morgaine

Don’t I deserve some hugs for kissing MT goodbye ? ;-p (well, at least for my main blog, there are 12 more *grin*)

Eurhm, what’s wrong with the CSS ? It validates, right?
As for the footer, there is no footer … *rolls eyes*
But anyway, thanks for the welcome ??

It means that the file wp-l10n.php which is supposed to be in the wp-includes directory, is missing. Might indeed be an upgrade problem.

Eurhm, guess I was too enthusiastic. I remember when I started blogging, I was changing things all the time, because I wanted more and more flexibility. Now I just start with the most flexible solution known by me at this point. Guess once I get my blog moved, I could try and make some templates, as an exercise in the k.i.s.s. principle. And I should try and write up a tutorial for skinning, as far as I remember there was a plugin but using that, there’s no possibility to vary the content of the sidebars, according to the skin chosen.

I always said I would move over once I would be able to use timestamp only permalinks. Not being able to do so really was holding me back. Thanks to rbowen, this now is possible, and I have high hopes for him to fix the trackback issue as well.
Meanwhile the PHP bible is still grinning at me while it lies in front of me on my desk. Unfortunately I don’t have a whole lot of time right now. But some day … ??

You’re mixing php functions with CSS if I’m not mistaken. My solution, and there might be an easier one, is to make a directory called myincludes, where I put each and every item in a seperate file, items such as webcam, webrings, search, blogroll, … I then include them where I want with a PHP include, such as <? include('/your/own/path/to/the/proper/directory/myincludes/blogrelated.php'); ?>
As those includes are included in the footer, which I included in the index.php I have the freedom of positioning them on different places, depending on the skin that is chosen. Even if you don’t use skinning, you can directly include them in the index.php
The included files don’t have the usual structure for a webpage, there’s not doctype, no head, nor body tags, just whatever it is I want to display. The layout of what I want to display can be manipulated using CSS by placing the include in a div or span tag.
Hope it makes sense.

I as well wanted a permalink structure with timestamps only. Whatever I tried, I didn’t get the comments to work. I got the rewrite rules to work by splitting them up. However, I now use a nightly build and everything works like a charm (except for trackbacks but rbowen said he’s looking into it). Have a look at this thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/3/9802
Morgaine

As it’s not on the final location yet, I have my ‘portal’ set in my profile. You can find it here though: https://www.dutch-double.net/wordpress3/

Also, I didn’t like how the smilies were sorted. Sorting by length of string wasn’t logical to me. So I commented the function that sorts the smilies array out (in vars.php that is). That way, smilies are shown in the exact same order as they appear in the array, which means you can get them in any order you want, by moving them up or down in the array.

I have a question: do you imply that there is a more recent version of Word Press that takes care of the problem described in https://www.ads-software.com/support/4/7422 and earlier on in https://www.ads-software.com/support/3/7299 ? Because on my blog, comments don’t work as you can see here: https://www.dutch-double.net/wordpress/index.php And I made sure it was nothing with e.g. skinning by creating https://www.dutch-double.net/wordpress2/index.php with nothing changed to templates and the like. It works as long as I use the timestamps in combination with either the title slug or the ID, but NOT with timestamps only !
Thank you in advance for a reply, Morgaine

Ah Mr. Root ??
Long time no see indeed. Not really in the blogging mood I’m afraid. As for *upgrading* to WP, I would in a heartbeat, I would, if only I could get those permalinks the way I want them (well, I get the permalinks, it’s the problem with the comments, caused by the timestamp only permalink structure that is holding me back) …
Anyway, best wishes for you as well,
Morgaine

I should have refreshed the page before composing my answer I guess … post now was rather redundant *grin* Anyway, you’re so right, it’s those teeny things that tend to be a pain in the butt. I’ve come accross a couple of rather stupid mistakes that took me hours to figure out throughout my blogging life …

Well, guess I AM the only one … seems I’m out of luck. *sob*
Morgaine

Sam,
‘he’ actually is a ‘she’ ?? but you hit the nail on the spot, I think timestamps are the identifier that is most unique and at the same time portable to other blogging applications.
As for the code, let me reference the excellent PHP Cross Reference of WordPress 1.2 (Mingus) and more specifically the function url_to_postid and function the_permalink.
Hope that helps (might be wrong as I know only slightly more than nothing about PHP),
Kind regards,
Morgaine

Well, I believe I’ve already mentioned in the initial post in this thread why I favour this structure (third paragraph). I also want to be able to post entries without title. When I would use the %postname% without entering a title, a blank would be returned, hence no permalink would be available. There’s always a post time, as opposed to a title.
For selfish reasons I would like to be able to use timestamps only as well. Took me a while to figure out how to convert my MT blog from using IDs to using a future proof uri, and for the same reasons mentioned above, I opted to use timestamps only (well, I made the mistake to have ‘index’ at the end of my permalinks, even though the posts are accessible without the ‘index’ at the end, but I could correct this if WordPress provided the option of using timestamps only)
I would be able to put the WP blog at the exact same location my MT blog is at the moment and nobody would note the difference (well, as far as permalink structure is concerned, I would use the occasion to make some minor design changes, write a post about my move to WP, link to WP and advertise it as being the alternative to MT).