diretribe

From experience even matching up the totals does not always work. For example, a 700px width page, two columns one 500px, one 200px wide should fit together right? Right, but it might not.

Things that have worked in the past is shrinking one element – e.g. the main column or the sidebar – then using margin to shift the elements over.

It will take some fiddling. A useful way to do this is add to the CSS for a particular element:

border: 1px solid #f00;

Which will draw a nice big red box around your element, making it much easier to see where the edges are lying. If developing in Firefox the following extension is very useful:

Web Developer Extensions 1.0

It will draw lines around things, highlight errors & it even does the validation submission for you. Good luck.

If it’s generating a directory list you probably (almost certainly) don’t have a .htaccess file in that directory. It is this file which tells the web server to serve up all the pages on the blog.

So, go to /wp-admin/index.php on your site (assuming this works) and you should get the admin panel. Then go through to Options->Permalinks and click “Update Permalink Structure” and I think that should do it.

Failing that, you may need to create the file .htaccess (use notepad or something, remember the “.” in the filename).

If the wordpress has been set up perfectly this becomes a problem with the web server & we’ll take it from there!

Should be, just your code is a little off. Just do:

<?php if (
!((in_category(‘6’)) ||
(in_category(‘4’)) ||
(in_category(‘3’)) ||
(in_category(‘7’)))
) { ?>

i.e. not in 6 or 4 or 3 or 7.

If you just want to show one category, do:

<?php if (in_category(‘6’)) { ?>

Hopefully this is clearer than mud.

No problem, any more issues give us a shout. You’ll tend to find someone else has been in the same place before!

Hah, it’s a stupid hack because CSS shouldn’t need something like this to achieve a basic formatting requirement. When I had the problem I spent a long time trying to fix it another way rather than sully my source with what *is* an ugly solution…

But hey, it works huh?!

The sidebar seems to be central to the problem, I’d be interested if there is any other way to position a sidebar than the one used on most themes as that seems to be the problem.

Ok, solved my own problem by copying the form-excerpt field from edit-form-advanced, and using it to create a plugin attached to the edit_page_form action.

Sorted.

There is always a quicker way to do it, but it depends on how much you know!

If I was about to set out and do this I would make sure the file is formatting in a standard style – e.g. dates/content/newlines all regularly placed. No fancy stuff, anything running together. Then I’d set up a wp-blog somewhere, make sure everything is running. Then, I’d write a php program to take this information & it’s formatting and run it directly into the wordpress database.

Sounds easy!? Give me more info on the format of your offline blog & I’ll give you some starters.

Another alternative is to include these “long” codes in CSS e.g. as…

img.alignright {float:right; padding: 10px 0 20px 20px; }
img.alignleft {float:left; padding: 10px 20px 20px 0; }

Then you can simply do:

<img src=”” class=”alignleft”>

Much easier.

Ha thanks, it’s sort of random nonsense. I am training to be a Dr. (first step in a long line of them right now) hence the medical stuff. I created the blog to write ideas/solutions that spring to mind about random things that bug me. Put the world to rights, etc.

In other words, it’s an online pub conversation.

Thanks for the feedback though… Good to hear as I’m a bit of a perfectionist. I’ll probably hate it in a few days ??

Hardest thing about having a blog is creating something that represents you as a person, isn’t it?

Try running it through W3C Validator and fixing everything it throws up, see if it still has problems! *

* this is not just a cheap shot to keep you occupied til I log off.

3. The last one is a common CSS bug in IE, where when you float a block in one direction & put a margin on that side, it doubles the size of the margin (great!).

Here is a site which explains it better than I ever could. Enjoy!

I hope this helps, any further problems post back. One thing I might suggest is checking the W3C Validator which will check your HTML is ok, identifying missing tags.

2. This is a problem with not closing DIV tags. Have a look at the source for the news bits, no ending DIVs!

1. One obvious problem is that there is a missing ul at the top.

“div(id=topnav)” followed by “li”

Which could be causing the problems. Otherwise just add a margin:0px; padding:0px; to the list items to stop it padding them out.

Really these things take a long time. The best way to increase your rankings is to make your site well-linked. I don’t mean subscribing to banner-exchanges & all that guff, I mean valuable content.

Think about it this way – when you search on google, do you want to find a site with nothing on it, or something relevant to your search?

There are no “quick fixes”. As long as google knows you’re there (your search suggests so) it’s a waiting game. You don’t want to waste your time & neither does anyone else. Think: “Why would anyone want to come to my site?”

Take the time to build a site that is worth visiting & has interesting, useful, content and you will be well indexed, linked & visted by visitors. This is something I am still working on.

Good luck!

Seems to be requiring you to log in or something? When you say “all” your links, which links do you mean? Ones in posts? Top of posts (headers)? Archives? Is it really all of them?

What happens when you click on them?