martz

it seems to have been a problem with livepress, thanks for your help

i don’t really know what the point would be. someone mentioned it to me as an idea before so i was seeing if there was interest for it

with the stuff i mentioned… somewhere there’s a plugin called (or at least it’s purpose) is to have an easy way to use the custom fields

towards the bottom of your posting section (for writing post) there’s that section where you can add fields.

the thing i did uses this… so each tim i post i would just say the field is posticon and value is suit (a pic name) and click add field, this stores those values with this blog entry, and then on the index.php i added some code in the loop that takes out the custom fields, and loads the pic you want (which i have stored in the images folder)

so it’s kinda like that gravatar thing, except you can use your own uploaded pictures hosted on your own server

using this method, each user can have their own pic, because each time they’d post they could put their own pics as values in the custom fields

in fact, each author could have multiple pics…

using that custom field plug-in you can also set things to be filled in as a value if it weren’t even set (so i always have a picture up even if i forget to set the value)

alright… i broke down and found the plugin i used for custom fields:
https://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/30/plugin-get-custom/

using this and following their instructions, it’s similar to creating the mood/reading whatever examples… except you’re adding code before and after the custom field that loads a picture… then you put this within CSS (in your layout.css file) and you can place the picture where you want on the screen (this takes a bit of tinkering)

good luck, i’ll try and remember to check back here if there are questions

AFAIK?

i knew about the rss feeds for the regular journals… does anyone know of an easy way to get them and sort them out by when they were updated?

i tried an approach using (i think it was…) fof.. don’t remember what that stands for… but stuff ended up not being formatted correctly and would not be in the order it should have been (very disappointing)

my server offers cron (which i used with that last, failed method) so updating it regularly, automatically isn’t a problem

thoughts anyone?

i kinda made a hack for this, sorry i dont have instructions, as you’d have to be pretty familiar with php and css

but to sum it up, i used the custom fields plugin, and in “the loop” i loaded a picture using that custom field to get the pic i wanted (when posting i’d select custom field, select posticon and set the value to the name of the pic i want.

then using some CSS i placed it so that my pic was next to the entry so i didn’t waste space…

you can see an example at my site: https://www.mattmartz.com

use firefox to view it though… for some reason internet explorer puts the picture in the wrong place… i probably just have to clean up my code…

it’s actually all working now… dont know what the deal with that was…

… i’d still be interested in finding out about possible email customization

on my server i have these options under email:
Manage Accounts
WebMail
Email Domain Forwarding
Default Address
Auto Responders
E-mail Filtering
Forwarders
Mailing Lists
Modify MX Entry
Trace an Email Address
Spam Assassin

is there anywhere in any of these that i could go to set this up?

…or…

can you provide a little more detail so if i email my tech support i’ll have more info to go on?

how does wordpress send mail without having an assigned email address/password? I can set one up for it easy enough, but is there a default name/password in a file somewhere.

Also, which php file handles this? i’d like to look more into it to customize it, if i ever get it working

i tried that, problem is that the pics are all different sizes, and i’m anchoring them kinda weird so when i put a border it wouldn’t surround the picture (it’d have empty space with the picture

i’ll screw with it later, thanks though

surprisingly enough, $25 a year bought me a ton of options… i can go through them or you could see for yourself… https://www.livehost.net

what needs to be done to set that up? or should it automatically work?

i DO NOT have server access on blogsome.com meaning i can’t manually restore the database
i knew how to do that… but it only works when you can access phpmyadmin (which i can’t)

p.s. the problem with that post was that the apostrophes were not working… i deleted them all (after several attempts) and it worked, so someone may want to check on that

son of a b……
somehow it works now

there wasn’t white space… same deal…
…alright i’ll start fresh
i have to leave now though so no more quick responses from me ??
but i’ll put the new one up

i know you didn’t say use yours… first i downloaded a fresh one, unzipped it, deleted the original, and uploaded… cleared cache and cookies… tried it and it gave the header and error: no password in password field errors
so then i figured, since you’re trying to help, yours MUST work, so i went to your site real quick, saved and uploaded yours, and it does this refreshing thing

i just checked the database, i see you in there and all, so you registered successfully