SmedleyButer

TY for the info about the E-Mail!

IF you go to the Disqus Plugin under “Settings” toward the bottom of the page there is a section called “Import” In it there is a button to sync WordPress comments with Disqus. I hope this helps, I owe you big time for the heads up about the underscore ??

This did work for me. I had an underscore in my user name ??

I was wondering how you got a hold of Disqus to get this information. I wish it had been made public before the update. That single underscore cost roughly 3-4 hours of time and troubleshooting!

I am having the exact same problem as sweetvincent.

Following the upgrade I was asked to update my database when I try to my Disqus ID and password are not accepted as a matter nothing happens at all it just refreshed the page.

I have an identical development site that I cloned from the main site Disqus was not updated on the development site and still works fine. I’ve noticed that the Disqus setting seem to be different on the page that works and on the development site that doesn’t.

The differences are on the non working site the short name is missing and it looks like some other info in the de-bug information area posted below is missing as well.

URL: https://www.twocentreport.com
PHP Version: 5.4.26
Version: 3.9.1
Active Theme:
Tempera 1.0.1.1
URLOpen Method: curl
Plugin Version: 2.76
Settings:
dsq_is_installed: _disqus_sync_lock:
_disqus_sync_post_ids:
disqus_active: 1
disqus_forum_url:
disqus_api_key:
disqus_user_api_key:
disqus_replace:
disqus_cc_fix:
disqus_partner_key:
disqus_public_key:
disqus_secret_key:
disqus_sso_button:
disqus_sso_icon:
disqus_manual_sync:
disqus_disable_ssr:
disqus_last_comment_id:
disqus_version: 2.76

Plugins:
Akismet 3.0.0
Disqus Comment System 2.76 (active)
Go Daddy Quick Setup 1.04
Hello Dolly 1.6
Limit Login Attempts 1.7.1
Repost 4.09
Super Post 2.0.5
Super RSS Reader 2.5
Visual Form Builder 2.8.1
WP Exclude From Homepage 1.1.3
YouTube Channel 2.2.0

Thanks so much I’ll give this a shot! I read this last night and have been reading up on pseudo-classes, my knowledge of CSS still isn’t that broad, I can get things close to as i like them now in Firebug but still have a little further to go up the learning curve.

This example is a great help! I could never get rid of that last bit of white space no matter what I tried ?? I’ll be sure and let you know how it works out and marked this resolved after I get it in the proper place!

Thanks bcworkz The info you gave me was great about the coding and also good about the “trade secrets” I’m new enough to WP so I wasn’t sure if I was committing some sort of breach of etiquette.

I went to the WordPress section on a particular “Answer Site” and found it to be an extremely hostile environment to ask a question in. Part of the first response was: “You did what?? NEVER edit any core files or a theme/plugin that you are not the author of. ” In light of what I had seen here and elsewhere I thought the idea of never editing a theme or plugin you didn’t author yourself ludicrous.

I think I’ll just stick with right here and hang out with the non anger management folks for technical questions in the future.:)

Thanks again for the help on both counts!

I’m going to mark this resolved! After having a piece of CSS that actually worked to try out in the custom style editor I’ve went farther forward in my knowledge than in any other single day. I understand the utility of the custom CSS editors now and have had a “light bulb” moment with the CSS as well. I can see how to change (and have!) many of the things I wish to now. I’m not hitting the bulls-eye every time yet but I’m hitting the target I was completely missing before.

Thanks for the suggestion and example you’ve opened some previously closed doors wide!

Thank you so much! This looks right as far as my still in it’s infancy knowledge of CSS goes. I’ve only been doing this a very short time to accomplish specific goals and my understanding is limited.

I just grasped what selector is and How the “.” overrides the other CSS (I think:) After seeing your example and doing a little research. Although I’m still unclear as to what the function of the “a” is.

I’ve started the site you see in the link. Surprisingly It’s been quite busy from day one. Due to my stunning lack of knowledge many of the little changes I’ve made are directly in the files. I have disabled up dates for the time being. I also have a couple of development sites I’ve cloned over to other TDLS. to work with. In order to not kill the site by messing up the continuity my plan was to incorporate the many small changes into a child theme as I gain enough skill to do this properly.

In a nutshell my knowledge is still a little to incidental to know how to apply this directly (but if you want to make a shadow box or speed up your RSS feed I’m your guy ?? You’ve already been a great help by leading me in the right direction, if you would be so kind as to nudge me forward through the first application of this I would be forever in your debt and will likely be able to apply it to future changes in other areas.

I may seem a bit cautious but the main site has seen 2k comments and over 85k hits in the first three weeks or so and I don’t want to mess this up with wonky user annoying errors and sloppy graphics ??

Exactly where in the theme options might this be Dan? I’ve been looking for about three days ??

I found the solution!

The update rated is based on the rate at which the cache updates. You can control this by adding a filter to the functions.php

add_filter(‘wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime’, ‘sb_feed_time’, 10, 2 );
function sb_feed_time( $time, $url ){
return 1800;
}

“1800” is the amount of time in seconds between refreshes. I think it’s likely best to mot set that to low for feed purposes. I believe it would consume resources and slow things down a bit.

Thanks so much bcworks!

I use that filter to speed up the refresh rates of the RSS and news feeds on my main site. The reason I was editing the core files is that I was (and still am ?? testing feeds on multiple themes on a development site. This allowed me to test many different themes without editing each.

The development sites are transient. My coding and wordpress knowledge are still choppy to say the least. If I do this for testing (mind you I’m not holding your feet to the fire I know things don’t always go as they should even for the best of us ?? Will using the filter make them behave differently or am i ok with one size fits all for testing purposes.

And thanks for the proper notation! I asked elsewhere, this information was treated as a national defense secret and I was soundly pelted with capital letters ??