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Try clearing your browser’s cache. No blue bar here…

Those are Google ads – AdSense. Either you, or someone else with access to your site has signed up for them, and added the code to your template.

Actually, they *do* get sorted. Just not in a way that makes a lot of sense[1]. If you look in vars.php, below the smilies array, you will see this block of code:

// sorts the smilies' array
if (!function_exists('smiliescmp')) {
function smiliescmp ($a, $b) {
if (strlen($a) == strlen($b)) {
return strcmp($a, $b);
}
return (strlen($a) > strlen($b)) ? -1 : 1;
}
}
uksort($wpsmiliestrans, 'smiliescmp');


Looks to me like it’s sorting first by the *length* of the string, then alphabetically for strings of the same length. Looking at my smilies confirms that this is what is happening.

I’m going to try commenting out the sort, and seeing what happens….

EDIT: Yup. Commenting out that block causes the smilies to be displayed in the order they are listed in vars.php. So for anyone who wants them in a particular order, editing the list should do the job. (This was with 1.5.1)

[1] To me, anyway

Google doesn’t care about the pages being dynamically created by PHP rather than being static html. It will happily index your site. Well, it does mine anyway – for what is essentially a frivolous site for my own entertainment, I get quite a few alarmingly high placings from Google. Some of my posts are reviews of books, DVDs, etc, and I’ve found myself in the top three to five hits when googling on the titles.

Google “sees” the same thing visitors do – pages which link to other pages in your site. The back end technology doesn’t matter at all…

Yup. Worked for me. Replicated a few minor edits (Quicktags, vars.php), and it all works.

No plugins seem to have broken, and it all looks as expected. And incoming pingbacks work now, which is nice ??

Which version of Exhibit are you using? Mine seems fine (I’m using Exhibit 1.5d)

Mmmmmm :-). Seems to be working so far. Haven’t played with all plugins, but my main functions are just fine, and both trackbacks and pingbacks are now working as advertised on Dreamhost – thanks to the devs for sorting that out, and of course to Podz for the test site[1].

And a word of advice if I may – people, if you’re going to edit core files, *keep a record* in a text file. Saves a lot of pain later.

[1] And for everything else he does here ??

Looks like it’s a hosting issue – the CSS file is being served up with the wrong MIME type, so Firefox doesn’t know what to do with it.

Looks very similar to this topic.

And just in case anyone would like to look, the site now has another new look. Not hugely different, but a little less obviously based on the default theme. Maybe. A bit, anyway. A little bit of Image Headlines has made a quite large difference to the look…

My first suspect would be ISPs with transparent caching proxy servers. A lot seem to use these without customers necessarily knowing about it. These can usually be persuaded to behave by hard refreshing (in IE/Win Shift+F5 does the job). It’s not unknown for them to fail to resepct headers (which is why Blueyonder eventually agreed to drop theirs, as I recall…)

It *is* huge:

.storycontent p {
font: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
letter-spacing: 10px;
}

Where is the .ini file? Is it in the same directory as the rotator script?

Does it make any difference if you edit the script to include the full path of the .ini file?

Change <?php the_excerpt() ?> to <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>.

You can use any text you like in place of “Read the rest of..”

I don’t know this particular template, but start with archive.php and single.php, if they exist, otherwise look in index.php

Different sidebar – this is the one that’s supposed to open as a Firefox sidebar, with a posting form.

The Codex has this (bottom of the page).

You’ll find the link to it at yourdomain.com/wordpresswp-admin/profile.php – your profile in the admin interface. Doesn’t work for me with Firefox, don’t need it enough to work out why…

Is this thread any help?