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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Where can we get urgent wordpress support..?There isn’t anywhere else much unless you find some of the “not English” fora, there’s German, Spanish, French etc. Or if you find one of the lists at http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo – though I truthfully do not know that you’ll get any answers any faster there.
The pro mailing list will have people looking at mails on it who may be willing to provide help for payment.
And other than that…. this is it, sorry. I would suggest you post a mail to the pro list that indicates you’d be willing to pay for support in emergencies (if you are) and see if you can work out a deal with someone.
[Edit: there is now one response to your first issue; I have no installations or upgrades using 2.1+ so I can’t help you with that, sorry.]
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Y2k7 bug after DST change – timestamps off by an hour in the USYou can always report that as a bug at http://trac.wordpress.org
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: PLEASE A BETTER SUPPORT FORUM SYSTEMAh…. well, if search was choosing to work normally, you’d be able to find that there’s almost no one who uses this forum who thinks the search function is good. In fact, probably only matt (and any sycophantic followers he may have at any given time) thinks the search function is good.
Gee, is it still crap yahoo? Or is it a dumbed down version of google right now? Or neither? *shrug* No clue. You could try posting to the hackers list (though a search of the archives there might be a good idea first…. – and it runs on mailman so I believe the search works acceptably) which you can find info about here:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Y2k7 bug after DST change – timestamps off by an hour in the USNo – you won’t switch when the UK switches, because UTC will remain the same, only the people in that country will change their clocks. I realize it’s confusing, but the only thing you need to keep track of is -4 to UTC/GMT during OUR DST period, and -5 to UTC during our Standard Time period.
I guess I have less trouble with this than some since I not only have a daughter living in Germany, I have many friends in the UK, France, Belgium etc. So I’m just used to messing with time….
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Replacing the default header (oh yes, I’ve searched)Hmmm. Well, I never monkey with kubrick. So really I’m lost with looking over the code. Last time I did anything with kubrick it was to pull ALL the friggin’ styling info out of the header.php where it never should have been in the first place, and put it into the css. I then sent that to whoever it was wanted it in the first place, and it’s not on my hdd any more, sorry.
I don’t have a lot of trouble with wp themes. I’ve got various custom themes for my own blogs; and I’ve set up wp for numerous clients using tweaks of my own or tweaks of themes from themes.wordpress.net. Literally the ONLY themes I’ve ever had trouble with are the “close knockoffs” of kubrick.
Which brings me full circle, Clint. A theme from themes.wordpress.net that matches the layout you expect to see will 99 times out 100 be easier to change graphics and colors in than kubrick.
If what you’re looking for is a 2 column right sidebar with header and footer fixed width centered on screen, try MistyLook from Sadish Bala, whose themes work very very well: http://wpthemes.info/misty-look/
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Y2k7 bug after DST change – timestamps off by an hour in the USGMT is NEVER inaccurate. GMT is the time-standard the world around (actually, more properly, UTC is that time standard, but many people still use GMT).
I would imagine UTC is hard-coded into the core files somewhere. It doesn’t matter what this country does with DST, because UTC is not going to change. Even at the point which the UK goes to DST, UTC is the same time, only people are on different time.
You could simply do like I am this year: tell the gov’t to stuff it. Of course, I’m retired, no kids, and run my own business, so I don’t really have to keep track much.
Regardless, unless someone thinks it’s a smashing idea to have wp find DST the world around (somehow…. – and I personally don’t find it a good idea at all), it’s not too big a deal to reset the UTC offset twice a year.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: insert tracking script after <body> tag (mybloglog)Well, actually, the body tag mybloglog wants you to use it after is in header.php.
You’ll see something like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
*bunch of meta tags and gobbledegood code crap here*<?php wp_head(); ?> </head><body>Something like that…. and mybloglog’s tracking code goes immediately after
<body>and before anything else that’s there like other divs or whatever.I set mybloglog to load in a client’s sidebar on his request, btw, and it didn’t work very well at all – I don’t know why, but my guess is there’s a reason for mybloglog to suggest strongly that you put it where they indicate….
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Enable Paged NavigationI honestly don’t know, since I never do the “home.php” thing – if I want something like that I do it the old-fashioned way….
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Front page takes a long time loadLoads extremely fast for me (low end wildblue satband) – less than 2 secs total for both the splash page and the main page.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Quicktags – where are they?Well, in 2.0+ branch, in your user profile page scroll down to the bottom, uncheck the box left corner to disable the wysiwyg.
In 2.1+ branch, I have no idea.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Enable Paged Navigationwp.com is run on wpmu, so things may be very different….
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: apostrophe creates database SQL syntax errorWell, the upgrade was a good idea anyway. And I think there are other similar plugins to that one around – maybe one of them will work better!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Including wordpress widgets etc in non-wp pagesIf this is 2.1, I’m not sure what I know how to do in 2.0 will work.
That caveat entered, here’s what you do to enable this sort of functionality:
Before anything else (even the doctype!) on the page where you want the wp functionality to appear, place this code:
<?php require_once('/home/username/public_html/wp/wp-blog-header.php'); define('WP_USE_THEMES', false); ?>Note that that server-path string is the sort one has on some servers; there are others. If you don’t know what your specific server-path really is, ask your host support staff.
Once that’s in place, then put the “bits” where you want them in your page.
Couple other caveats:
1. I haven’t ever tried this with widgets. It may work fine, but I can’t say definitively.
2. If the wp install you want to scab the widgets from lives on another domain in your server space (or sometimes even in another area of your folder structure) you may run into the “open_basedir restriction”. If so, the only thing I can tell you to do is use wpget – a specifically tweaked wpget – and if this happens to you, post back and we’ll go from there.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t include files in other directoriesThat’s weird. Full server path works fine for me all the time. You’re not getting any errors? Have you checked with your host to see if they disallow server-path access for some reason?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Best WYSIWYG editor (probably asked before, but didn’t become any wiser)You can do everything anyone’s asked for here with a blogging client. Specifically, with Windows Live Writer from http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/ (well, maybe not tables…. but I set up a quicktag to handle that).
Now, that option t’is true may not be a good solution for endusers. Though I actually haven’t ever had one of my clients (even the less web-savvy ones) come to me and say “why can’t I have a wysiwyg in wp” or “why doesn’t wp work like word”. So there are degrees and degrees of need for this in clientele apparently.