Drawer

I have the plugin XML Sitemap Generator, and once I wrote a real robots.txt file, the virtual one disappeared, and so did the sitemap.
I understand I can add sitemap myself to my robots.txt:
sitemap: https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

However, the plugin has some great tweaks, and I’m not sure the plugin keeps working if you write your own robots.txt. Does anyone know if this is true? I hope the author adds an option to exclude images next rewrite!

Or should I delete my own robots.txt and try to block images with the WP metawords?

PS I wanted to correct the first code above to block bots from all images:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/

Thanks, Mark, the first link does have to do with images. Since Google is such a monopoly, didn’t think they would include this info there.

For other seekers, to block all bots from images:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images

And to block just Google:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

Disagree about whether it’s WP. One of the first questions WP asks when you get a new blog is if you want it in search engines or not.

I’m wrong. It’s still private. I would like the page not to appear in the tabs at the top, and yet still have an url that anyone can use.

Help?

Everything in one of my blogs just became huge, with big type both in the blog and admin. Only in one blog. Not in any other firefox tabs. I see the Screen options button, but nowhere do I see accessibility mode, which I imagine is the culprit.

Where is it? What does it look like? Why isn’t it in Screen Options?

I have this question, too.

I want a page (or post) to be private except to editors. However, since editors hate any fuss, I don’t want them to have to log in or register. This would work fine if I can just have the page not show up in the navigation toolbar, and just send them the url. How to have that page tab be invisible to people?

Never mind. To help someone else: just mark page as private, and remember the title of the page to find it as url. It will also show up in your Edit Pages admin. Perfect.

If you have 2.7 you can’t unpublish. Gross.

I would like this fixed, too. I want to stop an evil blog from linking to me, and want to disable the post – ie, Unpublish it – but I can’t, because it’s private, so I don’t have that choice now. And Google still counts it as a hit. I want a blank, nothing from that site. Really annoying.

Okay, note for my future upgrades: make a screen shot of your old theme, because you’ll never see it again. Half of my saved themes, ones that I had worked on (in css), and looked great, are now broken on 2.7, and I have no idea how to fix them. ?? All that work for nothing.

Only 24 hours later, it’s upgraded. I had moved over my config.php that I used for my other blog, with a diff database, so it was trying to get me over to that one in my login screen. And the reason it had a white screen…theme is broken, forever.

Yes, sometimes it is. Quite frustrating. Seems to be hit or miss whether someone will help or answer…

Oops, just tried to change something else, too, so to help others, for php it should be:

var $xs = 0; //change this to change the amount of extra spacing

      function  fixImageMargins(){ 

        add_filter('img_caption_shortcode', array(&$this, 'fixme'), 10, 3);
    }
       function fixImageMargins($x=null, $attr, $content){

And it seems to work!

The top of the frame is still a little thicker than I would like, but it’s great to have the side frames only one px borders.

Another hour gone to WordPress issues! (not happy)

I wanted to change this frame around the images, too. As an artist and cartoonist, would like to note that the caption below is a great addition, but the grey on top and sides is distracting, and too thick.

Anyway, am not able to change to php4, jpadie.

Here is what I did: it mentions public 3 times, so changed according to you and instructions I found online to:

var $xs = 0; //change this to change the amount of extra spacing

      function  fixImageMargins(){ 

        add_filter('img_caption_shortcode', array(&$this, 'fixme'), 10, 3);
    }
       function fixme($x=null, $attr, $content){

But am still getting error message in 2.7.1. I don’t understand php, am just copying.

Anyone can help with this php coding to get it to work in php4?
Thanks!

Hi, Drawer, I’ll help you.

I had hotlinking disallowed in my htaccess file for my other blogs. But since I put no right click in my html, I don’t really need the anti-hotlinking, so deleted it. Now both the uploader and the edit buttons are working fine.

To help someone else: there is only one htaccess file, in your public_html folder. Same folder you use to ban people. I’ve seen Otto say to put permissions in there for the uploader, but I didn’t have to, just deleted the hotlink ban.

When I enter 3 columns in the search box, Jeremyclark13, I get one with 4 columns, one 3, and the rest 2 – it’s all crazy, no searching possible at all. All that hard work the developers did, and with no search, no one can find the themes they want.

The search is useless, and so easy to fix, if someone had just SAVED THE OLD VERSION. It’s really deplorable.

Thank you VERY much for replying so quickly, mitchoyoshitaka.

I couldn’t get anything to show up. But after I shut down for the night, and opened everything in the morning, the tags and categories were fine. Also, I forgot to add that the BLOGROLL was missing, too!

I went into my server and saw that in both blogs, this YARPP was at 644, so I changed the permissions to 755 for all the files.

I understand that it’s made for 2.3 or higher. However, I wanted to try it in my older blog, and it got many more relevant links there.

Actually, the blogroll and tags in the 2.5.1 blog disappeared AFTER I deactivated YARPP. So even though you say it’s not connected, I think my db thinks they are!

I would like to try it again in both blogs, now that I’ve changed permissions, but I’m a little nervous. I’ll let you know if it disables categories again this time, in which case I’ll have to delete it.

Okay, this is what I get in my 2.2 blog, on my admin page:

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ name from natural join where .taxonomy = ‘category” at line 1]
select .term_id, name from natural join where .taxonomy = ‘category’

So far, is working in blog itself. We’ll see.

Oh, thanks, BerndS, I didn’t see your reply before.

I told Oliver how I followed his directions in the FAQ, and he had no idea what I was talking about!

The error is:when someone fills out the contact form, it says One moment, please…and just hangs. The form remains below, all filled out – it doesn’t return to empty, I mean, or give a message saying thank you. I have 3 emails that it can go to, just to be safe, and none of them worked.

It worked the first time I tested it, but never since.

You’re right, his forums are very difficult to read. In Oliver’s Faq he says to do this:
The form hangs after submit (SMTP)

In case you’re using the SMTP feature:

* This requires a WP release coming with the phpmailer feature, check for class-phpmailer.php & class-smtp.php in wp-include/
* Due to a known WP bug (even still in 2.2.2), make sure you create a copy of class-smtp.php and rename to class.smtp.php
* Due to limitations on the phpmailer end, there is no support for SSL or TLS
I did try to change this php name, but my server says no period can be added to a php, just numbers and letters, so I can’t rename it with a period.

When I told Oliver this, he said he never told me to do this, and to try to reboot – as a joke. How funny.

I don’t have Captcha, and I have version 8.6, so I don’t know what else to try. Any ideas?