webnme2

I was finally able to get this to work. The path was the problem. I had to run the debugger to find out the path it wanted. The automatically discovered path was no good and trying to guess a custom path did not work well. Once I put in the correct path, it ran.

For the last few days, I’ve tried to get this to work without success. Still get the errors about writing a sitemap file. Tried to uninstall and reinstall it, but that did not go well. I could eventually get it to uninstall, but after that I could not get it to reinstall correctly from the WP Admin console. Had to use ftp to load the files instead. I’ve also ask the host to look into it and see what can be done. So far no joy there either. Have installed other plug-ins like a backup plug-in that writes files and that works fine. Am starting to think that the coding of this plug-in and the other XML sitemap plug-in are written for specific types of installs and don’t play well on WP where it is associated with a separate website and not here. If anyone knows of a good XML sitemap plug-in that works well out side of wordpress.com hosting, I’d love to hear about it.

Hey Jeff

This is what I’m using:

WPBuzzer Adds a button to Buzz your blog posts

Deactivate | Edit Version 0.8.1 | By Hameedullah Khan | Visit plugin site

https://hameedullah.com/wordpress/wpbuzzer

Since writing the post above, I upgraded the Mystique Theme and found it was a major headache to keep the social icon buttons to the left. Much easier to place them on the right. Lots of editing of php files to do what I have for blog.webnme2.com. Yikes.

I am also having the problem some have described; e.g.,

# There was a problem writing your sitemap file. Make sure the file exists and is writable.

# There was a problem writing your zipped sitemap file. Make sure the file exists and is writable.

The files exist and the permissions were set according to the directions. Created the files, moved them to the blog’s root and used FTP to chmod the files. File permissions showed properly and no dice.

Decided to try Karailiev’s Sitemap and see what happened. Same thing.

The host server runs Windows with IIS, so I’m guessing the host is going to have fiddle with Windows File permissions to allow WordPress to own or write to the files. If that doesn’t work, I’m out of ideas and could use some.

Was finally able to get a nice vertical stack of these social media icons using the following CSS:

Stacked on the left side (See example at https://blog.webnme2.com)

Buzz

clear: left; float: left; margin-left:-80px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;

TweetMeme

bottom:-65px; float:left; left:-75px; margin-bottom:65px; margin-right:-62px; position:relative;

Facebook

bottom:-135px; float:left; left:-80px; width: 60px; margin-bottom:135px; margin-right:-62px; position:relative;

Stacked on the right side (See example at https://blog.happyflier.com – site I help with)

Buzz

float: right; right: -10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; postion: relative;

TweetMeme

bottom:-70px; float: right; right: -10px; margin-bottom:70px; margin-right: -55px; margin-top: 10; position:relative;

Facebook

bottom:-135px; float: right; right: -10px; margin-bottom:135px; margin-right: -50px; position:relative;

For the first example, I also had to change the template and style.css file to get the extra white space on the right side.

If you are doing a banner ad at the top with your template, you may also want to check it in compatibility mode in IE8. Both the banner and the social media icons did strange things when in IE8 compatibility mode until the wrapper was perfected to include the bottom and bottom-margin values.