Title: Ruby Sinreich's Replies - page 5 | WordPress.org --- # Ruby Sinreich [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 15 replies - 61 through 75 (of 111 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/4/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/?output_format=md) [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/3/?output_format=md) [4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/4/?output_format=md) 5 [6](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/6/?output_format=md) [7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/7/?output_format=md) [8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/8/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/6/?output_format=md) * Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) In reply to: [WP 1.3 alpha 3 error and questions.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-13-alpha-3-error-and-questions/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-13-alpha-3-error-and-questions/#post-90261) * Sorry, the above was me – I thought I was logged in. * Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) In reply to: [WP 1.3 alpha 3 error and questions.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-13-alpha-3-error-and-questions/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-13-alpha-3-error-and-questions/#post-90233) * I have the most recent nightly build (08-Sep-2004). Which file I should update from the CVS? * Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) In reply to: [WP 1.3 alpha 3 error and questions.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-13-alpha-3-error-and-questions/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-13-alpha-3-error-and-questions/#post-90215) * I get this error as well – any time I try to update the admin profile (not just on changing password). Help! * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [is_single and related tags](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is_single-and-related-tags/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is_single-and-related-tags/#post-90136) * I couldn’t find any good documentation of this stuff. In fact, I nevcr knew there was a `%is_home` variable! Damn, I needed that a month ago. This was discussed a bit on this thread: [http://wordpress.org/support/3/8721](http://wordpress.org/support/3/8721) What I did was used a lot of conditionals evaluating whether there were values in the following fields `$single, $cat, $m, $author`. I hope this helps. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Displaying a list of posts with a summary line](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-a-list-of-posts-with-a-summary-line/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-a-list-of-posts-with-a-summary-line/#post-88016) * First, in “advanced editing mode” you can enter your own excerpt. So if you don’t need fuller excerpts for another part of the site, you could just use that. If the WP excerpt doesn’t meet your needs, you could create a custom field and then use the [Get Custom plug-in](http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/30/plugin-get-custom/) to display the text you enter. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [“Site Map”, index, or table of contents](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-map-index-or-table-of-contents/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-map-index-or-table-of-contents/#post-88014) * Check out [Sortable Nicer Archives](http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/05/23/sortable-nicer-archives-for-wordpress/). It does this and more. * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Apostrophe Catastrophe](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apostrophe-catastrophe/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apostrophe-catastrophe/#post-24303) * I don’t get why I should love texturize. I hate curly quotes! What’s the easiest way to disable it? * Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) In reply to: [Wp install on Dreamhost](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-install-on-dreamhost/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-install-on-dreamhost/#post-84160) * Actually, don’t bother contacting me right now as DreamHost has completely bunged up my primary e-mail account. Grrrrrr. New “feature” my ass. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Imported Wrongly](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/imported-wrongly/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/imported-wrongly/#post-84159) * I had similar problems, my export from MT was mangled with “——–” that screwed everything up. The good thing is that your erroneous import can be easily undone by deleting your “average joe” user, thereby deleting all posts assigned to him. I’d suggest breaking your import into smaller chunks so you can isolate the problem. OR… assuming you are the only author, just change the user created for “average joe” in the import process and modify the profile to make it your own account. Done. * Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) In reply to: [Wp install on Dreamhost](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-install-on-dreamhost/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-install-on-dreamhost/#post-84116) * Hi, I am using WP on DreamHost. I had some glitches along the way, but not this one. Contact me at _ruby at lotusmedia dot org_ and I can send you some of my files… * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Struggling with custom category pages](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/struggling-with-custom-category-pages/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/struggling-with-custom-category-pages/#post-83889) * Do you mean like [this](http://orangepolitics.org/issue/about-this-web-site/)? Let me know if it looks like what you want, I’ll share the code. It’s all done with conditions in one index.php file. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [editing multiple entries](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-multiple-entries/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-multiple-entries/#post-83888) * I have been impressed with using MySQL Admin for this kind of thing. You can download an entire database, edit it in Excel (or wherever) and then replace the whole table with your edited version. You are right to do copious back-ups first, of course. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [404 Search Function for WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-search-function-for-wordpress/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-search-function-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-79925) * FYI, in case anyone cares, I fixed my directory problem and made one more improvement. Now it only makes the new search term if it’s a 404 error (this page handles all errors). So in my conditional cases that evaluate `getenv("REDIRECT_STATUS")` I added this code to part for 404’s: `$search_term = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 1); $find = array ("'.html'", "'.+/'", "'[-/_]'") ; $replace = " " ; $new_search = preg_replace ( $find , $replace , $search_term ); and then in the search field I just put which only has a value if it was a 404 error. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [Name of post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/name-of-post/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/name-of-post/#post-83293) * It works for me using `previous_post()` and `next_post()`. I don’t know about all those parameters… Are you using it inside “the loop?” * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [404 Search Function for WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-search-function-for-wordpress/) * [Ruby Sinreich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/) * (@rubyji) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-search-function-for-wordpress/#post-79918) * So I don’t use the WP search function (I use free [Atomz](http://atomz.com) search), but since I just migrated by whole blog over from MT and changed the URLs I thought this would be pretty handy. I changed this so that it just spits out a searchable term that I automatically put into the search box on my 404 page. It goes like this: ` (I should probably figure out a way for it to remove the directory in the URL it’s getting, but I’m lazy and this works OK. I tried a lot of variations on "'/.+/'" but I got nothing. Any suggestions?) You can see it in action with this old URL: [http://orangepolitics.org/about/one_community_many_voices.html](http://orangepolitics.org/about/one_community_many_voices.html) Viewing 15 replies - 61 through 75 (of 111 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/4/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/?output_format=md) [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/3/?output_format=md) [4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/4/?output_format=md) 5 [6](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/6/?output_format=md) [7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/7/?output_format=md) [8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/8/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyji/replies/page/6/?output_format=md)