cwolverton

So you have a new installation of WP and you want to import all of the posts from an existing WP installation? I if you have access to the previous database, I would do as suggested by Viper above. See the Codex for instructions. If you don’t have access to the previous database, or if you want to add posts into an already-existing database, use the Import – RSS in the Dashboard. Worked like a champ for me.

No, you aren’t misunderstanding the purpose, you just have to do one more thing to make a link to the file you upload. When you upload a file, it is placed in a new folder inside your installation of WordPress. The path looks like BLOGHOME/wp-content/uploads/YEAR/MONTH/. After the file is uploaded, you will notice either a thumbnail image (if possible) or a link to your file in the box below the edit window, where you chose the file to upload. For an Excel file, you will see a blue hyperlink. Just click and drag that link into the editing window and that will copy the address of the file. Use that URL to make a hyperlink, like:
<a href="https://whatever_URL_was_copied_when_you_dragged">Clickable text</a>

You are a lucky individual to live in such a place as Brasil, with all its diversity. I hope to visit some day — one of my best students was from Brasil, always trying to convince me to come.

Best wishes!

I use and like the Static Front Page plugin, https://www.semiologic.com/software/static-front/.

There is a lot (and when I say a lot, I mean a LOT) of info on permalinks in the WordPress Codex. The condensed version is like this — you will need a ‘.htaccess’ file in your root WordPress directory. Once you have that, allow server write permission (chmod 666 .htaccess from the command line) and let the WordPress tools do their magic. When your done, change permissions back to 644 (read/write for owner, read-only for everyone else).

You’ll need to edit the ‘style.css’ file in your blog/wp-content/themes/default directory on your server. Before changing it, I would suggest you actually duplicate the directory, so you have a backup in case you don’t remember what you did wrong!

Within the ‘style.css’ file, find the following:

h1 {
font-size: 4em;
text-align: center;
}

which should be around line 90. Change the text-align attribute to whatever you want. If you use ‘left’, you’ll also want to add some padding so it doesn’t run off the header to the left.

It looks to me like you might have set up pretty permalinks, but might not have rewrite rules to match. I say this because I can’t access ANY of your categories using the links on your sidebar, but I can get to them using the direct method (for instance, https://www.echoes4ever.com/blog/index.php?cat=3 takes me to your ‘delirios’ category).

It’s in there, but if you did an upgrade, you may NOT have overwritten your wp-content directory. If you dive into the newly-downloaded wordpress/wp-content/plugins you’ll find a file called wp-db-backup.php. Upload it to your plugins directory and activate it, and you’re set.

If you are using any permalink rules for managing urls, you could end up with a conflict if you nest an *actual* directory inside your WordPress install. Just be careful…

Denis- thanks for such quick attention. It’s developers like you that make WordPress such a wonderful platform, and that makes it easier (and more fun) to do my job.

All the best,
–chris

Denis,

Thanks so much for your reply, I really appreciate it. The results of the php are:

string(29) "https://wolverton.owu.edu/lab/"
string(5) "/lab/"


As for the code I’m using, it is (for example) [Introduction to Protists -> protists], where the page with the ‘protists’ slug is a sub-page of the referring page, ‘intro.’

Again, thanks for any help, or if anyone else wants to chime in, I’d appreciate it!

–chris

Denis:

First, thanks so much for the quality plugins. I just upgraded to WP 2.0 and seem to be having trouble with Smart Link. The main place I’ve used it is on the following page: https://wolverton.owu.edu/lab/intro/, beginning at the link “Introduction to Protists.” Before upgrading, all worked well. Now, there seems to be a problem with permalinks or something, since the “lab” directory is dropped from the Smart Link. Any thoughts, or is this a 2.0 problem?

Thanks,
–chris

I use WordPress to drive my entire lab/teaching site:

https://wolverton.owu.edu/lab/

Much of the content is page-driven, and I’m using the Static Front Page plugin up front. The only “blogish” content is in my ‘Thoughts’ category. It’s so flexible and malleable, I love it.

I just input my key again and now it works. I changed absolutely nothing with my setup, so I am left to believe something changed from the other end. Perhaps there was a database problem on the Akismet end? I dunno, but it works now. You might try again, piginzen…

I finally got around to getting an API key and I’m having the same problem on two different installations at two different servers. The plugin appears to be fine, but I get the same error as above. Any thoughts anyone?