Ryan Fitzer

Here’s a great plugin I use to show excepts with a thumb taken from the first image in the post.

http://guff.szub.net/2006/02/09/post-image/

And here’s a thread where I talk about how I use it.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/81136?replies=12#post-417649

I see what your saying. If you look at the code for the first three videos on that page, you will find no <br /> elements. These were posted with the most recent version of the plugin.

You need to include the background image via css in that specific file. Here’s your background image:

http://www.roscoe.dk/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickbg.jpg

Now you need to change the with of the #page rule. But be beware, once you start doing this, other things will need tweaking as you’ve just witnessed. Be prepared to start combing through your theme’s markup and css to get everything to play nice.

You do this by changing the css rules that define the body’s width in the style.css file in the theme’s folder.

2) The plugin – video-quicktags – is great for simplifying the act of adding the <object..> tags. But if you look at the source code of the video page at that site, you’ll see WordPress auto formatting has messed up the output HMTL – look at the object tag, and in between the start and end of the object tag, you’ll see a <br/>! And the plugin is trying to avoid this by making really long lines, even that is not fully able to work around the WordPress bug.

I’m not sure which “video” page you were looking at. I went to the front page of the site, viewed the source and did not see any elements within the object element. Here is the code I found for the first video on the site:

<object width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/BQECwm3erEs"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BQECwm3erEs" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /></object>


Looks correct to me. The page also validated as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.viper007bond.com%2F

You will not see <?php require('/u/k/kcit0806/www.kiplingcitizen.com/wp-blog-header.php'); ?> when you view the source of a page with a browser because this php script gets executed on the server. This goes for all server-side scripting languages. Basically, the server reads the contents of the file, does whatever it says and then outputs it to the browser. If you could see it than that means it has been handled incorrectly.