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HandySolo on "Admin Panel not displaying correctly"

HandySolo — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:15:14 +0000

but how do I do that? There's a ton of stuff on the page.

Just screenshot the top part. Or copy paste the contents to a text file (you could then use http://wordpress.pastebin.ca to store that). Drop a link back to here.

Why? I'd like to see if you're looking at html or xml.

Ahhh on "RSS don't work"

Ahhh — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:35:36 +0000

Should I mark this resolved? The "resolution" is currently: "use IE7 and not FF". Doesn't seem like a resolution to me so I'd be very grateful for anyone that can help to get my FF working. Must be some of you out there using FF with WP successfully. What am I getting wrong?

Ahhh on "Admin Panel not displaying correctly"

Ahhh — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:29:51 +0000

Thanks for the clarification Moshu, which I will go and check out. But shouldn't you have posted this on my RSS thread? It's taking two to tango here, and THAT for me is the bottom line in our exchange.

I'm finding it quite hard work getting support here.
You may have noticed from the threads I have started that the degree of response is negligible in terms of the volume of traffic overall here. Many threads have received no response at all. This is irritating because I KNOW the answers are all simple, I just can't find the needles in this vast labyrinthine haystack, and the thousands of people who must know out there, well don't seem interested.

So . . . when I DO get a response I simply converse as I would in any real (non-virtual) contact.

Originally Spencerp asked if this thread was resolved. I answered that it was but only in the sense that the problem had gone, not than an answer had been found. My answer concerned HIS query and it was that which was NOT about the topic of the thread but about it's framing and significance. It was in ANSWERING HIS post that I brought up those issues you see as out of place here but which I consider were pertinent, relevant and helpful to the moderator asking the question and indeed valid feedback by a new user on this place generally.

But thanks again for the clarification. I will try and check it out.

One meta-problem here is that if I understood enough about the problems to know what they were actually about, and which would then enable me to post simple one track threads about them, I would probably be able to answer them myself! No?

moshu on "Admin Panel not displaying correctly"

moshu — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:01:30 +0000

Look at your second post in this thread:
1. The problem has gone...
2. It went when I [..] stopped using the Default theme and switched to the Classic theme
3. The RSS still doesn't work in FF!

It was somehow natural to make a connection between the 3 statements above in the same post, and clicked on your profile to see the site.
It has been displayed with the Classic theme and clicking on the RSS link in the sidebar... it gave the usual FF message: "feed is not a valid protocol... etc".
The solution for that is to remove the word "feed:" as I suggested, by opening the sidebar.php and editing it.

If switching themes and RSS not working are NOT related, then, please, don't post them in the same topic/post.

Ahhh on "Admin Panel not displaying correctly"

Ahhh — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:32:59 +0000

Handy, my friend, sure, but how do I do that? There's a ton of stuff on the page.

Ahhh on "Admin Panel not displaying correctly"

Ahhh — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:29:34 +0000

Oi Moshu, no need to get shirty mate!! You CHOSE to answer my throwaway about RSS, if you don't want to engage here surely no-one's forcing you. But don't get p****d with me for having the courtesy and interest to engage with YOU if you engage with me!

May I invite you to ask yourself WHY you are posting here?? If you want to help solve a problem or "improve" behaviour as you may see it, how about "walking the walk"? YOU are mixing themes at least as much as I.

On top of that, I still haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about in your posts, other than of your irritation. What does your last line MEAN?? Why are you posting if you don't really want to be understood?

Look, I've posted elsewhere on RSS feed problems, if you want to help then please go there. I would very much appreciate it. There is a dearth of help here I am finding, but I think, at the moment, on this thread, we seem to be getting on fine without your help. Thanks for your concern anyway which I am sure arose from the best of intentions.

moshu on "Admin Panel not displaying correctly"

moshu — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:01:52 +0000

Hi Moshu, coul you be a little clearer please?

Yes. Stick to one issue per topic!
Don't mix your themes with the RSS of a support thread.

HandySolo on "Admin Panel not displaying correctly"

HandySolo — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:55:14 +0000

Hey Ahhh, would you put a screenshot up of that "screenful of HTML"?

Ahhh on "Admin Panel not displaying correctly"

Ahhh — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:38:43 +0000

Hi Moshu, coul you be a little clearer please? It is only the link "tag" that has the word "feed" in it. How can I "remove" this tag word from the link attached to it, and how would doing this change the hyperlink itself? Sorry, I'm not with you. The links properties are: http://wordpress.org/support/rss/profile/112356
As I said this just brings up a screenful of 'HTML'

moshu on "Admin Panel not displaying correctly"

moshu — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:49:56 +0000

Remove the word "feed:" from the RSS link and it will be OK.

Ahhh on "Admin Panel not displaying correctly"

Ahhh — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:40:52 +0000

Sorry to make you clean up after me. Problems/issues seem to grow like weeds and I lose track.

The problem has gone, but I don't think it was resolved. But I guess it won't ever be so I'm happy for you to mark the thread as resolved if you think that's best.

It went when I switched on and off the Rich Text Editor, stopped using the Default theme and switched to the Classic theme, and had a hotlink link enabled on my server.

I found yopur post because I've switched from FF to IE7 for Wordpress stuff. The RSS still doesn't work in FF!

spencerp on "Admin Panel not displaying correctly"

spencerp — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:09:24 +0000

Is this basically [Resolved] now, or..? Being that atleast the first issue was handled here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/90502?replies=5

spencerp

spencerp on "Portability"

spencerp — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:07:04 +0000

Umm, I'd say don't worry too much really.. There's ALOT of nice useful guides here to help ya with, if need be. ;)
http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/

spencerp

spencerp on "[resolved] Icons not displaying in Admin Panel"

spencerp — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:36:01 +0000

Changing this to [Resolved], being that he/she apparently got this fixed themselves. His/Her other thread can be found here.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/90692?replies=3

spencerp

Ahhh on "Plugin: Static front page"

Ahhh — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:01:55 +0000

Ahhhhh! Ok I give in!! Apologies for the last post. If you do as I say, the page selected as the home Page disappears from the sidebar display in the Classic view!! So no chance for the user to get back there from within the site! Adding the Home page gives the results stated in my post above.

Off to deactivate and try Filosofo . . . unless anyone out there can shed any light??

Ahhh on "Plugin: Static front page"

Ahhh — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:52:39 +0000

There's a lack of clarity in the instructions for installing this plugin (IMHO).

The instructions on the site say:
1. Create a page titled 'Home'
2. Activate the plugin and you're done

It would be more accurate to say:
1. Select or write the Page you wish to be your Home Page and set the Slug to read: home.
2. Activate the plugin andc you're done

If you create a blank page called Home, as the instructions say, your Homepage will simply become that blank page carrying the heading: "Home"! Probably not what you're wanting. The Page you choose as your Homepage, by making its Slug read "home", will have its slug automatically renamed home-2, so it won't be selected by "Static Front Page"..

Hope that helps someone.

Ahhh on "RSS don't work"

Ahhh — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:09:52 +0000

OOps sorry, clicked on the wrong link. I get the same properties as you do for it (surprise surprise!) so no clues at all except to my idiocy!

Ahhh on "RSS don't work"

Ahhh — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:07:39 +0000

Mmm. I get http://wordpress.org/support/profile/112356/edit as it's properties. Could this last "edit" word be the problem? Why do I get it and you don't?

Anyway, when I click on the link all that happens is the HTML page comes up. You said earlier that it might be the RSS feed XML itself I think. It works as it should in IE7 I just want to use FF for pc reasons I guess, and I've got fond of FF, like its appearance etc. All small beer though really if it don't work. Do you see the icon in your address bar on my profile page? What happens if you click on the RSS link at the top of that?

HandySolo on "RSS don't work"

HandySolo — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:42:44 +0000

Gotcha. I think.

On your profile page here, you have a link for RSS feeds for all your stuff. That's this critter: http://wordpress.org/support/rss/profile/112356

Probably your best bet to monitor all your topics.

At the bottom of each topic(right before the reply section) is a link if you want to subscribe to that particular thread. (RSS feed for this topic) For this one, that's http://wordpress.org/support/rss/topic/90861

Does that help?

Ahhh on "RSS don't work"

Ahhh — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:39:11 +0000

Yeah, but for Wordpress there is no icon . . . . and Wordpress is the reason I got involved with RSS in the first place! Oddly, there is an icon shown for MY blog page. The only page that shows the icon on Wordpress is wordpress.org. I can find no other page on the site that displays it.

At the moment I'm being forced in Uncle Bill's back yard.