Pat Friedl

Here ya go:

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define ('WPLANG', '');

/**
 * For developers: WordPress debugging mode.
 *
 * Change this to true to enable the display of notices during development.
 * It is strongly recommended that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG
 * in their development environments.
 */
define('WP_DEBUG', false);
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
	define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');
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Now, I did notice that there’s a lot of posts where dreamhost users were having issues with network installs, but they’re old. This site is on DreamHost – that shouldn’t be an issue right?

Yup, that’s exactly where it is.

Yup, checked all that and I did add before the “happy blogging!” line. Is there any way to debug this? I’ve never done a network setup before.

The columns should naturally collapse like that, but since they’re being generated in the content area of your theme, my guess is that your content area has a fixed width, so the columns will epxand to fill that fixed area.

Blondie,
As much as I love my plugin, I think using Easy Columns is a hack to get the data posted in this situation.

If you’re adding data monthly, then it sounds like you might want to have a custom post type just for that data and then have your client add a new post every month.

Then you could have a quick shortcode on a page to pull and display just those post types with specific formatting.

That’d be a custom plugin, but if you’d like something like that created, I’m open for freelance!

No, IDs, classes and styles aren’t required to make the columns work. Those attributes are there in case you want more granular control over the columns you create.

Entering a unique ID would allow you to add additional style based on the ID of the column or control it with jQuery.

Entering a class also lets you manage the styling through CSS instead of entering inline style.

Last but not least, you can enter inline style if you absolutely, positively must use inline CSS.

Clicking the number of columns you want in the visual editor will basically insert the shortcodes for you. Once that’s done, you can enter your content where it says “Third Column” (or half column, quarter column, etc).

As a test, insert 3 columns and update your page, then preview it – you should see three sections of text, equally spaced on your page that say “Third Column”.

Easy Columns doesn’t automatically format content into columns, but instead allows you to add columns in your content.

For instance, you can create 3 columns in a page that showcase a products features, or insert a single column of testimonials or quotes.

If you’re looking for a magazine style layout, then you’ll want to look at some themes that offer “teaser” or grid layouts on the main blog page.

That bug has been fixed in the first update.

That would be excellent IF I had control of everybody’s WordPress config. However, I can’t tell people to edit their config to unset the “name” param in the querystring so they can activate my plugin.

That would work on my sites, but I’d rather the WP guys fix it if at all possible…

I’m running into the same problem. I have a plugin that users must activate. When they activate (signing up to my Aweber list), they get redirected back to their blog and the redirect contains a Querystring.

The problem comes from about 1 in 30 users getting a 404 error when they do this. I’ve done extensive testing and I can’t get this problem to resolve, and what’s worse is that there doesn’t seem to be a pattern that causes it.

Help!

^bump^

anybody know how to get a cookie set using a plugin in the footer?

I figured it out! Well, I think I did anyway…

I did some testing, and custom fields like “my_custom_field”, “my-custom-field” work. HOWEVER, any custom field starting with “_” won’t show up.

So – this is a WordPress problem. Avoid all custom fields starting with an underscore!

One more update.

I did view the source of the page editor, and it looks like all the rows that display custom field data are tagged as: “hidden” or “alternate hidden” – which might explain why I can’t see any custom fields.

Update – I’ve tried on a couple different systems and am experiencing the problem on those computers as well.

Is this theme related?

So is the consensus that the shortcode [audio] no longer works? I followed the instructions to the letter on the WP Codex documentation and nothing shows. That’s a shame if it doesn’t…