evynco

Ok, forget it.

I’m a bit disillusioned with WP, I’m recommending my clients switch to more stable blogging software where helpful support forums are available.

I have read that it’s possible to create an account on wordpress.com, starta blog, use Manage>Import to import from new blogger, then Manager>Export to create a wordpress export file.

Go to Admin page of the www.ads-software.com self-hosted blog and import this file.

(thanks to niltiac)

I havnt tried it yet though.

Hope this helps someone else out there.

Profile Pics Plugin should do it, but has a BUG, author says she will fix it soon though, check her site: (scroll down)

https://geekgrl.net

Or search the Plugins section here for ‘Profile Pics Plugin’.

It’s seems to be a problem that is affecting a lot of people now. Hannah has said on her site that it’s an issue with IE7 which she will try to fix asap.
(I am on IE6, but maybe one of the upgrades has screwed this up ?).

So if you run in to this problem, you could look over at her site:

https://geekgrl.net/2007/01/02/profile-pics-plugin-release

Thanks pianosteve, but I am using a tiny (1.4k) image.

I’ve just spent another couple of hours trying to figure out what’s happening.

I know the plugin is trying to upload, because if I try an invalid file type (say .mp3) I get the alert box.

So near and yet so far. ??

Such a shame this doesn’t work. My client specifically wants author pictures and the deadline approaches.

I have looked really closely at the code, but I can’t figure this out. Is there anywhere I can go for help with this ? (Plug-in author does not respond).

Is there another plug-in that does this ?

thank you… ??

Hi Hannah,

I have the plugin working now with the default image,
but when I try to upload a new image from:

Your Profile page
Profile Picture

I can Browse and locate the file, then click Update Profile button, but the file is not uploaded, the default picture remains as Current:

I have the permissions of Authors folder set to 777.

Can you suggest anything please ?

Thank you.

Paul

Interesting comment drmike.
I still wonder why the code has to build the link that way, but I’m a PHP/WP noob, so, what do I know… ??

Thanks for the reply.

Here is the reply I got from my domain hosts Digitalis (australia) :
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that link is being blocked by our http firewall.

Any links which have variables that contain full urls in them will fail – I’m sorry but there is no way around this as this is how hackers commonly hack accounts by loading remote code into insecure local scripts.
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Nice simple answer !
NOW I have to figure out why WP is building a link like that with the full redirect url in it.
Anyone have a clue ?

Hope this helps.

Paul.