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Much appreciated!

Chris

Gentlemen,

That feed: reference must have been there alla along, because I never touched those links in the footer.php file… Does WordPress have them there by default? If they’re not generally supported, why were they there?

Those explanations were outstanding, and I understand a lot better now. Obviously, for my OWN site, I wouldn’t need a reader on MY PC. Why should I subscribe to what I write, right?

But what you’re saying is that if someone has one of these readers, stumbles upon my site, and clicks that link, THEY will not see XML crap, but rather a page of some kind that shows them what I’ve written. Correct?

One last thing. When I view my site in FF, I see a little orange icon in the bottom right-handed corner that says, “Add live bookmarks for this page’s feeds.” When clicked, I could subscribe to RSS 2.0, RSS .92, or ATOM 0.3. What is the difference in them all?

Thanks, fellas. Truly great info!

Chris

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. THAT DID IT! Ok, here’s a question for you. In the past, I actually had deleted <?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>, but every time I did, I got a parse error. Now, that was the only line I would delete, not the whole thing you said above.

Could you elaborate, please? It obviously has to do with php, which I know little about…

What does that code do?

Thanks a million, Moshu!

Chris

Hmmmmm…

Ok. Sorry if I seemed a little snotty earlier. I’ve had two hours of sleep, and am better now. Was tired.

But, ok. I’m well aware of how to read the validator, and I know exactly what it wants. Just as you obviously do.

But there’s one problem. You are looking at the XHTML outputted code, NOT the php code. I can’t add directly to the XHTML code, and you know it. So, the question is this: Where and in which php file do I add this to output it to that location in the XHTML?

As I said, I worked on this for 2 hours before to no avail. I’ve tried everything I know!

Thanks, guys! 🙂

Chris

That seems to be it. I moved it. Thanks! Now, it’s fixed, but I have a bigger problem. The index page is FINE, but the single pages no longer validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict, which is very important to me. I’ve played with this for 2 hours now and cannot get it to validate and display properly.

I’ve updated the txt files above with the most recent changes, and will not touch them until advised so as not to confuse things.

I’d appreciate your thoughts on this matter.

In addition, there are a few more things that I can’t figure out… They’re not immediately critical, but if you happen to know this, too, that’d be great.

In FF, the blog search is directly aligned horizontally from the regular search. Not in IE, it’s lower. No matter what I do with padding and margins, I can’t seem to align it in IE like it is in FF.

In IE, the arrows in the lists aren’t there like they are in FF.

In both IE & FF, all the links under “Navigation” are pushed about 10px or so further to the right than they are on all other pages. Have a look at their location on anyother page (EXCEPT HOME), and you’ll see the difference.

Thoughts?

THANKS!

Chris

OH, ok then. So, could you or someone else, then have a look at my php files and CSS and see if you can help me figure out what’s wrong?

I’ll post txt versions of the php files if necessary.

Thanks for clearing up my misunderstanding. I was staring it in the face all along!

Chris

Again, thanks for all the replies. Unfortunately, I don’t think the Themes are what I’m looking for. Perhaps I have some sadistic desire to do this the hard way, but…

A) It doesn’t seem like I can do what I want with themes (perhaps I’m wrong).

B) All that Theme stuff is just confusing me anyway…

Blog is at http://www.bartlett-family.net/chrisbartlett/blog2/

Problems In IE:

The entire right side nav is below everything, and you’ll notice that “Blog Search” through META is right on the vertical line. It should be about 10px more to the right, and the blog search should be right below the navbar, pretty much right next to the site search.

The BLOG footer “Chris Bartlett’s Blog is proudly powered by WordPress
Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS).” is centered, but it’s centered in regards to the entire page, not the contentleft area. I’d like it to be, and I’d like it to be positioned right below the lowest blog entry. This happens in FF & IE both.

Problems In FF:

Much better than IE. Basically, the right side nav needs to drop about 20 or 30px or so and move 5 or 10px to the right.

Can anyone simply help me do those things?

Thank you!

Chris