ejm

I think you are on the right track, Netdetective, to customize an existing theme that is as close as possible to what you want. That is what I did….

I would definitely not use Frontpage. and I know nothing about Dreamweaver. But if the coding that is on your page now was produced by Dreamweaver, then I would advise against it as well. There are many many HTML errors on the page.

I use a simple text editor (editpad) to encode pages. (I’m not an IT designer or professional web designer either.)

You’re most welcome, Bella. I’m glad it was useful. I see that you have now successfully added the blurb and link to the ‘about me’ page. Yay!

edit:

In the email link, you might want to replace your email address characters with character entities to help prevent robots from being quickly able to mine your address in order to send you spam:

Instead of @ in your coding, type
&,#064; (without the comma)
ampersand numbersign zero six four semicolon

You can also replace the letters in the link. For instance, instead of href="mailto:, you could type href="&,#109;ai&,#108;to: (without the commas after the ampersands – it is VERY difficult to display code in this forum)

More on character entities:
https://llizard.etherwork.net/cwc/charactmap.html#recommended

Look for:

<li id="linkcat-2"><h2>Links</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href='https://mugglenet.com/' title='All things Harry Potter'>Muggle Net</a></li>
<li><a href='https://www.theonion.com/content/index' title='News Source'>The Onion</a></li>
<li><a href='https://www.blingo.com/friends?ref=mn9mry5Ai%2BUZ7nzBZucpGHFSUcU' title='Search and Win Prizes'>Blingo</a></li>
<li><a href='https://www.illwillpress.com/' title='Foamy Rocks'>Ill Will Press</a></li>

</ul>

And just BEFORE add

<li><a href='https://newlinkaddress/' title='brief description of link'>Link Name</a></li>

Hope that helps.

edit: posted before Bella had replied…. I’d have to look more closely at the coding to see where the link would be inserted to get it closer to the top of the page… maybe someone will get to it before I do. I have non-keyboard tasks I have to do now….

You could try adding a width spec to the page id in themes/default/style.css

#page {
background: white;
border: 1px solid #959596;
text-align: left;
width:784px;
}

and specify the image that is in the table at the top as the background (find this coding on the index page in themes/default/

#headerimg { background: url('https://www.clean-credit.org/images/h_header.jpg') no-repeat top;}

I don’t know for certain that that would work, but you could give it a shot.

The following sites may also be of help:
https://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/structure.html
https://glish.com/css/
https://www.htmldog.com/

Incidentally, there are a number of coding errors on your page. If you plug the page URL into the window at
https://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/validator/
you can see a list of them. Fixing the errors may well help you a lot in figuring out how to get your site to look the way you expect it to look. (There are generally explanations about each error on the results page of the validator.)

Hope that helps.

I’ve pretty much given up trying to guess how or why IE behaves (or should I say, ‘misbehaves’?), melbell.

As is written in “The Browser Wars”:

Internet Explorer has become the bane of any forward-thinking web designera€?s existance. With the onset of advanced CSS layout techniques, IE6a€?s rendering engine has been exposed as buggy and unreliable.

whole article here:
https://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/browserreview.html

I realize that I’m replying rather late to this thread, but these sites may offer better answers:

https://www.positioniseverything.net/ie-primer.html
https://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html

I realize that this is an old thread and the problem may have been resolved. However, this is the first (in the many that I have searched about customizing wp-db.php) that deals with specifics of HOW to go about doing so.

I don’t know for certain that this is the answer to fixing the parse error is to change the quotation mark into a single quotemark after bail( and before the final );. You will also have to escape the apostrophe in I’m sorry by putting a backslash before the apostrophe.

$this->bail('
<div align="center">
[...]
I\'m sorry but the <b>site is temporally down due to technical
[...]
');

I’m with davgam on this issue: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/36534#post-257124

It isn’t always a viable option to switch hosts. And it would be very nice if the error page could be easily made to match the look of the site that the wordpress blog is on rather than matching the look of wordpress.

Some servers (mine is one of them) do not even allow permissions of 666. I have wordpress .htaccess set to 644 and it works just fine.

I can change the permission to 666 but if I do, it causes wordpress to fail entirely.

I find it a bit disturbing that the wordpress codex suggest chmodding to 666 rather than 644.

600 User can read, write; everyone else has zero permission
644 Everyone can read; only User can read, write.
664 Everyone can read; User and Group can read, write.
666 Everyone in the world can read, write. (not really a good idea, I would think.)

https://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_04.html#AEN2862

Yes, macmanx, I have confirmed it by creating a whatisallowed.php page

code:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>

and inserting into the wp folder. (I removed the file after looking at it.)

This is what appeared in the “Configuration PHP Core” table:

allow_url_fopen | Local Value: On | Master Value: On

Because I can do redirects of files, I’m assuming that mod_rewrite is enabled, even though there was no mention of it in the phpinfo file.

macmanx, scroll up to see that allow_url_fopen() is enabled on my server. However, looking at phpinfo, i see no mention of mod_rewrite.

I took a look at
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks

and see a hint about why trackbacks are not working. My server does not allow 666 permissions on folders. The closest I can use is 644. This is getting to be WAY too hard for what’s left of my mind. Perhaps I will just remove the recent trackbacks/pingbacks from view on my sidebar (I’m running wp1.5) – out of sight, out of mind.

Thanks for replying Brian.

Okay… now that I know the correct term, pingbacks are NOT appearing on my blog (1.5). I’m not even sure whether I want them to appear but they are not. (Trackbacks aren’t either, as far as I can tell.) They used to appear in 1.2.2 but stopped at some point. This indicates that my server changed something, doesn’t it?

If you enable your logs you can see what is and is not happening.

Question #1: How and/or where do I go to enable logs?

Question #2: How do I find out if mod_rewrite is installed and/or enabled? I do not see this term in the phpinfo file I have for my site.

I have been reading all of the threads on pingback/trackback in this forum and am still unable to receive new trackbacks or pingbacks in my blog.

1. I am running a recently upgraded 1.5
2. xmlrpc.php has the required number of parentheses on line 67.
3. functions.php is correct on line 635
4. “Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxies” is UNchecked.
5. allow_url_fopen() is enabled on my server.
6. I have tested at https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack/ to see that I can send trackbacks but none of the trackbacks sent from that site have appeared on my wp1.5 blog.

Has anyone come up with a patch for 1.5 to fix the trackback/pingback problem? Having just gone through a major nightmare upgrading from 1.2.2 to 1.5, I really am not keen on having to upgrade the whole shebang again.

-ejm (aka llizard)

I too just tried the blacklist fix above. No go.

Being pretty much unschooled in php or ANY kind of programming, I’m now hopelessly lost.

edit: I have now succeeded in sending a pingback (or is it a trackback? – I don’t really know what the difference between pb and tb) to https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack/

but as far as I know I am still not receiving them.

And both of you are doing better than I. Where is this trackback log? Line 624 looks to be correct in functions.php. I removed the blocking on lines 630-639 but now can’t seem to locate this log in the Admin folder.

As far as I know I am not receiving PBs or TBs on my very recently upgraded 1.5 blog. I tested at https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack/

The last pingback that appeared is from Feb2005 – when the blog was still 1.2.2 It is only with the recent upgrade that I could see trackback entries listed on the sidebar. They used to be included in the recent comments….

I have trackbacks enabled and allow_url_fopen is also enabled.

Yes, ddman. I am still having these problems. I recently upgraded to 1.5. My functions.php has the fix noted at https://trac.www.ads-software.com/changeset/2361

And I am feeling quite dumb about this.

I tried testing at
https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack/

but as far as I can see, trackbacks and pingbacks are not working on my blog:

etherwork.net/blog

Excuse me for replying to myself…

I stared at the source code of the blog and see that there are now h2s that have been inserted into the list items for the link categories.

<li id="linkcat-11"><h2>link category title</h2></li>

For now, I have added:


#menu li h2 /* the menu headers */ {
background: #300;
/*text-transform:lowercase;*/
color:#9cf;
margin:0;
}


to the stylesheet and of course, had to add an extra section for the perverse browser IE as well:


*html #menu li h2
{background:#f0f8ff;color:#300;}

My Question:

Which of the config files controls the formatting of the list items in the link lists that so I can remove the extraneous h2?