ericshalit

Me too! Tom: where do we find your plug-in?
Thanks,
eric

Thanks!

hi:

feel free to send me your contact info and I’ll keep it on hand for when the time comes.

I’ll likely have some e-commerce needs. I’m hoping to use wordpress for that if possible. Do you have any experience with that?

can you send me a link to your website or blog?
thanks,
Eric

All good advice. This blog is my personal site, so I can live with that issue or not. I expect to be building wordpress sites for clients and would not allow this sort of issue for paid work.

Do better premium themes also have these issues or do they de-bug them? I’m using a free theme I customized. I’m not real confident writing custom CSS, but am pretty good at modifying.

Would you be available for paid compatibility cleansing?

Thanks,
eric

Hi Quincy:

Thanks for the great info! I tested it on netrenderer and it’s very buggy in all but IE8. Many more issues than just background color.

I’m tempted to recommend that my friend upgrade to IE8, since it looks AOK in that.

Does that make sense? I wonder what percentage of viewers use IE 7 or lower.

Thanks,
Eric

Update: I posted this query at the site of the developer who created the theme. I received this reply:

Hello,

You are using an older version of Ships Ahoy! Please try upgrading to the latest release.

https://empirethemes.com/ships-ahoy/

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I replied:
Hi:

Thanks for that advice. That seems to work. I installed your original SHIPSAHOY theme directly from wordpress just 2 weeks ago and that was the latest available.

This seems to work.

Thanks,
Eric
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I will be re-styling some of the elements, but the previous/next function now works. I have it set to show 20 posts on home page, and that hasn’t maxed out and created an overflow yet.
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FRUMPH:
I owe you a coffee at least. Thanks for taking the time to help me!

Hi: I appreciate you taking the time. It didn’t work. I’m pasting the updated INDEX.PHP code here so you can see if I used your suggestion correctly. What else makes this work? Would you be interested in taking this on for a small fee or Starbucks coffee card or vintage Pokemon cards? I’m hoping to be able to design & build magazine blogs for clients. I’ll need some sort of team to deal with code issues. I’m in Seattle. Whereabouts are you?
Thanks!

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="content">

<h2 class="title">Latest Ramblings</h2>

	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<small>by <?php the_author() ?> ~ <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <?php edit_post_link('(edit)'); ?></small>

			<div class="entry">
				<?php the_content('Continue reading &raquo;'); ?>
			</div>

			<p class="postmetadata">Filed under: <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
			</div>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

        <div class="navigation">
<?php
$temp_single = $wp_query->is_single;
$wp_query->is_single = true;
?>

			<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_post_link('%link',__(' &lsaquo; Previous ','mythemename'), TRUE);</div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php next_post_link('%link',__('| Next &rsaquo; ','mythemename'), TRUE); ?></div>
<?php
$wp_query->is_single = $temp_single;
$temp_single = null;
?>
</div>

		<?php else : ?>

		<h2>Not Found</h2>
		<p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
		<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/left.php");?>
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/right.php");?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Hi:
I think I must have double pasted that there above, because I couldn’t find 2 instances in the active code. To be sure I went back to a copy of the original untouched code, modified that as per your instructions and pasted that in. INDEX.PHP now looks like this:

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="content">

<h2 class="title">Latest Ramblings</h2>

	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<small>by <?php the_author() ?> ~ <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <?php edit_post_link('(edit)'); ?></small>

			<div class="entry">
				<?php the_content('Continue reading &raquo;'); ?>
			</div>

			<p class="postmetadata">Filed under: <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
			</div>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

        <div class="navigation">
<?php
$temp_single = $wp_query->is_single;
$wp_query->is_single = true;
?>
			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries', '1000') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;', '1000') ?></div>
<?php
$wp_query->is_single = $temp_single;
$temp_single = null;
?>
</div>

		<?php else : ?>

		<h2>Not Found</h2>
		<p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
		<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/left.php");?>
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/right.php");?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Is it possible that something is missing somewhere else? Not sure if the untouched theme supported navigation. I looked on craigslist for someone to pay to help me. I found a guy who I think is in India, but he says he needs my passwords, and I’m very hesitant to give that out to a stranger. Thanks for your help!

Hi:
Duplication is twice as useful.

I copied and pasted and it still doesn’t work. I refreshed browser a few times. Is there a lag time in new code going live?

Could I have botched something else when I edited themes?

Thanks,
Eric

I tried it but don’t know what I’m doing. Would you mind showing me exactly where? I’m really a novice and appreciate the help. I’m assuming you mean to place it in here in the index.php. Thanks!

<div class="navigation">

			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries', '1000') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;', '1000') ?></div>

</div>

Hi:
Thanks for your reply. This is what lives there before adding any new code:
—

<div class=”navigation”>
<div class=”alignleft”><?php next_posts_link(‘← Previous Entries’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php previous_posts_link(‘Next Entries →’) ?></div>

—
Do I add both bits of new code in there, or one bit? I attempted several variations with no results. I may have stripped out some needed code from someplace.
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Thanks,
Eric

I figured out how to get multiple posts to appear on the main page. Help repositioning sidebars and main column are appreciated.