• Hello there!
    I’m not actually sure which forum to post this in, so excuse me if this is the wrong one. I have a friend that I encouraged to install WordPress on his hosting, to use instead of his LiveJournal. He likes it, but for some reason, he really loves that ‘mood’ and ‘music’ fields above each post of LJ. Is there some form of plugin to provide the same (or similar) functionality in WP?
    I noticed that there is a plugin to update both a LG and WP blog, but this isn’t what he is after – he just would like these two fields added. Is there a simple way to do this?
    Thanks! (please make replies reasonably basic if possible!)

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  • There is a new post meta feature, which lets you create meta fields for posts.
    So you have a meta field named “Mood” and another named “Music” and can assign different values to these two.
    I am a LJ user, and I can tell you this can be done with almost no effort.

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Sorry, but I can’ t find the ‘meta’ options in the admin area. Are they hidden in code somewhere, or have I simply not looked in the admin area enough?
    Thanks for the quick response!

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Perhaps we’re seeing a different ‘advanced editing’ screen! I have fields such as Title, Excerpt, Post Status, Comments, Pings, Password, Post, Trackback, Category and Timestamp.
    Sorry I’m not all that great at this, where is this meta tag?

    Are you using the latest 1.2 mingus release ?

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    :O It says it is version .036!! (at the bottom of the blog). Is that correct? if so, that is ancient! It was installed using Fantastico. If this is correct, is there an easy way to update WP without losing anything?

    .o36 ? Have you a link ?
    And upgrading ? This may help https://www.ads-software.com/support/3/5998

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    I’m sorry, it was 1.01 – I looked at the number at the bottom of the blog! (which I assume is the seconds it look to generate the page, since it changes! I will check out the link you submitted, thanks.

    Damn. For a minute there I thought we had just found the oldest WP version in existance!

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Sorry to disappoint that I don’t have the oldest version of WP around! So it has become apparent that to have this feature, WP needs to be updated to 1.2. Rather than bother my friend with this, I decided to try the upgrade on my own version of WP (same 1.01 version).
    I backed up my files, and then uploaded the new version. The I replaced the index.php page and the wp-layout.css files that I had previously edited. I ran the upgrade script and it said it all worked. Two problems:
    1) My page layout appears to be screwed. It looks like it isn’t even loading the stylesheet since everything is in times and has no layout. Any ideas?
    2) I can’t login to the admin area with my username/pass. I clicked the ‘forgot password’ link, to which I got an email with a new password (not my old one) and no username listed. I tried logging in with admin + my new password, no luck. Is there a way to reset the password when I can’t login as the admin?
    Thanks heaps guys for any help! The link to my blog is https://www.jeremyburge.com/blog

    When I view source, I see this
    @import url( /wp-layout.css );
    and it should have your site url before the slash. Check index.php to see if it is set correctly ?
    Error 3 is becoming increasingly common …… Devs ??

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Oh I see, weird, since the file hasn’t changed.
    Wait, the actual code in the file is:
    <style type=”text/css” media=”screen”>
    @import url( <?php echo $siteurl; ?>/wp-layout.css );
    </style>
    Possibly either the $siteurl function isn’t working, or it has somehow been lost in the upgrade (like my admin login!!) I changed the php call into my site path instead and it now works!!! Thanks ever so much podz for your help in here…even if we have shifted from my original post.
    I don’t suppose you have any ideas regarding my admin area? Or how to simply set a new password? Every time I mail the ‘forgotton password’ link, it will email me saying:
    Login:
    Password: *a different password than what mine is!*
    Login at: https://jeremyburge.com/blog/wp-login.php
    (notice no login name specified)

    I managed to get mine working by going into phpmyadmin, but that advice has not worked for someone else ….
    I think the dev’s need to look into this ..

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Do the devs look at this board often? I have phpMyAdmin in my control panel – is it easy to try and change the password? Or do I risk dire consequences?

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Podz mate, you are awesome. Thanks so much, I am into my admin area also. Now to go and investigate this ‘meta info’ area for my friend, that I originally started the thread about!!
    Thanks once again to all who have helped, even if I don’t have my original question solved just yet ??

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