jrawle

Thanks for the reply. It would be good if it gave the relevant post count in the profile in that case.

Anyway, I seem to have found a way to get my URL displayed in my profile!

Only just saw this reply…

Tags and categories serve different purposes. Categories are good for organising posts into a small number of topics that are quite strictly defined, often when the blog is first started. Tags, on the other hand, provide a looser way of describing the content of the post that usually isn’t quite perfect, but over time builds to give a picture of which topics are covered by the blog (i.e. the tag cloud). I would expect a blog to use a handful of categories, but tens if not hundreds of tags.

I bet you’re the kind of person who actually manually goes through and deletes old email too, right? You really have to get over this “it takes up space” thing. Space is cheap and virtually unlimited. ??

No with my web host it isn’t. I’m limited to how much I can store in a database. Also, every time I want to backup the database, I have to download the whole thing. If it grows larger and larger, full of revisions, I have to download much more.

Excessive and useless options harm usability and make systems confusing.

There’s nothing excessive or useless about it. Why does WordPress have to go down the Microsoft “force users to do things exactly as well tell them” route? By all means, have an “advanced” options screen somewhere, or even just a text file with advanced options that non-technical users don’t ever need to see.

There needs to be an option to disable autosave (at least when editing existing posts – for never published posts it isn’t an issue).

There’s no real case to argue for disabling it.

So many people asking how to disable it is a pretty good case. People don’t want lots of extra entries in their database. Lots of plugins are broken now too because the meaning of a “post” in the database has changed.

OK, I see it’s because each term only appears once in the database, irrespective of how many “taxonomies” it belongs to. So that means there’s no solution, other than using CSS tricks or a plugin to change case as tags are displayed?

The category pages usually use the_excerpt() rather than the_content(), so shouldn’t show any images anyway. You could also try this on your front page.

Having links ending with an extension is a little outdated now, a legacy of the way old static sites used to work.

I’m going to move some old, static .php pages to WordPress soon, and I’ll do so by creating WP pages with a matching name, but without .php for the permalink. Then I’ll add a rule to my .htaccess that permanently redirects any requests for a .php page by stripping the extension off the end. Search engines will soon update, and you can leave the line in your .htaccess so that old external links continue to work.

Something like:
RewriteRule ^(.*).php /$1/ [R=301,L]

For your photos folder, you could try adding the following with the other conditional lines:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URL} !=/photos.*

That should stop WordPress taking control when you attempt to access the photos directory.

Could you post your htaccess here? It might just be a matter of changing the order, or adding an extra line to it.

Please can you explain again what you want to happen.

When you say your blog appears, do you mean an error page (which is themed with your blog theme)?

I don’t quite understand the question. You have a folder called /Photos and you don’t want anyone to have access to it at all? But WordPress is causing the contents of the folder to be revealed? Please can you clarify your problem.

I’m not quite sure from what you’ve said. You could try opening the file you downloaded in a text editor and see whether all the tables are there.

Anyway, rather than use phpMyAdmin, I recommend using the wp-db-backup plugin. Until recently, this was shipped as standard with WP – in my opinion, it’s a pity they have stopped doing that.

You can download it here:
https://ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup

It lets you back everything up straight from the WP admin screen.

The closest you can run natively on a PC is the Linux browser Konqueror (the browser on which Safari is based). You can use one of the live CDs such as Knoppix (https://www.knoppix.net) to try it out.

if it’s valid, it conforms to a standard, and that standard is there so sites work across all platforms

Well, it works across all platforms that conform to the standard. Unfortunately, very many people use Internet Explorer 6 (and to a lesser extent 7) which definitely don’t fall into that category.

Anyway, there are some ambiguities in the standard, and each browser has its own interpretation. A well-written page will be readable in any browser, but if you want your fancy design to line up correctly to the pixel, you need to test it.

What version of CQS are you using? Make sure you’re using the 2.7 code.

What version of WordPress did you upgrade from? I upgraded from 2.0.9 (I think). How did you carry out the upgrade process?

I don’t think I have any other plugins that would affect this one.

What is the link to your blog?