Starkmann
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Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Please Review my First Time Blogahem, site?
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Dummy Entries for developmentdo you have a preexisting blog of your own that you could just back up to your test site?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: What plugin is this? (calendar style date?)patients my son. It looks to me like you only waited an hour for a response.
Personally, I’ll be interested to see the answer, it looks like a cool little trick.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: blacklist not workingwell, I’m no expert, I’m pretty new myself. Here are the two things I can think of, maybe someone else can weigh in with more info.
1) phenterimine is a long and hard to spell word. make sure you copied it directly from the blacklist list and pasted it into the comment. I’mnot tryin to be a jerk, it’s the kind of mistake I would make
2) There is a check box on the same screen as the blacklist list that I have not played with. It says “An administrator must approve the comment (regardless of any matches below)” which suggests to me that this checkbox my override the blacklist. Make sure that is unchecked, which I believe is the default setting.I’m afraid that’s all my little brain has for now. Good luck I hope it helps or at least draws the attention of someone else who can.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: What do you see, diffrent users with different outcomesSure Spence
First, if you have an issue and an hour to work on it, workthe hour then post. Litle ettiquette mistake on my part.
Second. The issue was that this one user was getting a white screen that was just a bulleted list that represented the sidebar. I assumed my digging around in the theme the last couple days broke it and I was right.
because of the way the sidebar loaded (without the search box) I thought the problem was in the sidebar but couldn’t find anything.
In the end, the problem was with a meta tag from goggle I had tried to add to the header to make sure mypage was indexed. I had to pull it out. It hadn’t worked anyway (probably becaue google was reading the broken page).
The worst part about it was that I probably broke the page two days ago but didn’t notice, I guess my browser was loading it form cache or the tag didn’t cause me any problems in firefox, I don’t know which.
thanksForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: blacklist not workingI played with mine a bit, I put in a test phrase: ghwylzm.
When I, the admin, put it in a comment, it posted. When I posted it from an unregistered user, it got black listed. I haven’t played with all the options in between yet. Were you test posting Phenterimine from your admin account when it wasn’t working?Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: blacklist not workingare you already using the plugins mentioned above?
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Blog communityLucifix,
I’m pretty new to this whole thing so hopefully someone else can weigh in a little more intelligently than I can but….
IT sounds to me like it’s a matter you you hosting the site more than WordPress’s capabilities. Basically you would maintain the environment in which WordPress is installed. You would do the installations and set yourself as Admin then set up your users as Authors. The flaw I see is that this makes you wholey responsible for plugins and themes (As far as I know) which is really the only admin feature you seem to want them to have.
It’s possible someone knows of a plugin or how you could manually edit accounts to have that one admin function but since themes require installation in the actual file path, I don’t think you can reasonably mix and match the Author and Admin role. You could give them all a standard set of themes and just let them pick the theme of their choice. That would give you a good balance of flexibility and structure.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Test System and possibly local installThanks for the quick response. Much appreciated.
Studs and Studettes, dunno, I guess I’m just weird. Kinda meant as a compliment. Meant as flattery, I consider a lot of the folks her very intelligent and cool.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: always open link in a new pageWow, thanks very much for that. I appreciate it. I wll file that bit of code away for a week or two until I have time to lookit over more thouroughly and then I’ll give it a go.
thanks again.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Theme switcher plugin breaks theme editorThanks for the bit of code. I will add that.
The reason I thought it was odd that it showed them all was because the first plugin I was using actually had a nice little feature that allowed me to select which themes were viewable. So if I had, for example, a black and white version of the same theme but wanted to add a grey one. I could add it to my theme library, work it over a bit. Then add it to the drop down.
I may play around with some different theme selectors out there.Thanks again for the code though, that will be very useful
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Theme switcher plugin breaks theme editorI have downloaded it, I will get back to you.
EDIT: interesting results so far. It works, but displays all thethemes in my libray. In th event I turn it offbut don’t comment out the code, it stops the background image on my page. It’ll be usable after I have cleaned up my thme library.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Theme switcher plugin breaks theme editormm, good point on permission. I may have to rethink that bit. In the mean time, I’m using the top theme switcher from the link in my post. It is claimed to be authored by one Mr. Peer. I tried to look into the file for a bit more clarification but all I get is that it comes froma 386a.net. If you know of one that works and well, I’d be more than happy to cash this one in for another.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Blogspot Or WordPress?I had a blogspot blog for a while. I left it for WordPress. It wasn’t horrible it just wasn’t as capable. It was kind of the difference between buying a computer or building a computer. Build is more work and has the opportunity for screw up but you can make it do whatever you want, look however you want, the sky is the limit. The purchased computer is a little more expensive, roughly equal in power but you get what you get. It’s only so customizable.
I had trouble with WordPress when I first tried, in fact I had someone else install it because I couldn’t get it to run. Then I set up a second blog and did it myself. The last couple days I have been able to help a friend with his. I enjoy poking the template, adding the feeds I want, trying to find that next cool plugin.
Honestly my first reactions were not different from the new user above but I’m really happy I made the switch.Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: advertising, banners, required if i use wordpress?I don’t have any, head over the to “show your stuff” are of this site and you can see a lot of examples that lack ads. The ads have to be added in.