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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Template Difficult for average Designers?I don’t think there’s a need to train someone to create a WordPress template. All they need to do is develop a template that looks like it could be made into a blog, then insert the WordPress Template Tags into the template where they want things to show up (and The Loop, of course), and finally style all that stuff with the CSS…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Sidebar Images in KubrickDefinitely grab Firefox, but for a good reason, not the old “anything but IE” argument 😉
The real reason to develop websites using Firefox (or Mozilla, or any Gecko-based browser) is for the standards support. It ain’t perfect, but since all the popular browsers (include IE) are headed towards standards-compliance, it’s definitely the way to go.
In other words, it’s far easier (and generally way faster) to develop your site to work in Firefox (or equivalent) and *then* hack your way around IE’s rendering bugs, than to code for IE (very non-standard in parts) and un-hack your way into the other browsers.
Besides that, having used Firefox since version 0.7 (when it was still known as Phoenix), and having some mighty XHTML/CSS geekiness within me, I can honestly recommend Firefox to everyone – except people like my sister who’s school email system refuses to work with anything except IE.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Spam problemsI’ve tried it before – once I got it working on a Windows server (an easy fix, just took a while to actually figure the thing out), but same problem – I get blocked at every single site I know of that uses it, including my own site when it’s enabled.
The main problem, spam aside, is that 3 different blogs on the same host running the same version of WP and on the same Apache 2 server and on 3 different databases in MySQL 4.1, with PHP5 behind-the-scenes, have 2 different behaviours. Only 1 blog successfully blocks the spam, but still sends me emails regarding their moderation even though those comments don’t physically exist in the database (the counter in those emails is incremented though), and the other 2 blogs let the spam through untouched.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Spam problemsOrange: tried that with two of the three sites, but no change once they were reactivated.
Macmanx: i’m already using hashcash on all 3 sites, and judging from the page sources, it’s working fine despite not blocking any spam so far as I know.
Davincim: i’ve been avoiding going to any kind of authimage-type plugin simply because i hate being on the receiving end of them. but if it ends up being the only way, then so be it 🙁
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Mod_Rewrite Nightmareupdate: since the nightlies link is gone, i’ve restarted the nightly changelog list for those on the bleeding edge. also note that a new “official” 1.5 was released with newer files than the original release on the 15th, so the nightly changelog has been started from scratch, based off the newest release.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Spam problemsYup, they’re identical – both lists (moderation and blacklist) on each blog are completely empty, except that the blacklists all have “nutzu” in them.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Spam problemsI should note that I have no plans to install SpamKarma – I can’t comment on my own site when that thing’s installed, and to my knowledge I haven’t been allowed to post on *any* blog with it installed. It says that my URL has too many hyphens in it, every single time.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Mod_Rewrite NightmareAnd just think, if y’all had checked http://codex.wordpress.org/User:RustIndy/Nightly_Changelogs/ you wouldn’t have had this problem 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can WP do this?The “3 dynamic parts” part would be easy enough to accomplish as well. Some conditional statements in the theme’s
index.phpor evensingle.phppages would allow only specific categories to be listed on a given page – sort of replacing archives for those categories, without affecting an actualarchive.phppage.Sounds confusing, I guess, but I believe it can be done without tons of effort.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t install 1.5If you delete all the tables from the database, then you are installing 🙂 But from the sound of it, you deleted only the records and left the tables intact, so you are technically upgrading.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can WP do this?With 1.5’s theme engine and page capabilities, a little custom programming in the theme’s pages could handle this 🙂 Along with intelligent categories, of course 😉
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 1.5 tables changed?From the changes I’ve seen, I *think* it would be possible. Just restore the comments and post tables (I’d avoid creating any new categories until you’re sure, though) from the 1.5 backup into your 1.2 tables after they’re restored and the blog is working again.
Failing that, WP 1.2x had an RSS importer that could do the trick 🙂 Move your 1.5 blog to another location (and a new database, unless you change the table prefix in the 1.5
wp-config.phpfile and the table prefixes in your database), then use the 1.2 RSS importer to grab the posts and comments from it. It might create doubles, though – I’m not sure that it’ll detect duplicates, so you might need to remove all your posts and comments before doing the import.It sounds a little confusing I guess, but in theory it should work.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Blog-Themes.comWHEW! Tracked it down to a blank line in a plugin 🙂 Everything should be working for everyone now 🙂
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Blog-Themes.comOh fruits – I wonder how many other sites on that server are flaky then. Time to call the administrator and give him a good yelling…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Blog-Themes.comOoops 😀 I goofed up the zone file for the domain. Doh!
Okay, everyone who hasn’t already tried the site should be able to see it, you two will have to wait until your DNS cache updates itself (should be within 12 hours). Sorry 🙁