Thulefoth

@tanver; I have Sandbox installed, and have Child themes set up for several other themes. I will be puttering outside some today, and playing computers inside some, and will take a good look at how Sandbox controls space.

I have worked with Sandbox before, but either before Child themes, or before I knew of them. I will post later today what I find. I certainly think this should be possible, with ‘pure, real’ CSS layout or the faux approach, but I had backed off it on my main project, when it seemed to act like it was controlled in the WordPress core code (which is also changeable, but maybe not ‘sustainably’).

I am happy to do the CSS. I’m doing an extensive Child of “A Daring Inspiration Theme”, which I picked because it is far from “daring” ?? I am augmenting it with bits of “2010” … so I keep files of both open in Notepad++, side-by-side. In the past, I preferred “Sandbox”, but worried it might not be updated.

I am really a construction laborer, but I use W3(C) and others, have long dabbled at CSS, shifted to semantic layouts … I just don’t spend enough time in code to know where things are. If this position CSS you mention is ok to change, telling me where to find it should be my ‘break’.

I did see “faux columns”, searching Google with ‘full height sidebar’ etc. I’ve considered this approach … but if CSS positioning editing can be done, that’s what I’d like. Thx!

Just for the record … I too thought I would bring the sidebar all the way up. No problem reducing the width of the header to the same as the content (fixed, fluid or flexi), but even with the header out of the way (both in code & on-screen), the sidebar steadfastly refuses to go any higher than the content container.

I don’t ‘feel the need’ for a full-width header, and would rather bring the sidebar all the way up … use that prize ‘corner real estate’ for a special widget.

Is there a clue? Or inviolable barrier? Thx! ??

Everything looks good; normal.

I shut everything down, rebooted, started the local WAMP server, logged into the blog, and opened Admin Plugins; normal. Returned to Dashboard.

Moved Taxonomy Images back into Plugins directory, opened Admin Plugins; normal. Returned to Dashboard.

Moved Taxonomy Terms List back to Plugins, opened Plugins table; normal. Returned to Dashboard.

Moved Advance Categorizer back to Plugins, opened Table; normal.

Those are the other 2 plugins I removed after TI-b, to get the broken Table to render normal (which it did, without a re-start).

I should have taken those steps before cluttering the Forum, and giving you gray hairs. My apologies!

Thanks for the very interesting set of Taxonomy Plugins, Michael! I will return to studying & comparing … and make a better effort to uphold my side of the bargain, heretofore! ??

Thanks for responding, Michael!

After removing TI-b, I found that another couple plugins were also showing a lesser version of over-width behavior. Unfortunately, I did not think in time to shut down the Admin Plugin page, restart/build it and give it a chance to heal. (Since obviously the HTML table was by then broken.)

I look at the Plugins Table ‘pretty often’. I don’t even try to have more than 2-3 dozen plugins activated at once, so I go into the Table to turn them off/on, and to generally review what I’m doing.

Oh. That’s right. At least one of the other over-width plugins was another of yours. Possibly both. I had gone on a ‘taxonomy plugin’ search & acquire mission … and your collection figured prominently. Will note the others I removed.

I will back out of my present activities and try Taxonomy Images again.

I don’t have a different blog … but I should be able to have all that I want, on local WAMP, huh? Let me try with the other now 181 plugins first, see what we get.

Oh – I see what you meant now.

Yes, I have been happily ‘developing away’, vaguely aware that for several reason, WAMPServer might not upload as facile as I’d like; that I might have to do a migration to get the site up onto my remote host. And, again vaguely, that it might not be a push-button updater, after I’m on-line (which would be/is a mild disappointment).

But I thought I would be able to tuck my laptop into my backpack and disappear into the mountains for a weekend or week, and spend the evenings putting photos & stories in the website. But it looks like it WILL NOT work without an online connection. Bummer.

I will give Live Writer a closer examination. Thank you!

Ted

I am surprised to hear that. I’ve thought for years that having one’s one localhost Server is a good thing.

I’ve been very active with WP on my local Server, have reinstalled WP 3.0 over itself, have installed many plugins & themes, have been Updating as updates come up … and nary an issue.

What’s the problem, with WAMP/WP? Are there links I can go to, to learn more?

Thanks!

Ted

I am considering translating the German admin menu to English. I would simply paste the individual words into the Google translator. Should not be hard to find them & replace in the code. Crude but effective.

I am interested in this plugin, less to document & report my workouts, but as a model for similar patterns of inputting, storing, and outputting potentially a very wide range of informations.

Any who have an interest in WorkOutLog or it’s possible derivatives, leave a message.

Ted Clayton

I recently upgraded to 2.3, and indeed it now puts pictures in yearly & monthly subdirectories, so that part is normal.

I did not have to set or adjust write-permissions for the new image-directories. WP has done that on it’s own (including the /10 subdir that went up since the /9 upgrade).

I use FileZilla to poke around in my Host directories, and set/reset permissions if/when needed. If I had the error you are reporting, I’d use FTP to check those settings.

I am quite ignorant, extensively inexperienced, and my tinyMCE is banging off the walls … but I’m still pushing pics up onto the Host, and havin’ fun. ??

The problem with tinyMCE that I described in the previous post became stable right after it happened, and has continued the same way & no futher changes for several days now.

I no longer use FireFox because calling up a post for Edit corrupts the image-relate code pretty bad. I can work-around the IE6 issues, because they only appear during initial insertion of image-code, in conjunction with using the tinyMCE > Send to Editor feature. I hand-edit the image-code in the Post, and that gets my post up.

Actually, I have considered preparing Post-code in an outside editor, then go to Write > tinyMCE, paste the code and Publish. Sounds kinda goofy … but I can do HTML, study the Quick-codes, keep track of the database numbers for my images, and probably do it.

But this notion also leads me to wonder whether others have already worked out a good way to edit their stuff ‘straight’ and FTP it, etc. Is the WYSIWYG tinyMCE the only way to do it, or do some folks ‘bareback it’?

… So, I have a limping, flopping tinyMCE (acts ‘rough’ during routine edit-operations), doing work-arounds, searching on everything I can think of, and worried that with any more issues, I’ll be fully disabled.

What I could certainly do is, just re-upload the whole wad of tinyMCE files, expecting a fresh set of code. OTOH, this could be a bad boo-boo, so I haven’t done it.

A pointer or hint, please? thx! Ted

Like Pieter, I never wanted Commments, at all. I wanted to use WordPress as a simple way to Categorize and organize my materials online, without interactivity.

The lack of a way to actually disable the Comment system was not a problem, at first. Now, the comment-spammers have found me, and it’s a problem.

I know the spirit of WP basically aims at interactivity, including something like Comments. However, it is also clear that a considerable interest exists, to use the WordPress software for non-interactive purposes, like myself & Pieter.

The fact that a crimimal community exists to exploit & abuse the WP Comments-system means that virtually everyone who wants a non-interactive facility will eventually find themselves ‘engaged’ with the Comment-criminals.

This is unacceptable for me. My e-mail is being pounded, I must make repeated trips to Admin to clean out piles of foolishness. No way. The current setup ‘plays into’ the spammers, gives them too good a reason to stay in the ‘game’. I’m not going to do this.

I am in the process of shutting down my WordPress website, now that I have satisfied myself there is actually no way to really turn off the Comment system.

WordPress: You guys should have an up-front, one-stop check-box: “Turn Off the Commment System Completely”. You are losing people because this can’t be done.

Ohh .. 2 database tables .. faked me out, seeing my Links-count listed in the Category-Manage panel .. thought, Sure looks like 1 set of categories! But no .. yes, I could do the double-entry like MichaelH says … and appreciate jeremyclark13’s tip.

But I like the core-hack better – it’s what I want – thanks Ott42!

I’m not a code-genius, but I can turn compost if given a fork & detailed instructions! ??

I have added some more categories, assigned posts to them, they show up on the website (except for the few that don’t have content..).

When I write a new post, I have all the categories (now 25) available in the Editor Category-dbx to select from. But when I add a new link, the dbx contains (still) only 7 – though now one of the 7 is one of the newly-added categories.

Can someone please advise whether I am off-track somehow, or point to a resource with the information I can use to get all my categories to display in the Edit Link subpanel Category-dbx when I make a new link? Thanks!