Edie Sellers

… ah, and just to be clear… I have used categories for the “written” and “podcast” posts. What I need is for all the posts tagged “written” to show in the “Articles” page, and all the posts tagged “podcasts” to show up in the “Podcast” page.

Hope I’m being clear. I’m kinda sleep deprived right now.

Thanks. Actually, I found that.

Now the problem is that I delete the categories under manage–>categories, but every time I hit the delete button, the category disappears for a second then reappears with a red background.

It seems something is preventing me from deleting any categories.

I’ve seen that problem multiple times elsewhere on this fourum, with only one solution offered: Replace the categories.js file.

Is that the ONLY solution? And how is this done without screwing things up. I don’t want to go deleting willy-nilly unless I know I won’t screw up my site.

Thanks!

Wow. I had the same problem with writing posts while at work. I can write fine at home and I figured it was the IT Nazis at work had slammed all us plebians with horrible security stuff that prevented me from writing.

For ducks, I searched the forums and found this site. Go freaking figure, but checking and unchecking the “remember me” box works like a charm.

Weirdest fix EVAR!!!

But I’m not complaining.

A-ha!!

Figured it out!!

I had a section that contained the following:

<?php query_posts(‘showposts=10’); //displays X number of posts on the page ?>

As you can see, no “is_home” section. But I replaced that string with:

<?php
if (is_home()) {
$paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1;
query_posts(“cat=-3&paged=$paged”);
}
?>

And now the number of displayed posts AND the previous/next links not working.

Thanks everyone. Took me a while, but finally it’s done!!!!

Yep. That fixed it. For some reason, Pressrow has a default showposts=3 in the index.php file that isn’t affected by the Options page.

Changed it to 10 and voila!

Thanks for the help!

Actually, that support thread you linked to didn’t really help me, as my index.php doesn’t contain a “<?php if (is_home())” script.

Although searching through it did help me fix another bug having to do with not displaying more than three posts on the front page… so it wasn’t a total loss.

Anyone else have any advice?

Here’s a link to my index.php script:

https://WWW.sprocketscientists.com/weblog/archives/gamehoundsIndexphp.txt

I’m using Safari 3.0.4.

I found in the troubleshooting forum much kvetching and gnashing of teeth about this problem. Seems it might very well be a Safari and/or Firefox and/or IE thing.

I built my webpage this weekend on Safari and had no problem. Then TODAY I started getting horrible gobbly-gook (that’s technical speak, my friends) when going back to re-edit some of my pages and posts. Started with <p> and </p> and </br> being stripped out. Then progressed to not even being able to use ‘<href>’ links without completely destroying all the text.

I did try Firefox tonight after spending two hours rewriting the same page over and over in Safari. Seems to have fixed it, but who knows at this point.

Using 2.3.3 and PressRow 1.0 (one of the “recommended” themes inside WP… so YOU’D THINK it would work…)

But really… this is apparently a serious issue. I have to say that the “official” replies on this thread are a little distressing. They seem to take the tone of “well, it’s obvious a problem on YOUR end, not WP’s. Go rewrite your code and uncheck this box and stand on your head and click your heels three times and it will work perfectly.” If there’s a MAJOR problem with editing posts with at least two and possibly three of the major browsers on the market, I’d expect that convoluted workarounds aren’t exactly a “solution.”

And for the record, if you use the visual editor and then go back into the post to edit it, it strips out all that formatting too, so “use the visual editor” isn’t a solution — unless you never want to edit your posts after publishing.

I mean, and I’m just asking here, if it’s clear that WP and Safari and/or Firefox and/or IE aren’t working with WP, shouldn’t that be noted somewhere other than buried a forum? As in, a compatability warning when installing??

Kinda defeats the purpose of “easy to use blogging tool,” doesn’t it?

Wow. Go freaking figure — it worked. Thank you, indeed, Moshu. Though it’s kinda weird that one of those boxes said “let anyone comment” or something of the sort.

Pretty darned counterintutive. But I’m sure not complaining. Hope this helps a lot of people, because the documentation on commenting is pretty scarce.

You’re my hero, Moshu.

Now I just have to figure out why my next/previous posts links won’t work.

Um…. Not exactly sure who ls998 is… I guess someone else who had a similar question.

As for me, I have no idea if it actually worked. But I will try.

So, Moshu, does that mean that once I change those settings that my readers who want to leave comments will not be sent to a WP login screen? Because that’s specifically my problem — the WP login screen to register and the endless loop between the comment window and the WP longin screen after registering.

Thanks.

Resolved for anyone who cares:

The archives template is there, but it doesn’t display easily in Safari. Just use firefox or type “A” in that pulldown menu and Archives comes up.

And, on another note, even though the designer tells you not to put anything in the title or body field before you save, that may be a problem. If you do it his way and then go to manage pages and don’t see an unnamed archives page, then you’ll just get a 404 error.

If you have that problem, go back and reenter the archives template the same way the designer suggests on his blog, but put a single character in the body of the template. I used a period.

Once I did that, it saved perfectly and teh archives showed up.

An FYI to noobusers like me.

BTW, I saw lots of others having this problem on this forum, but I didn’t find a resolve.