tinker123

I host my own copy of the wordpress software AND I have a wordpress.com account( with a blog). Whatever change wordpress.COM made, the stats plugin can’t handle that.

I updated my existing wordpress.COM account to have a separate email address from the wordpress blog software installation I host.

I then created a new wordpress.COM account, without creating a blog there, to get a new API KEY.

I went into phpMyAdmin, the wp_options table and deleted the information in my stats_option field.

I relogged in to my blog ( my private installation I host ). It told me that for the stats plugin I needed an api key. I followed the links to my NEW wordpress.COM account ( without a blog ) where it showed me an API KEY. I took the new API KEY, put it in my self-hosted blog.

No stats yet, but the error messages are gone and a message says its collecting information as well as that it will report it when it has some.

I haven’t fixed my problem yet, but these links may help

https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stats-plugin-stopped-working-api-problem?replies=118

https://www.suctionseat.com/2011/02/how-to-change-api-in-wordpress/

https://www.vexite.com/2010/changing-wordpress-api-key-used-for-stats/

support at wordpress dot com

I have the same problem as the original poster. The wordpress.com stats plugin stopped working a few days ago with the error message

“Your WordPress.com account, youraccountname is not authorized to view the stats of this blog.”

I tried installing jetpack and I got an error message saying it couldn’t connect.

I’d like to second this.

The other day the wordpress.com site stats plugin stopped working. The error message telling me they were working on it vanished, leaving only a note that my account could not be authorized so I couldn’t get my stats.

So, I tried reinstalling, found out about jet pack, installed it and still got no stats.

This has to be one of my favorite plugins, so please if anyone knows anything about this please post an answer.

I fired up firebug to find the the relevant CSS class.

I put this line in wp-admin/css/wp-admin.css :

.metabox-holder{width:675px;}

That narrowed everything in the wordpress page proportionally with the narrowed section of the TextArea for the area.

@thevirtualpreacher

I followed the second link found my answer as to the “why” and used the search/replace plugin to clean out the funky symbols and replace them with quotes.

Thanks much for the help

I deactivated as sixteen of my pluggins and refreshed my page. The problem persisted unchanged.

I also switched my theme to “2010” and the problem appeared there as well

I did not deactivate my plugins, I have very, very many of them.

I renamed my theme. I also switched to the 2010 theme, then I switched back. No effect.

The swapping out of punctuation in quoted text for funky marks seems only to be an issue for older posts( I have many ).

Do you have any idea for what the cause is?

Any other ideas for how to get rid of it?

Thanks in advance

Now that I am functioning a full night’s sleep it sounds exciting.

The theme I developed is bare bones, missing a lot of functionality. The code reuse sounds tempting.

I am certainly going to make time to read that series.

I was wondering why the new WP installation only came with one default theme, in the past they would give you at least 2 – 3.

Thanks again!

That did the trick, thanks!

I decided not to move the blog.

I figured out that if I moved the images directory to where the permalinks was munging the links to be I would only have to fix the image URLS in 13 “pages” versus 13 “pages” + 50 “posts”.

Thanks much for the help.

I really like that search and replace plugin!

adeptris;

Are your tutorials sequential, starting from nothing to make a custom theme?

I found two drop down menus. I read the “getting started” in one of them and look over a few tutorials in the same menu. It seems like a lot is skipped.

Is that because the latest wordpress 3 doesn’t require the same steps for building up a theme?

I am nearly done with a hacked quick and dirty theme for a friend’s static web site. The theme looks similar to her site, so that it blends in with her static site.

My plan is to create a second blog as a lab where I will work on a more sophisticated theme, one that will allow us to replace her static site entirely with a blog.

I have only made 1 theme so far. I used a tutorial with a format like “make this file, put this code here, this is what this code does”.

I didn’t get a lot of education about concepts and jargon. I’m a programmer so I was able to hack my way though the pHp and CSS ( hacking the CSS layout was MUCH harder than hacking the pHp ).

I was hoping to get a more modern tutorial to follow it and update the code I have as I go follow the tutorial.

From *quickly* perusing your “getting started” page it looks like a LOT has changed. For instance, WP now has a built in custom menu feature. I was going to build a CSS drop down menu myself, until I read that. Then I saw that there is this thing called a “child theme” that lets you reuse existing themes to get a new look/layout without having to make a whole new theme.

Since I am nearly done with an interim blog for my friend I may just slow down to read your stuff so I start off modern and don’t reinvent the wheel.

Please ignore that last post……I tried to edit it, but I took to long

Wow thanks.

I have a template for a basic theme left over from the 1st ( and last ) time I made a theme.

I was hoping to find an up to date tutorial, that would walk me through the process of building a theme, along the lines of “create this file, put this code in it, this is what this code does”. Something that doesn’t assume I know jargon ( ie, WTF is a child theme? a widget? etc).

I was thinking that I could follow such a tutorial by reviewing the files I have, changing and adding code where necessary.

I looked over your site and it looked like most of the tutorials were for single tasks.

So you have beginners soup to nuts theme building tutorial?