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  • Thread Starter rbassman

    (@rbassman)

    I am using WordPress 1.5, but I’m not sure what you’re asking me to post.

    Thread Starter rbassman

    (@rbassman)

    Thread Starter rbassman

    (@rbassman)

    Not having a sidebar is not an option for me. I’m currently using the Neuron theme:
    https://bluegator.org:66/devel/themes/1.5/Neuron/
    I’m not seeing in the sidebar.php of this theme what exactly to edit.
    I need to achieve what I stated in the subject line, to continue using this theme.
    My other alternative I’m looking at is Steam:
    Steam v1.5
    https://steamedpenguin.com/design/Steam/
    and I don’t see where in sidebar.php to do this.
    I’m suspecting that I’m missing something really obvious here. ??

    Thread Starter rbassman

    (@rbassman)

    Hello Again davestinner!

    And thank you again for your help.

    The following is the contents of my sidebar.php file for Neuron.
    I know that netiqquette dictates I should email the author, but he seems to be unable to receive mail at the moment, and I’d like to use this theme and make it work.
    If this means I have to revert to the defaut WP theme (which actually is pretty cool) then so be-it, provided it doesn’t cause some radical uprising of WP fanatics. ??
    Still figuring out how that end works…

    Thanks again…

    <?php
    $mode = ‘sidebar’;

    $standalone = 1;
    require_once(‘admin-header.php’);

    get_currentuserinfo();

    if ($user_level == 0)
    die (“Cheatin’ uh ?”);

    if (‘b’ == $_GET[‘a’]) {

    ?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”&gt;
    <html xmlns=”https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”&gt;
    <head>
    <title>WordPress › Posted</title>
    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”<?php bloginfo(‘html_type’); ?>; charset=UTF-8″ />
    <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”wp-admin.css” type=”text/css” />
    </head>
    <body
    Posted !
    Click here to post again.
    </body>
    </html><?php

    } else {

    ?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”&gt;
    <html xmlns=”https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”&gt;
    <head>
    <title>WordPress › Sidebar</title>
    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”<?php bloginfo(‘html_type’); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo(‘blog_charset’); ?>” />
    <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”wp-admin.css” type=”text/css” />
    <style type=”text/css” media=”screen”>
    form {
    padding: 3px;
    }
    .sidebar-categories {
    display: block;
    height: 6.6em;
    overflow: auto;
    background-color: #f4f4f4;
    }
    .sidebar-categories label {
    font-size: 10px;
    display: block;
    width: 90%;
    }
    </style>
    </head>
    <body id=”sidebar”>
    <h1 id=”wphead”>WordPress</h1>
    <form name=”post” action=”post.php” method=”POST”>
    <div><input type=”hidden” name=”action” value=”post” />
    <input type=”hidden” name=”user_ID” value=”<?php echo $user_ID ?>” />
    <input type=”hidden” name=”mode” value=”sidebar” />
    Title:
    <input type=”text” name=”post_title” size=”20″ tabindex=”1″ style=”width: 100%;” />

    Categories:
    <span class=”sidebar-categories”>
    <?php dropdown_categories(); ?>
    </span>

    Post:
    <textarea rows=”8″ cols=”12″ style=”width: 100%” name=”content” tabindex=”2″></textarea>

    <input name=”saveasdraft” type=”submit” id=”saveasdraft” tabindex=”9″ value=”Save as Draft” />
    <input name=”publish” type=”submit” id=”publish” tabindex=”6″ style=”font-weight: bold;” value=”Publish” />

    </div>
    </form>

    </body>
    </html>
    <?php
    }
    ?>

    rbassman

    (@rbassman)

    Wow, that is cool.
    Very nice, light and clean design.


    Russell Baseman
    Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist
    https://bassman.textdriven.com/

    Thread Starter rbassman

    (@rbassman)

    No problem.
    THANK YOU for your help earlier.
    I probably have some other constructive input, let me think about it.
    Remember that as this software gets more popular, you have less programmer-types installing it. Your documentation is written from an “assume you know” point of view. Some of the language could be made more clear for the layman.
    Not a criticism, just an observation.
    All in all, the installation was not that painful.
    And, may I note, your blog is hilarious.
    Thanks.
    I’m sure I’ll be back with more newbie questions.
    Such as,

    1. Why can’t I see my site in FireFox for OSX? (Keeps defaulting to the TextDrive site here soon screen).
    2. I received a reply to the default Hello World post here:
    https://bassman.textdriven.com/
    from a nice gentleman named Mr WordPress.
    When I try to reply to this nice gentlemen’s post, I get a message:

    Precondition Failed

    The precondition on the request for the URL /wp-comments-post.php evaluated to false.

    I get the same message in both IE and in Safari.

    Perhaps I’ll reboot my powerbook.

    Otherwise, I’m posting like a champ, I was worried about that phase but boy is it easy, if I never get replies, well so be it. The 3 people reading my rants can email me.
    But of course, I’d like the whole thing to work, for testing purposes only, of course. ??

    Thanks,

    Russell Bassman

    rbassman

    (@rbassman)

    see post:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=26796

    I’m set up, and thanks for all the really rapid help, this forum rocks.

    Thread Starter rbassman

    (@rbassman)

    Hello davestinner,

    Thank you! ??

    Thread Starter rbassman

    (@rbassman)

    I made a boo-boo.
    Clueless me, but the installation instructions should be more clear, or maybe I need new glasses.
    I uploaded the contents of the extracted WordPress folder to the root level of my site.
    Apparently they needed to go into my /home/rbassman/public_html folder.
    (Thanks to Justin at TextDrive)
    I’m somewhat new to all things web (having realized I should learn something about how it works), but I am pretty competent with file structure concepts and stuff, so this isn’t that weird to me. Yet.

    I posted my current status in this thread:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=26705

    Connecting to my site, I’m getting this:

    Error establishing a database connection

    This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost.

    * Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
    * Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
    * Are you sure that the database server is running?

    This is the relavent content of my wp-config.php file:
    I’m certain that lines 2 and 3 are correct.
    The database name is the default I got from TextDrive setting up an account. I have not changed this.
    I’m waitint to hear from them if line 4 has to change?
    Or is there something else mucking this up that I’m being completely ignorant of?

    Thanks in advance for any help.

    define(‘rbassman’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
    define(‘rbassman’, ‘username’); // Your MySQL username
    define(‘**********’, ‘password’); // …and password
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

    rbassman

    (@rbassman)

    I’m getting the same error message, attempting to access my site to run the installer script. I ran the php script above (thanks!), and this is what it reports.

    Could not connect: Unknown MySQL server host ‘mysql_host’ (3).

    I’m using TextDrive, is this something I need to contact them about, or have I not set my wp-config.php file properly?

    Thread Starter rbassman

    (@rbassman)

    I just logged out and logged back in, everything is there. I just sent a note to TextDrive support so let’s see what they have to say.
    Thanks.

    Thread Starter rbassman

    (@rbassman)

    I can’t believe I just mis-spelled “theoretically”. jeesh.

    Anyway, yes, I believe I did. I extracted and posted the contents of the WordPress folder, but not the folder itself, to the root level of my site.

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