brittanie

I don’t think it’s a theme issue, though. Just do a search on the forums for “trackback error 2.0” and you’ll see that this was a pretty widespread error for people who upgraded from 1.5.

Take a look here for a potential solution, but *BACK UP ALL YOUR CORE FILES* before trying to edit them.

Yeah, this is the “error” with WordPress 2+ I was talking about. The thing is that it’s not really an error — ideally, from what I understand, when you click the trackback link it’s supposed to reload the page but change to the trackback url. At least that’s how it worked for me in 1.5. For some reason with 2+ the link is trying to take you to a new page instead of reloading the permalink page.

To get around this, what I’ve done is remove the anchor tags from the code you posted above so that the trackback url displays on it own (i.e., you don’t have to click a link to get to it) under each post on my blog. You can see an example here, just above the footer.

Here is the code I use:
<?php
if('open' == $post->ping_status) {
_e('TRACKBACK : ','bnTiny')
?>
<?php trackback_url(true); ?>
<?php _e('','bnTiny');
}
?>

Have a look at this thread.

I’m not sure why this is a problem. The /trackback at the end of every url is what makes the trackback link *different* from the regular permalink. When you click the link to trackback at the bottom of the post, the page should stay the same (ideally) — only the url changes. I say ideally because there have been some issues with trackbacks in recent versions of WP.

So what is wrong here? Is it that you don’t want people to be able to trackback, since, from the code above, comments are closed? You can fix that on the Options —> Discussion screen of your dashboard.

Or is something else not working correctly? Be more specific and I’ll see if I can help you.

I had this issue too, but I changed the number of posts per page and it went away. I think it may be a bug in 2.0.1 but after I got mine working again I never bothered to report it (sorry!).

Do you mean the way they appear on the user side of your blog, or the way they appear in your dashboard admin? In the dashboard, they appear alphabetically, and I’m not sure if that can be changes.

This codex article tells you how to arrange them by either category ID or category name (alphabetically) and gives you the option to sort them in ascending or descending order. As far as I know, that’s all the sorting there is, unless someone has created a plugin that, for example, sorts them by number of entries or some other argument.

Edit: I should also add that there is no easy way to change the ID of a category once it’s created. The extremely hard way would be to delete all of the categories and then re-create them in the order you want them, but that puts you in a bad position if you ever want to add a new cat.

Codex list of themes

Also from the codex.

Can you give us a link?

<i>I must have mistakenly installed with a text file php-config so I got a page with tons of code.</i>

Not sure what you mean by this, but it is possible that all you need to do is re-upload your config.php, which would save a lot of hassle. What does this “code” look like? Have you tried to run the install yet?

Also, have you posted anything to the blog at all? Have you imported any posts from another source? If so, you’ll want to back up your database first so you don’t lose any data.

Post back and I’ll see what I can do to help.

Dropdown categories.

The categories won’t show up until there actually posts assigned to them. They won’t appear if they are empty.

This would be my “newb” fix. I’m not sure what caused this problem, but to fix it what I would do is copy the sql database into a simple text file, do a find for the <img> tag, and each time you come acress one <i>re-code the alt tag into each picture by hand</i>. Then re-import this news sql file.

I hope you don’t have, like, 10,000 image links or something.

Alternately, you could just let the alt tags go.

Perhaps someone a bit more sophisticated can come up with a better solution. Sorry!

For the comment box or for the actual comments after they’re left on your site? Either way, it would be via the CSS. Provide a link to your site and I can give you more info.

Daniel, I *think* I know what you want, which is to set it so a certain amount of posts appear on one page (such as the home) and a <i>different</i> amount of posts, maybe all the archives for a particular month, appear on a different page.

If this is correct, try looking into the custom query string plugin. Post back if you have additional trouble.

From the Codex: Designing Headers.

There are a few ways of doing this — you can create a static front page or you can try using a plugin. Note, I haven’t tried either of these so I can’t testify as to how well they work.