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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: ? not workingYou can’t just type the >> character in directly. You need to use the right HTML entity. These always start with
&
. For example, >> is»
.EDIT: Sorry, I re-read your post, you obviously know the above. Are you editing your code in something that would mess with it e.g. Word?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Adding author name in the page titleYou can use the template tag
the_author_nickname
to print this information to the browser.The tag has to be used within the Loop; this page has an example of how to add a Loop inside header.php.
Hope that’s a start.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Aligning Nav bar with search barPlease post a link to the site you’re talking about.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Designing a horizontal ‘blog’ – problems with css1. Have a look at these WordPress Site Design Lessons.
2. There are lots of photo plugins you could look at – search https://wp-plugins.net
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do you remove the >> from the title tag?In your
header.php
, look for the code enclosed in<title>
tags. The >> is»
. You can just change it to a different character.Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Best place to place Google Analytics ScriptMine’s in my footer, and it seems to work fine. I think that Google recommend it being put immediately before the
</body>
tag.Update: I’ve just come across this.
Perhaps I should be doing it differently!Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Unable to login – Blank login page!The bottom of any page in your admin area should say what version of WP you have.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Archive CSS display problemBy ‘scale up’ do you mean text sizes change? Archives pages look the same as the others to me in Firefox 2.0.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permanent Post?A post that does this is called a ‘sticky’. There are plugins which can help you do this – do a search on https://wp-plugins.net). ‘Adhesive’ is one example.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Image Wrap?It’s best to post a link to your site if you want help with layout etc.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can you help me fix my broken Rss feedYour feed’s validation error might be the source of the import problem – not sure how you fix it though, I’m afraid.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: 2 Colums page-list?The easiest way is probably to create two seperate lists, and use CSS to put them next to each other. Use wp_list_pages by all means – you could use
exclude
arguments to make the two seperate lists.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: include advertising in article ?You would need to sign up to an advertising network like Google’s AdSense, then search for a plugin (on https://wp-plugins.net or the Codex list) to let you put the ad code (it’s often javascript) into every post.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: using get_links; desc not workingLook at the
get_links
codex page, and scroll down to the details of the tag’s parameters. I think you need to usewp_get_links
if you want to format their appearance using the admin panel.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: navigation problemHave you tried selecting a different option from the ‘Order’ dropdown menu – Admin > Links > Manage Links – ?