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just a quick test.

try to rename the .htaccess file that is in the root of the blogs.

wp should automatically re-make a working .htaccess..

and you’ll always have the old one just incase.

(can rename to .htaccess.old to test and see)

me too

Yeah, same thing happen to me.

Don’t know what I change, but I can not select the template for the page when editing an existing page or writing a new page.

Please help, ??

What was the answer to sort by a custom field?

I currently want to sort by a date that is not the publish date.

I would like to set a date as a custom field and use that to order the posts shown from The Loop.

I don’t care to display that date, just sort The Loop by it.

Well, it seems the new plugin is not working.

I ran into some other pages where it kept using the page title.
And then I’ve found it also looses the values for the Link Text and Title Text. Seems at random, at least I can’t tell what causes it to loose them.

On a separate note I’d still like you to contact me to talk about something else I’ve been wanting to do recently.

Thanks

Hi Technokinetcs,

I’ve got the new version of the plugin, got it installed and deactivated and re-activated.

I thought it was still not working, but found it is.
For some reason the page I kept trying, it didn’t like.

I’ve now tried other pages and everything works for it beautifully. It takes the long page title, but uses the shorter version for the link, and the link title works great too!

I’m not sure why that one page doesn’t work. I bet if i delete that page and recreate it, it will work fine, which is what I’ll do.

The site hasn’t ‘launched’ yet, so it wont’ cause a problem. Using seo friendly urls anyways, so can make the new page match the old.

Thanks for the great plugin! Sorry to have caused more work with my weird problem.

Please email me at ‘james’ ‘mm’ at ‘gmail’ and I’ll send a link to you for the site.

Thanks again!

Technokinetics : after reading iridiax post again, I thought that would be a cool thing to have in this is a custom link title too. Good thinking

Yeah, I dont know what happen there, ?? Sorry about that everyone.

iridiax: That’s not exactly what I want to do. I would like to have longer page titles for my Pages. The problem is when you create the links for the pages, in my horizontal nav bar (which is 900px wide) the long page titles are too long. So, I would like to have an alternate string to use for the page links created by wp_list_pages.

Technokinetics : Thanks a mill for the plugin. But it doesn’t seem I can get it to work correctly.

I found it was not the ampersand (&) causing the problem but a forward-slash (/) I had one in my page title and it did not like that and is what generated the error I posted above. So, it would be nice to have it handle the forward-slash (/), really most all characters would be good.

However, there still seems to be something wrong/not working. I removed the forward-slash from my page title, and that got rid of the error. But, my menu bar still shows the long page title.

I did see and filled in the ‘Alternative Link Text’ box with my short text, but it’s not showing that.

BTW this is exactly what I was looking for and you did a great job on the plugin. Good placement of the Alternative Link Text box, fits in nicely.

Okay, got the plugin installed and activated, but right away I got this error in my menu bar where the page links would appear:

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Unknown modifier ‘O’ in /home/bbash/public_html/wp-content/plugins/alt-link-text/alt-link-text.php on line 108

Possibly cause I have an ampersand (&) in my page title?

Sure Thing!!!

I was thinking I was going to have to make static links in the template to accomplish this. This will be a much better alternative, Thanks!

I’ll let you know what I find.

Yes, it did turn out to be the way my FTP was putting the files. I tried both ASCI and Binary, but same results, so I ditched the FTP client, tried another and everything is fine!

Thanks for the help!

This sounds like a css problem.

When you have two DIV side by side using css you have to give each DIV a width so that is knows where to put each column you are creating.

Now say you have content in one of the DIVs that is causing it to strech out, it will bump the last DIV below.

You could fix this by adjusting the container DIV that is ‘holding’ the two side by side divs.

Hope this helps, CSS can be a battle, especially between browsers. But good luck!

ah, great, thanks for that home.php tip!
that’s a good one.

and great site hbalagh, I’m gonna have to really go over it to see how you did it all with WordPress.

This is really great and I’m glad I’m looking into this because with the ability to use WordPress as an option now, it will greatly cut down on the developement time of a site.

Thanks a mil for your input!
james