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The Dreamhost Wiki has a page specifically about this phenomenon (which I was also encountering).

https://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Making_stats_accessible_with_htaccess

I followed it, and it fixed my problems without breaking my site. Enjoy!

Ah, I had to set that in the options for the Recent Comments Plugin:

If you go to Options -> Recent Comments, change the text template to:
<a href="%comment_link" title="%post_title, %post_date" onclick="wpopen(this.href); return false"><b>%comment_author</b></a> (%post_title): %comment_excerpt<br />

Hey Jim-

Sorry about the outdated function call… I fixed the .zip file of the theme thanks to your feedback. I hope you like the theme!

If the comments are appearing in a new browser window, but not a popup, my first thought would be that you have Javascript disabled. If that’s not the case… I’m not sure. Caroline at Soul Doodles installed my theme, and her pop-ups are working fine.

The WordPress Codex is a great resource available for you. I suggest starting with Blog Design and Layout.

What you’re asking is actually pretty simple– you’ll be modifying the style.css file that defines how your blog looks.

The easiest way would be to add a photo of each user to the wp-content directory, named their_username.jpg

Then, in your code in the loop where you want the photo to appear, add <img src="<?php the_author(); ?>" alt="photo of <?php the_author(); ?>" />

Glad you found a solution, Hoshi!

The relevant part of the plugin I provided is below, if you were curious:

add_filter ('the_content', 'wp_pd_blanktarget');
this tells WP to apply the function wp_pd_blanktarget to the content of posts

function wp_pd_blanktarget( $text ) {
$text = preg_replace('|<a>|i', '</a><a>', $text);
return $text;
}
This function adds target=_blank to links in the post.

As I stated in my first post (though perhaps unclearly), the version of the plugin included in my Springer theme contains code to add target=_blank to posts as well. The normal version I linked does not add target=_blank to posts.

Hope that clears things up!

weird… when I post from Konqueror, it keeps double-posting. Ignore this post!

There’s a plugin to do this for Comments, Blank Target Comments.

I added 3 or so lines to the plugin for my theme, Springer, to add the functionality to posts as well. If you like, you are welcome to strip the plugin out of my theme and use it.

Thanks for the comments, vkaryl!

I removed my custom calendar code (it was a plugin) and replaced it with the standard WP code, adjusting the CSS to style it properly– looks much better (and my theme is at version 0.3, oh boy).

I sent a contact form-mail off to themes.wordpress.net, we’ll see what happens.

(Hehe.. you caught my blog when I was playing with background images. It’s back to blank behind the page container for now ?? )

I already answered Caroline’s question on my blog, but just in case the issue comes up again:

You need to insert the “More” quicktag (that is, <!--more--> ) to make only the first part of your posts appear. Enjoy!

Bricolou wrote: I suppose this must be a choice of yours but it’s not what we usually expect of WordPress.

Yeah– I’m aware that my theme defies some of the usual expectations of WordPress. I consider that a good thing: WordPress is a powerful engine, and bringing some diversity of design based on it will encourage others to find even more uses for it.

That said, Rewriting the theme to not use pop-ups is something I’ve been considering. *shrugs* It wouldn’t be that hard: remove the_excerpt_reloaded plugin, the javascript at the header of index.php, and replace the_excerpt_reloaded with the_content in index.php and left.php.

Katie1-

I have never heard of that problem before… What version of IE were you using? My site is tested on IE 6.0, Firefox 1.0.7, and Konqueror every time I make a change, and I can’t reproduce this bug.

The theme uses a javascript command to open a new, sized window for viewing the entire post.

Thanks for looking, anyway!

You’re looking for Query_Posts [wordpress codex], which can easily limit categories and posts.

You’d use <?php query_posts('cat=-2&showposts=10') ?> for example, if you wanted to exclude category 2 and show only 10 posts.

accidently hit post twice.

Edit: I updated the theme files (download here) if you want the above changes made for you automagically.

Thanks for catching that error!