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This turned out to be quite easy actually. If I were more experienced with css I might have got it sooner. I code I went with, (which worked perfectly), was this:

<span style="display:inline-block;float:left;"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_author(); ?>:&nbsp;</span><?php the_excerpt(''); ?></a>

Thanks again for your help.

Thanks, I’ll give that a shot and post the results.

That still doesn’t work; actually though the previous code did work by wrapping the author name to the title, but it was indeed the wrong element.

Afraid that still isn’t working, thanks though.

Thanks for the response, I’ve implemented it on the above link but unfortunately it hasn’t had an effect.

Any further ideas are most welcome ??

(Sorry for the late response, I haven’t been at my comp all weekend.)

Oh sorry, please try again now. ‘Latest posts’ section is the relevant part. Yep excerpt and author are there.

The obvious solution would be to look at reformatting the display using CSS but, without seeing the page, I can’t tell if that’s possible.

I’ve upped the theme here — ignore the broken images and so on as this page is contentless, unlike the actual site. How do you think CSS might be used?

Thank you.

Hi emsi,

It will happen on any website: if you put content before of after the_excerpt, the excerpt puts itself on a new line.

E.g. the code:

before<?php the_excerpt(''); ?>after

will display the following:

before
the excerpt content yadda yadda...
after

Any help on how to remove this line break would be most appreciated.

The website in question is being developed on a private server so I’m afraid I can’t offer a link.

Thanks for the tips. I’ve ruled out 1, 2 and 3. The .htaccess file in the root dir contains the following (followed by some redirects, which I’ll assume are irrelevant for now):

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /foo/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /em/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Btw, just noticed the ‘Rewrite Base /foo/’ line, no idea what that’s about, but removing the ‘foo’ doesn’t resolve the problem.

Also, my post from y’day might provide some more insight: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/500-error-on-permalinks?replies=2

Which part specifically?

The entire server was mirrored on to the new one, so there should be no changes in setting I don’t think?

Resolved: deleted index.php from subsdirectory (/em/). Delete thread?

Cool. How do I disable _excerpt();?

Thanks.

Open up the theme file index.php in a text editor, do a search for the_excerpt, and change it to the_content. That should sort it out.

Yeah I seen your point. I’m actually having some problems with 301’s taking effect with a couple of test redirects I tried out, so I’ll have to see if I can sort that out before I proceed anyway.

Thanks for the input and I’ll keep this thread updated.

simplistik, I was taking my info from this google webmasters post:

Don’t do a blanket redirect directing all traffic from your old site to your new home page. This will avoid 404 errors, but it’s not a good user experience. A page-to-page redirect (where each page on the old site gets redirected to the corresponding page on the new site) is more work, but gives your users a consistent and transparent experience.

Do you think I’ve interpreted it wrongly?

Thanks for the help.

Sorry for the late reply.

I ended up using the Search & Replace plugin – I figured it was less of a risk than reuploading the entire database again. Great plugin, thanks for the reccommendation.

There are actually a surprising number of foreign characters on my blog and some still remain, so I will try out your suggestion Helil.

Thanks for the help.