Cathy Mitchell
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You’re welcome. ??
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Navigation – Best way to do this?There are a number of ways to accomplish this. If you are using floating elements, you can set the width and create two. If you are using relative or absolutely positioned elements, you can set the z-index, and create 2. I’ve done this before with the absolutely positioned method. And created two widgetized areas in the header. Then create two menu areas – one left and one right. The client can then set up the menus in the custom menu feature of WP 3.0+. It doesn’t degrade very nicely though. If they set up links that are too wide, it wont show or will fall down the page. Hard coding is the only way to prevent a client from wrecking the design. ??
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Publishing from Word to WordPress with FootnotesThe only solution I’ve found is using a footnotes plugin and manually adding the footnotes. Copy/pasting from word into the Word window in WordPress’ edit screen won’t keep the footnotes – they have to be added manually.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: wp_list_categories exclude doesn't workAre you using this code in the sidebar? Do you have a php-exec plugin installed? Or adding it to the templates?
The post url is still linked to the page. First, I would delete the page (not trash – delete for real) Then go to the Posts panel in the dashboard, click on the Posts sub-panel and scroll to the list of posts. find this one, and click on “view” link. Copy the link above so you can see what the post URL REALLY is. Then you will know what the problem is. I’m guessing – it has a “2” or category appended.
Also, if you have a lot of Pages, you should have your permalinks set to something other than %postname% See this info here: https://desperatelyseekingwp.com/2010/06/90-wrong-discovery-permalinks/
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: permalink- pagenameYou can find the short link in the page itself under the title (in WP 3.0) it will be something like mysite.com/?p=123. If you are using permalinks, the link you put above is likely the name. Pages keep their ‘nicename’. Categories are preceded by the ‘category’ word (mysite.com/category/thiscat). and posts have the permalink settings preceding the name (ie: mysite.com/2010/10/my-title).
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Site crashes after automatic update from 2.9.8 to 3.0.1Govpatel – good idea. ??
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Please Help – virus/malware problemThe first step would be to notify your host. If you are on a shared host, they can & will scan your site for infections. Ask them for a security scan.
Also, you can check the files wp-config.php, and in your theme folder – header.php, index.php, functions.php, footer.php for weird-looking lines of code. or do a search on the file for eval(base64 – that is almost surely a hack of some sort.
Database hacks I’ve dealt with recently are this Pharmahack https://www.pearsonified.com/2010/04/wordpress-pharma-hack.php
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Site crashes after automatic update from 2.9.8 to 3.0.1I had a look, and I think you’ll need to do some troubleshooting on this one. I’ve not seen this happen before. First, use an ftp client (like Filezilla) and rename all the plugins (add a dash or zero in front of each name) so that they are deactivated. Refresh your browser and see if that works to get you logged in.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: bloginfo('stylesheet_url') no good for local developmentI use WAMP to run the database locally too. That solves this problem. Sorry can’t help more than that.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Rss feed will only display excerpts – all settings are correctYes, deactivated all plugins,
– then switched to default theme.
Every time it shows a truncated version of the content. HOwever, the content tags contain less content than the automated description tags. Does that help?
Also, I deactivated the plugins, then immediately flushed the cache on my browser, viewed the site feed url and then view-source. That is what I’m going on. Is that correct? is there a feed cache that would need to be flushed too to see the real-time version of the feed?
I have the same issue and it is not resolved yet. The source code at mysite.com/feed contains the <content: encoded> tags. The source code at mysite.com/feed/rss contains only the description tags, among others. The code at mysite.com/?feed=atom contains both. The content tags only have excerpts though. I have the reading settings set to full text. All plugins deactivated still lead to excerpts. Is this a bug?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to make RSS Feed show only post excerpts?You can set the feed under Settings Panel, Reading sub-panel. The setting on left is “For each article in a feed, show:” select the “Summary” option.
Actually I took out the plugin and used code to grab the images. I think it might be because I had the same image used 3 times in the site? (but not on the same page – or it was an image problem, and not a plugin problem.)
Sorry I can’t be more specific.
Thank you for this plugin, I’ll definitely try it again – it makes it super easy for clients to get that image in their sidebar.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Moving DB from MU to 3.0 and missing term parents and group_ID in dbAlso figured by trial and error that when there is a duplicate sub-cat for several categories, the parent-cat nice name is appended to the childcat’s slug. That would have been nice to know before hand. ??