thunderbyrd

I appreciate your sincerity and thank you for being kind as well.
I do possess a copy of EE and that is how I came to see the feature set if has.
As to why I don’t actively use EE, that is simple. The cost. I was allowed a developers copy in order to evaluate the possibility of becoming a plugin author. I am not allowed to use that copy for a live site, and wouldn’t break my promise to the EE people by doing so.
Although I understand the very real wish of many people to keep WordPress “mean and lean”, I think this can be taken too far. Some of the features that I wish to see are probably wanting to be seen by other people as well. On the other hand, I agree that some features may be best left to the “plugin” category.
I think your idea of a “standard plugin” bundle is a fantastic idea, and something I would be extremely happy to see implemented as soon as possible. I have given up hope on a spell checker, and have found one that works as an embedded program inside my browser.
I continue to hope that the “bundle” or other plugins will mature to the stage where they can be dropped into the plugin directory and work without having to change code by hand in other places.
My respects to you.

2Fargon:
Now that some time has passed, how is your new host doing?

Sam, good post. I like the idea that blogging has increased our ability to use .css and produce valid code. Now if only M$ would do the same. Ooh… my bad, did I say that out loud? *snickers*

I am sad to say that I finally had to un-install this hack as it is not compatible with the “ieSpell” program. It took me a while to figure out why there was a problem, but I did.
If you try to use the spell checker without switching to code view first, it doesn’t work correctly, and you’ll get weird characters in your final published output. I nearly went off the deep end trying to figure out where these invisible to the eye characters were coming from.
Oh well… back to the running board.

My most humble apologies, but I’ve done it again! My only excuse for this is that I have been battling a brutally vicious migraine all day.
To use the pullquote manually, it is:
<p class="pullquote">Text
And not:
<div class="pullquote">Text</div>
Again, I’m sorry for the mix up.

Follow up:
Calendar hover : fixed
Menu length : fixed
Shiny Stats : added

Sorry about that, but some of that got munged!
To use it manually:
<p class="pullquote">This is the text you want quoted</div>
I forgot the backticks <blush />

About the pullquotes & excerpts… the following code has to be inserted into your .css layout file:
.pullquote p {
float: left;
width: 125px;
font-family: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;
text-align: left;
display: inline;
padding: 7px;
background-color: #F1F1F1;
border-color: #CCC;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px 0 1px;
margin: 25px 10px auto 0px;
font-size: 80%;
}
.pullquote p:first-letter {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: larger;
}
You’ll want to change the colour, etc. to suit your own tastes.
Now… you can either have the pullquotes generated automatically, or you can put them in yourself.
To put them in yourself, just use a <p class=”pullquote>Text to be in the pullquote</div>
To have them generated automatically insert the following into your index.php like so:
<div class=”pullquote”>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>
Just above the existing lines:
<div class=”storycontent”>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
It is very important to note that in order to use the automatic function of the pullquotes, you must use the advanced editing mode when entering your post, and you must provide an excerpt to be used, otherwise the pullquote will contain nearly the entire text of the post!
And… the pullquote .css code was provided most generously to me by https://www.w-a-s-a-b-i.com/
Any other comments or questions, please feel free to leave me an e-mail, comment on the board, or a message here.

Wow! I never expected so many replies here in one day! Thanks for the kudos, and I’ll fix the other stuff “right soonly now”.
If you like the site, tell your friends. Input and comments on the site are welcomed.
Thanks!

I’ve posted a bit of a long post on this thread at my site : https://www.thunderbyrd.net/index.php?p=28
I felt it was too long to post here. Comments & flames invited.

ScriptyGoddess? Who is that? Seriously.
But, have a <–more–> that would expand the post on the current page, as opposed to opening it on a new page would be bery cool.

Just for the record, I had exactly the same problem and was never able to get it to work. I just gave up.

arghnoname:
I tried those, but no joy.
Oh well. Thanks for your efforts!

Arghnoname:
Okay! Wow! I did checked everything out, and took your suggestions, and now all is working according to spec. Thank you very much!
Now all I need is for someone with good php skills to show me how to leave the excerpt call out if there is no excerpt. Currently, if there isn’t one, then the first 251 (or so) words of the post get used instead. I just don’t know how to write the code for the check.
But… thank you for the help with the .css portion of it!

Thanks Joe for the cool hack. It’s great when people like yourself (who have a clue what they’re doing, unlike me… ha!) contribute to the WordPress community.
I am wondering, is there any way to have this hack and the “MarkDown” plug-in working at the same time? I was starting to get used to using “MarkDown” and wouldn’t mind being able to use it at the same time. I bet I’m asking too much though, yes?
Anyway… thanks again for the hack, it’s appreciated!