Ben Sutcliffe

Which version of WordPress are you using?

Suggestion for now: set up an “i want” list on UserVoice!

Go back to User CSS and look to see what code might be hiding the Twitter button. If you can see anything that you did originally to hide the Twitter button, then undo that. However, looking through your CSS I can’t see anything that would cause the two Twitter elements that are referenced (‘block’ and ‘share this’) not to display. Are there any theme settings or equivalent you can change?

Are you getting the error in the admin section? When you write a new post? I can add comments fine as well as navigate around the site.

A quick fix that might work:

1. Delete .htaccess in your root folder
2. Go to https://www.youthgsm.com/wp-admin
3. Go to Permalinks
4. Set a new permalink structure

Here are my suggestions:

1. The if else looked a little odd. You had a !== which I’ve never heard of… ??
2. I’ve broken everything in to a few echo calls so we can see what’s going on.
3. When you next call this, can you look to see if there are any JavaScript errors? Here’s how you find these in Internet Explorer. For Safari go: Page -> Develop -> Show Error Console; Firefox: Tools -> Web Development; and Chrome: Page -> Developer -> JavaScript console.

So, here’s some code:

<?php 

if(the_title()!="At Random Play") { 

    echo '<div id="flashcontent"><strong>XML gallery</strong></div>';
    echo '<script type="text/javascript">';
    echo 'var so = new SWFObject("https://www.theblacksnapper.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/random_play_2009/gallery.swf", "", "620", "503", "8", "#ffffff");';
    echo 'so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "always");';
    echo 'so.addVariable("xmlfile", "https://www.theblacksnapper.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/random_play_2009/xml/images.xml");';
    echo 'so.write("flashcontent");';
    echo '</script>'; 

} else {

    echo get('part_flash');

};

?>

Hi melovillareal – first thing we can try is for you to check that your web host meets the minimum requirements? In particular, can you check that you’re running PHP version 4.3 or greater.

@djallyn – You could try bbPress for your forum?

@hpguru – I must make it my New Years Resolution to read better! I know what you mean though. This one would do the job, but having never used it I’m not sure if it would force a user to answer a question even if they’ve registered and are logged in.

@demetris – Sorry, I missed the link to your ordered list? ;p

@driz – I suppose you’re trying to say that you should be able to marry a page (and all its child pages) with a category (and all its subcategories). From this I guess you should have channel RSS feeds and even the possibility to link a certain channel with a Twitter account list. I like! Although, I suppose this would be in the scope of a plugin to deliver.

@hpguru – Perhaps this plugin?

@janeforshort – For me this kind of goes back 7 months when there was a discussion on communications. This looks like it will fix some of the problems I saw in WP, and the apparent lack of communication and co-ordination towards making a bigger, even better platform.

Merry Christmas all ??

Are you using a widgetised sidebar?

Put the comment tags <!-- ... --> around the actual code that generates the the categories. I’m not sure why you’re isolating the final --> with that PHP if statement. Or, delete the code (only the wp_list_categories(…) bit) and put it in to a text file for later use.

Also, how are you calling your sidebar from your archives page? Is it a page template?

@enailor – so true on the issue of core mods. Could WP release patch files alongside updates, so if after 2.8 we have 2.8.1 like with 2.7 then the security updates could be release as patches. Also, I agree that there seems to be some sort of rush – as soon as 2.7 came out there was word of 2.8, and dare I say it, 3.0. If we get to the end of 2009 and 3.0 is on it’s way then something is seriously wrong – updates either need to be grouped or they need to be illustrated as patches – so 2.7.1 would have come out as 2.7.0.1. Maybe the patches could become a system whereby a patch is released on the 1st of every month but never more often.

Secondly, continuing @elpie’s point, what is the roadmap for WordPress, bbPress and buddyPress? With WP we are seeing a stream of updates, on bbPress we’re still waiting for 1.0. How about Automattic publishes a roadmap (like Apple do with iPhone) to show devs what will and won’t happen by this time next year, and then have a concerted effort to bring the Press family to the same level (common admin UIs, similar/common functions, same levels of support & documentation)? That way, I wouldn’t be jumping from slightly bloated WP with funky admin UI to slimline bbPress and having to reinvent the wheel when I want to make things look similar. At the same time, I don’t have a resource for checking bbPress functions like the WP codex and nor do they follow the same naming logic or parameter logic.

This isn’t to say that I don’t love WordPress. I agree that it’s the best platform out there. But I do feel like I don’t know what’s happening with the development, which means I question wether or not I should develop my installations if that might just get deprecated. Further, for open-source, Automattic seem to try and keep things quite quiet. I know it’s a competitive industry, but that’s the choice the Press family faces. From an industry where a new release will earn the firm a few million we don’t keep it all secret even though our competitors are there. We quite happily jump up and down telling customers about what’s coming next month, next year and down the pipeline.

What would be nice? Well, let’s see a Wave style presentation of what’s going to happen to the entire Press family with the advent of 3.0 – whenever that may come.

What are the aims of the site: if it’s a simple brochure site with a dynamic blog then you’ll want to create the entire site out of WordPress with pages and posts.

If you want some sort of fancy integration (where you want to use your own PHP), unless you’re going to code it in to WordPress as a plugin or if you could do it as a single page template, then I’d go for the site and then put the blog in to a subdirectory (but make them look the same).

Which bit of the header do you mean?

Okay, how have you installed?

You need the Options theme and one of Shadow, Options Light and Blue Danube as well -> so put both options and your chosen colour scheme in to themes/ and activate the colour scheme (not Options itself).

Without a colour scheme you get … well, no colour.

Yep, you can get it here.

How very strange. I couldn’t give you a fix as it’d take me a bit too much time to start messing around with themes and browsers.

Have you contacted the theme author? Or tried to find a more recent version?