croila

I think it’s great! Very striking.

However, I’d get rid of your navigation instructions on the front page completely.

In my opinion these instructions just clutters your page up, plus most people today are web-savvy and understand how to navigate a site. Plus, if I were a normal user of your site I’d feel quite irritated by someone telling me how to click on a link and get round what is actually a pretty basic (in a good sense!) site.

Just my thoughts! ??

Vkaryl, I do understand what you’re saying about reverting to previous versions being a bad idea, really, I do, but there’s no way I have the skill with PHP and WP yet to be able to identify my slowness problem. And with 40 users moaning in my ear, downgrading seemed the best thing for me to do. I just don’t have the time or the knowledge to identify what’s causing my slowdown with v2.0.4.

Incidentally, I tried removing the RSS feeds on the dashboard, but that didn’t make any difference at all. If I could even say it’s just the admin area that’s slow, that would give me something to work on, but no, it’s absolutely everything!

Maybe there’s something weird in my server set up (I use 1and1 hosting, and it’s certainly not the cheapest package!) that is conflicting with something with WP v2.0.4, because honestly, on my side there’s nothing else I’ve changed at all.

I’m completely bewildered, but as I have the older version running absolutely fine, I think I’ll stick with that for the time being. I love WP, and I really appreciate all the help that the forum-readers give, but I’m kind of stumped now with this problem and will just wait and see what happens …

If you use https://www.plogger.org it is possible. It takes a fair bit of playing about with to customise, but it’s certainly possible – I’ve done it for four different WP sites.

Sk, that blog you have set up on 1and1, you’re not going to be able to change themes or anything like that as it’s all set automatically up by 1and1. The only way you’re going to be able to customise it fully with your own themes/templates is to install WordPress on your own webspace.

Sorry, I didn’t understand what you were talking about first of all because the UK version of 1and1 doesn’t seem to have this blog feature, and obviously as I’m in Edinburgh I use the British set-up.

Anyway. You’re lucky if you can use the US version of 1and1 because you get SQL databases even in the most basic package. We get screwed over here as we have to pay more for that, but hey, that’s life in the UK – everything is more expensive here ??

You’ll then need your FTP login and username, which you’ll find in the 1and1 control panel. And get yourself an FTP program (I like FileZilla, personally) so you can hook into the server space you’re renting.

If you go to https://www.www.remarpro.com you’ll find full details on how to proceed there.

Fabrian – interesting to see your comments about 1and1. I’ve used them for three years now, for both business and personal websites, and I think they’re good. Certainly not just for basic users, but then again, I didn’t sign up for the cheapest hosting packages with 1and1.

Agreed about customer service though: it truly, truly stinks. Any time I have to call their customer support line I sit down with a cup of tea and a handful of tranquilisers because you just KNOW you’re going to get someone answering your call who doesn’t have a clue and who doesn’t even speak your language properly! It’s an absolutely vile experience.

I just stick with them because a) I’m too lazy to move hosting companies, b) I think their general deal is pretty good, and c) in the time I’ve used them, they’ve been 100% reliable for me.

I use 1and1, and have never had any problem with this. Maybe I’ve got a different hosting package than you? I use the 1and1 business account and have full FTP access. If you’ve only signed up for the “home” package, chances are that’s why you’re not getting full access.

But then again, how on earth did you install WordPress to start with? I’m intrigued to see the footer of your site says “1&1 Weblog – powered by WordPress”. Did you set your site up from the 1and1 control panel or something?

Okay. I admit it. I know everyone advises against it but …

I downgraded from v2.04 to v2.0.2 (couldn’t find a download of v2.0.3).

I run a 40-user intranet and I was getting such grief from the users about the degradation in speed and performance that I didn’t feel I had much option other than to abandon v2.0.4.

But I’ve never heard of this UTW thing, so I guess I’d better go and check it out now!

On the top right-hand side of the control panel when you’re logged in, you’ll see the message “Hello [name of logged in person]”, so maybe that’s what you want on the sidebar?

If you’re at all familiar with PHP, you could open up your admin-header.php file and copy some code from there.

I think this is the code you want in your sidebar:

<?php printf(__('Hello, <strong>%s</strong>.'), $user_identity) ?>

However, I’m a million miles away from being a PHP expert, so that’s just my guess!

Oooh, I’ve done it.

Just stick this in on your sidebar right after <?php wp_register(); ?>:

<?php global $user_ID;
get_currentuserinfo();
if(user_can_edit_post($user_ID,$post->ID)) {
wp_register();
}
?>

Well, it works for me anyway ??

Ladydelaluna, many thanks for your reply, and suggestions on how to fix it.

I think what’s happened is, in my theme folder I didn’t have a default page template (eg, page.php); I only had index.php. So whenever I wrote a page, it actually picked up the post template, rather than page template.

Oh, and the reason nearly everything on my site has the “general” tag is because when I moved over to WordPress from Typepad ages ago, the category listings didn’t come with me. And I never did get round to re-assigning all the old posts …

But anyway, no matter. Many thanks for your advice, much appreciated. ??

Yosemite, sorry to answer your question so late – been away for a few days.

Yes, I did run upgrade.php, and everything went to plan. There doesn’t seem to be any one particular page which loads more slowly than others: every page loads slowly now since the upgrade, although some are worse than others. However, there is no consistency in which pages are worse.

I don’t use pingback (as it’s an intranet), and I don’t have that many plugins in use. I’ve got a very basic theme, and even when I tried it with the default theme, that made no difference to the slow speed.

Sorry to be so dim, but what exactly is an “SQL dump”? I know absolutely nothing about SQL or servers or whatever, so I’m a bit nervous of tinkering with things I don’t understand in case I break it well and truly!

Regards,
Croila

To be honest I’d be tempted to go back to an older version of WP – if I knew how! It’s such an absolutely fantastic application, and this is the one fly in the ointment as far as I’m concerned ??

Dude, I’ve got the same problem with regard to some people not receiving notification emails. On a work website I run I have about 35 people signed up to receive notification emails, and about 6 or 7 of them just don’t get them. Ever. I’ve tried deleting them and then resubscribing, I’ve checked out their email addresses (they’re fine), and now I’ve run out ideas!

Anyone else got any thoughts on how to fix this, please? Much appreciated.

Kind regards,
Croild

This design is fantastic! It’s really eyecatching – well done!

One little thing I might suggest is that you have a full page background of the yellow spots, rather than confining them to the centre panel of the page.

What a great site though ??

I think the layout is great, but oh boy those animated adverts (for cursors, I think) give me severe eyestrain. In my opinion that really ruins it, yet it could be such a great design otherwise.