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So after some toying around with things, it looks like the easiest thing to do is just going to be to use the stylesheet and html from the business listings to enter the church listings by hand.

Church Listings

*format the LISTINGS by hand on the page.

Thanks, Valentinas, I might look into that!

It’s weird though, because we’ve been using ad-minister since last May, and other than occasionally recording a few views or clicks before the ad posted, I had no real problems with the views or clicks before the beginning of February. Since then, as I said, the counters keep resetting to 0 every few days. I haven’t made any changes to the code or added or removed any plug-ins or hacks, so I don’t know what caused the sudden change. I’ve been using Google Analytics to give me a rough idea of how many views the ads have been getting, so we do at least have that for now.

Okay, I still couldn’t get it to work, but I started wondering if it had something to do with my theme. I tracked down their support forums and sure enough there was a work around specific to the Magazine Basic theme. It was similar to what I had done before to exclude categories from the home page, but I had used the option2.php file for that before. This workaround used the index.php file and with just one line I was able to remove everything with no problems.

On the chance that someone else happens to be using the same theme, here’s the link to the code and the instructions: Themes by bavotasan

Thanks for the link! I tried out their code and it’s still not doing quite what I want it to do, but I’ll keep playing with it and see what I can figure out.

Rev. Voodoo, I’ve been using ad-minister for months with no problems, but suddenly over the past two weeks, the view and click counters have started randomly resetting themselves. I took a look at ad-manager, but I was wondering if you could tell me for sure whether or not those counters are working for you?

Unfortunately our advertising on our site is all local content from our small town, so it pretty much lives or dies based on the number of views and clicks the ads get.

Oh my God, you guys are a lifesaver! One of our editors clicked the upgrade button and came running over to my desk freaking out because the site completely crashed, and I was trying everything in the world I could think of to try to revert back to 2.9.2, to no avail. I’m so glad to hear that it’s such a relatively simple fix…we can live without the events calendar for now!

Thanks again!

Okay, so after digging and digging for more info (there’s not a lot that’s particularly helpful, unfortunately), I finally found a bit of info here that was useful.

Although the XML form I had contained all the basic info I needed, it was lacking the markups that they say are required to import RSS feeds. So after some tweaking and some experimenting, and after exporting what was currently on the site into an XML file to use as an example, I think I’ll be able to get everything moved over. It’s going to take a bit longer, but thank God for the Find and Replace function, which let me substitute the WordPress code pretty easily.

Hey, I was just trying to figure out the same thing. We’re switching over from Matchbin.com to WordPress and Matchbin sent over all our old articles and such as one big XML file.

After backing up the site, I hacked out the parts we didn’t need (advertising, old polls, etc.) and I tried to import the smaller file with the Blogware importer (because it specifically said it supported XML) and the RSS Importer (because it said to use it as a last resort).

At first I got “out of memory” errors, so I split the file up into four smaller chunks, and that seemed to get around the memory problems.

BUT now that they’re going through and I’m getting the message “All done! Have fun!” I find that they don’t seem to have imported at all. I can’t find any trace of them on the site or in the admin panel.

Anyone have an idea what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks, Sam! I was able to implement the first option, and I guess I’ll just have to sit back and wait to see if that works. It seemed to take about a week for the feed to crash, so if things are still running smoothly next Friday, I’ll take that as a good sign!

Thanks again!

Okay, I put the RSS Feed back on the site, and it worked for a while…then suddenly this morning I got the same error:

“Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 130461 bytes) in /home2/dillonhe/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 478”

It had once again broken the site past that point.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Thanks, it seems to be working now!

I swear I searched the Codex for that info before I asked, but I came up with nothing. But I’m trying to get so much done on the site in such a short amount of time, that I guess I overlooked it.

Thanks again!!

Okay, this may be a stupid question, but where would I find the ID of my category then?

Okay, I found the place to put the code and I put together a code that I thought would work based off the examples on that page, but it returned the exact opposite of what I wanted: instead of removing Legals from the front page, it’s now showing *only* legals on the front page.

This is the code I used:

<?php if ( is_home() ) {
query_posts($query_string . '&category_name=-Legals');
}
?>

Thanks for the info! I’ll give this a shot!