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  • Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: Inserting random snippets

    Sure, this is my favorite “just for fun” plugin.

    Sometimes it’s the small things.

    I know how you feel about having “default” selections, but there are also many, many people who dislike the fact that, with posts, unless you select a seperate category, all posts fall into the default cat. So, you can’t please everyone!

    Glad I could help.

    There is more info here but it says it only applies to WordPress v1.5. There also is, apparently, a plugin, but I haven’t used it so your mileage may vary. Post back if these options don’t work.

    There isn’t a link to your site so I can’t be 100% sure, but as long as you haven’t made any changes at all to the template, most of the time what causes this is some kind of element in either the sidebar or main column that is wider than it should be, which bumps the rest of the content to the bottom.

    For example, if your main column is 400px wide, but you insert a picture that’s 500px wide, the picture will overflow outside of the column and into the sidebar, causing the sidebar to be pushed out of the way. This can also happen if there is an image or some other element in the sidebar that’s wider than it should be.

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Is this possible?

    Read about the_excerpt.

    Yes you can. Look here and follow the first link.

    Silly question, but have you made sure in the links manager that the option for image is selected under those link categories where they picture is not showing up?

    I don’t know how your permalinks are set up, but most WordPress permalinks use a sort of staggared url for archives that includes the month and year of the archive. For example, one site might use an archive url like this: ‘https://www.blah blah.com/blogs/?m=200509’ where 200509 indicates it’s the archive for Sept. 05. On my site, my monthly archives look like this: https://rulebrittaniea.org/2006/04/14/taxi-driver/. You can remove the name of the post and get the archives for 4-14-06. You can delete the 14 and get the archives for for all of April 2006 and finally you can remove the 4 and get all the archives for 2006.

    You’ll have to figure out how your permalinks are set up, and if you want to change their structure to make them easier to track.

    This assumes, of course, that you are tracking referrers by using urls.

    So you just have the urls? Like, saved in a list? If that’s the case, then I have no idea. I think you’re stuck with manually adding each one.

    So what happens when you try just this:
    <?php wp_list_pages("exclude=25,14,15,17,18,19&depth=2&title_li=&sort_column=menu_order"); ?>

    or this:
    <?php wp_list_pages("exclude=25,14,15,17,18,19&title_li=&sort_column=menu_order"); ?>

    Okay, so then can you tell me if the pages excluded in the second bit of code (numbers 25,14,15,17,18 and 19) are sub-pages? What happens if you take that “exclude” parameter out of that code?

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: pages not in order

    Try this handy hint from the Codex.

    Why not create a category called “Photos,” and then exclude those posts from showing up on the index? Try this. If you choose, you can also exclude links to that category from the category list as well.

    Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: Photoblog Plugins

    I have tried three different photo gallery programs and by far my favorite is Zenphoto. Zenphoto is not a plugin, however. It is a seperate software similar to WordPress. You can view my gallery here.

    What I like about ZenPhoto is that it allows pretty permalinks, it’s easily costomizable to match it to your site (I don’t use Kubrick but these directions worked great on my theme as well), and it has it’s own support forum. It offers customizable rss feeds on a level-by-level basis (for example, there are individual feeds for each gallery) and you can allow users to comment on individual photos as well.

    It has it’s issues though. For one, it’s still in beta. But it’s the most comprehensive software I’ve seen for this. Also, there are plugins and it’s open source.

    It works best if you install Zenphoto in the same database where your wordpress lives. This is really easy to do because there are only three tables. Then, all the photos you upload are stored nicely in gallery files on your server like this: Albums —> Landscape —> Mountain.jpg.

    Since www.yoursite.com/albums/landscape/mountain.jpg is a file that now exists on your server, you can display that image in a single post by simply linking to it like this <img src="https://www.yoursite.com/albums/landscape/mountain.jpg" />

    Or, you can use a plugin to display thumbnails of a whole album in a post.

    I couldn’t access the site you linked to, but this could be pretty easily accomplished by the use of sub-categories. For example, you could create a category called Links, and then under it create sub-cats such as Tech sites, blogs, news, entertainment, whatever.

    In your post for each link, just include the image and text you want, and select the proper sub-category under “Links.” I think this would be far easier than trying to use the Links Manager, which doesn’t allow subcategories nor does it allow you to set the number of links that show up per page.

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