Valerie

I’m running into the same problem with the 2.1.2 wp install.

I uploaded one .jpg, one .mov, one .avi, and one .pdf, just to see what I could see (since my initial attempt to see an uploaded video file failed), and only the jpg showed up. So I went over to Options>Misc and checked the “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders” box and voila! I can now see the avi file. But the others still don’t show up.

I really don’t want all the extra folders to be created, I don’t see the real advantage of it, since I don’t plan on uploading much. But I’ll do it if I have to.

I’m ready to hard code a fix if I have to. Just somebody tell me where and how. I want to be able to view and at least copy and paste the full path of every file I put in there.

I’ve searched and searched plugins and support for an answer to this. I also want to imbed video files from my uploads folder into my blog. I would like it to be totally easy for non-techy person to use. No extra software for “converting” normal avi, mov, or mpeg file to something else (whatever player the plugin uses should be able to play popular video formats), and less guesswork for selecting and imbedding files in the post. It’s for a family blog, and I want my sister to have some chance of figuring it out.

Wordtube has a great “add your video/music file to post” interface (you can browse the upload folder & select!), but it requires you to download a separate player AND a program that converts popular video formats to one that can be played by the player. Anarchy Media Player uses a flash player that plays popular formats, but you have to know the path of the files (cause you can’t see um!) and know the pixel size – which would Never work for my sister!

Thanks!

This topic may actually address issues similar to the one explained here.

Just trying to be helpful.

I think I found a solution. ??

I created a new div solely for the content’s background color, and in the page file wrapped it around the post div which still contains the position:relative attribute.

My new div contains only the attribute for the background and the margin attributes from the post div. I also had to slightly adjust the post div’s left & right margin attributes so they would line up correctly with the new div’s background.

Of course other themes may require slightly different adjustments, but I hope this helps others get on the right track.

I have been using Lorelle’s basic Css image code for a clean layout in Several WP blogs. (I actually got it from an image upload plugin a long time ago.) Slight tweeking takes place, but the float attributes are always the same – gotta have them, right?

Only recently I have run into a problem with them — in the Oasis theme. Using float the images seem to “disappear” in IE. Although I did discover they are actually there – they are just “hiding” behind the content div’s background. (I discovered this because the browser’s every option insists that the image is actually there, so I reduced the text size in the browser window which then caused the images to “fall out” a bit from under the content div.)

Here’s the problem as I have discovered it. The one significant difference I could find between this theme and others I use is the attribute position: relative; in my content divs (in Oasis these divs are labeled storycontent & post). Removing both allows the images to show up — on top — in the desired positions.

Unfotunately, it has caused a new problem. Without the position: relative; attribute in the content divs, every titlewrapper div sits at the absolute top of the page – since it’s absolute positioning relies on the relative positioning of the content divs.

The clear problem remains:

float attributes do not work well in IE when they are used within divs that have the position: relative; attribute – even when nested within a div that does not contain the relative attribute.

I’ve replaced the relative attribute in the post div since I cannot have the post titles sitting at the very top of the page in their nice little boxes. But even with this attribute NOT used in the actual storycontent div, the images once again sit “under” the content’s background color. Yes, when I remove the post div’s background color, I CAN see the images.

Oh, and I did make an attempt to use z-indexes, but that didn’t help.

Any CSS Gurus know a way to work around this problem?

Moshu,

I do understand that this is the case. And the code actually brings up the previous and next post titles & links when they exist.

Oh, nevermind. It all works correctly within the previous and next tags, if one uses the parameters correctly. ??

I’m just wondering if anyone if anyone is willing to give me a solution to my above request. Thank you. ??

This looks like a helpful piece of code. Thanks! ??

I have avoided using PhotoPress because of the way categories are assigned, the real problem with deleting images, and the limited options in the upload/browser windows.

I like it’s photo album and random photo options (a little more control over these would be nice), and especially it having admin controls. The above code for assigning categories seems a better option than having to go to another admin tab in order to assign them. Being able to change categories are good, but when I tried it many months ago I remember having problems with empty categories on the album page when I tried to change the name of the category I wanted a photo in. There was apparently no reasonable way to delete the now unwanted category and it stood out like a sore thumb on the album page.

Oh! How great it would be if someone could combine the good parts of photopress with the extended options of the Iimage Browser plugin. I like how it actually sees every image you have in the assigned folder. How it allows you to choose the size of the thumbnail (maybe it could be a 3rd option for a blog post while it still creates a standard thumbnail for the album pages). I like how it lets you create an actual subfolder for organizing folders – can’t that be made to replace the mysteriously created “categories” in PhotoPress, which could pull out the name of the folder for album categories? It’s really great how you can delete images and/or thumbnails from the actual server right in the browser window. I also particularly like that you can upload & delete images, and/or create or change the name of a subfolder through ftp and the Iimage browser just picks up the changes (of course one would then have to risk breaking links to images within such a folder, but I’m ok with that).

I suspect there might be some difficulties with combining all of those options, maybe when it came to viewing the album pages? But couldn’t something close to that be done without dealing with a third-party application like Gallery?

Is using the built in comments popup script and comments popup link tags an option for you? It would then keep the comments separate from your posts – once you change your single.php (permalink page which is usually used for showing comments) appropriately.

I have a really strange issue related to title-less posts imported from blogger. WP appended their permalink with a unique number, but the post content does not show up at all within the permalink page. No title, date, or actual post. In addition, the meta info for the post that should show up in the sidebar of the Connections Theme single page is replaced with the “You are currently browsing [this site’s] weblog archives for the day.” It works as expected for other posts.

I apologize if this issue has been addressed elsewhere, but I just came across this related thread while scanning the forums and thought I’d mention it here.

Splunk,

In your stylesheet, which is located at wp-content/themes/classic/style.css, you’ll find the following chunk of code starting around line 279:

#commentlist,
#commentform,
.post {
background-color: #D1E3FF;
border: 1px solid #00C;
margin: 10px 0px 10px 20px;
}

Change the hash (#) in front of commentlist to a period. A hash stands for ID, and your page code is looking for a Class. Of course, it would be easier to just change the code in your comments.php file since commentlist is only called once in each webpage & it’s defined several times in your stylesheet. Look for <ol class="commentlist"> and just replace “class” with “ID”.

I would also suggest adding ‘.graybox, ‘ (with a space) to every incidence of .storycontent in your stylesheet, but even that won’t likely look “just right” to you. Other changes will get too tedious to explain here.

Sigh. I thought I had it working. But looking at it now, it’s clear I do not.

From what I have been reading, the single equal sign should have never worked for it would then attempt the assign the value of ‘true’ to the tags. So I’ve tried the double equal sign, and I’ve tried putting single quotes around “true”. But then, I begin to wonder about the need to include “true” at all. The $post tag doesn’t need it in an if statement, so why should these tags? That puts me back to square one.

It’s got me thinking that maybe I shouldn’t be trying to use the next_post, previous_post tags inside an if statement.

I’m doing my homework & have been trying to come up with the answer on my own. I suspect there is an easy solution, but I just haven’t figured it out.

I sure wish I hadn’t posted what turned out to be a non-solution – I was trying to follow the forum rules. Now it’s going to make my cry for help less likely to be spotted by those who can help. It’s going to be worse since I have to post again to let others know that the above does NOT work.

I know you guys have day jobs and do most of your helping – with NO pay! – on the weekends. And I really appreciate all the effort and time you give to this forum. Thank you!

OK. I’ll go back to my seat, now. ??

I figured out what to do. Yeah! ??

I just had to qualify my if statement with true. It was actually something I tried just before posting here, but I wrote it wrong that time. Just because I don’t have a good grasp of basic php rules, yet.

Anyway, here’s the code that works for me:

<?php if ($previous_post = true) { ?>
<br />
<li>You can go to the <?php previous_post('%', 'Previous Post: ', 'yes'); ?>. </li>
<?php }; ?>
<?php if ($next_post = true) { ?>
<br />
<li>You can go to the <?php next_post('%', 'Next Post: ', 'yes'); ?>.</li>
<?php }; ?>

I’m learning.

3plwire,

Check out this support thread. It looks like you may be dealing with a very similar issue.

Hi, Aline,

Here’s the link to the author’s page about the phpExec plugin.

Would you be willing to give me a link to the askme script? It sounds like something that would be very helpful on a friend of mine’s site. Thanks!

Hi, Pac,

I am so very glad it worked! I am pleased I was of some help. It’s good to know that 100% actually does NOT work.

I am actually using Landzilla with WP as a shell for a full-fledged information website for a client/friend. Seems to be working out quite well.

Nice blog you have!