Terry

This is pretty much exactly what I’m looking for too, would love to see this developed!

Thanks for coming back to post your fix obiwan77, I had the exact same issues and now everything’s working great. Love that!

Sorry for not giving feedback sooner, but I noticed the quick upgrade and it fixed things perfectly. Thanks so much!!

I don’t understand what you’re trying to do.

First: do you have a file named style.css included in your theme or any file that ends with .css?

If you’re stuck figuring out where errors are in your theme, load the page in your browser, view the source then use line numbering in the text editor (if you have it). The line number won’t be precise (up or down a few), but it will help you find where things are.

Even though they have private registration installed, you can still reach them by email through the whois. You’ll see something like this:

Private, Registration
[email protected]

Email that address and it will forward to the webmaster.

How does the file with the .php~ get on the server in the first place? Did the person upload it separately from the normal .php file? So are there two different files on the server (one .php and one .php~) and is the tilde visible when looking through your files with an ftp client?

ETA: Thanks so much for sharing the info!

This plugin is very useful, thank you!

I’m having the same problem though, I want the uploads folder to move to a subdomain of my site. I can do this no problem within wordpress, but when I try to smush images, I get the same error: must be within the content directory. Is there any way I can make this happen?

I’m using Version: 1.2.8

Having a post for each season that is a mini site map subsection for each seasons posts, which you then set or unset as sticky so it pops to the top of the site, is a quick and easy solution for visitors but wouldn’t help your email and feed subscribers.

Yes I have played with the sticky feature but it doesn’t serve the needs of my subscribers (as you mentioned).

But there was a plugin a while ago “one year ago today” or something like that, which surfaced posts based on a set period in the past. Again, great for visitors, but not for subscribers.

If it’s the one I’m thinking of, you couldn’t determine particular posts, it was random. I need something that I can cherry-pick posts.

I suspect you’ll have to roll up your sleeves and do some custom coding though … maybe something on this structure (obviously this is not the code itself)

Thanks for the suggestions gazouteast :), I’ll work through them and see if I can get something working.

If you want to repost something and bring it to the top and such, my advice would be to copy the content, paste it into a new post, and make the post as a new one.

This doesn’t keep the same url structure (which I need). I explained in the opening post why this didn’t work.

Merely changing the date/time of a post doesn’t magically make it “new”. RSS readers will very likely ignore your re-published posts, as well they should. The whole point of a subscription system is to subscribe to a continuous stream of new content. You’re not publishing new content, you’re changing timestamps on old content.

That’s very restrictive for the web IMO. To say to subscribers: Sorry, you’ll have to remember seasonal content from last year, two years ago, five years ago, and bookmark it and then remember to go through your bookmarks to review it at that particular time of year. And new subscribers (since that time), you’ll have to pick through hundreds/thousands posts to do the same because this website can’t “remind” you of needed or beneficial information since subscribers should only be alerted to new content. For journals and diaries, I see your point. For large content websites managing hundreds/thousands of pages (with a fair bit of seasonal content), it serves the needs of readers/subscribers to be able to bring up old content for them. And in a way that they’re not dodging through clutter (new post updates for the purpose of pointing to old posts).

johnnykane I can’t access your page, my antivirus program is screaming that it’s an infected website.

Also, Terry, I FTP in, and I’m not sure how to restrict it to just my IP. Is it possible to do with Plesk?

I’d suggest switching to sftp since one of my hosts informed me that this gang watches ftp connections to gain server passwords.

Plesk…sorry but I have no experience with that.

I think it’s just a visual for visitors to see that they can subscribe via rss feed. When they click through to the feed page they can grab the url to add to their feed reader.

All you have described can be done with additional plugins. No more.

Really StevenCashman009? I haven’t found anything close yet.

1) Put them in pages and make a blog post to say ‘Hey, updated the post with the season!’ when updated.

2) Make a new blog post for each season (in each year) and make it sticky so it’s on the top.

1) That would mean around 50% or so of my content would need to be on pages since much of my content is seasonal or definitely of interest at a certain time of year. Pages/posts your method would work regardless…but read the next point:

2) Making new blog posts pointing to the seasonal stuff is a messy option since I’m just creating/generating extra posts of no value (to the website as a whole) saying “hey click here to read this update that asks you to then click over there to another post”…not very user friendly to my subscribers…(but you’re right–it’s an option that is doable and solves two problems: alerting subscribers–both rss and email–to seasonal content and I can do it on a scheduled/timestamp). I would have to keep those update posts live (which would number in the the hundreds a year) or if I delete them to keep things tidy, go in and do htaccess redirects so I don’t have a bunch of missing posts on my site (for search engine crawlers, etc.).

Thanks for the suggestions Ipstenu, I would prefer though something neater/cleaner (to avoid site clutter and more reader friendly). Picky I know! ??

Another option would be to use “organize series” plugin with “series publisher” . Caution : if you publish and unpublish a story, it will change the permalink IF your permalink structure is based on date. If not, I think it’s the perfect tool for you.

With would you not use custom fields ? It would be a little bit hassle at the beginning, changing all the posts to add a custom field, but then you are able to run queries based on the value of this custom field

Marie-Aude thanks for this info, I took a look at the plugin and didn’t quite understand how it worked but this is on my to-do list to work through after Christmas. Adding a custom field to each post sucks but I would totally do it if it gave me the ability to do what I want with already published posts. Thanks again and I’ll update in here if I find this does what I need.

You know, my first thought was “Gee, is there *any* CMS that could do this out of the box?”

I know, I’ve looked (not too too deeply) at other CMS options and I can’t make heads or tails out of drupal (I really, really tried). Joomla too. If I spent the time learning everything I could about other software to see if I could make it work, maybe I could find something in other CMS options. But like I said, I’m a wp superfan ;). Plus I’d rather see wordpress sing with this because it is a phenomenal option that a “true” CMS should have (IMO).

As it is, creating new content on wp has options and features that make publishing easy. But if you want to manipulate already published content, you have to do it manually and with limited results (no alerting rss readers for example). I think all the CMS software out there has been utilized and grown up enough to evolve into something better for content management.

The plugin above solved my problem, thanks for sharing that bkushner!

Lots of hair pulling here, one blog is publishing the posts fine, another isn’t (two different hosts)–they’re getting marked as “missed schedule”. I’ve tried uploading wp-cron.php and cron.php from the previous wp 2.8-x version (where it worked just fine) and no-go.

Disabling plugins didn’t help.

Now off to go install yet another plugin (listed above) to see if that helps.