webdressing

You could probably do that with CSS.

Try background-image: URL here;

Hi Terpsblog. You need a special program that will send those files to your server. It’s called a FTP. You can find one for the PC here. Open up the new theme zip file and you’ll find a theme folder. Upload that folder with the FTP program to your server, it goes in the blogs /wp-content/themes folder. Then log in to your admin control panel (ACP) and click on ‘Presentation’ You should see the new theme there. Click on it. That’s it, your new theme is now the default theme ??

I usually stay away from nesting, but I’m sure someone will come along and help soon ??

I wish there was a perfect standard for everything in life so these types of depressing cross-standard fights don’t happen

As a coder/designer this is one of the most frustrating things. It’s almost the year 2010 and you’d think that having ONE standard would be common place, but sadly it’s not. Each browser company has a huge ego and they all think that ‘their’ way of doing things is the only way of doing things. Safari and FireFox are pretty much on the same page, but IE is the pits. There is also a new Javascript prompt( ) problem with IE7, so if you use IE7 be prepaired to see a lot of false security warnings coming your way. Unfortunately IE takes up almost half of the market so they figure they don’t have to play fair, and they make up their own rules. When people wise up and stop using IE, that’s when a ‘one standard’ world will be possible.

That’s a forum of navigation called breadcrumbs. Check here for something like that.

I am looking to create a post within a post.

Do you mean quoting someone like above?

It may be free, but what I’d really like is an app that works, straight out of the box.
What didn’t work ‘out of the box’? Chances are you’re talking about a custom theme that you’re trying to install, and you can’t blame WordPress for that. Blame the author who made the custom theme.

for example, to change things that aren’t there
Again, what isn’t there? WordPress documentation applies only to WORDPRESS files. Custom themes are written in PHP and HTML, and the authors of those custom themes are free to apply it as they deam necessary for that particular theme/plugin. WordPress has no control over them, just like WordPress has no control over how the end user uses their product. The bigger problem here is that you probably don’t understand how to code, but that’s really not WordPress’s problem. WordPress didn’t write the PHP scripting language, they are just using it for their product.

there needs to be someone who actually *knows how to fix stuff.*
People can’t be at two different places at the same time. If the coders who write WordPress code were baby sitting the forums – then they would never have any time to write the next version of WordPress. Same thing applies to those who write those great little plugins. As a coder you try to help those who don’t understand PHP, but you simply can’t design/write/test plugins and be on the forums 24/7. The only logical answer is that the members learn how to code, even on a basic level, themselves. Just think of it as an investment in your site. Its really not that hard to learn coding. In regards to having a perfect XHTML template, I really wouldn’t waste much time worrying about that. First of all I.E. (even IE7) doesn’t even support XHTML. Secondly even if you had a perfectly designed page it still wouldn’t matter that much because the very first time that someone left a < / b > tag open in a comment – then your site wouldn’t be XHTML compliant anymore. Worry about making your search engines happy. They will effect your sites success far more than valid code. Of course you always want to ‘strive’ for having as clean of code as possible, but just don’t lose any sleep over it ??

I’m extremaly new to this stuff.

We all we’re at one time ?? Are you on a PC or a Mac?

This looks great Whooami, plus your dog is cool ?? Is it a West Highland?

That’s a nice script jetshack ??

Is that just for windows, or can OS X 10.4.x use it also?

Lots of plugins here…

There is currently no facility to screen bad countries or IP addresses.

Would be very easy to add. The admin could simply select which countries and IP’s to block. Then if someone wanted to use the cart from any of those listed countries, they would simply be re-directed to another page saying something like “We’re sorry, we do not allow purchases from that area. Please contact the admin for furthur information“. Anyone selling ‘Virtual’ products (anything downloadable or subscribed to) needs this as the credit cards and PayPal do not protect the merchant from these kinds of chargebacks.

On another note, what would cause the large gap seen here under the words ‘Shopping Cart’? All we did was activate it and that’s how it shows up…

Well give it another try later tonight. We just started to build the blog so there aren’t many words on it to search for ??

What we’d really like to do is to create a new page called ‘Search Engine’. We’d remove the standard search engine block from the blog index page. Then when someone would click on the Search Engine link it would send them to a separate page with the Search Engine functions displayed on it. It would be like an ‘About’ page, only it would be dedicated to the Search Engine. Our only problem is we don’t know how to post the search engine on a separate (instead of the sidebar) page. Any instructions?

Why not just zip everything in one package and post the link from your blog? That would be much more straight forward and easier for people than to have them jump through all of these hoops, downloading separate files…

Just a thought.