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westi – right, here I am eating humble pie. Very humble pie. I put your code as a php script with the rest of the plug-ins on my site, activated it and it has done the trick.

I find coding stuff incredibly stressful and it makes me unable to see what’s obvious and commonsense. Instead I turn into a snarling blind dragon!

Thank you for the plugin. It works perfectly. I confess I still don’t ‘really’ understand what ‘translated strings’ means, but I’m blissful in my ignorance. For the moment.

Thanks again.

PS Example of blind dragon mode? classes.php is on ahem Page 2 of my files – I hadn’t looked further than Page 1 but was so stressed I didn’t realise that. Embarrassing or what?

Right, it’s a new morning. First, I’m not a code monkey, I’m a beginner, so things that would be obvious to you aren’t to me, they’re gobbledegook. But I’m learning – slowly.

westi – that piece of code you supplied me with: d’you mean that I should save that as a php file, make it a plugin? Then install that plug-in on my (running 2.9) site? You see, unfortunately, you can’t assume that if you give me a piece of nicely crafted code that I’ll know what to do with it because as a beginner, I don’t! Spell it out, chaps, think lowest common denominator, think five year old child (or senior learner in this case).

Why I broke the functions.php and indeed my whole site last night was probably because I put your code in utterly the wrong place. I’ve saved it as a php script but am wary of putting it anywhere among my files until I’m sure I’m not going to break the site again! So if I know exactly what to do with it, that would be good.

Hope you’re still with me on this?

And westi – putting that code in my theme’s functions.php broke not only the file but my whole site!

westi – thanks for your reply.

I’m beginning to wonder if my 2.9 installation has corrupted. Because what there is in wp-includes are the following:

class-feed.php
class-IXR.php
class-json.php
class-oembed.php
class-phpass.php
class-phpmailer.php
class-pop3.php
class-simplepie.php
class-smtp.php
class-snoopy.php
class.wp-dependencies.php
class.wp-scripts.php

No classes.php (which I did have in 2.8.6).

I admit to not being expert in all of this at all and I’m really struggling here. Is there supposed to be a wp-includes/110n.php file? Because I don’t have that either. I’m afraid I simply can’t find the translation functions. At this rate, I won’t be upgrading again. I’ll be giving up on WordPress. I’m supposed to be writing magazine articles, instead I’m mired in all of this because of one upgrade.

Think my upgrade is corrupted?

Anyway, thank you very much for taking the time to do the code you’ve given. I appreciate it. But whether this works for me who knows?

I’ve asked this elsewhere, but have just found this discussion. I’ve upgraded to 2.9 and find that there is no classes.php in this version!

I’ve modified all the text in category-template.php but that’s not enough. It also needs to be in something like a classes.php file but there isn’t anything called that in 2.9.

Any ideas how to get round this?

dsortax – good plan, except I’m not confident about manually rolling back and my hosting service can’t help. Plus it seems kind of silly to rollback just for one tiny (but important to me) hack. I found the hack here:
https://wp123.info/modifications/how-to-remove-view-all-posts-filed-under/comment-page-1/#comment-118

So I’ve asked there how to modify this hack for 2.9.
But if anyone here knows how, PLEASE help?

I’m running 2.7.1 and although I’m a beginner at all this, I now know enough from trial and error to know that it’s really NOT what I’m doing wrong and Jim, I bet you’re not doing anything wrong either.

*Forgive the rant that follows – it’s not directed at anyone posting in this thread, but at everyone who can code a page with one hand tied behind their back and who doesn’t even try to understand why not everyone can. *

One of my main motivations for going over to hosted WordPress was audio and podcasting. I really really want audio on two of my blogs and I want to run a community podcast on another.

Well, I installed the audio player and the podcasting plug-ins and I’m damned if I can a) understand them or b) make them work. I doubted myself completely for many hours/days then I realised that I wasn’t ‘doing it wrong’, but that the process was inadequately explained, instructions were often given for a different version of WordPress from what I’m running (and how would I know that?) and there was an assumption that we all speak code. Well, I speak English. I’m not stupid if I don’t understand geeky language, I am just still learning a new language and so need things explained in simple terms as I go along. Putting ‘it’s really easy, man’ in front of a paragraph of pure jargon and code does NOT make it easy.

I applaud dmclaren’s use of (almost) Plain English which is rare on these forums. If someone asks a question in plain english, it’s a fair bet they’re not a code junkie so why must people reply in geek language? The questioner wants an answer in plain english, people! My own profession had plenty of jargon but it would have been rude of me to use it when I talked to those outside the business. That should be true for web folk too.

As to the audio player issue, good lord I wish I had an answer – to put me out my misery and to put all those others out their misery who just want it to be SIMPLE. SIMPLE for ordinary people speaking ordinary English.