musk

This thread needs to be added to the FAQ. I too had problems with Startlogic and installing WP 2.5* on the new vDeck 3.0 hosting platform. This solution works. The way I found out was by first installing WP using SL’s installer and looked at the config file it created and the DB_HOST was accountlogin.startlogicmysql.com instead of localhost. In order to install WP on any SL account you need to make sure you make this change to the config file. Again, someone should add this to the FAQ because I’m sure more people will have this problem. It’s listed no where on the SL knowledge base.

I’ve made changes to the header graphic. I’m not sure if its easy to read the title. What do you guys think?

https://nazur.net/tpr

It looks fine, not too cluttered, and very easy to read.

musk, some people apparantly feel that sites that use freely available themes arent worthy of comments, Ignore them like they should have ignored you if they had nothing better to say.

The only suggestion I have is to work on adding some sort of sports related header image.. maybe football grass? a basketball floor?

Other than that, it looks just fine ??

That’s a good idea. The reason I picked that theme was because it had grass as the main header image. Thanks for the input.

yeah, my CSS skils are non existant so I wanted to grab a template that was easy to ready and easy to modify if needed. THe reason I posted up here was to see if anyone thought that a blog of this material would benefit from using a different layout.

perfect. couldn’t get the “caption” to work, but got the padding to work. thanks.

ok, i finally got the date and time to show up. how can I format it so it shows up the way i want to?

btw, thanks for all this help.

I already have that in the file. here, let me post the entire code:


<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require_once('./blog/wp-blog-header.php'); get_header();
?>

<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
<div class="alt">

<?php
$how_many=5; //How many posts do you want to show
require_once("./blog/wp-config.php"); // Change this for your path to wp-config.php file ?>
<ol id="whats-new">
<?
$news=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE post_status= \"publish\" ORDER BY 'ID' DESC LIMIT ".$how_many);
foreach($news as $np){
print ("<li><a href=\"");
echo get_permalink($np->ID);
print ("\">$np->post_title</a> (");
echo mysql2date(get_settings('date_format'), $np->post_date);
print (")</li>");
} ?>
</ol>

</div>
</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Nope, still doesn’t work. The new code I have in there is (again, example here:


<?php
$how_many=5; //How many posts do you want to show
require_once("./blog/wp-config.php"); // Change this for your path to wp-config.php file ?>
<ol id="whats-new">
<?
$news=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE post_status= \"publish\" ORDER BY 'ID' DESC LIMIT ".$how_many);
foreach($news as $np){
print ("<li><a href=\"");
echo get_permalink($np->ID);
print ("\">$np->post_title</a> (");
echo mysql2date(get_settings('date_format'), $np->post_date);
print (")</li>");
} ?>
</ol>

sweet, thanks a lot man. I love developers that are so active in the support forums that deal w/ their programs.

gotcha. my blog is currently in /root/blog/ and the 2nd one will probably be in /root/sports/ or something like that.

so I can make a 2nd wordpress installation in a totally different directory and just change the table prefix? amazing! now do I have have all the wordpress files in the 2nd instalation? Do I just upload the entire wordpress instalation filesto the blog #2 directory? or does it work kind of like gallery2 where you can have a core file set and just install off of those files?

Thanks for all the help guys! Man I’m pumped now!