Stephanie Leary

The new site looks really great. However, the search input box at the top is almost identical to the button next to it. There needs to be a lot of visual distinction between those.

I still can’t get it to work in 2.5 with those modifications. I’m using a custom theme, so I’ve placed the live_preview() function in the comments template, and this appears when I view source:

<script src="https://storystats.com/?live-comment-preview.js" type="text/javascript"></script><div id="commentPreview"></div>

… but it stays empty when I type. ??

Plugin written; testers wanted!

Otto42: well, that marks the first time Transmit has failed me on synchronization, but re-uploading wp-includes did indeed fix the problem. Thanks.

I’m getting the error simply by using query_posts in my sidebar to get recent posts from a specific category:

<?php query_posts('cat=43&showposts=10');
 while (have_posts()) : the_post();?>
<div class="foo">
<?php the_content(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>#comments"
class="commentlink"></a></div>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Suggestions welcome.

ETA: It seems that cat=43 needs to become term=43, but the query no longer works as expected. It’s pulling up the last 10 posts regardless of their categories.

Obvious: the change was not mentioned in the change log, which is where I looked for such information.

I wrote this for TXP 1.x, so I’m not at all surprised that it’s broken now. The good news is that there’s a new import script in the WP 2.0 beta… which, if I’m not mistaken, you can grab from the nightly build page.

Brilliant. Thanks, moshu.

You’re talking about the category base? Mine’s blank.

Messed with this some more tonight… any other permalink structure works fine, but numeric still loads the archive list whether I’m using one of my themes or the default.

I built this; it isn’t a standard theme. There is an archive.php, containing more or less what’s in the default theme’s archive.php, but it doesn’t seem to come into play — I deleted it and saw no difference.

Got it. Thanks so much!

I made a couple of modifications that might be useful to others… this was for an internal site, so you can’t go see it, but I took a couple of screenshots.

First, I added a calendar (screenshot, with a different link color) to the sidebar, which was easy enough in sidebar.php:

<div id="calendar" class="side">
<h3>This Month</h3>
<?php get_calendar(2); ?>
</div>

but needed a little work in _css/base.css to help it along:

.side ul, .side td { /* just added .side td to this existing rule */
padding: 10px;
list-style: none;
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 24px;
color: #690;
}

/* new stuff */
.side table { width: 96%; margin: .5em auto 0; border-collapse: collapse; }
.side caption { margin-top: .5em; color: #690; }
.side th { color: #666; font-size: 70%; }

.side td { padding: 1px; }

I also needed to customize the login screen. (screenshot) I added at the bottom of wp-admin/wp-admin.css:

/*--- copied from rdc theme's .side styles ----*/
#login {
background: #fff url(/wp-content/themes/rdc0.6.2_langshott/_gfx/_login_side.jpg) no-repeat right bottom;
color: #666;
border: none;
}

#login h1 {
background: #690 url(/wp-content/themes/rdc0.6.2_langshott/_gfx/_header.jpg);
border-top: 3px solid #360;
border-bottom: 1px solid #690;
font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
letter-spacing: -1px;
padding: 5px 0 4px 8px;
color: #fff;
}

… which uses this additional graphic. Save that in the _gfx directory in your rdc theme directory if you want to use it.

*Great* theme, roobottom. It looks good and it’s easy to work with. ??

That’s close to what I want (so is this), but doesn’t give me the date divisions.

If they don’t have mod_rewrite enabled in httpd.conf, you might still be able to do it in .htaccess. Try adding:

RewriteEngine on

at the top of the file. More info here and here.