novice21

ISP / Firewall issues

I cant fix this =(

I swear I am =(

Deleted the cashe in safari various times, even right before and after a change, nothings happens, same in FireFox, maybe it is the problem but I’m not sure what settings should be changed in either browser.

Either way I’ve never had to mess with either of the browser’s settings for this before, meh, I’ll look up settings for the refresh rates in both browsers and see if anything gets fixed.

Hold on.

What file permissions should be set?

The theme folder (and others most likely) is on 755, hah, is THAT the problem?!

Edit: wait.. no, it can’t be, 755 lets a user write, read and execute, I don’t want others messing up my files >.<

Meh..

Its not WordPress’s fault. I tried to modify other external css files and nothing happens. I switched off DW and used skEdit and I STILL get the same problem, except this time it updates once I close and reopen the file. skEdit has a log thing that shows you real time when files open and when they’re saved so I know its saving, why do I need to open the file again to force changes in the browser?

That’s no way to edit css files >.<

Why I’m getting this problem with css files only and not html or php files is baffling. Any ideas on whats going on?

The only active plugins I have are ContactForm][, Customizable Post Listings, Disable WPAUTOP and Random post link.

I haven’t had issues with any of these before my blog started acting out and I haven’t added any new plugins since or before.

I’m going to check again and see if a fresh copy really won’t let me edit the css, I can’t get my head around it, gonna check too and see if I can edit CSS files of other documents outside the WP directory…btw, I’m running WP in its own directory but I’ve set it up to show up in root..I really don’t think this is contributing to the problem but I’m mentioning it just in case.

I am using code mode >.<

Never use the design mode at all, its useless.

Now I’m beyond confused.

I seriously am baffled by what’s going on, I’ve written up and edited various themes before for WP but this I’ve never seen. bah.

I was messing around some more with the theme, deleting and reinstalling the theme when WP just flat out crashed and no themes would register.

luckily, I still managed to export my files and had a fresh working copy of my theme sitting around. I reinstalled wordpress, opened a fresh database and proceeded to get about resetting up the site. Before I tried installing my theme I tried messing around with the default theme’s css file.

Same problem! I leave the css header and delete chunks of the code expecting to be greeted with the site of a half styled page but it never happens. I continue to see the full css. I tried installing my theme and nothing I do changes the css file. I…don’t get it.

I wondered if dreamweaver was messing up the save itself but it doesn’t seem to because I cross check via my ftp client, I even edited and saved the files manually to see if any changes would register. Nothing. How can a theme show full css that’s no longer in the theme’s folder? It’s impossible yet its happening.

This is driving me insane.

P.S now I’m running the latest stable version of WP: 2.2

I think I just fixed it… I changed my form code so that it still doesn’t have a button and yet comment.php works.

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php //bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
<div><input type="text" value="<?php //the_search_query(); ?>" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="hidden" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" />
</div>
</form>

Thanks a bunch intricateratist! This works just fine!

I only had to remove the & because my page wouldn’t validate, I changed instances of ‘type keywords & hit enter’ to ‘Search My Blog’

I’m wondering if you know the answer to this, do you have any idea how to get the search page to return searches with ‘you have searched for ‘ [insert keywords] followed by the search results?

Thanks again! I really appreciate your help

This would just be a guess really and I’m not entirely sure if this is possible, but if wordpress has a built in way to check and see if a user is logged in then all you need is an if statment to output different code.

For example I have this code to display something special when the page with id 19 is displaying. It ONLY shows up if you’re looking at this page.

<?php if ( is_page('19') ) { ?>
[insert html for when page id is 19]
<?php } else {?>
[otherwise, use this html]
<?php } ?>

see this page for all the conditional tags you can use in wordpress. these would replace the is_page(’19’)

I’m not really looking to add more plugins, heh. I’m managing pretty good so far, my only tummble is with displaying a dynamic index page instead of just the most recent 10 in my categories.

I’m pretty sure I can do it with this template code, I only need to figure out how provide alternate viewing styles for each category. erk. who knows, maybe it is really tough?

Sorry guys, got carried away with exams so I couldn’t check my post sooner, wish I did!

What the template basically does is output the categories in groups, right?

That’s perfect, except that my different categories must be displayed differently.

This is because I have a category called Art, another called Photography and the last one is Post.

I’m going to use the template for my index page, it’s going to display the excerpts for my categories, so when you hit my front page you’ll see;

Art
[thumb] [thumb] [thumb]

Photo
[thumb] [thumb] [thumb]

Posts
[title] – post snippet
[title] – post snippet
[title] – post snippet

(where [thumb] and [title] link to the original post)

To achieve the above result, I have to call different things depending on the category displayed, does that make more sense? I might add a fourth category that needs a different display style all together, so I wish the solution is scalable and not limited to just outputting two or three different styles per category.

I hope this makes it much clearer. Sorry about that.

where would be the best place to go to hire someone to do something like this?

Awesome links guys, I really appreciate this.

The link rudolf gave me is exactly what I want!! The only adjustment I need to make is to provide an alternate div wrapper around the post divs for a certain category and I’ll be set to go, I have NO idea how to do that however… any ideas on the best way to contact the poster about this? Would posting in the topic do any good if its old?

The link you gave me HandySolo solved some of my confusion with the query posts function, thanks! Its a nice fall back in case this doesn’t work out… it doesn’t seem like I could use navigation to browse the next 10 entries or whatever number of posts I choose..

Again, thanks a bunch guys!!

Edit: Hm… that topic is closed…