ptvguy

I did that. Besides the obvious SEO benefits, it makes finding things a lot easier. Go to Options in your dashboard and then go to the Permlinks section. Click the fourth radio button down to create a custom Permalink structure, and then put /%postname%/ in the box. After you update the permalink structure, it will all be changed.

BTW, don’t forget about your already existing incoming links. You might want invest a little time in coming up with some mod-rewrite magic for the .htaccess file to reroute all the old links to the new location.

Please don’t construe my previous comments as a complaint of any kind. I’m more than happy with the plugin as is. I actually expected to get raw code that I would have to integrate into the PHP myself. You made it incredibly easy, and I truly appreciate that.

Awesome work, Kaf. I tried it out on my blog, and it did exactly what I needed. I went to my RSS reader prior to installing it and brought up my feed–which, of course, included my “shoutouts.” Then, after installing it, I refreshed the feed and they were all gone. Thank you very much. I knew that it was something simple, but I have no experience with the coding for the WordPress hooks.

I think that it’s worth releasing as a regular plugin. It has potential to be extremely useful. Here are some possible notes for public release:

• Needs an admin interface to allow for resetting the $class_id outside the code itself.
• Probably doesn’t need to check for the DIV in the excerpt part.
• Might want to expand for other identified elements such as SPAN.
• Needs a spiffy plugin name like ClassBlocker or NoClassFeed. ;>

Anyway, thanks again for your time and expertise.

Thanks, Kafkaesqui. Here’s what the code looks like when I place it in a post.

<div class="shoutout">
<p>
...this is some example text...
</p>
</div>

Some posts have several “shoutouts” and some have only one. I don’t think you’ll need the CSS for it, but I’ll post it for anyone who may be looking through the forum one day to figure out how to do this.

.shoutout {
float: right;
width: 155px;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-right: 15px;
padding: 0;
}

.shoutout p {
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: x-large;
text-align: right;
width: 150px;
}

By the way, I for one think that such a plugin could be quite useful. RSS feeds are (usually) presented as linear text even if the page formatting presents it differently.

While ptvguy is correct, multiple occurences of the code won’t display anything, it does appear to be a breach of the AdSense Program Policies and should be avoided.

Sorry, I hadn’t looked back at this page in a while. I was incorrect in stating that Google was responsible for stopping after three adblocks. Actually, the AdSenseDeluxe plugin itself prevents more than three from appearing on any one page. It’s coded into the PHP. Once the plugin places three adblocks, it simply quits adding them–no matter how many you put. That means that you’re free to place them in every single post and let the plugin keep you from violating Google’s TOS.

FeedForAll offers a freely available RSS-to-HTML conversion script (run in PHP) called RSS2HTML that will let you host a feed through your site. It’s fairly simple and straightforward. You’ll just need some CSS to make the feed look presentable.

Having set up myself (and a few clients) with WordPress blogs, I’ll give you my order of precedence–for whatever that may be worth–for finding an existing theme. (Some of this won’t really apply to custom themes that you create or have made.) Keep in mind that prior to any of this, there should be a fairly clear idea in place of what you plan to accomplish with this blog and the technical level of the backend users.

1. The Look & Feel Phase

• This is where I look through a bunch of themes trying to find some that will convey the overall impression that I think best suits the kind of blog that’s being planned.
• These may include themes that are not right initially but look like they could be quickly modified (change background images, fonts, etc.) to fit.
• This includes getting a look at them in several browsers.
• I try to find a good five to ten of these to run through the rest of the process.

• Validation Phase

• This is where I validate the themes and make sure they don’t come with any inherently obvious coding problems or accessibility issues.
• This will usually eliminate one or two.

• Widget Support Phase

• This is where I check to see if standard WP sidebar widgets are supported.
• Depending on the planned usage of the blog and the technical level of the backend users, this may or may not eliminate some of the choices.

• Problem Checking Phase

• This is where I run a search through the WP support forums, Google, and Technorati to see what kind of problems, if any, that people have reported or what their opinions are.
• This can sometimes reveal a theme that experienced users love and newbies are constantly having problems with.
• This is also where I try to purposely break the theme just to get some idea of what might go wrong.

After all of this, I usually end up with one primary theme and a few backups that can be used for later when people get tired of the one they’re using.

Okay, I’m an idiot. I keep trying to chase down the most complex solution to a problem rather than going straight to the simple and obvious. For anyone else that may be modding their blog and trying to deal with this problem, I did finally track it down–at least for what was happening on my site.

It isn’t a limitation of the functions at all. It’s an interaction with Google Analytics. When you use Google Analytics on your site, it automatically adds the Urchin Tracker JavaScript into all of your links–including the dynamically-generated comment author links. For some reason, that JavaScript addition (injection?) into your comment author links gets all messed up if there are more than two attributes.

Hope this helps someone else not have to waste a ton of time trying to hunt this down.

TANSTAAFL

There Ain’t No Such That As A Free Lunch

Trust me, I know this. I work in public television.

Cant knock a guy for trying to make a buck

Especially if it’s a quality product that represents a large investment of his time.

You will see, as if by magic, your site instantly has 8 times the original number of pages, one set for each language.

Since angsuman didn’t spell this out for those unfamiliar with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques, I will. The more original content your site has, the more value there is assigned to it by a search engine (as long as it’s not duplicated content–which has the opposite effect.) This leads to higher PageRank.

Multiple translations of the exact same content represents the only acceptable way (that I know of) to get around these rules against content duplication. Not only is it not looked down upon, it’s actually seen as a valid service. If your current PageRank is at all close to the line of going up, this could be what pushes it over the hump.

Hard to figure since I have no way to know how much of the upgrade you actually did. I would suggest redoing the upgrade from scratch, but first make a complete backup of everything (hopefully again because you did it before this upgrade.)

Before I do any upgrade, I backup my database and email it to my Gmail account. I then pull a local copy of my entire site (FTP) and compress it into a dated ZIP file. With all of that safely tucked away, I then try the upgrade–usually on a late Sunday night. If something doesn’t work, I put everything back like it was and nobody knows. It happened with the 2.0.3 upgrade prior to the release of the tuneup that made it work right.

Not really the best preactice to indulge in, but the simplest solution would be to make the image a background.

Wow, that is a nice one. Thanks, criola.

When you did the upgrade, you were supposed to have deleted everything that was already in the wp-includes folder except the languages folder if you were using it. That should have included the version.php file. Then you were supposed to put all of the new files in there. That’s where that comes from.

Categories are not shown in the categories listing in the sidebar until they’re associated with specific posts. In other words, you can go to the Manage Categories section of your dashboard and add a ton of categories, but until you edit or write a post and use the categories control box to the right of the edit window and check the boxes or add new categories right there that apply to that post and then save it, they won’t show up in the categories listing. The categories listing exists solely to link users to specific posts associated with specific categories.

As far as forwarding your email, I’m not sure what you mean. Are you talking about having a separate contact form or posted email address on your blog for different things, or are you talking about how to use Outlook for multiple accounts?

By the way, except for the home page, none of your links across the top of your page work.