amydef

Hi pcarlow,

I eventually got what I needed here from Nick Momrik’s https://mtdewvirus.com/code/mdv-archive/ (found via podz https://www.tamba2.org.uk/T2/).

You probably know to save your old files (in this case, archive.php I think, and if you want to do the same thing for search results, search.php. Looks like they download as text and you rename them. I say “looks like” because it’s been a while!) Anyway, in this case, you’ll definitely need the old files, to pilfer code for tweaking. Momrik’s code gives you the whole month on an archive page, but only the titles. What I did (inspired by Podz, but [wheee] I figured it out on my own) was to go to the original files where some of the options (month, week, etc) are set to show excerpts as well. Nabbed that code and edited the Momrik file and I’ve got a month of partial entries on one page at least.

I would imagine that a bit more industriousness could similarly give a month of full posts if that’s what you want. This is as far as I went for what it’s worth.

What about if I just want to see all my entries on one page when I choose a month from my archives? I don’t see an option for setting “show at most” under “reading options” differently for archives vs my opening page (and my preference is not to have 30 days of stuff show on my opening page, but I’ll do that if there’s not a better option.)

ok. I just got back from https://www.webmasterworld.com/forum83/5499.htm and I think I’ve got it. Root, I’m sorry if I missed what you were saying: nested containers, with margins set for the inside one, to replace the padding.

One thing of interest, though. Even after I did this, I still had that extra left margin, inside the inside box in FF. I had to specifically define the ul as having padding-left: 0px. It was as though it was defaulting to something else.

I’m sure there are other problems like this lying around, but at least now I know what to look for.

Actually 11em. You might have ducked in while I was trying the 10 per the last suggestion. (I’ll set up another page for all these adjustments.) At any rate, with margins I’m just getting space around the green box: https://www.epigraph.org/trials/layoutboogers/IE11marginsnopadding.JPG and I do want a little space between the edge of the text and the edge of the box.
(Thanks for looking at this, Root.)

Hi Podz!

With those adjustments, the IE smooshes the menu text right up against the (left)edge of the menu’s box. IE Screenshot at https://www.epigraph.org/trials/layoutboogers/IE10emleft2.jpg
The original in IE (which is what I’m hoping to get) looks like https://www.epigraph.org/trials/layoutboogers/IE11emleft20orig.JPG

As far as the FF goes, when I try the 10em and 2px, the material in the sidebar ends up wrapping more than I want it to. For example, home and contact end up on different lines, and the description at the top ends up sort of tall and skinny. The gap on the left isn’t as bad, but still not what I was getting in IE. Grr. wasted space and then cramped text. I guess it’s something other than padding doing that.

Amy

Thank you!

This will take me a while to read, but it’s the kind of thing I really want to know more about (besides just for fixing this blasted page:0)

In the meantime, the reading made it clear (sort of) that if I put the footer back in, the container will stretch to include it (and thus what’s in the between). So that will be up at the page linked above. In case anyone is trying to figure out if we’re having similar problems, I’ll leave a version of the source of complaint here: https://amydeferrari.com/FFfloatproblem.html

Thanks again!

“If removing $more works for you, add a note to the bug”

How do you add a note to the bug? I just went over there and registered, but I’m somehow not seeing where you add your comment. Or is it closed? At any rate, thanks for the fix.

Thank you!
I didn’t know that it was in style.css – where you do the renaming.

For the forum record, that took care of it: I’m up and running. (I drifted off into private email as I’d pegged my problems as too remedial to clog up the forum. But then I read https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/forum/ and agree that podz deserves thanks outside the inbox. Plus the other good reasons mentioned there.)

Hi- I tried the tutorial and it didn’t work for me. I sent an email to tamba2, but in case it’s an old address, I thought I’d ask my question here. (Sorry if they go to the same place.)

My problem is that the host I’m moving from and the host I’m moving to are both using shared IP’s. So the account name is a prefix to the database name. (Specifically, my new account is called epigraph because the domain is epigraph.org, and so if I try to call the database “blog” it will automatically end up being called epigraph_blog. In my original configuration, I had epigraph.org as an add-on domain at hogritude.com, so the database was called hogritude_blog. The actual url won’t be changing – it remains epigraph.org/blog – but the database name has to change.)

So my question is, is there a way to adapt your tutorial in order to make use of my existing database, or do I need to re-install wordpress at the new host and repeat the entire process of editing my templates and adding my archive entries? (Or, I guess a 3rd possiblilty, if I re-install and configure, is there a way to get my archives other than by hand?)

Thank you for any help you can give me,
Amy