bricolou

In my version, the background is just a colour #ccc so you should be able to change it quite easily.
body {
font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 11px !important;
background: #ccc url('images/top-bg.gif') repeat-x top left;
text-align: center;
margin: 0px;
}

Are you sure you’re looking at the right file ? There are 2319 lines in my wp-includes/functions.php.

And doesn’t WordPress MU do just what you’re asking?

XrV: Yeah, I know what you mean. Sorry if I haven’t been helpful. I hope you find the info you want.

I’m on a linux server and not freeBSD. Sorry if my indications didn’t help. But I don’t quite understand why numbers like 02/05/2006 are less interesting for you than 2 May 2006 ? (translated into spanish of course).

I’ve set up several WordPress blogs in french, and I’ve always had to set the date and time formats to local specifications in Options/General. For example, j/n/Y gives 3/8/2006 for today and H:i will show 18:11.
Information on these settings can be found using the links in the Date/Time area of Options/general.
Also, I’ve always used ISO-8859-1 in Options/read as UTF-8 doesn’t give satisfactory results with accents.
fr_FR goes in the config file, as such, nothing following.

Well I use this plugin for a blog in french and I have never had a problem with accents in the body text.
Why don’t you start by posing your question on the plugin page at https://www.dagondesign.com? I’ll vouch that they are very helpful and quick to respond.

Well, I went there, looked at the Monty Python style joke that was corny 40 years ago and left. What else ?

Have a look at this plugin…
https://www.dagondesign.com/articles/user-bio-popup-plugin-for-wordpress/

Well, I can walk you through I guess :
1) Create the category for the users-only posts, and lets say it’s #4.
2) Exclude the users-only category from showing its posts on your home page. Backup the index.php or home.php file you’re using. Then, in the index.php or home.php file, find <?php if (have_posts()) : ?> and insert this (it must go before the loop begins) <?php query_posts('cat=1,2,3'); ?> Save. You have to list all the categories that should still show.
NB. You clould use cat=-4 but you can only excluse one category this way. If you several users-only go for the first solution.
3) Exclude the user-only category from showing in your sidebar. Backup your sidebar.php (which could be a section of your index.php) and find <?php wp_list_cats(); ?>. Modify it like this <?php wp_list_cats('exclude=4'); ?> Save.
4) Upload these two files to your theme directory, overwriting the existing ones. Don't forget to backup.
5) Enable PHP to run in your posts. Download the Exec-PHP plugin and install as indicated in your wp-content/plugins directory. Activate as usual in the WP admin menu.
6) Retrieve and install the plugin to list the users-only posts and activate it in the WP admin area. I listed the addresses for these plugins above.
7) Create a page called (say) Users-only. Write your stuff and place your pics. If you chose the PostsInCategory plugin, add this to your post :
[postsincategory#4]`
Save and go see your page, you should have a list of the #4 category posts showing.
If you chose the c2c plugin the code in your post will be a little more complicated but you can customize the look of your list, add author, time, post extracts and so on. The plugin author explains how to do this on his site.
Thats all. Once again, all this works (I’m using 2.0.3) for me and I hope it will for you but I can’t offer any guarantee.

It can be done. Create a category for these specific posts. Exclude this category from your main page (see Codex for the template tags – you can use query_posts and wp_list_cats(‘exclude=X’)) for example to achieve this.
Next you need a plugin that will allow php to run in your pages. There are several available but Exec-PHP works for me.
https://www.soeren-weber.net/post/2005/08/18/50/
Next, create a page which will be home to this category. You’ll need another plugin to list the posts in the category you’ve just created. PostsInCategory will do the job simply or c2c_get_recent_posts if you want to customize more.
https://chris.narrabilis.com/wp/wordpress/posts-in-category/
https://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/08/27/plugin-customizable-post-listings/
Put the code to make this plugin work in your page and that should achieve what you are looking for.
You may need to arrange with the user only to use his specific category or perhaps a plugin for role management can limit him to just that category.

LiverpoolLad, invite us to the cavern

I’m not sure this is the best solution but faced with the same problem I resolved it using a second template and replacing
< ? php get_sidebar(); ? >
with
< ? php include( TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/different sidebar/sidebar.php’); ? >
after creating a directory named “different sidebar” with sidebar.php file in it.
You can repeat the operation as many times as you wish.
(delete the spaces to get it right)

I’d be interested in the reply to this one too, please. I’ve seen it working with 2 but not themed.

Oh, thank you, haven’t laughed so much in ages! Instead of pets, try a geeks grooming salon, you’ll earn a fortune!

(No offense intended, just a bit of humor)