eric

podz how come you can read my mind?

You probably want to use the display:inline property in your stylesheet. The default WP stylesheet has:
.meta li, ul.post-meta li {
display: inline;
}
.meta ul {
display: inline;
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
to ensure that the “list” stays all on one line.
Is that what you mean? A link would be useful..

I’m led to believe the best way to do this is using rewrite rules, so browsers requesting news.php get index.php instead (as long as you’re hosted on an apache server). Rewrite rules live in your .htaccess file. As for their syntax, I’m just trying to figure that out myself, I’m not too hot with regular expressions yet. The Apache URL Rewriting Guide might help.

Ah, problem… this does not apply the “firstpost” style to the latest post, but to the first post displayed on the page. Which might not be the latest if you’re displaying a specific category, search results etc. So it would only really do what you want for the front page.

I don’t know of a WP function that can do this but here’s an idea from someone who just learned a few PHP commands and now fancies himself a hacker ??
3 steps:
1. Set up a PHP variable in your index.php that keeps track of the number of posts displayed on the page.
2. Again in index.php, change the line that says <div class="post"> to a PHP statement that echoes <div class="post"> if the count is at the initial value, and <div class="firstpost">
3. in your stylesheet, apply different styles to the classes “post” and “firstpost”
Does that make sense? I know it needs a bit of PHP…

Is there a place to report I18N buguettes like this without having to learn Mosquito? Or an easy way to add it to the POT / .po?

Database names can sometimes be different from what you expect, e.g. if you’re running the cpanel backend it prefixes all database and d/b user names with your account user name.
However, if you get a 404 trying to access install.php then something more fundamental is wrong, you’re not even getting to the point where it tries to find the database. The only thing that comes to my mind though is obvious stuff like did you put the files in a subdirectory called something other than ‘wordpress’, or misspelled the address?

Hi Jane ?? Looks good in Firefox. Welcome to WP!

Check out the wiki: the_author_email. I haven’t tried it but I think all you need to do is insert this piece of code:
<?php the_author_email(); ?>
HTH.

the wp-admin folder should contain the same stuff as the wp-admin folder in the WP distribution you downloaded, once it’s unzipped – a whole load of php files. also, did you create a wp-config.php? if not, take wp-config-sample.php, fill in the database info, save it as wp-config.php and upload into wp-admin folder on your server. HTH.

ooh user specific rss feeds! *drool* i second sushubh’s request! one rss feed for each thread, as we have now, sucks for the reason shelleycat points out. but one feed containing new answers in every feed means you only ever need to subscribe to one feed. and with some browsers you don’t even need another program for reading feeds…

I think tcervo is on the right track here about the image size. I recently had the same problem when I created a background image in Gimp and the JPEG quality setting was accidentally left at 100%, making the file 800KB. After I made a lower quality version about 11KB big, it loaded fine in firefox.

Just a guess… Could it be that the password should not be prefixed with “downthe”? Cpanel for example prefixes your user name to database and user names but not the password.

strange… i’m on firefox (0.8 on winxp) as well, I see the huge long URIs but they don’t stretch the div width at all, they just spill over outside the div.
rb: nice solution!

sites look good in firefox. don’t really know about a solution to your splash page problem. On your own site, the menu links go red on mouseover, which is a bit weird as the background is the same shade of red – was that intentional?