yami

I like your header graphic ??

The best way to find readers for a personal blog, I think, is to find other people with blogs you like, that you have something in common with, and start leaving comments – always leave your URL, and people who are curious will follow you home. If you’re feeling extroverted, email a few other bloggers, esp. at smaller blogs, and introduce yourself.

Newskoo, you’ll need to use an image editing program to save your image in a format other than .bmp – .jpg and .gif are both good formats. I think Internet Explorer displays bitmap images, but most other browsers don’t.

Then your code will look like <img src="/img/blah.jpg"/>

Why not just use a custom field? Then you can display it with Scott Reilly’s get custom field plugin.

“Import from RSS” is designed to be a one-time process for people who are moving from a different software system to WordPress. To display someone else’s RSS feed and have it update by itself, you’ll need a plugin like one of these – I like inlineRSS, myself.

Motor Trend has an official policy allowing anyone to republish their feeds, as long as they get proper credit and a link back, so you’re probably ok on permissions as long as you fix up your site to make it more clear that these are Motor Trend’s links, and not your own.

WW uses the WordPress search engine to show where the word is used; if you want hilighting, I think Search Highlight will do it for you. That’s also why you’re getting “unpredictable” for “table” – WW doesn’t count it, but WP search does. I don’t know if Search reloaded would change that or not.

No, but I haven’t looked very hard, either. Have you?

Your root directory is the one with the wp-admin/ and wp-content/ folders in it, as well as things like wp-blog-header.php and wp-rss.php.

Unless you have shell access on your server, it’s probably best to extract the archive on your computer, and then upload all the extracted files/directories to your WP root directory. To do this, open the .tar.gz file with something like WinZip or Stuffit – usually you can just double-click and your system will recognize the extension and unpack the file.

Chachee: You can add entries in your stylesheet for

p.weightedwordlist { }
p.weightedwordlist a { }

… to change the whole paragraph, or just the links, respectively.

Jwurster: The count is the number of actual occurrences of the word, not the number of posts.

I too would love such a plugin – but rather than writing it, I’m kludging my way through by creating little text files to contain all my metadata. I’ve got this code on my sidebar, to show the “metadata” chunks of text I keep in files named for each category:

<?php if( is_category() ) {
$cid = get_query_var('cat');
$name = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT category_nicename FROM $wpdb->categories WHERE cat_id=".$cid);

$path = ABSPATH.'wp-content/text/'.$name.'-include.txt';

if( file_exists($path) ) {
readfile($path);
}

} ?>

It’s not as elegant as doing it through the admin interface, but it’s easier than hard-coding a different template for each category.

Have you tried Text Control? It has a nice “no formatting” option.

Also, make sure that under Options > Writing, the “correct invaidly nested XHTML” box is unchecked.

You actually can change what text is displayed by that comments_popup_link function you found; see its Codex entry for instructions.

Just in case anyone has a similar problem, and stumbles on this thread:

My database was totally hosed. Four+ years of blogging, seemingly down the drain. I never did write a clever wget script, but I pulled stuff from Google’s cache manually. I wrote a perl script to go through all the cached html pages and reformat everything as a Movable Type export file, which I imported into WordPress. My blog was saved!

More details are here.

Looks like a blank line at the beginning of the file. Probably it’s wp-rss2.php, but you might also check wp-rss.php, wp-commentsrss2.php, wp-rdf.php, or wp-atom.php.

The plugin author is, alas, too busy for the forseeable to incorporate any of your fabulous hacks – I might get round to it in, um, winter, maybe. So don’t hold back hacks on my account ??

For anyone still following this thread: version 1.1 is available, official support thread here.