Grackle Design

ive built a number of sites w/ WP 2.8 and never a problem. suddenly shit goes haywire today with this blank page on the install.php, tried everything for hours. finally broke down and downloaded 2.9 and did another fresh install and it worked.

i was holding out on 2.9 cause i heard some funky shit is going on with it and i like to wait till at least X.x.1 or X.x.2 for any upgrades so they have the bugs worked out. fingers crossed

and the answer is…?

these orphan support threads are a bit ridiculous. theres probably a dozen or more of these with the same issue that i have to go rooting around for. theres got to be a more efficient way of organizing support than random crowdsurfing and thousands of orphaned threads

I cannot tell you how many blogs I have seen this on. I’m visiting education blogs all the time and its pretty much like 4 in 10 that this happens. no exageration. #shityounot

unfortuantely changing the width does not work so easily

i have tried both:

[captchar captcha-691 /25]

and

[captchar captcha-691 25/]

and neither one has any effect on the width of the input field

any suggestion?

ditto

the authors website is down. so, any help is appreciated. there are no other instructions in the readme file after insstallation

bingo. that worked

@esmi

<td vertical-align=”foo”> doesnt work. does it need to be in the CSS such as:

td.fudgepress {
vertical-align: foo;
}

and then in the HTML as:

<td class=”fudgepress”>

the inline tag is not working

I think i’ve solved the problem!!! whooo!!!

for those of you who come after and find this thread, here’s what i discovered:

first, I disabled both Firefox No-Script and AdBlock Plus addons. I’m not positive whether either of these had a had in the problem but there is a definite possibility that one of them was screwing with the code. Theres a lot of other posts about this causing a problem.

When in FTP, i kept noticing after uploading images through the wordpress media library it was creating the folder C:\wamp\www\wp/wp-content/uploads, even after I had changed the miscellaneous settings to /wp-content/uploads

my FTP client wasn’t allowing me to delete this directory. so i opened up file manager in cpanel and used that to delete it. however this is not where the images were being dumped. What i finally figured out was that wordpress was creating another folder inside the wp-admin folder with the same path, and that is where the images were getting uploaded.

in the end i wiped out any folders that were c:\wamp\www\… (it was also creating a folder called ‘http:’ which was empty. not sure why

then after this when i used the uploader it created the appropriate directory.

ah, wait. i’ve noticed also that when i went in wordpress to ‘Settings’ > ‘Miscellaneous’ and for ‘store uploads in this folder’ I had C:\wamp\www\wp/wp-content/uploads (since i built the site locally on my wamp server)

I have changed this already prior to my testing with the original site. What i’m now wondering if it left something in the database that would need to be corrected. is that a possibility?

since I also just discovered on my other blog that i also had not changed that folder name since i moved to a live server, that this might be the root of the problem since they both have that in common

Okay. to update, I just have this same problem happening on another one of my blogs now. and I think this is a version 2.7.x (not sure where to find the version info) but it is definiately not 2.8.4

i am wondering if this had something to do with running Ad-block plus in firefox. a quick google about it and at least one other person said this

https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4475

except i have also tested this in IE and it seemed to be no different

am going to try removing adblock plus and see what happens

how come this didnt get ‘freshed’ to the top of the line after my last post?

esmi, thanks for your help.

Running on cPanel/Hostgator.

i built the site on a test server, then migrated over to another server where the actual site will be (both are cpanel/hostgator). I went back to the test server and checked there, and its the exact same problem. so it doesnt seem to be a result of the migration.

here are two links to single posts on the test domain:

https://1.dnfu.net/2009/09/link-to-song/

On that one you can see i put an image on the upper right of the post and it displays fine. (this is the same image that you see if you scroll down a bit to the ‘Contact Info’ image) I chose that image since I knew I was already using it on the site with no problem

https://1.dnfu.net/2009/09/countdown-to-launch-sequence/

On that post you can see there is a blankness where there should be an image (I put a border around it)

now, the only difference in the two posts is the path to the image file, which are, respectively:

https://1.dnfu.net/wp-content/themes/thesis_151/images/contacts.png
https://1.dnfu.net/wp-content/themes/thesis_151/images/toronto.jpg

both of these images were uploaded through FTP and are there in the same directory.

interesting to note, to insert the image i used the image uploader but since i already had the images uploaded i chose ‘add media file from URL’ option, and just put in the direct path. however when i used the first image (the good one) it gives me a little green check mark next to the field, and then allows the ‘insert image’ button to be clickable. when i used the path for the second one (the image that doesnt show) it displays a red X next to the field and doesnt allow the ‘insert image’ button to be clickable, (meaning it is not recognizing that there is an image where there is one)

like i said, crazy. its drving me up the wall.

Hi, I am using absolute

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