davezan

Oh okay! Because I can’t seem to put attachments or maybe send you a private message, I hope this link is like next best thing:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/sociable/screenshots/

Notice the bottom screenshot of that Sociable plugin. It shows the sharing buttons can be displayed as a Skyscraper or vertical one (like the one showing in any single posts of my blog DaveZan.com right now), or in Classic mode where buttons are shown below the post.

I was hoping to see that kind of option in Jetpack’s sharing feature some time. Anyway, no rush, and thanks for chiming in. ??

Hi Richard,

I’m testing out the vertical sharing thing as part of what I read recently. Some plugins like WP Socializer and Sociable (I think) allow users to put sharing buttons after the post, beside (left or right) the post, or even both.

Unfortunately the 2 plugins and others don’t seem to work in my blog for whatever reason. The GetSocial plugin eventually works out among those I tried, although I kinda like to see that option in Jetpack to keep plugin usage to a minimum. (especially for a non-website coder like me…)

Anyway, thanks for chiming in! Overall, I like Jetpack still.

Dave

Alright, I guess I’ll have to go with what you suggested, MickeyRoush. I’ve read a few more things since then based especially on that lorelle article, but it seems pretty much I’ll go with htaccess.

Thanks!

As a followup, I found a few things.

Sadly my host doesn’t have some kind of IP deny manager in their CPanel. I think I found the IP address of the site in question, and saw they accessed the xmlrpc.php file as well as some of my other blog entries.

The way it looks like on their site is they copied my article word for word, but they also copied my related posts! Funnily, the links to those other related posts goes to…well…me.

He he, the page navigation bar is the one where it says Page 1 of 31. Sorry, I should’ve specifically referred to that one.

What you described about the widget background is the one I’m looking for. I’ve tinkered with the code and used the one you mentioned, and it worked. ??

Finally, you’re right about Chrome having a Firebug equivalent. I’ve since downloaded and installed it, so I think I can handle it from here.

Thanks again! Cheers!

Ohhh bloody…those are the codes for a heatmap script I have been using these past few months. Just to test it, the feed is indeed working again after I removed that.

The code’s docs said to paste them before the end of the page (before </body> tag) itself. I’m not really that strong on coding, but can anyone perhaps suggest where to put that without causing this issue again?

Anyway, thanks for checking.

Oh, by navigation bar I mean the page navigation thing at the bottom. I’d
also say it’s the widget’s background color I want to change since they’re
showing those kind of diagonal lines.

I thought of modifying that part to use the same “light gray” color or so
of the page navi thing below. I’ve since used that testing theme onto my
actual blog DaveZan.com, so feel free to check that instead.

[Weirdly, I can’t seem to install FireFox (and thus FireBug) on my laptop,
so that’ll probably have to wait. Still, thanks for suggesting that in my
previous thread.]

Ahhh…finally got it to work. I guess I was just tired as I just needed
to change the line color on the planes.

Sorry guys, disregard. Thanks again.

Thanks again, guys!

Ahhh…thanks! To think I actually read that somewhere, but it took me a
while to really understand until you explained it.

So I tried what you said:

body {
color: #444;
margin: 0 auto;
font-size: 14px;
font-family: Verdana, Times, serif;
padding: 0;
background: #eee;
position: relative;
}

And that did the trick! A new dilemma has arisen, though.

Apparently the words inside the Read more “button” can’t fit as one box
instead of skipping into a new line as you might see in the link above.
Although I’m not really a CSS expert, I can’t seem to find the specific
code/s where I can hopefully change that.

Thanks for any assist.

Ohhhh…it’s only now I think I figured it out now. It seems W3 Total Cache is the one causing this.

I turned off said plugin, and the blog’s now showing any theme it uses. I’ll message this to the W3 Total Cache folks to see if they can help.

Unfortunately I guess I’ll have to use a different cache plugin for now. Anyway, I’m leaving this up in case someone else encounters the same or similar issue.

Thanks anyway.

Getting the exact same thing for my blog DaveZan.com. I turned off W3TC, then the email icon shows up.

When I turn W3TC back on, it disappears just like mentioned here. I’m submitting this to the W3TC guys also, thanks.

Whew! Finally took a bit of playing around, but finally got the desired effect.

Thanks again guys!

Thanks guys! I had to look around some more, but your answers pointed me in the right direction.

Okay, so I got the shadow effect with this in the style sheet:

color: #000;
background: #fff;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 4px #000;

I’ll explain as best as I can. I’m now trying to create the “whitening” or light effect between the black letters and the gray shadow.

So far I’m unable to find this exact answer online.

Hi folks!

Count me in as another who’s enjoying this plugin. I’m looking to “showcase” my very first review site too.

I’d like to offer some suggestions…or even some challenges (he he) for the author:

1. Allow users to customize by creating a drop-down box and input names or categories. When someone makes a review of a service provider, s/he can just click the drop-down box to select the company if listed.

2. I actually like the rating stars, so I also suggest…well…adding more fields. Like rate a service provider according to price, support, etc.

Of course, #2 is likely harder to do. But thought I’d toss it here. ??