the Internet, doesn’t mean that you know them or can trust them. It’s just that kind of world.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Import from wordpress.com to my wp hostIt took me forever (and a few false starts) to get my free WP blog (http://ptvguy.wordpress.com/) transferred to my new domain. (http://www.ptvguy.com/) Transferring posts, pages, and even sidebar widgets was all pretty straightforward, but getting comments transferred with all their original info was a pain in the posterior region.
I had to go back and manually reset timestamps and IP addresses for each comment in the database itself. Now, the only thing that I’ve lost is the User Agent information for each commenter. That’s going to throw my stat percentages off for a while (to favor Firefox) but it’s the one piece of info that I couldn’t access from the free account.
Anyway, now I’m happily self-hosted with all my original stuff intact. You know, I’m really becoming more and more of a WordPress fan and advocate.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: My pages don’t work anymoreAll of your links work fine for me. The only page I see with an unmatching slug is the Reciprocal link partners page. It’s using “link-partners” for the slug instead of “reciprocal-link-partners.”
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WP-Slimstats ProblemWell, let me go one better on that, because miklb just answered the other part of the problem in another thread. (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/72243?replies=3) It seems that if you rename a page title and the slug no longer matches the title, it throws everything off. I had to go through my page titles, find the one I renamed, rewrite the slug to match the new name, and {Viola!} everything’s fixed and working now. I think that I’m going to like these forums.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: My pages don’t work anymoreAwesome, Mike, thanks. I just asked about this exact problem in a different thread, because I thought that it was part of a problem with a new plugin that I’d installed. Amazing that one title change can render every post, every page, and every category useless. Once I changed the slug to match the title, it’s all fixed. Thanks again.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Reorder CategoriesActually, they don’t appear to be alphabetized so much as numbered. Uncategorized is the default number one category. Apparently, the rest were added alphabetically to begin with, and moon was added last as number 18.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WP-Slimstats ProblemThanks, anyway, Resiny. As it turns out, that exact error was covered in the README text file that came with the plugin. I know, it’s the first place I should have looked.
For the curious, you have to open wp-config.php and find this line:
define (‘WPLANG’, ”);
and replace it with this line:
define (‘WPLANG’, ‘en_US’);
Then you have to open the “lang” folder that came with wp-slimstats and rename the file from wp-slimstat-en_US.mo to just en_US.mo. That gets slimstats working.
However, the rest of the problem (pages, posts, etc. giving 404 errors) is still there. Perhaps it wasn’t related to slimstats.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: WordPress SupportWe are the support team. There’s nothing like trial and error and trial and success to teach someone how to do something. Besides, for every one person out there who installs and uses WordPress “right out of the box” for exactly the purpose it was “meant” to be used, there are hundreds (if not thousands) who tweak it, extend it, and make it do things no one else thought of.
Therefore, for most of us, our only chance at support is to hope that there’s someone else who tried something remotely close to what we’re diong and will take a moment to inform us of how they “fixed” it. I intend to be one of those people now that I’m porting over from the hosted version of WP (wordpress.com) to the self-hosted.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WP-Slimstats ProblemI didn’t even think of that one. I just went and checked and discovered that the .htaccess file was completely removed. I put it back, and now even the home page displays that same fatal error. I tried removing the .htaccess again from the server, but the fatal error still shows up on the home page now. Whatever’s wrong is getting worse.
Addendum: I just reactivated and deactivated the slimstat plugin and got my home page back, but the link problems with the 404 errors are still the same. I would just remove all the slimstat components from my plug-in directory, but I think that part of the activation, included some additions to the database.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Remove illegal characters?Without seeing an actual post on your blog, I can’t tell whether the encoding has been preserved or garbled, so you may well be stuck with hand-editing the already existing posts. However, for future reference, take posts created in Word and copy them to a basic text editor (like Notepad) first. (This strips Word encoding and generally goes to basic UTF-8 unless you specify otherwise.) Then select and recopy that same text from Notepad to place in your post editor for publication.