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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Can advertising be implemented into wordpress blog site?You can use it any way you want to use it. Really. Monetize hell out of it, no one cares. Really. Go for it.
Caveat: that’s IF you’re downloading the distro from the link at the top of the page and installing the blog on a domain name of your own under your own hosting account. If you’re wanting to use a wordpress.com hosted blog, no, you can’t generally use ads on one of those.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Search feature not workingI don’t know…. and the reason I asked what version is because I’m not using anything other than the 2.0 branch so can’t help if it’s 2.1….
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Search feature not workingFirst question: what version of wp?
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: report abuseAh, well…. blogs using the software aren’t controlled by the support here or anything else. What people choose to do with a blog once they’ve installed the free, open source etc. software is up to them. WP, its principals, its developers etc. don’t have anything to do with what use is made of the software.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Is there a way to be notified or a section for new themes?If you’re meaning here, no, there’s no way to get notification of themes. This is the link to the Themes and Templates forum:
http://wordpress.org/support/forum/5
which is where some folks announce new or updated themes. But that’s about it, don’t know if you can somehow get a feed from there or not.
I believe you can pay something ($50 a year? not sure) to have your own domain name redirected to a wp.com blog. Of course, if you have your own domain name, why on earth would you want to do that when you can simply host your own wp blog for free? *shrug* And I have no answer to that obviously rhetorical question.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WHERE IS IT??????!!!Well, I don’t think you need to feel stupid. Seems to me that’s a problem with the way the docs (such as they are) are written. NO ONE is a mind reader, and “installdir” with no annotation is certainly not intuitive.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: problems editing index.php as not all script there…The source you view is munged from (generally) header.php, index.php, sidebar.php, footer.php at minimum. In order to figure out where to change things that are wrong, you need to copy the source output into notepad2 or notepad++ (check google for current addys) where you can set them to show line numbers.
Then when the validator gives you a line number for an error, you look at the source in notepad2, see where it falls within the munged files (some of it will be obvious as living within sidebar or footer, etc.) Then you look for the offending line in the actual file whichever it is.
That’s how dynamic sites/files work…. one page display is actually made up of many parts.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Favicons appear in address bar but not in favouritesI usually have to restart the browser a couple of times before it works. And I’m not sure it works in all browsers either. There’s something specific you have to do to get it to work in IE6 for instance, so maybe that’s part of it? As far as mac browsers or other off-brands, I don’t know.
Ah, this was the deal for IE6 (a LONG time ago (2003….):
favicons will not show in IE unless the URL is bookmarked
And I couldn’t say if that’s still the case. The only thing I worry about with IE6 is that the page displays reasonably “right” and remains usable – I don’t have time to worry about favicons for the world’s most broken browser.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: importing Blogger blogs into Earthlink WordPress & other basic QsOkay, I can see how you’d feel that way…. but I can’t help you with earthlink anything. Hopefully there will be someone else around here who can.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: htaccess help: moving WP site to TextDrive breaks permalinksOy…. been there done that. SO glad it’s fixed! Happy blogging!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Dynamic drop-down menu.Well, there’s always the son of suckerfish menu setup (I can’t find the bookmark, you’ll have to use google); there’s this site: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/dropdown/3.asp – lot of listings in google….
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: htaccess help: moving WP site to TextDrive breaks permalinksYou should try 666 first. If that doesn’t work (in other words the file doesn’t get written to by the permalinks setup in wp), then set it to 777 – but only long enough for wp to do its job! Once the .htaccess file has been updated, immediately reset it to 644.
So you want to set .htaccess writeable (whichever option above works), immediately hit the permalinks screen in wp-admin/options, select the correct permalink setup, click the update settings button, return to the .htaccess file to check that it was updated with the correct base setting etc., then immediately reset the permissions on .htaccess to 644.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: htaccess help: moving WP site to TextDrive breaks permalinksJust back to a basic for a moment: did you set the .htaccess server-writeable, then visit the wp-admin/options/permalinks screen, and reselect then update settings for your permalink option?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: importing Blogger blogs into Earthlink WordPress & other basic QsWell, anearthling and elnkhostingpm indicate that using .htaccess is possible (I simply said “if” EL didn’t allow it – I didn’t know positively since I wouldn’t touch them with the proverbial…. and the friend who had EL wasn’t the .htaccess savvy type at all so no point in asking her even if she was still with them) – but without mod_rewrite you’re stuck with the sucky “index.php” version of permalinks which is (in my personal view which is of little moment of course) even less pretty than the default.
Apparently you should be able to upgrade direct from 2.0.4 to 2.1 – but be sure you make redundant backups first!