torifile

Any progress on this? I’d like to automatically add my tags, up to the character limit. I found a post from last year on how to do it but it’s with an older version and it doesn’t seem to map onto what’s in the code now. The site’s down, but here is the cached version.

Hmm. I’m trying to get this theme working but no go. I get a blank page when I activate it. I’ve checked my apache error log and it says there’s an error in line 121 of the index.php file for the theme. I’ve looked at it and it looks fine to me. I’m running WP 2.0.1. This is a completely fresh install of WP – no plugins or anything.

You need to modify your style.css file. It’s located in wp-content/themes/default/. There are 3 values you need to change:

#sidebar
{
padding: 20px 0 10px 0;
margin-left: 30px;
width: 190px;
}

and

.narrowcolumn {
float: right;
padding: 0 45px 20px 20px;
margin: 0px 0 0;
width: 430px;
}

The “margin” settings are controlling the positioning. (Why they didn’t use float rather than margin is a mystery). I had to make an adjustment to the width of the narrowcolumn to make it fit, but it was probably because my window wasn’t too big. These settings look decent. HTH

I’m getting some strange problems with my rss feeds, too. When I click the rss button in safari, I get an NSURLErrorDomain error. The link that causes this error is feed://www.dbt-u.com/feed/atom/

When I use firefox and click the RSS text link at the footer of my page I get the raw feed. The site is http://www.dbt-u.com if someone wants to have a look at it. Thanks.

Good grief. You guys need to start at 0. Your machine’s IP address may be 192.168.1.2 or whatever, but that’s the IP addy your router is assigning to you. You need to find out the IP address the rest of the world sees. To do that, you can go to whatismyip.com and it’ll tell you.

Since your *router* is actually at that IP address and it’s just directing traffic from the computers on the network, you have to tell the router *where* to send requests for the webpage. That’s where port routing/forwarding comes in. You’ll have to read your particular router’s manual to find out how to do this exactly, but most routers have a web-based admin (usually 192.168.1.1) and you set it up there.

There are a couple of caveats to running your own server. The first is that you likely don’t have a static IP address with your ISP, so your IP may change. As a result a normal http://www.myserver.com addy won’t work because DNS servers won’t know where to look. To get around this, you can get a dyndns.org address. You’ll have to figure that one out for yourself, but it’s pretty straightforward.

Setting up Apache on OS X requires nothing more than checking “web sharing” in the System preferences. You don’t need to worry about ports or anything because a standard WP install will run on port 80. Email me at torifile at mac dot com if you have any questions.

AHA! I got it! Yes!

I made one small edit to the admin_functions file:
Line 1156 needed to be commented out:
//$template_data = implode(”, file(ABSPATH.$template));

And the following line was put in:
$template_data = file_get_contents(ABSPATH.$template);

Now it works. 😀 I’m happy as a bug in a rug.

I’m having a feeling that my problems are related to my host – godaddy. I suspect that safe_mode being on for PHP is causing all sorts of problems for this release. For example, I cannot upload files at all unless I use an FTP client. I also couldn’t see any of my installed plugins until I made a modification to one of the function files. I can’t remember what the mod was or where I read it, but I’m going to try to duplicate the mod for this problem and see if it fixes it.