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Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

I've asked around and no one really knows why my blog decided to do this, so I thought I would post it in here.

https://www.dclaiborne.com - works perfectly, and you can view every (all 2 right now) posts that I have made.

But when you click on a specific post i.e. - http://dclaiborne.com/2009/09/personal-goals-and-journey/

It comes back with a 404 page not found error.

I suck at WP/code and was lucky enough to get it going this far so any advice would be most helpful.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2009 14:58

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 12:13

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Ned posted:

Make sure your .htaccess can be written to by the server and then go save your permalink settings.

How do I check all of this? It's hosted on hostgator if that helps and it didn't have this problem when it was under a different sub-domain.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2009 17:02

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

NotShadowStar posted:

Another quick way is to change the permalink structure in the admin panel and save. If you don't get any errors everything should work out. If it says it can't write .htaccess, then you need to change the permissions on your host like Ned linked to.

This worked perfectly I believe. Thanks for the help and now that I'm actually trying to maintain my blog and get it out there I'm sure I'll be back with a ton of fun questions

# ¿ Sep 16, 2009 21:53

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

I installed the NextGEN album and gallery plugin on my site and seem to be having some problems.

I have the album page set up here - http://genesis-ap.com/trainingpictures/ but whenever you click on either one of the galleries takes you to the correct gallery page but fails to display any of the pictures.

I have pages built and linked as http://genesis-ap.com/trainingpictures/december-training and on that wp page I have the gallery put in but when you click on it the title pops up but not the gallery. What am I missing?

# ¿ Jan 6, 2010 14:33

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

What is the best plugin/way to implement 2checkout.com on a WP website? They have the options I need for my payments but I want to make sure it will work with WP nicely before I sign up with them.

edit: and if there isn't a good one what is the easiest shopping cart system out there that can do recurring payments to integrate with WP?

Alfalfa fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Jan 21, 2010

# ¿ Jan 21, 2010 20:19

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

So basically I'm totally new to this but slowly trying to teach myself and learn. I have two questions (for now) though regarding my blog in progress.

The blog is https://www.dclaiborne.com

In the header I would like for that image to take up the entire space including behind the search bar. It will also go behind the page tabs and I will edit the header to move the website name to another spot on the header. When I make the header image bigger it just pushes it further down and won't actually go behind the search bar.

Also how do I get the page links up top to stop being yellow? I would like for them to be transparent and just sit on top of that red header if possible.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2010 14:53

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

KuruMonkey posted:

If you're happy editing the template files, then the issue is as follows...

Your theme's header area is built from 2 divs the same width, the first has the search bar bits in, and the second is the "header" (has id="header") itself.
Your header image (which is an IMG tag, not a background at the moment) is in the header div, so won't cover the search bar. (and stuff won't go "over" it readily)

What you need, really, is a div that the menu div and the header div both live in, that has a background of your chosen image. Then the other elements will sit on top nicely.

The menu items are yellow because the div they are in:
<div id="pagemenucontainer">...</div>
has a yellow background set.

You want to be running firefox for this, even if you don't normally, and you want to be running FireBug; you then have a right click for "inspect element" which will give you a cleaned up hierarchy for the DOM and beside that a listing of all the CSS rules that apply to the element, which CSS file they came from and on what line. (it will also highlight the element on the page and outline the margins and padding for you)

Ok got the underlined portion taken care of easily.

Can you go into a little more detail regarding the top part you are talking about?

edit: Also there is one random yellow strip remaining to the right of those pages that when I click inspect element it doesn't take me to anything regarding that color. When I click view background image the image isn't even yellow. Where can I find that option?

Alfalfa fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Feb 18, 2010

# ¿ Feb 18, 2010 17:15

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Another question.

I am trying to add a box on the right column that says "FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK!" or something along those lines. I want it to look identical to the RSS and Twitter ones above it.

Here is the code for that Twitter box (I think):

code:

<?php
    		if(get_theme_option('twitter') != '') {
    			?>
    			<div class="twitterbox">
    				<a href="<?php echo get_theme_option('twitter'); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/twitter.png"  
alt="<?php echo get_theme_option('twittertext'); ?>" title="<?php echo get_theme_option('twittertext'); ?>" 

style="vertical-align:middle; margin-right: 5px;"  /></a><a href="<?php echo get_theme_option('twitter'); ?>"><?php echo get_theme_option('twittertext'); ?></a>
    			</div>
    			<?php
    		}
    	?>

What do I need to change to add in the Facebook one below it?

I would actually like to have separate RSS, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube boxes. The RSS and Twitter ones can be turned off and on inside the actual theme options but the other two aren't available directly through there.

Alfalfa fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Feb 18, 2010

# ¿ Feb 18, 2010 18:27

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

edit: I'm trying a new template that will make things a ton easier.

I just have one question now

Under the widget sidebar area there is not a Featured Video option.

I can change the video or take it out completely under the theme options, but there is no way to move it around.

I would like to move my Find Me Elsewhere Widget above it but not sure how to do that in the code.

Alfalfa fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Feb 18, 2010

# ¿ Feb 18, 2010 19:48

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

KuruMonkey posted:

Dunno about any particular theme specifically, but in general thats going to be a case of picking through the relevant PHP file (maybe sidebar.php if its structured 'normally') and finding the chunk of code that makes the find me elsewhere block and cut/pasting it before the video section.

Thats the problem. I cant find it no matter what page I look in.
Here is the code pulled out of sidebar.php for Featured Video

code:

<?php if(get_theme_option('video') != '') {
			?>
			<div class="sidebarvideo">
				<ul> <li><h2 style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Featured Video</h2>
				<object width="290" height="220"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/<?php echo get_theme_option('video'); ?>&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1"></param>
					<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
					<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
					<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/<?php echo get_theme_option('video'); ?>&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="290" height="220"></embed>
				</object>
				</li>
				</ul>
			</div>
		<?php

I don't really see anything location wise in it or the others below it. It doesn't even have the other widgets/plugins I've added to the sidebar listed.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2010 01:56

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

KuruMonkey posted:

Whats the name of the theme? I can install it on my test install and take a look.

http://newwpthemes.com/wordpress-theme/larisa/

Broccoli Must Die! posted:

What is the name of the font you used in the header image please?

I have no clue, but I can find out from the guy who designed it for me.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2010 12:26

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Thanks for all the help and I'll get on this after this client leaves.

Just glanced through your post, is this what I will do if on my blog I want to move the Connect With David and Tester Header/Email Widgets above the 2 ad links? That is how I ultimately want it set up if possible.

edit: You know what that works good enough. I really appreciate the help.

Alfalfa fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Feb 19, 2010

# ¿ Feb 19, 2010 14:08

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Ok still playing around with this stupid thing but I have actually found a theme that is extremely simple to use and has a million options as well as a place to put in your own custom code if needed.

It is called suffusion.

So I am having a problem getting the html images to stick in the widget titles on the sidebars.

This is what I came up with why

quote:

WP's standard widgets and Suffusion's custom widgets strip out html tags from the widget titles, so your method will not work. You can replace the background images of individual widgets' headers, though.

So it was time to start digging in the code and with some help I got to this

quote:

You can use custom CSS. See http://www.aquoid.com/news/2010/02/there-are-some-things-suffusion-cant-do-for-everything-else-there-is-the-custom-styles-option/ on details. Depending on which widget you want to address use this kind of CSS:
code:
#sidebar .widget-suf-featured-posts h3.dbx-handle {
    background-image: url([url]http://your-url[/url]);
}
You will need to modify ".widget-suf-featured-posts" to whichever widget you want to use.

sooo I got one widget title to work but that is it... Here is the one that works and the others that I have tried for other widgets and gotten nothing.

Works:

code:

    #sidebar .widget-suf-featured-posts h3.dbx-handle {
        background-image: url([url]http://genesis-ap.com/uploads/recent.png[/url]);
    }

Does Not Work:

code:

    #sidebar .widget-suf-subscription h3.dbx-handle {
        background-image: url([url]http://genesis-ap.com/uploads/connect.png[/url]);
    }

Neither Does:

code:

    #sidebar .widget-suf-subscription-2 h3.dbx-handle {
        background-image: url([url]http://genesis-ap.com/uploads/connect.png[/url]);
    }

or trying it on a different widget does not work either:

code:

    #sidebar .widget-suf-archive h3.dbx-handle {
        background-image: url([url]http://genesis-ap.com/uploads/archive.png[/url]);
    }

Anyone help?

If you don't want to scroll back a few pages the blog is https://www.dclaiborne.com

edit: Ignore this I figured it out for the most part.

Alfalfa fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Feb 26, 2010

# ¿ Feb 25, 2010 20:34

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

What is the easiest way to copy an entire blog and put it on another domain?

I want to make two separate blogs that are identical and use one to beta test and modify to see if I like it.

Is there a way to have them both be on the same domain as well?

like https://www.xxxxx.com - default blog and https://www.xxxxx.com/beta be the tester blog?

# ¿ Mar 29, 2010 18:35

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Is there a way so when someone clicks on the tab of a page I created it automatically takes them to my YouTube channel in a different window instead of an actual page on my blog?

# ¿ Mar 31, 2010 19:54

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Moniker posted:

just add target="new" to the html of the link you want to change

where?

I'm talking about creating a page like YouTube so it is displayed in my navigation bar and when people click on it instead of taking them to the actual WordPress Page, it opens up a new window with YouTube.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2010 20:58

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Is there a way for posts in certain categories to not get posted on the front page? I update my own training workouts etc on the blog but would rather not have them break up my articles on the front page. I would only like them viewable when someone clicks on the training tab.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2010 19:04

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

atastypie posted:

Yes:

1- Edit your template to filter by category in the get_posts loop
2- Install a plugin that excludes categories for you

Thanks. I never remember that "hey maybe someone made a plug-in for exactly what I need".

# ¿ Apr 1, 2010 20:26

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

A wordpress question, but probably more of a general coding/html question. Either way I searched for a plug-in and googled but can't find any answers. What is the easiest way to add a few Johnson Boxes into a post? I have some testimonials I need to add in, and the best way to do it is by using Johnson Boxes but I have no clue how to design or implement them.

A johnson box is just a box inside the text containing something different. The box has a strong border and most of the time is a different color.

Some examples are:
http://www.strengthcamp.com/athletes.htm - the testimonials right past #5
http://www.undergroundstrengthclub.com/success-stories/ - all of these basically.

# ¿ May 5, 2010 06:56

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Figure I'll ask here before seeking services somewhere else.

I am looking to redo my blog (one final time - at least for a long long time), and am looking to hire someone to do it for me.

I have some great ideas and examples of how I would like for it to look, but the person would need to be able to do graphics and some other small web design/codings odds and ends as well.

If you are interested, please PM me or contact me David at Genesis-AP dot com.

If you want to see what the current blog looks like, it is https://www.genesis-ap.com (if you couldn't guess).

# ¿ Sep 27, 2010 13:24

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Is there an easier way to move 20+ blog posts from one blog to another without having to copy/paste/fix links etc? I have access to both blogs, ftp, and hosting control panels.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2010 15:17

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Twiin posted:

There is an import/export feature in Wordpress. Have you tried that?

That is exactly what I was looking for. I can't believe I never even noticed those options. thanks

# ¿ Oct 5, 2010 18:31

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

I know Aweber does this, but is there any other way where when a new post gets posted, it posts the link and a short message about it onto Facebook & Twitter?

# ¿ Oct 6, 2010 16:57

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Not really sure if this is a specific WP question or what, but thought this might be the best thread to ask in.

Is there a way to access my blog by ip address?

I stopped using WP and moved over to Tumblr, and have the old WP blog's domain name redirect to the Tumblr blog.

But unfortunately I forgot to pull off all my old posts off the original WP blog and people have been inquiring about a few of them asking me to repost them.

How could I do this, or is there even a way?

# ¿ Apr 27, 2011 18:08

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

bobthecheese posted:

OK, assuming that you are fine to do it all manually, and your old blog is still being hosted, then yes.

What you will need to do is edit your "hosts" file. On Linux/mac, it should be in /etc/hosts. For Windows, it should be C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts

All you need to do is add a line like the following:
code:
127.0.0.1  example.com
Basically, it's <ip address> <domain name[s]>

This will force your computer to resolve that domain name to that IP address. In that case, the server will get the correct domain name, and be able to serve out the correct site to you. Once you've got all the content you want to get, simply delete (or comment out) the line in your hosts file, and you're back to looking up the address from DNS.

That sounds like it will work perfectly. One small issue though, the blog was a subdomain/subfolder in the general hosting account. How can I access that specific folder?

https://www.dclaiborne.com - is tumblr blog
https://www.genesis-ap.com/dclaiborne - shows where original wp blog was hosted
174.120.41.124 - IP address for genesis-ap.com

I just don't know how to point the hosts file specifically to the dclaiborne folder.

Ideas?

# ¿ Apr 28, 2011 17:16

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

bobthecheese posted:

The hosts file only works on domains (or 'hosts'). If the IP of the site that originally hosted your content hasn't changed, then the hosts file won't help. It's only really useful in the instance where you're migrating a URL from one server to another.

If genesis-ap.com has changed IP address, then you would need the old IP address. If it hasn't and you just can't access that folder anymore, then it's likely that whoever controls genesis-ap.com has removed the blog, and you would have to talk to them about re-instating it for you to move content.

If DClaiborne.com used to point to the same IP as genesis-ap.com, and used to point to that sub directory, then the hosts file may help.

I tried adding this into my hosts file, and it seems to point me at a wordpress site:
code:
174.120.41.124  dclaiborne.com [url]www.dclaiborne.com[/url]
fake edit: obviously don't leave the "[url]" tags there.

This worked perfectly. Thank you a ton.

# ¿ May 5, 2011 20:29

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Is there a way to move a theme from one of my blogs to another?

I purchased a theme a year ago and have it implemented on my personal blog.

I really like the theme and options, but don't have the install files anymore.

I am starting up a new blog and would like to use that theme, but have no clue how to copy the theme and move it over to my new blog. I figure it is something in PHPMyAdmin and FTP, but really have no clue.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2011 15:36

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Lt Moose posted:

If you connect to your site via ftp, navigate to the root folder of your blog. All of the theme files are located in /wp-content/themes/[themename]/, you should just have to download that folder then upload it to the themes folder of your other blog. It will then show up in the themes section of your Wordpress blog and you can activate it.

Dur. I feel stupid for not even thinking of something that simple. Appreciate it.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2011 21:33

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

I'm using a semiologic theme on my personal blog https://www.dclaiborne.com

I'm trying to get the Featured Content Gallery plug in to work and it says to add this code

code:

<?php include (ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/featured-content-gallery/gallery.php'); ?>

Into the template of the blog. If I want to have that at the top of my home page to display all my recent posts, where do I need to put that piece of code exactly?

# ¿ Nov 8, 2011 18:58

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

dustin10 posted:

If you want it after the navigation then put it after the div with id of navbar.

The header.php is odd with the semiologic theme and I can't find this part to stick it after.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2011 16:10

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

I'm using the Semiologic theme and finally got an opt-in graphic going up under my header.

But for some reason it has a light pink/white color behind it except for the top where it is black.

I would like ot make the whole area behind the graphic black if possible.

What do I need to modify to do so?

http://dclaiborne.com/

# ¿ Nov 29, 2011 06:58

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

dustin10 posted:

It looks like all you need to do is open the skin.css file in your theme and add the following to the bottom of the stylesheet:
code:
#header_bottom_wrapper {
    background-color: #000 !important;
}

Awesome that worked. Thanks.

Another question. What is the best way to hide a page (not private), so Google won't index it or others can't find it unless they click the link directly. I would rather not have people be able to find the page they get sent to when opting in unless they click the link directly from the email.

Also not really WP question, but general website question, how can I do that as well with the pdf they download so they can't browse around in that folder for other stuff?

# ¿ Nov 29, 2011 18:38

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

I want to rebuild a website using a different theme, but it will take a few days/weeks to tweak it so it looks correct.

What is the best way to do that while people who go to the website still see the current version, and then transfer the theme, settings, and changes to the website all at one time once I finish?

# ¿ Dec 6, 2011 19:49

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

dustin10 posted:

If you want I can set you up a little subdomain on my server with a worpdress install you can fool around with. Email me.

Would this be the same as if I have my normal domain - https://www.genesis-ap.com and just install wordpress on like https://www.genesis-ap.com/test

If so I can do that, but how would I transfer over the theme with all the settings and changes done to it, as well as the data to https://www.genesis-ap.com after I finish?

# ¿ Dec 6, 2011 21:04

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Is there a widget (or way) to take a post from a category, and have it show up in a sidebar on another page formatted the same way so it is readable?

I have some workouts that get posted every day - http://genesis-ap.com/category/superhuman-workout/

I would like the most recent workout to get posted in this sidebar - http://genesis-ap.com/project-superhuman/

in a way that people can read it straight from that page with it still looking good.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2012 13:54

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

What is the best plugin to put a countdown timer on a sales page?

All the ones I've seen absolutely suck and don't look anything like how I've seen on other sites.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 21:44

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

I had someone put a Twitter sidebar widget on my blog that matched my format, but unfortunately it only displays the last twitter post or no posts at all.

Is there a better way to keep my Twitter feed updated in this widget?

The blog is hppt://www.DClaiborne.com and here is the code for the widget they used:

code:

<h3>@Dclaiborne.com TWITTER</h3>
<script charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript" src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
new TWTR.Widget({
  version: 2,
  type: 'profile',
  rpp: 3,
  interval: 30000,
  width: 'auto',
  height: 300,
  theme: {
    shell: {
      background: 'none',
      color: '#ffffff'
    },
    tweets: {
      background: 'none',
      color: '#ffffff',
      links: '#ffffff'
    }
  },
  features: {
    scrollbar: false,
    loop: false,
    live: true,
    behavior: 'default'
  }
}).render().setUser('DavidClaiborne').start();
// ]]></script>
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/DavidClaiborne" class="twitter-button">FOLLOW</a>

Also is there a way to make my search widget look better/Where do I need to go in the WP files to customize the search bar layout?

And finally, where do I need to go so I can place an option at the bottom of my home page (under the post summaries) for people to view older posts, next page, etc.?

Alfalfa fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Dec 9, 2012

# ¿ Dec 9, 2012 15:05

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

For some reason my home page doesn't show and older posts/previous posts/next page option.

Is there a way to add that into my theme so people can browse all my older posts?

# ¿ Dec 12, 2012 15:12

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Anyone have a link to a step by step guide on how to move an entire wordpress site (theme, posts, images, etc.) over to new hosting and url?

# ¿ May 2, 2013 15:23

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 12:13

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

rt4 posted:

1. Copy all the files.
2. Dump the database.
3. Use the mysql bundled program "replace" to find and replace the old URL with the new URL on your SQL file.
4. Upload your files and import the database. Nothing else to worry about, typically.

This sounds more advanced than I'm comfortable with.

Would anyone be willing to do this for me for $25?

It doesn't sound like it would take a long time, I just don't want to screw everything up.

# ¿ May 6, 2013 13:32

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