miloandrew

Hi cemlouis!

Can you explain a bit more about what specifically are you talking about?

WordPress makes many RSS feeds available for your posts, for comments, etc. Check out: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Feeds

It also has an automated “ping” structure built into it so that you can “ping” outside sources to let them know that you have added content. It comes defaulted to using pingomatic, but you can add whatever else you want in there. Services like technorati, etc will automatically post your content provided that it ranks high enough. Check out: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Update_Services for more information.

Secondly, each post has a “trackback” feature that allows you to automatically post a trackback to someone else’s page. All you need to do is put in the trackback address in the trackback area underneith the actual post. If you have linked to a page that is from another wordpress blog, it will likely automagically post the trackback for you and you can skip having to manually enter the trackback.

Also, other people may decide to post your RSS content on their page using an RSS widget, but that is up to them.

I think it may help if you explained a bit more about what the plugin should do. Publishing your content on other people’s sites is typically more a process of you simply making it easily available (like with RSS), and them deciding to put it on their site.

What sites would you want to publish to? Do they allow you to automatically submit content?

I’m still struggling a bit to understand exactly what you did.

What “settings” – do you mean in the wordpress admin panel? I’m assuming that is what you meant.

If that is the case, read:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

You are probably already on about step #6. ??

Alternatively, you could use the site link that whooami posted above to simply move the URL back to https://www.jamesfurlan.com/computertips/wordpress

Hope that helps!

Best of luck,
A

Hmm… So, you are running the install through a browser on the local server? That likely rules out an actual network problem.

Is the directory where the configuration file supposed to be created writable by IIS?

Can you post a link to the theme page?

Off the top of my head, I don’t know that you actually can fix that type of issue. I would imagine that the theme developer made the assumption that your article would only fall into one category.

Honestly, you may want to rethink your use of categories – have fewer categories – i.e. one per post, and rely more on tags to describe the post itself instead.

Check out:

https://www.problogdesign.com/blog-usability/why-tags-are-better-than-categories/

to see what I mean.

And, if you don’t mind some “heavy handed” advice:

https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/01/tags-are-not-categories-got-it/

If all of that doesn’t help – there may be something that you can do with a query_posts() call (https://codex.www.ads-software.com/User:JamesVL/query_posts) and a two-loop theme. I think that is out of the scope of what you are really looking for, but I figured I’d mention it.

Best of luck!

-A

Did you make sure to go to the upgrade.php page after the upgrade was done to insure that the DB was also properly upgraded?

If you already did that, or it doesn’t seem to help, sounds like maybe your permalink structure didn’t come over properly. Do you use a custom permalink structure? Try setting it to something else, verifying that it all works as it should, and then try setting it back to what you want.

That may “unstick” something that didn’t get migrated properly.

I seem to remember some funkiness with permalinks and IIS, now that I think on it further. Something about it not supporting mod_rewrite or something like that? Anyway, I would imagine that the issue has something to do with the permalinks, because that is what is used to display a single post. Maybe I’m telling you stuff that isn’t helpful. ?? Anyway, maybe it will help you narrow stuff down.

Also, you may want to turning on the default theme just to verify that you aren’t having a theme problem. Doesn’t sound like it, but it could be.

Verify that your plugin’s aren’t causing the issue, by turning them off and turning them back on one by one.

Sorry Hazzie, wish I could help you more… Best of luck.

Cheers,
A

Some people call them buttons too. Not as helpful as the badge name, but it is used.

Check out this:

https://www.lucazappa.com/brilliantMaker/buttonImage.php

to make easily make nice badges. You can make whatever you want, and simply right click the resulting badge and Save As…

Easy-peasy. ??

-A

My pleasure!

Well, unfortunately, the script should have returned an IP address, not the URL.

Sounds like the WordPress install is probably fine, but for some reason the PHP installation is not able to resolve names.

Did you install PHP, or did it come on the server? Do you run your own server? You mentioned a VPS – do you get support with that? I’d contact them and let them know that PHP is somehow either installed incorrectly, or does not have the required permissions, etc.

If you don’t get support with the VPS, I’d go to your hosting providers forum and ask the people there how they have successfully installed PHP to work in that environment.

Other than that, you could try going to:

https://us.php.net/support.php

and look up a few PHP specific groups to get some assistance. I can program in PHP, but don’t know much about its setup, unfortunately.

Best of luck! When you find a fix, let us know how you fixed it! ??

If I can be of assistance, just update the case.

Cheers,
A

Have you tried something much more simple on the machine, such as a small php file:

<?php
$ip = gethostbyname(‘www.www.ads-software.com’);

echo $ip;
?>

Does that work? The question is if WordPress is having the issue, or if PHP itself is having the issue.

At least that should help you narrow it down a bit.

Good luck! Let us know what happens…

Cheers,
Andy

Not that I’ve seen, if you are looking for an “easy” way. Some widgets will write out a configuration file for you (though not nearly enough of them do that).

You can go directly to the database and “export” the settings from the widget’s table on the working blog and then “import” the settings back into the new one after you have installed and activated the widget on the new blog.

Not a bunch of fun, but it should work. ??

Sorry!

What directions did you use to “change the url”?

Hmmm. Some further sleuthing reveals that you may be able to force the issue by using

load_template(TEMPLATEPATH . '/mycustomtemplate.php');

in whatever page is specified as the Post page.

See:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Making_Your_Blog_Appear_in_a_Non-Root_Folder

for more info.

STILL though – I don’t know if this is a bug or not. ??

Thanks,
A

Is this at home, or are you using it from a hosted provider?

If it is at home, you’ll need to use what is called a Dynamic DNS service to hook it up to a regular domain name. (see https://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/ for more info)

If it is a server provided by a web hosting service, talk to their support on how to register a domain name with their servers.

Honestly, this question has nothing to do with WordPress, and everything to do with web hosting. I don’t say that to be rude, but rather to let you know that the folks on this board don’t have any of the information that you’ll need in order to be able to guide you through that process.

Posting the question here is a bit like asking a tire manufacturer why your transmission doesn’t work. ?? hehe No harm done though – I’m just trying to help you get a quick answer.

Best of luck to you…

Cheers,
A

good question! Out of the box, it seems to use the single.php page template, but clearly Matt’s single pages are of a different template than his single gallery pages.

A closer look at how the gallery works shows how the magic happens. You can select “link to page” for reach of the gallery entries, and if you do that, clicking on the thumbnails brings you to a new page that is only for that attachment. The attachment page will use the following templates in this order: attachment.php, single.php, index.php. For more info on attachments, surf over to:

Using Image and File Attachments

So, I’m betting that Matt simply made an attachment.php file and styled it for the images.

I hope that helps! ??

Cheers,
Andy

If you remove the .html from the permalink, does it work?

If so, I think you may be out of luck. ??

You could also try adding a date portion to your permalink. That may solve it.

Sorry, that’s all I can think of.

Try using <span class=”mycolor”></span>

and then in the css add:

.mycolor {
color:#9c9d97;
}

That may work a lot better. Inline style specifications are funky and could be getting overwritten during page refreshes by the css.

Since I don’t have more info on where you are using the span (are you talking about comments?), don’t know the exact process that causes this problem I can’t tell for sure, but the change is worth a try.