Title: rhythim's Replies | WordPress.org --- # rhythim [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 26 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Where do I find the loop with](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/where-do-i-find-the-loop-with/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/where-do-i-find-the-loop-with/#post-9216348) * Well I’m really disappointed that 2 responders _started_ to help me configure this, but didn’t follow through when I needed a bit more information. Not sure why someone on this forum would give a partial response (partial for me, anyway, I need more clarity,) and then disappear. Very sad. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Media Files in wp-content/uploads, but thumbnails not showing in Media Gallery](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-files-in-wp-contentuploads-but-thumbnails-not-showing-in-media-gallery/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-files-in-wp-contentuploads-but-thumbnails-not-showing-in-media-gallery/#post-9207595) * Thanks ProjectArmy On the plugin you recommended, more than half the reviews say it’s an awful plugin that screwed up their images or their site, and support is terrible. I can’t take that chance. If you or another reader know of another plugin that works reliably, please let me know. Otherwise, based on what you said above about needing to upload photos through media library or plugins that use proper hooks to add media to the database, I guess I’ll have to drag & drop over 200 photos into the media library one at a time. I have all my old site’s photo files in a folder on my desktop, so it’s doable, just long & tedious, wish WP provided another more expedient path for this 🙂 * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Where do I find the loop with](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/where-do-i-find-the-loop-with/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/where-do-i-find-the-loop-with/#post-9205556) * Steve, Atlaf, where did you go?? Can you follow up on this question please? * Anybody else? I’ve seen tons of WordPress sites with the Read More link right in the excerpt, after, or instead of, the three dots{…} instead of as a separate button under the excerpt, so I can’t imagine this is that difficult to achieve… should be simple:-) - This reply was modified 9 years ago by [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/). * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Where do I find the loop with](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/where-do-i-find-the-loop-with/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/where-do-i-find-the-loop-with/#post-9199888) * Altaf: URL is dev.toawaken.org. Not sure what you mean by show my code. I’m working in the Edit Post page, adding an Excerpt in the box provided just below the main post area. I usually work in “Visual’ and so don’t see the html. Even if I switch to ‘Text” and see some of the divs and other code, the Excerpt box looks the same. * I’m simply trying to add a Read More link right in the Excerpt box, so that it’s on the same line as the last line of excerpt text, instead of a stand-alone Read More button a couple lines below the excerpt box (see links below) * My blog archive page w/separate Read More buttons: [http://dev.toawaken.org/wisdom/](http://dev.toawaken.org/wisdom/) * Example of blog archive page with Read More adjoining the excerpt text: [https://nancylucina.com/blog](https://nancylucina.com/blog) - This reply was modified 9 years ago by [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/). - This reply was modified 9 years ago by [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/). * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Where do I find the loop with](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/where-do-i-find-the-loop-with/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/where-do-i-find-the-loop-with/#post-9199688) * Thanks for replying Steve, and I apologize if I sound uneducated, but installing the Show Current Template plugin didn’t seem to help much. It did create a drop- down list in my menu bar, a very long list with items like themes/bridge/framework/ etc. and themes/bridge/includes/etc., but nowhere in that list can I find an item that has the word ‘excerpts’ in it, or a reference to the loop under which I would paste the ?php the_excerpt(); code. The instructions in the codex – “ To generate a link include the following code in the loop directly below ?php the_excerpt();” – assumes we know what a loop is, where to find the particular one in question, and how to open it and paste code under it. I’m not a WordPress newbie – I’ve created hundreds of successful WordPress sites and added lots of Custom CSS code – but I still feel those kind of instructions assume too much. SO since I’m not seeing anything about ‘excerpt’or what to do in that plugin’s list, can you give me a little more step-by-step here? Thanks * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Recent Posts Widget Extended] How to Set Spacing/Margins on Recent Posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-set-spacingmargins-on-recent-posts/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-set-spacingmargins-on-recent-posts/#post-6256557) * Hmm…seems this forum is NOT the best way to communicate with the author of this plugin. Posted the above question about a week ago. Still no replies. Is my question too complicated, or is the forum simply not manned and the plugin author not interested? * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Recent Posts Widget Extended] Plugin offsetting improperly against bullets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-offsetting-improperly-against-bullets-1/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-offsetting-improperly-against-bullets-1/#post-5792920) * Hmmm…would really love to get a response on this. Don’t know who monitors this particular RPWE plugin, but hopefully you can respond with a simple solution, thanks * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [reverse order of posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-order-of-posts-3/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-order-of-posts-3/#post-5790264) * Thanks Juggle. Installed Recent Posts Widget Extended, which did indeed give me the Ascending order option, and it worked…although it created a new problem, that of my “bullets” (in front of each post name ) no longer lining up with the post names. Not sure how to fix that, started a new thread here: * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-offsetting-improperly-against-bullets-1?replies=1#post-6571485](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-offsetting-improperly-against-bullets-1?replies=1#post-6571485) * to get it answered. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [reverse order of posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-order-of-posts-3/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-order-of-posts-3/#post-5790248) * Sorry I wasn’t clear Juggle, I simply want the already-existing Recent Posts widget to list oldest posts at the top, scrolling down to most recent posts at bottom. Basically the reverse order of WordPress default, which is to put the newest post at top of list, using date chronology. * Currently I have my site set up to show a Static Front Page, then successive posts/pages each on their own “page” with their own slug…not one long scroll through all my posts one-under-another on one page. * I only have one Right Sidebar, which has Recent Posts at top, then Categories, then Pages. It’s all looking fine…I just want my oldest post listed at the top to newest post at bottom. For an educational blog like mine, it’s more natural for the post list to be read top-to-bottom, so you can read them in order. * I’m surprised through all WP’s iterations, they haven’t installed a quick one- click option for reversing the post order…or maybe they have and I’m just not seeing it? * Here’s my site, in case you need the visuals: [http://toawaken.org/](http://toawaken.org/) * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [How to move CSS LI discs (bullets) closer to texy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-move-css-li-discs-bullets-closer-to-texy-1/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-move-css-li-discs-bullets-closer-to-texy-1/#post-5486655) * Thanks John. Adding the padding-left: 14px; line to the CSS only moves the _text_ more to the right, not the discs (bullets.) Don’t need to move the text, I like where the list is sitting under the Title; just want to inch the discs right, closer to the text. * And I did visit that w3schools page, but do not see a specific answer there, about moving the discs or any other list-style like “circle” or “square” * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Theme Editor Greys Out, Can’t Edit](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-editor-greys-out-cant-edit/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-editor-greys-out-cant-edit/#post-1399863) * And to make matters even stranger, it’s only doing it on Firefox??? I’m on a Mac and just for the heck of it, I tried opening my blog in my other browser, Safari. Worked fine, Editor didn’t turn grey, let me edit the CSS, header.php and everything! * How can this only be a problem for Firefox? (I have latest version.) * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [2 Themes that show Theme Name in Header instead of Blog Title??](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2-themes-that-show-theme-name-in-header-instead-of-blog-title/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2-themes-that-show-theme-name-in-header-instead-of-blog-title/#post-1387658) * > why would anyone want to download & use a Theme that has it’s own theme name > hard coded into an image file > valid question, but, well, you did … * Fair enough, I did…but only because I’ve never,,ever seen a the theme title NOT change to your Blog Title once activated, and would never think some fool created their theme that way. * It certainly defeats the whole purpose of providing lots of people with a free wp-theme for THEIR blog, and the lack of any instructions about it shows even more arrogance. * But your right, I don’t want to argue, and if you found their title locked into a .jpg in the images folder, I need to excuse my earlier reply, and be clear that if I want to use this theme, I’ll just have to replace their logo with my own image.jpg. * It’s a nice-looking theme, but having to jumo between your wp dashboard and your cPanel’s file manager just to lay in your blog title, may not be worth it. * Thanks for your clarity * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [2 Themes that show Theme Name in Header instead of Blog Title??](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2-themes-that-show-theme-name-in-header-instead-of-blog-title/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2-themes-that-show-theme-name-in-header-instead-of-blog-title/#post-1387590) * Well that seems doubtful, cause why would anyone want to download & use a Theme that has it’s own theme name hard coded into an image file. That would mean going into your Themes>Header>Image folder and redoing or replacing the hearder image, just to get your Blog Title/Tagline to show up. I must have sampled 100 WP Themes and never heard of that being necessary, just activate the theme and there’s YOUR title/tagline. * At the very least, if that were the ase, you would think the author would stipulate clearly in the demo or Theme description that you’ll need to replace his whole header image for your title to show…and there was no such warning on the Theme home page or anywhere else, so I doubt this is the answer. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [How To Change Title Font/Size in This Theme?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-title-fontsize-in-this-theme/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-title-fontsize-in-this-theme/#post-1304074) * Thanks Clayton. I found two great plug-ins for expanding the number of posts displayed in the sidebar, FYI: Enhanced Recent Post: Immediately after plugging this in, I was able to display as many posts as I like, there are ovr 40 showing in my left sidebar! Vertical Scroll Recent Post: Way cool! Your posts scroll up as a moving list while on any page of the blog. * As an aside to our above conversation, since you mentioned your own hopes someone would invent this or that plug-in, here’s by two biggest beefs and hopes for a plug-in fix: 1. A plug in that gives you an extended editor for the Title bar, just like the ones you can get for the content box, so you don’t need to mess with the “logo” or “masthead” in the CSS 2. A plug-in that allows your view of the CSS editor to snap back to the line you just edited when you return to it. Currently, you alter some value half-way down the CSS scroll, and as soon as you hit Update, it pops back to the top of the CSS window. If you check your site and find that wasn’t quite the right value and you need to edit it more, you have to scroll and refind that exact CSS line you were altering, can be quite tedious. It should open right to that line you just edited, for ease of back- and-forth. * I don’t write plug-ins, and don’t know where to submit these suggestions, but perhaps you do. Thanks again * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [How To Change Title Font/Size in This Theme?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-title-fontsize-in-this-theme/) * Thread Starter [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/) * (@rhythim) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-title-fontsize-in-this-theme/#post-1304070) * Clayton, I really appreciate your thorough answers, thanks much! * I looked in plug-ins and there does seem to be a few plug-ins that allow customization of the number of posts shown and other things, I’m going to try some of these. * But your wisdom about backing up core files was also key; I haven’t done any backing up yet because it seemed a bit complicated and drawn-out in the codex. At the bottom of the codex doc. there’s a couple plug-ins listed for auto-scheduled- backup, like WD-DB Backup and BackUp WordPress, which I will try. But I will take your advice about not altering any core files without some form of back- up. One thought-perhaps my db and files are already backed up through my host, which is GoDaddy. They installed WP for me, and have all my files in a column on the host manager, so maybe it’s already handled. What is your favorite path for file and db backup? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 26 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/replies/page/2/?output_format=md)