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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Switching from MamboAssuming it is the only import script lying about, I suggest you contact its author for help specifying to us/him/her the error that you get. As for other ways, you could edit the table manually using the INSERT INTO TABLE statements or PhpMyAdmin if it proves to be more productive. It is otherwise a manual copy and paste job or a programming job on your behalf.
Good luck and happy holidays!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Qusetion about 820px widthmaking a fixed width is not a good idea, let alone setting it to something greater than 770px. I suggest you look at existing templates that do exactly that: centered content, about 780px-wide. I can think of Green Marinee as one template which does that.
http://e-lusion.com/greenmarinee/
Use it as a starting point if it helps. Learn from the CSS.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Arranging Sidebar and Content with CSSThe hierarchy in the style is incorrect, you seem to be setting the menu to lie adjacent to the first item. What you need to do is start with the correct structure in mind and take a top-down approach.
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Make X the menu (sidebar first and ensure it runs alongside Y which is the story/contents part. Then, having done so properly, deal with Y in isolation. Also look at one of the pre-installed themes from Dave Shea. It is a similar design to yours, but the struture is more elegant. Use it as an example and hack away or merge with your design.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Author Image Plugin?Your site seems to have been down for a while… oh, finally it’s there… just very slow to respond.
So you want to manage different directories that contain images of different authors,.The built-in image upload feature in WordPress 2.0 is close, but not ideal. What I suggest you do is teach your colleagues/friends how to use an FTP client and enable them to list the content of the directory where their images are put. The image location can then be copies and pasted into the post.
As I said, it’s worth looking at image management in WordPress 2.0 which will be officially released very, very soon.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Last-modified headersYou could fetch the dates from the database using PHP, but I suspect that HTTP headers are sent at a different level, which PHP cannot reach…? I am not too sure about this. Headers are a browser-server issue and are often beyonf your reach unless you can configure the browser or make it work tightly with your site. Again I am not certain about any of this.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Link to MMS streamingI suspect that http is simply assumed. I am guessing that you try to add the link to your link bar (side menu). Have you considered ‘forging’ this link at source code level? You can edit menu.php. Alternatively, perhaps you can modify WordPress to cease assuming that only hypertext transfer protocol is valid. I am not too sure if WordPress assumes that, but I take your word for it.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: comments setting doesn’t workI suspect that the theme does not obey these options and is simply hardcoding these fields. When testing this on your localhost (DozeXP), did you also put the theme on top? Try stripping off the theme and see the effect. Themes can break functionality if improperly built.
Forum: Alpha/Beta/RC
In reply to: what does file upload actually do??The upload function will either add an attachment or an image and put it under /uploads/<year>/<month>/<date> provided you set the directories to have the required writing permissions. You can then link to such files and the addresses to reach them should be easily fetched using the editing page.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Daughter WindowI think I understand what you mean. To make that link open the admin page in a new (son *smile*, not child) window, you will need to add the target attribute to the link. If you cannot edit that link from the WordPress dashboard, descend onto your template under the themes directory. I think it is called menu.php. Make that link, e.g.
<a href="wp-login.php" target="new">Make a Post</a>As I glance again, the link that you want is probably:
http://thesoltys.com/wp-admin/bookmarklet.php?text=&popupurl=http://thesoltys.com%
Just ensure it has a different target window.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: PNG DropShadow WeirdnessVery nice design. I suspect that you will need to tweak the width of your footer. The header and footer are tricky when it comes to that shadow effect. You need to tinker with the stylesheet and find workarounds. You can otherwise make the changes in the shadow type milder by adding something in between them.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How can post rss contents to my wordpressYou mean post blog items directly from rss? In most cases it is used unethically, but:
http://www.rss2 blog.com/
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There are other similar conversions of interest like:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: separate categoryLet us break the problem into two parts:
1. You need to add an extra menu item (which you prefer, quite fairly, to call a tab). For this you might need to change the template. Go to your themes directory and find the one which you have installed. Find the PHP files that corresponds to the menu. Replicate an existing tab and give it a new name (label). As for the URL, see part (2).
2. You need to create the category of interest, e.g. ‘babes’. Then, use WordPress to display posts only from that category. The URL is likely to be: http://www.365.be/archives/category/babes. Put this in your template file and save it.
You should now have an extra tab, which when pressed, will display everything from that category of interest.
Merry Xmas
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Static Home PageYou can install WordPress at the top-level directory and create home.html. If you want this to be the opening page, you might need to revise the names of WordPress files, especially index.php. From home.html you can link to the standard blog links and the index in particular.
One other thing you could do is make your static page index.html in your top-level directory and install WordPress under a directory at the second level, e.g. http://example.org/blog which is pointed at from http://example.org/, i.e. http://example.org/index.html
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Referencing Anchors/Linking to sections of a seperate postI know of a so-called footnote ‘plug-in’* that is doing something similar, but here is my recommendation:
In the post that you write, add for example
BRACKET_LEFTaBRACKET_RIGHTCaption: Figure 1BRACKET_LEFT/aBRACKET_RIGHT
Then, having labelled the figure, you can link to that caption/<IMG> (deeper page linking). Assuming the page is at /index.php?p=1
BRACKET_LEFTa href=”/index.php?p=1#fig_1″BRACKET_RIGHTFigure 1BRACKET_LEFT/aBRACKET_RIGHT
(*)It does something so simple, so can barely be labeled a plug-ins
Replace BRACKET_RIGHT with >
Replace BRACKET_LEFT with <The forum software is trying to ‘help’ me.
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Edit: thanks moshu
<a href="/index.php?p=1#fig_1">Figure 1</a><a name="fig_1">Caption: Figure 1</a>I think “id” instead of “name” should work too.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: No content shows up* Make sure you back up your data before re-installation
* Do not overwrite the old files if you intend to upgrade to 2.0. Ensure they get properly replaced
* Disable all plug-ins initially and consider emptying the content-directory for the fresh installation