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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: my two column blog suddenly has one columnAlso, if the column width is 450px, then your map picture at 496px is probably forcing the other column to move.
This sort of problem is usually caused by images being too wide, so I’d suggest checking them all to make sure they are less than the column width.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: blog disappears after sidebar modificationAfter messing about with my sidebaar.php files to get a particular item to display, I came across Daikos Text Widget plug-in that lets you put php and other code into a widget, which you can then just drag to your sidebar rather than having to edit your sidebar.php file. Perhaps that might work for you?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Help With Post Area WidthI’m also not an expert; that was something that seemed like an obvious error. Apparently it wasn’t.
I’ve been looking at the CSS for my site which is also three column to see if that gives me any pointers, and one difference is that your #content sets a left margin of 179px and a right margin of 0px, whereas in mine the left and right margins are the same. Try setting both margins to 179px and see what happens.
Other than that I’d be reluctant to suggest any further changes because I wouldn’t want to break something else.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Help With Post Area WidthYour numbers don’t add up!
Your #left and #right have widths of 179px, and your #content has a width of 500px; that makes a total of 858px, not the 790px you’ve entered.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to put a live email address in a post?Well, the way to do it is to enter your link as:
mailto:the-email-address-you-want-to-use
But it’s not advised to put live email addresses into web pages, due to the high number of scrapers out there that will then be able to use that email address for spam. Much better to show the email address in an altered form such as:
yourname[at]yourdomain[dot]com
That way it’s still should be obvious to your readers what the email address is, but scrapers will not be able to detect it.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Is the new dropdown_categories working?@moshu
Thanks for this; it’s just what I needed, too. Having a drop-down and then a submit button seems an inelegant solution for the user; much better to have the category auto-select.Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Theme doesn’t look right[Comment deleted because it was incorrect]
Sorry, thought I had the answer but didn’t!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Problem with Meta Tags – not showing up in source codeAs I understand it, the tags that you enter in the area below your post are not meta-tags. They are more a way to classify what you’ve written about.
For instance, if your post was about Nineteenth Century Architecture you might use “Architecture” as a tag. Then, if your blog is registered with services like Technorati that post would be displayed with all the other posts from other bloggers that had a tag of “Architecture”.
Update: I just went back to your blog and all the tags seem to be displaying, so I take it that you’ve fixed the non-display issue.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Blogroll>Open in a new window?No problems; glad I could help.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Blogroll>Open in a new window?On the Blogroll page of your Dashboard, when you add a new link there is “Target” option over to the right-hand side. Click the “+” to expand it and there are three options. The default is “none” but if you change it to “_blank” then that link will open in a new tab or window.
As far as I can see you will have to alter this setting for each link; it does not appear to be something you can set globally for the whole Blogroll.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Error With TIGA 1.02I tried this theme when I first switched to WordPress.org a few days ago and had the same error. I found this thread which says that this error and others may be as a result of the theme not being fully compatible with the latest version of WordPress.
I changed themes and the problem has not resurfaced.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Now this here, is a Strange one….Looking at the source code for that page, you’ve got
<div class="clear"></div>at the end of the post (just after the tags, etc and before the first comment) but from I can see in all the other instances where you use “clear” it is in the form of one of these
<div style="clear:both;"></div> <div class="clear whitespace"></div> <p style="clear: both;"...>Could that be what is causing the problem?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Theme doesn’t look rightI can see the issue you mean – the background is not being drawn properly and where there should be a rounded-corner white box behind the whole page, it just draws part of it at the top.
Have all of the files for the theme definitely been loaded into the correct folder? It looks like the theme is referring to an image file that is missing.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: abuseIf you’re having issues with wordpress.com, then you’re in the wrong support forum and need to ask your question at:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/
This is the forum for self-hosted wordpress.org installations.
Having said that, the correct link for you to sign into your blog would be
http://yourusername.wordpress.com/wp-admin
If your blog is not hosted at wordpress.com, and is a self-hosted one, then the correct link would be something like:
http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin
but this would vary depending on whether you’ve got .com, .org, etc and in which folder you installed the software.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: wp-content/plugins directory locationThe WordPress.com service doesn’t allow adding anything to the basic functionality, but does have some more widgets, etc, as standard compared to the WordPress.org software.
I’ve just moved to WordPress.org after about nine months of using WordPress.com because I wanted to move to self-hosted and have more control over the ‘bones’ of the blog, but for anyone that isn’t up-to-speed with FTP’ing, and the more technical aspects of admininistering a WordPress.org installation, I’d say that WordPress.com would be a much better bet.