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Just had this issue, in WP 3.5.1 (probably after I switched the PHP version on my webhost). The fix did work.

There’s an update to Add from Server (3.2.0.3). It’s supposed to fix PHP 5.4 compatibility, according to release notes. But it looks like the class.add-from-server.php file isn’t affected, as it’s still 3.2.0.1. At any rate, my WP install is working, thanks to this quick fix. Thanks erictr1ck!

Dunno where the SEO title is coming from but it’s probably easy to troubleshoot (as it probably comes from a plugin).

You can email me about other stuff (same username here and on Gmail).
It was probably much longer of an off-topic thread than anybody can bear… ??

2. Actually, it’s a tiny subset of the “parent theme”. It can be as simple as a single styles.css file, inheriting CSS from the parent theme but allowing you to tweak the theme’s appearance. A tutorial might help.
3. Actually, Theme Hybrid is a theme framework and a “community”. They’re premium themes so you pay for support, but I think it’s well worth the price (30USD). I found it easy to learn theme development through Hybrid themes and then asking questions in those forums. For a book, I’d recommend “Digging Into WordPress”.
4. In a child theme, you can change the CSS. So, if you’ve uploaded and installed a theme and there’s some part of the page you want to hide, you find its class and add display: none in the right spot of your child theme.

Technically, you could change the theme files themselves. But there are several issues with that and I wouldn’t recommend it. Again, the child theme can be a single file in a folder and that file can be very short. To hide sections of the page, display: none works well.
To do more complex things, you can add a functions.php file in your child theme. You can do a whole lot with these two files (styles.php and functions.php), completely changing the theme. Doing so, you learn about how things work.
One reason I like themes based on the Hybrid framework so much is that the overall architecture of the themes makes sense. Tried another framework and got quite confused, for a while.

P.S. Your site’s title shows up as “Plugins SEO”. And I only passed by Bologna on my way to Siena, but your site does make me nostalgic of other parts of Italy.

Interesting questions but you’d have better luck posting them in a forum about themes. This is a thread about the Google Doc Embedder plugin.

For the first one, my guess is that WP only allows .zip files. As far as I can tell, all themes and plugins come as .zip files and I don’t think the expansion function works with other compression formats.

As for the second, I’m not sure what you mean. You can tweak themes, but it might get a little bit involved at first. For one thing, you could create a special version of a theme you want to use (by creating a child theme) and replace some things in styles.css with display: none. There are other ways to do it, but that’s probably the easiest.
Again, nothing to do with GDE.
My personal advice would be to use Justin Tadlock’s “Theme Hybrid” themes. In my case, it’s been the best way to learn how to tweak themes (after a year trying other approaches).

Yes, if you add rar to the list of Upload file types. In MultiSite, it’s in /network/settings.php. Seems like these settings don’t exist in single site (maybe all filetypes are allowed?).

Good to know. Come to think of it, I’ll probably use “Invite Anyone” to send students invitations and course information.

Thanks!

Doh! Plugin conflict! ‘Figures…

I usually don’t activate two plugins at once. That’ll teach me.

So… The “Series” plugin failed to activate, after “Organize Series” was activated. “Series” does activate after I deactivate “Organize Series”. Then, if I try reactivating “Organize Series” (with “Series” active), I get the following error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare in_series() (previously declared in …/wp-content/plugins/series/template-tags.php:112) in …/wp-content/plugins/organize-series/orgSeries-template-tags.php on line 603

Sounds like they both use the same taxonomy and/or the same in_series() function.
The series I created with “Organize Series” doesn’t show up when I deactivate that plugin (“Organize Series”) but does appear when I activate this one (“Series”).
So it sounds like a plugin conflict based on taxonomies and/or a single function.

As is often the case, it’s difficult to decide which plugin to use. The advantage of “Series” is that it’s developed by someone I trust. The advantage of “Organize Series” is that it was recently updated.

Now that I see my error, I’ll give “Series” its fair chance, especially since the “series metadata” (the inclusion of a post in a given series) seems to be maintained across plugin changes.

It also allowed me to notice that the default “Twenty Eleven” theme doesn’t support sidebars on single posts. Sounds like a very weird thing for a theme which is likely to serve in troubleshooting. What gives, WordPress team?

Anyhoo…

Thanks again, greenshady! For a 0.1 non-commercial plugin which wasn’t updated in a while, this is premium support!
And sorry for my absentmindedness.

Nice! Really nice!
It was already a very useful plugin but it suddenly became even more impressive.
Thanks a lot for the prompt and useful update.!

Just to confirm (in case somebody else ever wonders about the same thing): moving these posts to trash from the main site’s dashboard only removes them from the main site. To delete quickly, using the list of posts, screen options to show as many posts as possible, then select all (checkbox at the top of the checkbox column, deselect posts which were originally from the main site, bulk action “move to trash”, and “apply” button. In my case, it went quickly. Had 86 posts (from 17 sites), only three of which were from the main site.

It might be a good idea to add a quick warning. Most effects form plugins are easy to reverse and some other people may try out the plugin without being clear on what effect it’ll have.
Just sayin’.

Thanks again, Andrea!

Thanks, Andrea. What’s a bit confusing is that it looks as though deleting them from the list of posts might delete them from their original locations. I’ll test this out.

@ipstenu: I think it has indeed been reported, at some point. I didn’t look through trac because my purpose in posting here was to find a quick workaround. I was losing a lot of time on this issue and needed a quick fix. It eventually did come up through this thread. Thanks again, @sydlow!

Of course, I get why you would emphasize the difference between bug reporting and support forums. I’ve read esr’s “smart questions” rant like anybody else, way back when. But, I must say, this thread is a good example of how support forums are supposed to work. Plus, there are several situations in which there can be a “division of labour” between those who ask support questions and those who transform key issues into bug reports.

I do have some experience beta testing and troubleshooting, but this was actually a support issue.

FIXED!
(Sorry to shout..)

Sydlow found a workaround. Still requires some fiddling, but it saved me a lot of pain.

I’ve had lots of help from others on the Net over the years. Just glad I can put some back into the interweb.

Word!

And Automattic really should do something about this. Not only are we not the only people migrating from .com to .org, but there’s even a “business model” issue.

w00t!
It worked! Thanks a lot for this, Sydlow!

Did it in Notepad++:
Find what: <category.+">
Replace with: <category>
Regular expression
(Replace all)

Two things, though.
1) All my post tags have been converted to categories. So I’m running the converter to convert most of them to tags. It’s actually kind of ok, because I needed to clean these up.
2) It didn’t solve my problem with links. But since I can export them as OPML (and they didn’t include much metadata anyway), it’s also ok.

Another thing which only has to do with the fact that I was reimporting from within an active blog: I had the YOURLS to Twitter plugin on, so I received a ton of notifications from that through two devices and through my cellphone. Kind of funny, actually.

Anyhoo, I’m really glad to have received such a valuable workaround. I wasted quite a bit of time on this.

Thanks again, Sydlow! I’m serious about the tipjar..

If this works, I’ll be very happy! Do you have a tip jar, somewhere?