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Can you give us a link to your site to look at? Also, what theme are you using?

A typical WordPress site is divided into different containers, each formatted differently. It sounds like the container holding the top 10 posts on the main page — which is typically called “narrowcolumn” — has something slightly different in its CSS that is screwing up the display. Meanwhile, the container for the post when it appears on its own page — typically called “widecolumn” — is fine.

It could also be a problem between to two pages themselves — index.php (for the main page) or page.php (for the single post page.)

When a user logs into to leave a comment, WordPress allows them to enter a Name, Website and Email address. The email address is not shown, but if you enter a website, WordPress does convert this to a link on your name.

To fix this, when you log in to leave a comment, just enter your name and an email address. Do not enter a website. The email address will NOT be converted to a link on your name; its just there to validate you as a user.

If you WANT to have a link to your email address on your name, enter mailto:[email protected] (or whatever your email address is.)

[Woops, I see that moshu and I posted at the same time! ]

Not sure if I am missing something here.

Couldn’t you just FTP the “master” install files to different domains, and then make the changes — title, url, etc. — through Dashboard for each new site?

For example, my site’s owner wanted the ability to do multiple installs of WP within different subdirectories of the main site. We installed the first WP installation in a subdirectory. When it comes time to add a new instance of WP on the site, I’ll just created a new subdirectory, and copy the first installation’s files to the new subdirectory. From there I’ll just go in and tweak code to make it reflect the details of the second instance of WP. I’ll probably do the tweaks manually in Dreamweaver, but I imagine you can do it from within Dashboard.

What do you mean by saying you “made a separate page”? I’m not following, sorry.

I do see in your source code is different from my page, which has a working sidebar, especially in the transition from the main portion (narrowcolumn) and the sidebar. For example, your code which introduces the sidebar is this:

<div id="col1" class="sidebar">
<ul>
<li id="pages" class="widget widget_pages"><h2 class="widgettitle">Pages</h2>


Mine is simpler:

<div id="sidebar">

Not sure why your theme is calling out so much code to transition. Also, I see that yours first calls out class=sidebar and then calls out class=widget widget_pages. Could these two be contradictory, or causing problems?

Depending on which theme you are using it’s easy. For Kubrick based themes (the stock out-of-the-box ones) edit the file “sidebar.php”. You will see those titles in there. Just type over the titles with whatever you want it to read. You can also add links, delete links, etc.

You can do this in a simple text editor like Notepad, too. Don’t need an HTML editor, since what you are asking is so simple. Just don’t do too much other mucking around in there, or things might get messy.

Well good to know for me, as well. I am an old school double-spacer, too. But of course when you type into an HTML editor, it doesn’t allow that, so I’ve never noticed it.

Thanks so much, Haecceity. You learn something new every day.

Are you posting through using the Dashboard in your web browser, or through an email account?

There is something very strange happening right after the word “museum” in your latest post. The source code shows a callout for a script, which should not be there. Take a look at everything after the word “museum”:


<p><script><!-- D(["mb","<font sizeu003d\"2\" faceu003d\"Arial\"><span styleu003d\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\">Daarna zorg ik voor een leuke locatie in Ieper voor eenngezond avondmaal…</span></p>
<p>nn<font sizeu003d\"2\" faceu003d\"Arial\"><span styleu003d\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\"> </span></font></p>
<p>nn<font sizeu003d\"2\" faceu003d\"Arial\"><span styleu003d\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\">Het is idd een eindje rijden maar ik denk dat het alleennmaar leuk kan zijn om eens met de familie een uitstapje te wagen…</span></font></p>
<p>nn<font sizeu003d\"2\" faceu003d\"Arial\"><span styleu003d\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\"> </span></font></p>
<p>nn<font sizeu003d\"2\" faceu003d\"Arial\"><span styleu003d\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\">Ik heb misschien niet alle e-mailadressen, gelieve dannverder rond te sturen naar iedereen…</span></font></p>
<p>nn<font sizeu003d\"2\" faceu003d\"Arial\"><span styleu003d\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\"> </span></font></p>
<p>nn<font sizeu003d\"2\" faceu003d\"Arial\"><span styleu003d\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\">Vele groeten,</span></font></p>
<p>nn<font sizeu003d\"2\" faceu003d\"Arial\"><span styleu003d\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\"> </span></font></p>
<p>nn<font sizeu003d\"2\" faceu003d\"Arial\"><span styleu003d\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\">Rembert</span></font></p>
<p>nn<font sizeu003d\"2\" faceu003d\"Arial\"><span styleu003d\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\"> </span></font></p>
<p>nn<font sizeu003d\"2\" faceu003d\"Arial\"><span styleu003d\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\">PS : als iemand een lumineuzer idee zou hebben u003d&amp;amp;gt; shoot…</span></font></p>
<p>nn<font sizeu003d\"2\" faceu003d\"Arial\"><span styleu003d\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\"> </span></font></p>
<p>nn<font sizeu003d\"2\" faceu003d\"Arial\"><span styleu003d\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\"> </span></font></p>
<p>nn<br />
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nn<font sizeu003d\"2\">–<br />
nNo virus found in this outgoing message.<br />
nChecked by AVG Free Edition.<br />
nVersion: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.18/506 - Release Date: 30/10/2006<br />
n</font></p>
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Why is AVG inserting a script into your post?

In short, if you delete that latest post (keep the text, put it into a Notepad file, and then you can insert it back later), your site should be fine.

But how are you creating new blog entries?? That’s the question, I think.

Tutorial updated with fix for using images!

https://www.spittleandink.com/isis/img/wordblogging/wordblogging.htm

Well, I have to say your site looks GORGEOUS, aishagrace. Really great logo and color choices. (I’m looking at it in FF 2.0.) I kinda like the flat search field as it is.

But if you want to change it, what the other site did was (apparently) override the stock WordPress one. (I did this on our site, too.) Looking at scobleizer’s code, it’s pretty easy to use.

In your page’s code, you have this:

<div id="searchdiv">
<form id="searchform" method="get" action="/wordpress/index.php">
<h2>Search</h2>
<div>
<input type="text" name="s" id="s" size="15" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</div>
</form>
</div>

Try deleting that code (save it in a text file in case you have to put it back!!) and replacing it with this, which doesn’t rely on any CSS formatting, and should default to the same look as that on scobleizers:

<div>
<label for="s">Search:</label>
<form id="searchform" method="get" action="/">
<div>
<input type="text" name="s" id="s" size="15" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</div>
</form></div>

Alternately, you could just try taking out the following line from your code:

<div id="searchdiv">

And, of course, taking out the next </div> too.

Yes, thanks, vkaryl. I’m new here and learned that a few minutes AFTER I posted. Sorry. But thanks for the heads up.

What you are describing is the character “A with diaresis.” (See this: https://tinyurl.com/ygytfq )

But when I look at your page, I see this character instead:

?

(See this: https://tinyurl.com/ynztvz )

Weird. Something is wrong with the character set. Go into Dashboard, click Options, then Reading, and be sure UTF-8 is entered where it says “Encoding for pages and feeds.”

Anything else in there?

What browser are you using to make entries into WordPress?

Sorry, everywhere I typed < li > above, it corrupted my post.

Here is a guy using the same kind of menu as you; maybe you can look at his code:

https://pschmid.net/index.php

Reyespoint is right. On Windows boxes, you must tell your provider to turn on PHP, CGI, Perl, MySQL support… basically switch on anything you are paying for. I don’t use Fatcow, but with my provider everything was “off” by default, and I had to switch it all on.

Well at first glance I can tell that IE is treating your menu as a bulleted list — which is what the

• attribute was designed for — rather than the table menu which the developer had in mind. I’m no CSS genius by far, but I’ve never seen a table based on
• — I’m sure others have.

  But in short, I think by using the

• attribute, which was created to make VERTICAL lists, and trying to force it to make a HORIZONTAL one, is tricky and will always be a problem.

  I’m sure someone here can come up with a fix, but if it was me, I’d rather dump the entire

• – based approach and come up with a simpler horizontal table approach.

  All those “for IE only” and “ignored by IE” comments are evidence of trouble. If I were a better CSS guy, I’d whip an alternative up for you quick. Don’t think I can manage it myself, though.

I just worked up a tutorial for this using the latest release of Office 2007 (not the beta). I still had the image problems, so there are no “other options” as I can see. Still working that issue.

To see my tutorial so far, with screencaps, go to:

https://www.spittleandink.com/isis/img/wordblogging/wordblogging.htm