jrodgers

your search form is not closed, it’s missing a </form> so whan you clcik submit on the comments form it actually tries to perform a search

change your action on the form

currently comes up as
https://www.spellingtalk.com/
try

<?php echo get_option(‘siteurl’); ?>/wp-comments-post.php

see also
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/get_posts

change it to
$readposts = get_posts(‘category=13&orderby=ID’);

which version of ie? if its six, you will need to adjust the margins and or width of the sidebar, that usually worked on mine

i was able to force the navigation not to show in the postings page by wrapping the function code in an if statement that uses the the is_single() fucntion to determine if the post is one of many or on itsown

in the ngg plugin directory there is a subdirectory called lib
look for the file
nggallery.lib.php

in this file is a function called create_navigation

i added this as the first line after $navigation = “”;
if(is_single()){
….
rest of code goes here
} place this brace before the return statement

>>Do you think people would be less inclined to read my blog because of the vanilla quality?
i think people are stimulated more visually than verbally, no matter what the content they will see a bland, white-bread web site that will not catch their interest, the site doesn’t need to be like this but it does need more, there are some nice simple themes you can download and modify which will keep the site clean but interesting
simple yet eye-catching, easy enough to change the colours
https://themes.wordpress.net/download.php?theme=3473
same
https://themes.wordpress.net/download.php?theme=2725
go here and select the ‘no images’ option, look for one you like and try it out
https://themes.wordpress.net/

figuers….all the spaces were ignored…

nice, clean, colours work well together.
the only thing i don’t like, and this is a preference rather than a problem, in looking at the footer the main blog overlaps the red/brown footer colour, but the header lines up exactly on it, i think, and again just my preference, it would look better if it also overlapped into the header

not sure if my description is clear…

a visual
now
header
__________________________
| |
| content |
| |
—–| |——
————-
footer

preference
header
————-
—–| |——
| content |
| |
—–| |——
————-
footer

makes the page look more balanced IMHO, like i said not a criticism, just an observation

Alex, the IE7 image selector issue is resolved in WP 2.5.1

thanks

this error, mine, is corrected in WP 2.5.1

sorry to say but its very basic, nothing to make it stand out, i don’t think you could have made it more vanilla.

looks good but you have issues with resizing, if i open the page with my browser at full screen the site goes edge to edge, if i resize the browser, the centre content container resized but the third column gets cut off, you should use a fixed size width to correct this,or use a relaod on resize fix, if the browser is resized and info gets cut off a relaod seems to fix it, tested in IE7 and FF

>>I talked to the developer about that Featured post thing. There doesn’t seem to be a good work around for that.

make a category called featured post and exclude it from the general postings

what i ended up doing was running the category call with no echo, checking if the return was No Categories and outputting based on that…

if(wp_list_categories(‘child_of=51&hide_empty=1&title_li=&echo=0’) != ‘No Categories’){
wp_list_categories(‘child_of=51&hide_empty=1&title_li=&echo=1’)

}

thanks…much aoppreciated