thornomad

Thanks, solved that problem quickly.

I did some more snooping to solve the permalink <!--nextpage--> problem and found this post; it didn’t apply directly but I thought I would try it.

I replaced all the (.+) with ([_0-9a-z-]+) on the bottom part of the .htaccess file. And, thus far, it would appear as if everything is working. I have no idea what it does, but I must have covered whatever wasn’t working.

I hope it doesn’t screw anything else up; but will find out soon enough.

D

Hi –

I did the suggestions in the codex (emptying the .htaccess file then re-establishing permalinks and deleting it entirely and then recreating it in wordpress and I even deleted it and then edited it manually adding the code that wordpress has generated but it still isn’t working. I will include what I am using here in my .htaccess file — I don’t know if it will help or not.

Does the .htaccess file have to remain editable always to the public in order for this to work ? Thanks.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [S=49]
RewriteRule ^(about)/trackback/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&tb=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(about)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(about)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(about)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(about)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(contribute)/trackback/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&tb=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(contribute)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(contribute)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(contribute)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(contribute)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?pagename=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?&paged=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?&paged=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?s=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?s=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?s=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/?$ /index.php?s=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&paged=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&paged=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?$ /index.php?year=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/([^/]+)/trackback/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&name=$2&tb=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&name=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&name=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&name=$2&paged=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/([^/]+)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&name=$2&page=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Okay – thanks. I thought I saw something regarding a javascript command; but that seems tediuos. I just tire of explaining the right-click/option-click mumbo-jumbo. But, maybe I shouldn’t explain it at all.

D

Oh forget it – it seems to be working now. I don’t know what changed but everything is dandy.

Thank you!

Damon

Thank you thank you! Using the

.storycontent-cat2 blockquote p gets me into it; I didn’t know how the CSS could be so specific in addressing nested content like that.

thanks. learned something new.

D

I think I solved it; what I did was limited the universal blockquote setting to apply only to pages and the other categories of my blog that don’t contain the memoire by typing:

.pagetext blockquote, .storycontent blockquote { border-left: 2px dotted #2F700F; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-left: 5px;}

Then it seems to leave my other blockquote alone and I no longer have the cascading conundrum.

Thanks.

D

I added this to my stylesheet:

.storycontent-cat2 p { text-indent: 2em; }

The indent also effects the blockquote; is there a way to signify that a <p> inside a <blockquote> should behave differently than one acting on its own ?

thanks,
Damon

Hi,

All right, if using the <p> for each paragraph is more correct I will suck it up and add all the little <p>‘s myself. Smile.

I was trying to adjust my stylsheet to account for the line-height and font-family of the blockquote; however, while I could change the color and the fontsize, my line-height arguments wouldn’t be accepted. When I pulled up the website in Firefox and looked at how wordpress was putting everything together, I saw <blockquote><p> and I assumed that the <p> command was overriding my <blockquote> wishes.

If I move the <blockquote> tag to inside the previous paragraph — so there are no hard returns — then wordpress doesn’t add the <p> inside the <blockquote> tag and my formatting works.

Here is my style sheet entry:

.storycontent-cat2 blockquote { border: none; color: black; line-height: 100%; font-family: monospace;}

I don’t have the site up live yet, so I can’t show you the whole thing. I am not particularly wise in these areas, but I thought maybe some of the p formatting in the stylesheet was overriding my blockquote formatting.

Thanks,
Damon

Thanks, that worked perfectly; I did modify it slightly … I got rid of the include and just put the code directly in the sidebar.php file; still, I am only getting the meta section on my logged in machine. Thanks!

D

Thank you!

Thank you. I guess if I am not concerned about translation it is not really an issue.

Merci Bien

Thank you thank you!

I didn’t create new user — I used “root” — because I don’t know how to do that. *smiles sheepishly* However, I typed in the bit of code you suggested and wa la! It works.

thank you!

I feel really inadequate at this SQL server side stuff and unix commands … is there a good book (or is it really even necessary) that would help me use WordPress better ?

Damon

Out of curiosity — why is there so much of a difference in what people offer and price ? For example, some of the sites mentioned only allow a few MB of storage and a few GB of bandwidth for $5 – $10 – $15 a month … others (like a midphase.com or a bluehost.com) offer much much more for the same price or even less.

Is there such a discrepency in customer service and reliability (that is, bigger/cheaper sites providing poorer service than smaller ones) ?

Just curious, from someone who sees so many options and no clear means of discerning which is best. Or is it like buying from Sam’s Club or Staples versus buying from local grocer ?

Damon

Thanks ! A lot of helpful information on there. I have saved the link.

Everyone here in the forums has been really helpful; I haven’t started using WordPress yet (because I like researching things too much first) but y’all have been great. I like it.

D

PS: how do I used code in these posts ? I have tried using a backtick (below tilde on keyboard) and then the HTML code … but is removing brackets and only showing what I have written in-between … for example: em.