bpolhemus

Anyone tried using Safari? I don’t use Safari much despite installing it (at Apple’s insistence) on my Windows XP laptop, but it’s a though.

Okay, so how did you fix it? (I hate it when someone posts a problem, then says “oh, never mind, I fixed it!” without telling what you did. You DO realize the reason for this forum, don’t you?)

Wizats, I notice your site is back up and running. Mind telling us what you did to fix it? (Yes, I’m having the same problem, after migrating my old database tables to the new site).

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Yes, “trackback” is really kinda cool. It allows blogs to “talk” to each other such that a post on YOUR blog shows up somewhere (usually in the COMMENTS area) on another, regardless of what type of blogware they’re using (as long as it supports the Trackback “standard”).

I use it all the time because I don’t really get that much traffic to my site, and it is a way to invite others to come read what I have to say on the subject. Typically only the “excerpt” part of your post appears on the other blog.

Oh, and yes, you want to enable Trackback on your site so that others can refer to your site in the same way. Just make sure you have all the usual spam guards installed.

Stupid question:

You DID restart Apache after modifying the config files, didn’t you?

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=25719#post-146431

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=25719#post-146431

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugins/Archive

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Themes

Okay, we’re rolling now. As of now, I have the ability to have any post submitted to that one particular category show up ONLY on the unique page assigned to it, and PERFECTLY in sync with the format on that page. (For reference purposes my “News” page is found at https://www.polhemus.cc/blog/news.php).

One of the most important things I’ve discoverd (“DUH!”) is that you must have the .php extension on the file. I presume Apache (in my case) has to have this to know to invoke the PHP module. Others can fill us in on that far better than I can.

Also, I’ve hacked the “loop” portion of the code so that it shows only the title (with no permalink, since I just want to put my news items up and don’t need the “comments” feature).

What I need to do now (further hacking required) is (1) have it show the posts only from the current month (but ALL those from the current month) on the “live” page but one the option of going back to prior months; (2) an option for “(1)” so that would allow me to have a list of links in the “sidebar” area showing titles of older articles–this option might work with having, say, ten “full” articles in the mainbar and all the others in the sidebar–maybe all the articles YTD.

Any recommendations along these lines would be very welcome.

I think what you’re looking for is simply “permalinks.” Look it up in the Codex. (N.B. I would like to “get into” organizing my blog using human-readable permalinks but just haven’t gotten around to figuring out how to “migrate.”)

I’m probably as much of a n00b as anyone here, so it’s the blind leading the blind, but I have found that both the Spam Karma and Referrer Karma plugins together have eliminated all forms of spammy threats to my fledgling blog.

I believe the following thread:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=25988#post-146913

Will give you more than enough info to decide what you want and implement it.

Thanks, that makes sense at least in a theoretical way, but of course I’m battling extreme n00bness, here. If I understand you, you’re saying “map the ARCHIVES of the category you want to display instead of ‘the_posts'” (at least that’s what I think I’m reading).

But can you point me to an example of this?

Thanks.

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