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It appears that Paypal has added a number of hidden fields that need to be specified for your plugin to work.

At Stupid WordPress Tricks, I installed Patrick’s Paypal Donate Widget on the sidebar. I think it works on my site – at least you get the Paypal information filled in. If you do a “View Source” and scroll down to where the generated HTML for the Donate plugin is, you’ll see the following hidden fields:

cmd, business, item_name, item_number, notify_url, no_shipping, return, no_note, currency_code, tax, bn, on0, on1

Sounds like Paypal expects these hidden fields.

Have you heard about Canvas? The idea is to widgetize all the blog elements – headers, footers, posts, pages, archives, etc. The developers apparently want to do it entirely in CSS, avoiding PHP customizations.

The site has been dugg over 1,000 times. The product is still in development. Is this competition for widgets?

The problem has been resolved. Network Solutions and Comcast now are friends again. Thank you for your prompt response, which I think contributed to their prompt action.

This is what makes this forum so valuable.

Everyone, thanks for your help. You’ve given me valuable information. I called Network Solutions (a 4th time, now) to give them the information you posted. The problem, they told me, is related to my ISP (Comcast) and Network Solutions.

I believe “whoami” was trying to hit my blog from a Comcast account and everyone else used a non-Comcast account. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

They have escalated the problem to urgent. With a big hosting provider like Network Solutions you can be treated like a tiny minnow in a huge lake.

Miklb,

Whare are you? That may be important because the first support person couldn’t load it and the second one could.

From the Admin menu, go to Presentation-Theme Editor. You will see a list of files in your theme. The file you want to edit is sidebar.php.

Find where the wp_list_cats is called. Change optioncount=0 to optioncount=1.

Sure it’s possible, although it’s good etiquette to acknowledge all the hard work of the WordPress, theme, and icon developers :-).

From the Admin menu, go to Presentation-Theme Editor. You’ll see a list of theme files at the left. Select Footer. The footer text is between the <p> and </p> tags.

The install backup won’t do you any good because you’re going to be working with the database tables. You need to backup the database. Podz has two excellent tutorials: Backing up your database, and Restoring your database.

You should thoroughly read and understand these two tutorials because it’s a good idea to have a usable database backup. You might even look into doing a database backup on a schedule, such as daily or weekly, if you make frequent changes. There are some excellent plugins for that.

The problem is in the .line3 class, which is what controls the rendering of the line. Go to Presentation-Theme Editor and edit the style sheet (either called Stylesheet or style.css. Scroll down the style sheet and look for the .line3 element. It should look something like:

.line3 {
whatever;
whatever;
}

Could you post that part of the stylesheet? I think if you do, someone can figure out a coding that would work best in both Firefox and IE.

There’s an interesting service at tagyu.com where you can copy the text of your page into a text box, click the Try It button, and then tangyu returns with a list of candidate tags based on what it considers relevant. You can then click on the resulting tags and get even more tag ideas. Whether or not tagging your page will increase click through rates, you’ll just have to check out yourself :-).

I tried it on some of my pages and got some tags I liked and some that looked odd. Your mileage may vary. At least it gives you some additional ideas.

I ran the three queries on my blog’s database and they all ran OK.

The problem is either (1) the flickr toolbar plugin did something funky to your wp_posts table, or (2, and more likely) your wp_posts table is corrupted, which is the meaning of error 127 from MySQL.

Try the following:
1) Uninstall the flickr toolbar plugin and see if the error goes away. If it does, the plugin is the problem.

2) If you have access to phpMyAdmin, repair the wp_posts table. See the Tamba2 tutorial on repairing database tables, observing all his caveats, including backing up the database if you can. If not, you could run the risk of trashing your database totally, which would mean you would have to reinstall WordPress from scratch.

If the repair works, then retry. Take a deep breath before beginning this – it’s a challenge, but right now you really have no other choice.

If you have access to phpmyadmin, this tutorial shows you how to reset your password. The tamba2 WordPress tutorials, along with the codex, are a great way to get you up to speed in WordPress.

You don’t need a plugin. WordPress builds the feeds automatically. There are 4 feed types supported by WordPress – rss, rss2, atom, and rdf. For your blog, the URLs are:

https://www.howtotalktogod.info/howtotalktogod-blog/wp-rss.php
https://www.howtotalktogod.info/howtotalktogod-blog/wp-rss2.php
https://www.howtotalktogod.info/howtotalktogod-blog/wp-atom.php
https://www.howtotalktogod.info/howtotalktogod-blog/wp-rdf.php

There are additional options available, such as submitting posts in a category as a separate feed, or making comments to a post a feed. For information on these additional features, see WordPress Feeds.

Sounds like you’re using the default Kubrick theme. To get rid of the header text, from the Admin panel, go to Presentation – Theme Editor. On the right hand side is a list of files in the theme. You want to edit header.php.

Scroll down to the area (about 2/3 from the bottom) where you see <div id="header">. About 3 lines down is the code:

<div class="description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>

This is the code that displays the description. To get rid of the description, comment out the line, using the HTML comment tags, as follows:

<!-- <div class="description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div> -->

Click the Update File button and view the blog.

As long as %postname% is included, most search engines will scan the page. The title is important for SE optimization. The default install does not include %postname%. You need to change the permalink option as you describe.

If the .htaccess permissions are set so that WordPress can read and write the file (WordPress suggests 666) then WordPress will update .htaccess, if you do the following:

1) In the Control Panel, go to Options > Permalinks.
2) Click the Update Permalink Structure button to freshly generate new rewrite rules for your permalinks.

For more information (i.e., if you need to change .htaccess manually for some reason), and for a complete discussion, go to Using Permalinks. If you want to know how to code rewrite rules in .htaccess, go to URL Rewriting.