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You would probably have to write your own script, using php or perl or something.

Articz, this is probably in the wrong forum area. You should repost this over in the help/problems forum. You might have better luck getting help there.

Thanks for the feedback guys.

The sidebar effect is actually purposeful.

The idea was the sidebar should “fade out” when not “in use”, and then jump forward when somebody hovers over it.

I’ve always had this aesthetic battle waging within me between bright, colorful links that are easy to spot on the page, and more mellow, subdued links that don’t interfere or distract one while reading.

The fade out/in effect was my compromise.

Anyway, I’m open to more feedback, of course!

I like it.

My only recommendation would be to maybe use a dashed line or something between posts. Your post title font is rather small … I like this, but it makes it difficult when scrolling to find where one begins and the other ends. A simple gray line or something between posts would fix things up though.

Looks really nice.

You may want to adjust the padding in the lists in your sidemenu. I see a little space at the top when I hover and the background switches.

Come to think of it, I’m using an ancient version of Mozilla though.

I just started getting the exact same trackback spam today.

Looks like you just need to get rid of the space between the “<?” and the “php” maybe.

<?php, not <? php

I finally figured this out. Thought I’d pass this along in case anyone is interested.

I’ve never really used the “Firstname”, “Lastname” fields. My users have always just left these blank. I think I was expecting the author_name=<> to use the login name, but of course it uses the Firstname.

On wp 1.2 (my version) changing the Firstname later doesn’t seem to help, so you have to give firstnames when the user is created I guess. My version is a bit hacked though so I don’t know if this is the norm.

On wp 1.5 adding a Firstname later seems to fix things up just fine.

If your blog gets tons of traffic, or you have many bloggers, use mysqlhotcopy.

It is the safer way of backing up “hot” databases. That is, databases that might be currently “in use” by a commenter or a blogger.

You may want to try exporting/importing by “hand”. That is, using the command line, instead of phpAdmin.

The problem could be with phpAdmin.

To do this from the command line:

mysqldump -u root -p wordpress > dotsandloops.net.sql

mysql -p wordpress < dotsandloops.net.sql

If that doesn’t work, try these options:
–character-sets-dir=
–default-character-set=

One big tip …

Go with a lighter background color.
I think this will improve the look tremendously.

Some general tips:

get a good mass-text-file search program.
“grep” is what you want, but your probably on windows.

“grep” for the functions you want to tweak in the wp-includes/ directory.

copy and paste them into a my-hacks.php file … then change the name slightly (so they don’t collide with the “real” functions). Enable the my-hacks file. Now you can play with the new functions.

Hint:
the file your interested in is probably wp-templates-links.php.

I use ‘meta’ tags to rate movies, so that I get stars listed next to them. I’m going to write up a ‘meta’ tag how too soon, and post it.

You can see an example here:
https://dotsandloops.net/blog/category/film/

yeah … i get this all the time.

if your server is on your LAN, i’ve noticed you can have problems. it’s possible you ARE logged in, but the redirection just isn’t working .. this was my problem. Just type the address in manually to see if this is the case.

if that’s not it, try the alternate wp-login.php file floating around.
see this site too:
https://codex.www.remarpro.com [Moderator: fixed URL – .org, not .com]

Ohh hey kayaker, I didn’t realize that was your post too.

To set up a “Master/Main” blog using Carp, that gathers posts from the “subblogs”, here is what you would do … note, this may take a little work:

1) Set up all your blogs
2) Install Carp to the “Master” blog (note, this “Master” blog doesn’t even really need it’s own database, in fact, it would be harder if it had one).
3) Now read this page on Carp site telling you how to “mix” all the feeds together, to output them based on date (assuming this is what you want).
https://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/manual/example_aggregate2.php
4) You may or may not want to change your WP settings to output the entire Post, and not just a summary, for it’s feeds.
5) If you do 4, you may want to make a copy of wp-feeds file, and tweak it … and tell Carp to use this file … other people would continue to use wp-feeds and get just the summaries, not the full posts.

That’s an outline.

Carp can also filter feeds based on keywords.
See example here:
https://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/manual/example_aggregate.php

Finally, as an adendum …
With this sort of setup, when people are on the “Main” blog, and click the post link, it will take them to the “subblog” … hopefully this is o.k.
Getting around this would be harder work.

Just like my feeds page takes you to the BBC or where ever.

Note, i just have mine setup to output just the headline , not the summary.