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  • The five sites PressRoom submits to are:

    ConservativeThoughts.us
    MorningStarTribune.com
    OnlineHeraldNews.com
    PressChicago.com
    TheCityNews.org

    PressRoom by Newswire has no pop-ups asking for money. What you are seeing is probably a part of the pro version which is not available here on www.remarpro.com

    I can confirm that too, with additional information: after a user level is created, when editing you can add affiliated roles to user groups, but you can’t remove them once saved.

    That is handled by the theme – if you theme doesn’t allow you to easily make those changes you should look into using Atahualpa theme (it’s free, and has more customization options than 99% of the premium themes out there – you need to know CSS to use it though)

    Hello Angela

    If you’re a complete newbie to CSS, you might want to try installing a TinyMCE Advanced plugin instead. It will allow you to add more buttons to the editing mode of your site – one of which controls the font sizes.

    creating a CSS definition as @esmi suggests would be a more elegant, and definitely a better way of doing it, but I’m guessing you probably want to focus on blogging, not learning stylesheet syntax

    By the way, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t start learning CSS. It’s just that it took me a year to get good at it, so I would recommend learning a little bit at the time.

    What do you see when you try to log in? Can you provide a link to a screenshot?

    BTW, the URL you’re trying to access should be https://yoursite.com/wp-login.php, not wordpress/wp-login.php.

    You can also try https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/

    I’m having the same issue. However I don’t want to experiment with a live site

    I just updated the guide to reflect some changes (step #1 – the Amazon S3 plugin has been moved away from the Firefox addon directory, so I changed the link to where the addon can be found). The link is still the same

    Any time!

    Oh, and one more thing. It looks like that the theme appended a ../ set of symbols to the source URLs every time you did an edit, which resulted in ../../../../index.html string.

    That may not cause problems to your readers, but it’s not a clean code, and you might want to fix that while you’re at it

    Hope this was at least of some help

    OK, here is the scoop in a more visual fashion. You’re having multiple problems, and they should be addressed in the following order.

    I’m placing a link to an image to show you what I’m talking about (click with a scroll wheel to open in a separate tab).

    I took several screen captures with a firebug highlighting the offending areas. On the left you can see that the banner has 8px of padding applied to its parent <td> tag, and on the right there is only 1px applied to its parent <p> tag (purple stuff)

    First order of business would be to place the banner inside the same container across the entire site. There is no reason why you should have the banner sitting inside <td> on one page, and floating freely on the other (probably the reason for the <p> tag in a first place)

    This will either get rid of the extra space (yellow stuff) that is inherent to the <p> tag, or get rid of the extra padding that seems to be applied to <td> (depending on whether you decide to nest the banner inside the table cell or not)

    All of your padding and margins are applied through CSS. So if you’re having different results on different pages, it because elements aren’t sitting in common wrapping tags

    Now, the orange thing at the top is the other thing that is of concern. On the left, you’re seeing a margin of 8px applied to the <body> tag, but on the right it seems that the padding of 1px is applied to the entire <html> tag. I never formatted html tag with css, but I see no reason why it wouldn’t work, so I guess it’s possible that’s what’s going on. You’ll be able to see what’s going on once you take a look at your css.

    One thing I can tell is that if you’re indeed having the entire <html> tag formatted with css, it looks like you have separate stylesheets for blog and for the rest of the site (or else you’d see the same thing across the entire site)

    Not sure how much work you put into getting this look set up, but if it’s not too late, I’d say check out the Atahualpa theme. It’s a free theme with customization capabilities you won’t find even in most premium themes, and the guys that made it even have a very active forum built around this theme (it’s the only theme I use).

    That theme will solve all of the problems as far as the formatting goes across multiple pages

    The only thing is that you’ll have a bit of learning curve to go through as this theme easily have 200+ options. But on the upside, I haven’t found a look that couldn’t be created with it

    If not, you’ll just have to find a manual way to fix the issues above.

    At least now you know where to look

    Amazon sent you elsewhere? Aw, geez [shaking my head]

    Listen, here is something to make your life a little easier. I wrote a non-geek’s guide for using amazon S3 service recently as part of the launch I’ll be doing early next year.

    I don’t mind giving it away for free, so as long as you don’t go redistributing it under your own name (that goes for anyone else reading this on the forum here)

    It’s basically a step-by-step process that will get your feet hit the ground running. Follow what I got in there, and you’ll be up and running in 15 minutes

    Best of luck!

    Thread Starter airheads

    (@airheads)

    Thank you for your reply; I actually thought of that.

    Unfortunately that is bad for SEO for entirely different reason – endless page length slows down the loading speed.

    Granted, nowhere near as bad as duplicate content.

    Given a choice of non-stellar-but-not-that-bad-either workaround and no solution whatoever, changing that setting is actually a good idea

    Thank you!

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Member Form

    If you wish to go the free route, I suggest using a free plugin called “Contact Form 7”. You can create custom fields and specify which are required, and it even supports CAPTCHA (requires the installation of “Really Simple CAPTCHA” plugin)

    Then set the form to email everything to a separate email account.

    Now, you can either get an email account that has the included capability of exporting data to PDF, or you can choose to do it manually. A simple search on Google for export email to PDF will give you a good range of various ways you can go about that

    I do have to point out that the more data you ask your visitors to fill out, the less subscriptions you’re going to get

    Not sure if this is the answer you were hoping to get, but here it goes anyway

    Getting your own server is likely going to end up giving you more pain then pleasure unless you have resources available (namely money, and people) to deal with a larger scale project.

    The reason I say this is because if you have to ask, you’re probably not ready for all the other stuff that you haven’t asked about

    I may be completely wrong, but I’ll assume that the reason you’re unhappy with your servers is because they couldn’t provide you with the bandwidth to support video streaming and file hosting (not without increasing the price substantially)

    If that is the case, I may offer a simple and elegant solution that won’t break your piggy bank, and will solve your troubles:

    Stick with the usual hosting suspects for your website, but place the files and videos on AmazonS3 server and embed them into your site from there. It costs pennies for terabytes of data, it’s fast, and the user won’t even know the file sits on the external server.

    This is the service that Amazon itself uses, so in terms of speed and reliability, you’re more likely to win the lottery than experience downtime.

    Not to mention that the 7-or-more-figure big shots in online marketing use this service for their megalaunches when they send thousands upon thousands of viewers to watch their sales videos.

    That’s the kind of viewership that would likely put a serious dent into your own server reliability

    Hope this helps

    I found the source of your problem. On your blog page the top-banner.jpg image is wrapped in a <p> tag, which, as you may know, introduces what visually looks like a double space break (actually, not the image itself, but the entire <a…> tag).

    I got rid of it using FireBug to see what it would look like in the browser, and the problem was solved

    That being said, if you’re going for a uniform look, you might want to address another issue you may have missed. Apparently, unlike the other pages on your site (which have 8px margin all around the body), your blog page has 1 px padding.

    That visibly pushes your content from the top (by 7 pixels less on your blog than anywhere else on your site)

    What theme are you using?

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