kathleena

Uberdose, I left a message at teh support URL (I think I found the right place). Got the upgrade activated with some fooling around, tho I’m not sure how. But, none of the plugin stuff is working.

What should I do now?

Thanks for your help!

I’m trying to get clarification on this issue, too. It might be a bug as reported here:
https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/5087

But, I’m not sure exactly what the bug reports mean.

You might try checking the HTML after you send the photo to the editor. What’s been happening to me is that the HTML is there for the image, but the height and width are set to 1px. If you change those two things in the HTML, the image will show properly.

Hope there’s a fix for it sometime before the next release!

Dear Whoo,

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

It would have been a long time before I thought of the center column as a widget!!

Thanks for your help.

Kathleen

I recently added a MyBlogLog widget. I think people do like to see who else is visiting your site.

If you do a search for WordPress widgets, you’ll find lots of ideas.

Will

What’s the URL?

ccoupe – at 3am, I wasn’t really concerned about spelling your name right. I don’t usually put live links in this forum. If that irritates you so, I would suggest that you just move on rather than flaming.

However, between you and Root, I fixed the problem. I deactivated the plug-ins related to widgets and copied the tiga folder from my own site which was working fine, and put it on the staging folder on the server.

I have no idea why that worked because it’s all the same stuff, but at least it’s working.

ccoupe, the site wasn’t working properly when you last posted. If you want to see what it’s supposed to look like with the widgets in place, visit https://www.getstaged2sell.com/stageblog

Hopefully, you are pleased with that link.

Thanks, Root. And thanks to you, too ccoupe. Sortof.

besides that, ecoupe, if I just wanted a hit for the staging site, I would have made the link live.

Really.

ecoupe,

You couldn’t be more wrong. It’s very late where I am – I was trying to get this done while no one would be looking at the site.

Excuse me for not providing the correct URL

www. getstaged2sell.com/stageblog

If you have a fix for this, I’d be delighted to hear it.

I just tried a couple other themes, and they do show the widgets like MyBlogLog.

So, maybe it’s something to do with the Tiga theme?

If looking at the site would help, it’s at

www. getstaged2sell.com

Thanks again.

Found the answer. If you’re using the Tiga theme, some options are set in the configurator in the Presentation area. Other than that, any additional changes should be made in style.php, not style.css.

Found the answer. If you’re using the Tiga theme, some options are set in the configurator in the Presentation area. Other than that, any additional changes should be made in style.php, not style.css.

As far as why upgrade, the description says that 2.2.1 fixes some bugs and security issues, so I wanted to do that.

I just upgraded using Fantastico, and had no problems. I used a process I found on an old post here on the forum, along with advice from my host.

My host recommended that I backup the blog and the database through the CPanel to make sure I had a very clean fallback.

Then, according to the advice I found here, I
–changed the theme to the default
–deactivated the plug-ins
–did the upgrade in Fantastico
–went badk to the blog admin, changed the theme back and reactivated the plug-ins

The only problem I had was some stray characters thrown into the posts and comments. But, I found the answer for that here, too:

Edit the wp-config.php file.
Comment out the two lines:

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

By Putting // in front of both lines:

//define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
//define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

And, the stray characters disappeared!

Now, if someone will just help me figure out how to get my links the right color, I’ll be a happy camper:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/125259?replies=1

Thanks, 4K. I’ll try adding a class in the style sheet and using the info on that page. Evidently, this theme doesn’t have a class set up for the more text, and I should be able to just add it, right?

I was trying to figure out how to make the more text bold and came across this thread.

In case anyone else does the same thing, just wanted to mention that I tried the ‘<!–more MORE TEXT HERE–>’ approach, and it crashed the blog. I finally had to delete and reenter the post where it was used.

Granted, I know just enough to be dangerous, but I used the exact syntax and somehow the menu disappeared, every post after that one disappeared, and when I tried to edit the post to remove what I’d added, there was no SAVE button showing in the mess that was below the edit window, so I couldn’t just update it.

Evidently, for some themes, that particular short cut doesn’t work!

If anyone knows how to add a bold/strong to this line of code, however, I’d be glad to hear about it:

<?php the_content(‘Desired text instead of More’); ?>

That’s the only reference I can find to the more tag in the files. The Style Sheet doesn’t include anything I can recognize as controlling the “more” text.

moshu,

Thanks for the response. Guess I won’t worry about it, then. But, it’s interesting that Technorati recommends pinging them separately even if you use pingomatic:
https://www.technorati.com/developers/ping/wordpress.html

Kathleen