emmadw

The thread I meant to refer to in my second post was https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/131825?replies=5 – I copied & pasted the wrong one & now I can’t find “Edit”>

OK. Solved it myself. The Widgets.php file may have changed a little since Daiv posted his message (or he was discussing a different bit!)

However, I found the lines:

$c = $options[$number]['count'] ? '1' : '0';
	$h = $options[$number]['hierarchical'] ? '1' : '0';
	$d = $options[$number]['dropdown'] ? '1' : '0';

and replaced them with

$c = $options[$number]['count'] ? '1' : '1';
	$h = $options[$number]['hierarchical'] ? '1' : '1';
	$d = $options[$number]['dropdown'] ? '1' : '0';

Which turned on the hierarchy & also added a count. I’m guessing I’ll have to do this each time I update … as presumably the widget file can get updated.

Are there plans at any stage to have a sort of “widget customisations” that can be stored in with the theme to add to/ override generic widget settings??

Firstly, give people time! You’ve only waited 14 minutes …

Have you tried just doing one image at at time? That might help you check to see if it’s particular images that aren’t resizing properly, rather than all of them.

I can see that at the bottom, you’ve aligned 3 thumbnails left, centre and right, but I wasn’t quite sure how you’d set the top few. Perhaps if you edit the post that has those overlapping images, and then go to “HTML” & take a screenie of the HTML, it might be possible to see if there’s a quirk with one particular alignment setting.

(For what it’s worth, on my set up, “medium”, rather than “thumbnail” is the default, but I’m assuming you’ve selected “thumbnail”. Anyway, selecting the wrong size wouldn’t explain why they’re overlapping).

OK. I’ve done a bit more searching & have found
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/199770?replies=1

from reading the third answer, I’m guessing that I have to edit the widget.php file (I can’t right now, as I’ve not got access to the server from this lappy).

I’ve also had a look at my old sidebar & from memory, it was this line that I had to do something with:
<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1') ?>

I’m fairly sure that it was something to do with wp_list_cats … However, though I’ve had a look at some of the templates I’ve not edited, they seem to have been updated since I created this one.

So, in essence, do I have to edit this line:
$cat_args = "orderby=name&show_count={$c}&hierarchical={$h}";
(from that post by Daiv) – what do I change, as it’s got “Hierarchical” in there – which is what I want! … or has he altered what’s in the file?

Or am I barking in the wrong forest, never mind up the wrong tree?

<?php wp_list_cats(‘sort_column=name&optioncount=1’) ?>

Did you backup – so that you can at least re-install the previous version to go back to for the time being, and then try again. (Just a thought, you remembered NOT to delete the wp-config, didn’t you?)

A couple of thoughts from moving wordpress sites:

Did you follow all the instructions at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress – I’m thinking in particular of changing both “siteurl” & “home”, as well as the need to disable & then re-enable the htaccess.

I had to move mine rather unexpectedly, so couldn’t plan in advance, so ended up having to use database tools to find *all* instances of the old URL & update it. (I had the additional problem that mod-rewrite wasn’t enabled on the new location, but as you’re only moving folders, I guess that won’t be an issue for you)

I’ve not had any problems like that – did you take the default option to have all the tables for wordpress starting with the default “wp”? I’ve got a single database for an Elgg installation, two WordPress ones (I gave them different prefixes), and a media wiki one. They’re all ignoring each other & working as they should.

Does your webhost limit the number of tables you can have in a single database or something?

I’d just bung it behind a password.

I’ve got “Post levels”, which sort of does what you want, but you have to set every post to “private” before you post it – and if you do that, you don’t need to bother with “post levels”, as I’m presuming you won’t give anyone other than yourself permission to see the posts.

It seems to be working now … the only thing that could be of interest is that when I went to check the plugins, it said that two of them weren’t working – but they weren’t ones that I have any recollection of installing (see https://www.flickr.com/photos/22442464@N00/2799762274/ )

Could that have been a result of hacking? If so, why wouldn’t the hacker have done anything other than add a couple of (duff) plugins?

Emma

Upgrading to 2.6.1 worked … though now I’ve reset the password I’ve got a new one to remember ??

I’ve had a similar problem. I can’t remember what version of WP I have; I know I’ve updated one blog to 2.6 (before I went on leave, I know there’s been another since), but I suspect that the one I’m having problems with was still the previous version. (2.5.?)

Everytime I try to login it returns to the login screen; I’ve tried changing the password, in case it got hacked (though there are no new posts, and it’s a blog that’s not linked to anything much, unlike the other one); and I still can’t login.

However, the homepage is showing “Log out” and “Admin”, rather than just “login”, so it’s clearly almost there! It won’t let me access any admin pages directly.

Suggestions?

Yes, I’ve had the similar problems with spaces; though it doesn’t seem to be consistent.

For example: the page about WordPress 2.6 came out as
“WordPress a€o Blog ?? WordPress 2.6”
But the BBC homepage worked fine “BBC – Homepage”

I think that I’ll stick to the old for the time being.

I’ve been using a different talkr plugin – however, at the moment, talkr itself seems to be having problems. They’ve got a site at https://new.talkr.com – but that seems to concentrate more on recorded speech, rather than generated.

Frank, I’m not sure of the answer to your question, as I’ve only tried with English, and i can’t remember if they have the option to tell it what language you’re using.

As it’s just generating speech from text, I guess it could read anything – however, it might sound a bit weird, especially if the language that you want has a lot of sounds that don’t crop up in English.

Hi Moofty
I’m afraid I can’t be of much help; I’ve just upgraded two with no problems. however, I didn’t use the upgrade plugin, I did it manually, and I was extra careful, given you / others’ comments to do it all by the book (i.e. backing up everything, then deleting everything that has to be deleted before re-uploading.)

One thing that did please me & I’m not sure if it was the same in previous versions, is that I’d had some plugins that I don’t use, but hadn’t got round to removing. I went for “deactivate all”.
On reinstalling, I decided that it would be quicker to “Reactivate” & then to deactivate those I didn’t want. However, it only reactivated those that were active before. Neat!

I’ve not had the problem you have had … however, have you tried restoring to the previous version (you did backup the database & site as suggested, didn’t you…) and then downloading the zip version, deleting the files you just restored, (bar the ones you don’t delete) & doing the upgrade that way… i.e. following the upgrade in several steps instructions…