lcherolis

I’m running WP Slimbox 2 plugin to do the shadow box thing when images are clicked. That is working fine.

I just don’t like that my viewers have to click on the Blog Post title before it will expand and show the image in the post.

Actually, it would be fine with me if every blog post was just automatically expanded. Since the main purpose of this blog will just be to show off sketches and illustrations. Most of my blog posts will just have an image and a few lines of text.

I found the setting where I can choose “Full Text” or “Summery” in the feed. I wish I had that check box for it in the Reading Settings:

Front Page Displays: (check box) Your Latest Posts
(check box) A static page (select below)

There should be a box somewhere for either Full Text or a Summary

Great info! Thanks! I’ll try it tonight.

Bump.

Has anyone had any luck customizing the appearance of the Twitter Tools widget as it appears on your site in your sidebar?

For example: I’d like every alternate post to have a different background color. And the ability to insert an icon or image at the top would be nice.

Ah. Fixed it. Needed to try importing the data from a fresh install.

Thanks!

I exported the WXR file and when attempting to import it on my new server I get this error message:
Unable to create directory /home/.fickel/biscuitp/bytm.biscuitpress.com/brainstormingcomics/wp-content/uploads/2009/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

It appears to be trying to write to my old server. It should be trying to write to brainstormingcomics.com/wp-content/uploads…

Why is it looking for home/.fickle/my old URL… etc?

Thank you Figaro, I will check it out.

Samboll, my permalinks are set to default. Is this a problem?

I did not know about the native import/export function. It says it imports WordPress WXR files. What is the procedure to create one, and will it involve resetting my domains back to my old server and logging in to my old sites?

Good think they haven’t been removed from my old server yet!

Well, my new problem just got more interesting. In addition to the problem I described above, where WordPress spontaneously initiates a fresh install after I import old data into a new database, now, having successfully imported data into a database and having a properly setup config file, the old posts are still not displaying.

Any ideas?

Bump.

Figaro, thanks for the video link. I was able to edit the DB dump and change all the urls.

My new problem is when I import the DB on my new server, WordPress decides it wants to do a fresh install and overwrites the data I just imported. So I end up with the default Welcome to WordPress posts and not the old posts I was trying to transfer.

This thing is fighting me at every turn.