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Update:

I tried with Safari and got the same behavior.

Just now, I made a post which I had copied and pasted from an earlier post, and got the same behavior… *but* when I removed all the links, it stopped doing it.

Apparently, the links are causing some kind of lag, and at least for me… the lag never stops…

??

If there’s a way to over-complicate things, I will find it.

Thanks, masked stranger.

Sorry I didn’t reply to this sooner.

WP 1.5

The site is at a test location:
https://www.daddyzine.com/test/

Don’t know if it makes a difference, but I’m using firefox 1.0.1 I figure this could actually be some client-side problem. I’m going to start posting with Safari for awhile, and see if that makes any difference.

I figured it out ??

In my index.php page, I was calling the_excerpt rather than the_content. the_excerpt strips out all html. It took awhile to figure it, but then it was one of those ah-ha moments. I changed it, and it works.

Okay… apparently this is some problem with my theme. I switched back to kubrick and everything was right where it was supposed to be.

WTF have I done???

Crap. Now I have to figure this out.

Anyone have any ideas of what I might have left out, or inadvertently put *in* that could cause this?

As it happens, I am, in fact trying to put in a contact form. Really, just using the plain ol’ mail cgi script from my provider.

The code I’m entering is:

<form action="https://the.ip.address/cgi-bin/nmail.pl" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="to" value="[email protected]" />
<input type="hidden" name="redir" value="https://www.daddyzine.com/test/?page_id=11" />
<input type="text" name="subject" value="subject of the email" />
Email: <input type="text" name="email" value="email address "/>
Message: <input type="text" name="message"/>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send"/></form>

(obviously the ip address and email address have been change dto their appropriate values)

You can see the results here:

https://www.daddyzine.com/test/?page_id=11

It’s the damnedest thing, really. And whereas, I will probably use that script, I’d really like to figure out why I can’t seem to post *any* code at all. For example… see the word “blah” after the post?, well… that was inserted in the Write Page interface in a div tag with an id of “blah,” *but* if you look at the code, you can see that it’s now in a p tag.

Jaqueline: That’s what I was trying to do, but when I type the form in to the the “Write Page” form and then view the page, there is no form. The code completely diappears, except for the labels that are outside of the form entry tags.

mdawaffe: Yeah. I guess that’s what I’ll do, but I need to figure out how to call the page by a name rather than an id number. It would make more sense for the long-term.

I did that, and it still put the br tag there.

However, I found Ali Hassan’s Thumb-In-Post. I installed it, and did a test run, and worked great. It also got rid of an annoying paragraph tag I kept getting if I didn’t put my object tag in *just* right ??

I do have to say, though, that a lot of this funky code stuff that is happening is because I’ve made my over-all template a bit weird. In order to get things to display the way I want them to, I have to break my entries up in to two divs which float: left (the basic idea is two columns).

WP automatically puts a paragraph tag for the very first block of text, which is good… *but* if you put a div as your very first line of text, you’re asking for trouble (which means I’m asking for trouble), as the closing p tag will be written without an openning match.

The solution I have found for this is to make sure to put a blank line between my openning div and my first block of text, and between my last block of text and my closing div. I don’t know why it works… but it does. It makes it so that WP doesn’t write a dangling closing p tag.

And that had absolutely *nothing* to do with my original post ??

This article at A List Apart is a good beginning:
https://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/
In particular, read the called “Truly inline lists.”

But you’ll have to get into the actual function and change some of the code so that at least the first (or last) LI tag has a class attribute.

I’m wanting to do this, too, and in the next couple of weeks, I should have it down. I’ll post it here whenever I do get it.

Most likely you have a style sheet that defines the class “box” as a certain width, which is shorter than it would take to view the longest entry in the box.

If not, you could define the width of the class to acommodate what you want:

.box {
width: 200px;
}

or whatever length you would want.

I was having this problem, too. I used the info on this post to fix it: https://www.ads-software.com/support/3/15828

Works great now.

allusion: THANK YOU!!! (and yes that was yelling) A thousand… NO!… a million… NO! a bazillion blessings upon your home ??

That worked perfectly.

podz: The specific output I was trying to get was:

“pages in this entry: 1 2 3 4 “(note trailing space) without line breaks of any kind because there is some text that goes after it.

BTW, the documentation says that the default output for “before” and “after” are break tags, but it actually outputs opening and closing paragraph tags, respectively (at least in version 1.2.1 (haven’t downloaded 1.2.2, yet)).

Also… maybe on functions that take somewhat non-standard argument passing like this should reflect exactly how to pass the args to it on the documentation.

Is there a suggestion box anywhere?

Just another update….
I realized this is only happening in Firefox. I can’t simulate it in Safari or Camino… But it’s still doing it in Firefox. I’ve cleared the cash… I don’t know what else to do. This is getting stranger all the time. I’ve also tried going to other WP sites that have their blog on sub directories, and don’t see any problem there….
Argh. I’m going to be bald by the time I figure this out.

Just an update on this odd behavior. This current installation used the “www” when I set it up. So when I log in, it logs in to https://www.scruffyco.com/wordpress/wp-admin/post.php and, of course, everything that takes place on the admin pages uses the “www.”
Now… If I write and publish a post (you can see the test post if you go to the site without the www), it seems to ‘disappear’ from all of the admin pages. If Ilook at the “edit” tab, it says there are no posts at all. If I try to remove the www manually in my browser’s location box, it simply puts it back in.
Even after I make a post with the www there, though… it will appear on the page just as long as I don’t put ‘www.’
This is really bizarre to me.