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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: help upgradingTry 7zip, it’s open-source and available on Sourceforge (sf.net)
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: switching hosts – help pleaseThanks, podz! That was it!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Vesuvius TemplateI’d recommend
width: 20em; // or thereabouts, try a few values
for #menu and #rmenu
Quoting widths in “em” instead of “px” means that the menus expand and contract according to the display font size – so text doesn’t spill over when font size is changed.
Your text will still overrun the menu border if it’s longer than 20 characters (or whatever the number of em’s is).Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: WP Search highlightJust tried it again, it seems to highlight the terms of the previous search – and if it’s the 1st search, nothing. This happens both on my site and Carthik’s, and with one serach term or two. Using FF 0.9.3 (shouldn’t be browser-dependent, right?). My blog is a fairly bog-standard WP1.2 install with only minor hacking to accomodate static pages. 2fargon’S, I dunno. Can anyone confirm this?
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: WP Search highlightsame here, using WP1.2. Is there another serach hilite plugin somewhere?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: blog from 20six.co.ukThere are tools to import blogs from a number of systems into a WP database. See http://wiki.wordpress.org/ImportBlog
RSS import would probably be the option for you.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but do you have your own hosting (outside of 20six)? Just checking. If so, can you find cpanel or phpMyAdmin?Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: BLOG:CMS vs. WordPressSushubh, check out what happened to your post
“Because Open Source is not about Favors”
wtf??Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: WP Search highlightYes this would be useful – highlight WP search terms just like Google ones
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Permalinks are not permaOh, i thought the point of the slug cruft was to get more google love by having keywords present in the url?
Is there a resource that explains how permalinks work, as opposed to a how-to? From your post it seems like WP retrieves posts by the post_id, except when there is no id, in which it retrieves them by the slug. Correct? (Sorry I’m too crap at regular expressions to tell from looking at the .htaccess)
Is there a purpose to having the date form part of the URI?Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Why using Kubrick on 1.3 is a mistakeHoly shit guys, while I was typing up my lovey dovey reply you’ve been flaming! }:-(
Anyway, I learned something… there are people who, when they think about customising a blog, think about pictures before they think of CSS. Whole new world for me. In this context Kubrick makes more sense than I initially thought, although I’ll probably remain be a CSS-first kinda guy (code is poetry – besides, I’m a crappy photographer)
Re. the commented/uncommented CSS, I still think the first one a noob should see is the commented one. Which doesn’t stop anyone from putting up the uncommented version somewhere, or even including it in the distro.Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Why using Kubrick on 1.3 is a mistake2fargon: I agree re. “design by community”.
What I was trying to do was to see if some kind of consensus would emerge as to what we want from the next template. If so, then that might just be useful for the devs to know. Even if they decide differently in the end.
Re. the dictatorship bit, you don’t need to take me so seriously just because I say “seriously”. Seriously, inserting :-)s into my gratuitously incendiary rhetoric is no fun, it makes it all too obvious. I’m a happy guy right now. I love what the devs are doing (gimme gimme gimme 1.3). I love the template stuff that “Root&co” (sorry can’t remember all the names right now) are doing, especially Root’s blog entries that explain the motivation behind it all (if only he’d linked to those from here earlier). I did an install of Kubrick and am loving that as well, just not as default in a WP distro (at least not as it stands now). And do I really need to point out that our GPL-given Right To Fork makes a WP dictatorhsip impossible anyway?Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Why using Kubrick on 1.3 is a mistakemoose, 🙂
Seriously though, IMO the “just wait and see what happens” attitude belongs to the world of closed-source software (and dictatorships, and stuff I just don’t care about). There seems to be a consensus that the default template needs to change, brilliant, now let’s discuss what we want for WP1.3. And let’s not just pick one of the first 2 or 3 existing templates that come to mind, let’s start with defining the objectives and then derive a solution from those.
Here’s what I think the objectives should be, in decreasing order of importance:
– not inherently borked like the current index.php
– displays the same in all browsers
– easy to customise
– well documented to help with customisation (see my last post)
– prettyForum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Why using Kubrick on 1.3 is a mistakegoodsnake: i just opened the Kubrick photoshop file in a famous open-source program called Gimp that cost me exactly $0.00. I can see and edit all the different layers just fine.
Having said that, I agree that if there is only one default template, then it should be one with no graphics, because, as you rightly say (IMO), it discourages customisation. I also agree that Gemini and Trident are better in this regard.
Whatever the default will be in 1.3, the CSS should be full – I mean FULL – of comments explaining what each bit of CSS does. Especially the bits dealing with positioning/float/clear that people are having so much trouble with. I believe this will really help noobs like myself customise their look. And forget about the extra ~1K file size, people can always take the comments out when they’re done with the customisation.Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: WordPress 3 Column Flexible InterfaceYup, agreed. Perhaps if you manage to sort out how it displays in IE and Opera, I’ll be able to turn faux columns into what I want.. 3 cols + header + footer, flexible and not broken in any broswer would be a great start for me. Or maybe I’ll have to actually read and understand Stuart’s tutorial…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Search, Links and Categories templatesOr perhaps you mean something like Kubrick, if so just download it from there.