hypothesard

Is my english that Bad?

I explained in which context I got stuk with the 2.9 default theme [resulting in BLANK (so NO source code, NO error message, NOTHING)]
Detailing the every day scenario encoutered by zillion of users, and It’s still MY fault?

Seriously?

Big Post-scriptum :
Between that kind of disregard for the NORMAL user (the intended target of wordpress if I recall correctly) and the non-answering to a specific question sending the user to a phantom thread, no wonder why the OpenSource community got Its Freetard nickname…

I’m sorry for being such a helpless code-impaired person, To be frank, I do work every days with developpers, I can read and talk about code, It’s just that compaired to those guys, each Time I try, do and solve a problem [code related] I feel like an impostor and a slow one (especially compared to our Igor&Gritchka programming tandem, who where also blessed with photgraphic memory in addition of being Real twins).

Why?
— Because I'm a Graphic designer, not a programmer!
Fortunately, I'm a dying race and, with more and more talented Graphic artists/designer also able to handle code, you'll soon have a quiet forum.

Untill then, you'll have and already have to do deal with idiotic posters like myself with impossible scenarios to figure out, and some times simpler doable solutions on the software side than the typical “You can type It in a shell ! Duh !”

Well I chose WP to not have my head at/in the CODE,
I fought for few hours with this, then searched for another few hours to finally not find the solution, but just the time for my brain to cool down, then only after a night of jerking with WP I found that previewing a theme finally showed up the site (I even tried to append the parameter to the permalinks LOL => doesn’t work)

WordPress may be the easier-most-customizable blogging plateform, but It’s more and more like Android : a mediocre implementation of a good idea (Linux/GPL Code for the rest of us on a given plateform [the Web for WP])

But yes, by default WP looks for Twenty Ten. It has to look for A theme, after all.

with all this php code, there should be a way to list the themes actually installed before setting one up.
and Heck, even copy-paste the theme setting from the main site, as It is present, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to even log in the main admin page to begin with.

In my case I pushed a button in my Web Host Console to do an auto Install of WP 2.9 (I didn’t wanted to deal with their backward PHPMyAdmin selector, but I had to in the end)
So the default one was from 2.9 and it wasn’t TwentyTen but the OLD-OLD one named … “Default Theme” [based on the Kubrick theme]

Cheers

8 month later I managed to encounter the same problem
maybe worse because the Url loaded up fully, but there was absolutly no code at all (blank source page and inspector showing nothing loaded either except the chit-chat between the browser and the webhost)
How?

Simply by not having installed the default theme (twentyten) on the server
but The theme was still registerd as present in the database

Stupid huh?

Here It is !

There should be a fall back mechanism, picking up the theme avalaible if the refered one does not exist anymore on the website (which was my case with twentyten)

this problem of the non-implementation of the ?scale? argument in the packaged flowplayeris still not solved, and It’s a shame, especially for 4/3 vids on 16/10 or 16/9 screen :/

I’ll try to put the official flowplayer (*.swf) instead of the packaged one to see if It takes the argument

Cheers

@daviding Happy to hear It helped another soul ??

Happy Holidays

Sorry I missed your post, and maybe you figured It out on your own since then.

On my own I’ve solved this particular problem in the latest 2.0.2 plugin version (with WP 3.0.3)

here is my solution for this particular problem :
[Plugin: VideoJS – HTML5 Video Player for WordPress] Flow Player Posterframe (Flash Player) not dynamicly set

Cheers