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resiny and moshu are right on all counts. That is painfully slo, something is very wrong somewhere – any complaints of slowness for WP usually entail 10 or 20 seconds, not double-digit minutes! As for SEO, any advice besides making sure your site is standards compliant and that you produce quality content is about as reliable as buying some magic beans. Any honest SEO provider would really just help someone get their site up to par and help them focus the content. Just my 3 cents!

Cheers,
Michael.

I’m by no means the spam expert, I don’t really understand it all myself, but referrer spam is basically when a programme (ie: a bot) will forge referrer headers in the browser to get their URI listed in your server logs, in hopes that you display your log on your site and thus it will generate links and what not back to them.

Trackback/ping spam would be similar, a bot would crawl the site looking for trackback or pingback URI’s and then try to send trackbacks or pings, again in hope of being listed on your site and generating traffic and links to their site. Having the URI’s for tracks and pings listed probably helps them a bit, but they’d figure them out regardless as the format is the same on WordPress (ie example.com/post/trackback).

The above is just my vague idea of what each is, please (anyone) correct me/expand on them. I know there are several plug-ins to deal with all of the various forms of spam, if you’re having continual issues with it, maybe check them out.

Cheers,
Michael.

My guess would be that it’s spam – comment spam, trackback spam, referrer spam, take your pick!

Cheers,
Michael.

Loading your site, the status bar in Firefox seems to stick for awhile while trying to load https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com. I’ve read posts before that have pointed the finger at some Google ad thingy or their stats programme as being a culprit for painfully slow page loading.

Good luck,
Michael.

This is virtually a duplicate of this thread which you’ve started only a few hours ago – please do not start multiple threads for the same issue, it clutters the forum and does nothing to help you get your issue resolved – it actually does the very opposite!

Cheers,
Michael.

I know this problem crops up every now and again, I’ve never experienced the issue myself, but I think some causes are blogger errors during the import (ie: something is wrong on their server that prevents the importer from finishing) or user error (ie: closing the window before it’s all done) or just one of those internet “boogie-men”, those fun anomalous errors.

It clearly says on the importer page what steps the user should perform prior to executing the import, among them: “Back up your Blogger template.” Although something is wonky somewhere with the importer/server/etc., it’s always important to do a back-up before doing anything! Perhaps at least making the back-up suggestions more apparent would be helpful – I know I didn’t read the notes on that page when I used it the first time, I just looked at them now and noticed it!

Cheers,
Michael.

I can’t think of a hook that would execute right after the body tag, but the WordPress Hooks directory lists a ton of available hooks. Maybe give that a read-over and see if any of those would work for you. I suspect there is not one that would go right after the body tag, as that is in “template country”, hence why the wp_head hook is dependent on having the wp_head() template tag within the template to work.

Maybe if you explain what your plug-in will be doing, someone may have a suggestion as to a work-around or another hook that may be suitable.

Good luck,
Michael.

Though is is a nice thing to keep on your site and a good way to easily contribute back to the WordPress community (without which there would be no WordPress) there is no requirement that you keep it. It’s your blog, you can put whatever you wish on it.

Cheers,
Michael.

Well my fellow Canuck, I probably did mine in the make-work-project way, but I basically copied the relevant functions from WP and then modified them to make a horizontal text bar in the footer on my site (pull up the source from the page and you can peruse the formating at the bottom of the page), without any of the list tags – just a plain text horizontal bar (which emboldens the link to the page you’re currently viewing).

Although I’m sure there’s an easier way out there somewhere, this was the one that was easiest to figure out somehow, I’m not sure how, but it was. At any rate, it just involves putting the modified code into a custom functions file and then calling the modified functions (say instead of wp_list_pages you might use wp_list_pages_nocss) or whatever the new function is called.

I’d be more than happy to post my code for you, you would just need to tweak the formatting of it to get the output as you’d like, it’s very straight forward and I’d even be willing to do up the format tweaking for you if need-be. Just let me know and I’ll post a link to the code and what-not!

Cheers,
Michael.

Cl1mh4224rd,

What I did is just place all of my custom code into a custom-functions.php file, including the following comments within the php code:

/*
Plugin Name: Custom Functions
*/

then uploaded that to the plug-ins directory and activated it in the plug-ins panel – perhaps not the most direct way (as the template functions file referenced above would probably be) but this keeps it consistent in my mind, having it with the other plug-ins and then this way it can be easily activated and deactivated via the plugins panel.

Otto42: Not having any children or the likes in the two horizontal navigation bars was by design, as I didn’t think it was necessary nor did I like having a hierarchical navigation structure in more than one place.

Cheers,
Michael.

I agree with ladydelaluna’s first post, tables are “old school”. My understanding was that tables were, by design, never meant to hold anything but simple text data in a table format. However at the time (prior to the development and browser support of CSS) it was the best way to achieve a complex layout consistently. I used to be a big fan of tables, because I thought they were so easy – CSS was a bit scary at first, but now it all makes sense and I can’t imagine using a table again!

There’s nothing per-say wrong with tables, but I think (and perhaps most might agree) that tables have been replaced by CSS as the de facto standard for achieving precise layouts. Tables seem to me, since I started using a real browser (ie: anything but IE) to not be as consistent as I once thought – maybe part of the vilification of tables here is due to the desire to maintain standards conformity, which generall would make any page look virtually the same in any standards compliant browser (ie: anything but IE) and certainly with templates and stuff, having just one style file to edit is probably easier and more straight-forward for new users as well.

Design your site however you choose and which best for your target viewership!

Cheers,
Michael.

P.S. Tables are evil ??

On the contrary, I have exactly what you’re looking for on my website, a button based horizontal bar at the top and a horizontal text bar in the footer, complete with the “current_page_item” CSS styles for both – though separated by: | instead of: /. I did have to do some tinkering, I just basically copied the wp_list_pages functions modified them to do as I wished and then placed them in my handy custom functions pseudo plug-in, once I got over how intimidating I thought it was at first, it was remarkably easy to modify.

I agree it could possibly be a bit easier, but I think there is a balance between simplistic usability for the novice and customization for the non-novice. I think the balance is about right, but it can be frustrating at times to get the level of customization one might desire, but that’s what the forums are for, there always seems to be an answer kicking around! I’d be more than happy to post a link to my code that I’ve used to get the horizontal links, so just let me know if your interested!

Cheers,
Michael.

I suggested the following .htaccess rewrite rules in this thread for a similar problem as yours:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,L]

This example assumes you are changing from https://www.example.com/index.php/whatever to https://www.example.com/whatever. So basically everything after the index.php/ would be redirected to / on your server and it would output the 301 permanently moved headers so search engines and the likes will know that it is moved. This is assuming the blog is served from the root (/) of your server, so you may have to adjust the paths accordingly. If the only thing that’s changing is index.php part, a simple .htaccess solution like this is may be easiest and most efficient. Let use know how it goes!

Cheers,
Michael.

Definition of Spam: Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk e-mail.

Dgold: “One thing you CAN do is reply to comments.”

You certainly can respond to comments, by posting a comment relating to the comment that you wish to reply to. There is no need nor does a site operator have any legal or moral authority to misappropriate an e-mail (that was submitted in good-faith for a singular purpose) for any other purpose than for which it was explicitly submitted for – and in the case of comments, that is to act a check to reduce spam. There is no way anyone, not even someone at the very lowest end of the human intelligence scale, would think its acceptable to turn this anti-spam measure into spam.

All of these little references you make to free-speech are in fact BS – I am the first one who would argue this to death (even if I completely dis-agreed with the subject matter) in favour of free expression if this where the case – but this has nothing to do with free-speech, this has to do with the violation of a persons private information, which they have granted the website to make use of for one specific purpose, nothing more. If someone wants to receive a newsletter or anything of that sort, then they would subscribe to it clearly and freely.

If you think that the GPL and/or the Codex specify anywhere that it is a requirement to allow, to precipitate or to be complacent in enabling spam, than you need some serious help. Spam is a nuisance to everyone, it consumes resources and time and it erodes any trust people may have (or have had) in the internet and in blogging. If there is any de-facto responsibility that any of us or WordPress has, it is to fight spam, not to enable it – hence why any posted e-mail address on this forum are always moderated.

Cheers,
Michael.

Maybe you could clarify yourself a bit, in getting rid of the index.php permalinks are you now going to be using .htaccess?

I found this plug-in: Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin which may be what you’re looking for. If that isn’t going to solve your problems, posting back with more details about your situation will help us help you ??

Good luck,
Michael.