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W3C validator says it’s good:

https://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.freeclassifiedlinks.com/wordpress/index.php

Hmmm…I’m going to guess it’s the <br /> – shouldn’t be in the <li> structure, but it works on my page. What’s your URL? I’ll look at the output and (try to) let you know.

This is roughly how I did mine (except I use the graphic as text). Basic HTML:

<a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" title="Syndicate this site using RSS 2.0"><img src="/images/banner_rss2.gif" alt="RSS 2.0" /><br />RSS Feed</a>

Figured out what it was, in case anyone has this issue, too – if you have a button link to the W3C CSS validation site, you’ll get this error. Just remove the ip address from the config file and all will be well.

$exc = $post-><?php the_excerpt(); ?>;
$output .= $before . "<a href="" . $permalink . "" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: " . $post_title . "">" . $post_title . "</a>Excerpt: <?php the_excerpt(); ?>" . "" . $after;

That’s what the two lines in my-hacks.php look like. It’s not returning anything at all. What I have (just returns an excerpt that already exists) is this:

$exc = $post->post_excerpt;
$output .= $before . "<a href="" . $permalink . "" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: " . $post_title . "">" . $post_title . "</a>Excerpt: " . $exc . "" . $after;

I found the field in the table that had the excerpt, so I included it in the SQL statement. I figured out how to assign it to another variable (I’ve never programmed PHP before) and include it in the string, so it works for any post that has an excerpt already.

If it helps, I’m basing this right off the hack listed in the wiki.

Anyone at all? I haven’t been able to resolve this, and even though it’s a minor issue, it’s still bugging me. I checked my tables in the wordpress db, and they all show normal. Now I’m really stumped – it’s not the xmlrpc.php, and it’s not the database. Yet something happened when I upgraded that I can no longer read the times from a 3rd-party program. Any ideas?

UPDATE: I tried my old xmlrpc.php file, and the dates were still messed up. Could this be a database problem, even if the post times show correctly on the actual web page?

StatTraq lets you keep track of that. If that’s all you’re looking for, it might be overkill. Also, it’s not entirely clear what comes from the search engine and what comes from the page, but I know it keeps track of my search box stuff. Check Randy Peterman’s site for more info.

Yes, I did it without the get_currentuserinfo(). It works quite well. I added a little code so that the “Log in” was a link to the login page. Thanks for the tip!

Anyone at all know the answer to this one?

All right. Here’s the first thing I’m getting hung up on. Post ID 34, titled “Watch Yourselves.” The validator is saying that my

tag is invalid. I ran compiled that post in WP’s own editor, making sure that it converted everything to XHTML-compatible tags in the options. Yet, the validator’s giving me fits. Any ideas?

The jacked up part is that the right column appears below the content in IE while it’s lined up correctly in Firefox. Sounds like a CSS problem, I thought.
As for the validating, I’m not quite sure what all that stuff means. I’m not a hard-core html programmer.
I’ll reply later on my issues with the validator. The letter spacing thing is now fixed. Thanks for the tip.

Also, anyone know why it looks fine in Firefox but is completely jacked up in IE?

It did say to add a font thing, didn’t it? Shnark. Well, it worked. Next CSS question – the text looks a bit squished in the posts, but I hunted around for a while for something that looked like text spacing or kerning, but nothing I tried worked. It’s in the <div id="storycontent">...</div> section, but putting in a “letter-spacing: 3em” line in the CSS didn’t work. I jacked it up to 15em, thinking it would be one letter per line, but nothing happened. Anyone know how to “unscrunch” the text?

That code is already there. Any other ideas?