brittanie

Okay, here’s what I’ve done. I installed Yahoo’s stock WP install on a test blog and then tried a few test comments, and e-mail notification worked fine. So then I opened up thier version of pluggable functions, and couldn;t see anything different from the file I installed on my own. What gives?

I know this is a minor glitch, but it’s really driving me crazy.I’ve heard other people gush over the plugin but I can’t get it to work with 2.0. This it the one things I have had trouble with and the fact that I can solve just grates on me.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. The above ideas, although unsuccessful, are also appreciated (thanks Michael).

Mmmkay, the plugin isn’t working either. Arrrgh!

Okay, for some reason that didn’t work. Also, Yahoo’s stock install does not take this issue into account. Guess I’ll try the plugin and see if that works.

You can find the there, but in my original installation, the WP files were on the server’s root, while Yahoo requires you install WP into a directory (which I don’t want, because you also have to use the index.php permalink work-around. Having a directory file makes those permalinks reallllllly long). Anyway, if I were to import my old posts into this new yahoo install all the permalinks would be broken anyway because of the directory.

Nonetheless, it’s a hassle, and I’m still not even sure that Yahoo’s install fixes the comment notification problem. I’ve tried uploading just yahoo’s pluuable functions file but that breaks everything. I’d rather just edit the two lines of code and be content…

I’m just glad us Safari users can finally click on poster’s profiles in the support forum now.

First thing you need to do is set up your archives pages so that only the excerpt appears. If you would have provided a link to your site I could have helped you with this, but in general, if you look on the index page, you’ll see some code that looks a little like this:

<div class="post">
<h1 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
<p class="date"><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?>

<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('[more...]'); ?>
</div>

Look closely??a€?? you’ve got the post title, which is a permalink, some of the posts meta info (the date), and then a line that says “the content.” If you only want the excerpt to show, you’ll need to replace that bit of code that contains “the content” with “the excerpt.”

For example, my archive.php file includes this code:

<div class="post">
<h1 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
<span class="date"><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?></span>
<div class="entry">
<?php the_excerpt() ?>
</div>

You must make sure there is a link to the permalink with the excerpt so that people can actually click on the post to read the full thing. Take a look at my site to see an example of how this looks. Search the codex for the_excerpt for more info.

As for X number of posts on one page and Y number of posts on another page, I suggest you look into the Custom Query String plug-in, which allows you to specify exactly how many posts appear on each type of page.

Uhh, sorry, zoomed by that last post. I’m drunk…

A) You should upgrade to 1.5. This ensures your site is safe and will be of a benefit when a new version comes out.

B) Your should check out the custom query string plugin, which lets you customize posts per page based on the type of page a person is looking at a€?? archives, search, index, etc.

Do a search and you’ll find it.

Same issue here, if you ever find out how to fix it.

See if this thread helps you at all. I’ve been using Yahoo for the past year and this is the only problem I’ve had with them. Their help pages specifically state that in order to run PHP mail, the address you are sending OR receiving from must be an e-mail within your domain. I changed the suggested lines in my pluggablefunctions.php file and everything works perfectly now.

Not sure if this will help but it’s a super quick fix, so it’s worth a try.

I use both the Custom Query String plugin in conjunction with the Search Pages plugin (which returns search results form both pages AND posts) and they work flawlessly together.

Thanks for the quick reply. I actually got it to work with TextEdit:

Open TextEdit before you open your .sql file. In the menu, select preferences, and under plain text file encoding, set it so that it both opens and saves files in UTF-8 (or whatever coding your database tables are in. Mine was UTF-8. You can find this info while you are in mySQL). Then open your .sql file, make the changes, and SAVE a€?? DO NOT SAVE AS.

It worked like magic.

I might add that if you are going to be editing your .sql files, always work on a copy, not the original.

I’m having this problem as well. I have been able to sucessfully move servers, but now my site has all these character errors, for example, in place of the long dash. I opened my db backup in TextEdit (on a Mac) and have tried Save As (which doesn’t allow an .sql extension) and Save, and neither has worked. TextEdit is supposed to be a plain text editor. Since I’m on a Mac, I can’t use Notepad. Any suggestions?

I use Yahoo for one of my WP sites and have never had any issues. Recently, Yahoo made it so that ALL of their small business hosting plans support the minimum WP requirements (as opposed to just the higher-priced ones) and so I bought another domain for a second site a few days ago. Now, I am having issues with setting up a database. I keep getting an error on Yahoo’s side a€?? the tool they use to activate the database is broken. I have called their “24-hour” support and am told phone support doesn’t cover PHPmyAdmin or mySQL, so I just shot off an e-mail to their online support team to figure out what’s going on.

It’s CRAZZY annoying, because I’ve NEVER EVER had problems with their hosting before.

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Not sure if this would work for you, but there is a plugin, Author Highlight that allows you to style only the comments made by you. For example, all the comments you make could have a yellow background and the rest would just be plain.

Take a look. Good luck.