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drmike on "Preview Themes before applying?"

drmike — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:58:23 +0000

Try clearing your browser cache and doing a forced reload of the page. If you're using IE, then when it asks you if you want to view unsecure content, click on 'yes' as that's the pictures trying to load.

panpete on "Preview Themes before applying?"

panpete — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:58:27 +0000

Thanks for trying. I'll try again tomorrow.

timethief on "Preview Themes before applying?"

timethief — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:55:35 +0000

@panpete
I'm afraid I can't help you. Why this is happening is a mystery to me. I simply click on a new theme in my test blog and change them like I change my clothes.
I see that you changed from the default theme to green marinee without difficulty so I see no way to help you. I'm afraid you'll have to use the feedback button on the top left of your dashboard and request staff help.

panpete on "Preview Themes before applying?"

panpete — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:51:09 +0000

Sorry about that timethief but its my first time here and the heading seemed to be the most appropriate. Tried using Firefox with similar results, boxes there but greyed out

timethief on "Preview Themes before applying?"

timethief — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:43:32 +0000

Have you forced your browser to clear? Hold down ctrl key and simultaneously click F5. If that doesn't work then you could try logging out and logging in again.
P.S. I don't understand why you are tagging onto this old thread. The issues don't seem to be directly related to my way of thinking.

panpete on "Preview Themes before applying?"

panpete — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:39:40 +0000

I am trying to select a theme and they come up without pictures. ie just a red cross in
a small box in top corner. i'm using IE as browser.

drmike on "Preview Themes before applying?"

drmike — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:08:46 +0000

That site is still coming up. There's a number of themes still missing from there. I don't know about the ones we have here at WP.com and considering that most of the themes we have here are widgeted and they have not a whole lot of them there, I'm sure some are missing. It is a good resource though if you need to find a theme for a specific purpose. That's where I got my latest theme and I'll probably go there looking for my next one since I'm already having issues with it.

I discussed this with a staff member a few weeks ago. His opinion was that they would rather like us to investagate the themes instead of just reading off a review sheet for them. I don't know if that was official or not though.

Another good site is wpthemes.info. :)

nodependenciesnologo on "Preview Themes before applying?"

nodependenciesnologo — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:18:45 +0000

http://themes.wordpress.net/

Doesn't this work as well? Or aren't all MU themes in there?

jb510 on "Preview Themes before applying?"

jb510 — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:43:47 +0000

Would it be possible to get the thumbnail screen shots bigger? and ideally a note under each one as to if it is 1) fixed width and 2) custom image header capable?

timethief on "Urgent Help required."

timethief — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:44:16 +0000

nodependnologo - I think what you're saying is right on. If you provoke flaming you will be flamed so leave the matches in the drawer.
I don't know the facts that were behind the situation that began this thread only the concerned party does, but I do think drmike's advice is sound. If someone beats you up and sends people to your blog via a link, it makes sense to post your side of the story on your blog.
nosy is referring to something else we have both experienced. When I was at Blogger writing straight up non confrontational stuff I met someone online that I truly think was straightjacket material. Although "it" changed email addresses frequently I could readliy distinguish "it" by writing style and by identical grammatical and spelling errors, which is not to mention tenor, tone and repitive phraseology. Unfortunately that party moved here after I did. "It" took another name and then the threatening emails began again in full force. I admit I was upset at first but since then I've calmed down a lot. I think there are bona fide "disordered" souls out there and that some of them are cyber stalkers who keep changing email addresses and catching you by surprise. I think the best way to handle a cyber stalker (which is what nosy is describing) is to treat them as you would treat any troll.
As for people who have differences of opinions with you and act like cowards by raging against you using obscene language on their own blog, claiming to be experienced bloggers, and yet refusing to post your comments submitted in rebuttal, well, I've experienced this right here at WP too. Granted they're another kettle of fish but just like any fish that doesn't get the deep freeze right away, they smell so bad after 3 days that others within smelling range catch wind of them too and toss them into the trashbin.

nosysnoop on "Urgent Help required."

nosysnoop — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:34:56 +0000

The craziest, psychotic, criminal, and bending on Sybil type personalities I met all at IMDB. Then alot of them follow me here. I always wonder if these people act like this to their real life family friends or just like this through a computer. I knew this one woman that finally got the police involved and tracked the guy to his work computer.

nodependenciesnologo on "Urgent Help required."

nodependenciesnologo — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:57:49 +0000

Funny this: I haven't seen any of these crazy people yet. Perhaps I just write nice stuff all the time?

Seriously though - and altough this isn't support related, it might be a tip - I see a lot of blog posts that just scream "I'm angry and I want to kick someone's backside". Perhaps I'm the reed that bends in the wind or I just don't care, but I can understand people becoming excited. And if you post rough, be prepared to play rough afterwards.

Mind you, I'm not sure what happened here, so don't see this as a negation of risenphoenix's problems. And propaganda, by the way, is continous, systematic spreading of a doctrine on a massive scale, so I dare assume it was simply criticism in this case.

evolvingtrends on ""RSS Widget" number of posts to show"

evolvingtrends — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 08:08:19 +0000

Thank you very much for the answers ...

Many good ideas ...

I'll have to try them out and see which ones works out better

I was going to put an "I [heart] WordPress" logo in the empty space (of which there is only so much with my horrifically long posts) but I thought for now I should keep it all textual!

Cheers,

Marc

podz on "Urgent Help required."

podz — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:29:54 +0000

Laws do still apply - but hey, we are just bloggers :)

Blogger says famous toothy grinning jump on sofa star is gay, no-one cares. NO newspaper / magazine / TV show would dare say that. Why sue a blogger? No point.

And as for Blogger? If they had feedback answered as fast and well as it is here, complain. But they don't. Takes them a lot longer.

drmike on "Urgent Help required."

drmike — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:54:29 +0000

And again, do note that people visiting your blog may be able to see what is going on for themselves. My advice would be to write a fairly simple statment explaining your side of the story and post it where those folks are landing on your site.

timethief on "Urgent Help required."

timethief — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:11:38 +0000

You're not kidding about crazy poeple. IMO entering the blogosphere is like parachuting into a jungle where the mean, nasty and under-handed low life are unchecked and the rules of civilzed behaviour are non-existent.

nosysnoop on "Urgent Help required."

nosysnoop — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:00:35 +0000

This week I heard about this guy that made one comment on a person's blog and that person didn't like the comment. That ass then hacked this guy's computer. And because of this, I just for the first time downloaded a firewall the other day. Some of the craziest people I've known have been on the internet.

timethief on "Urgent Help required."

timethief — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:48:01 +0000

marc - both slander and libel are defamation. The differences between the two is that (1) "slander" is spoken (verbal) and (2) "libel" is written.

(3) To pove slander you must be able to prove it was stated over and over again. (4) To prove libel you need only prove that it was published once.

drmike is absolutely correct about jurisdiction. The jurisdiction that applies is dependent on the country where the company is registered and to a lesser extent the companies where it operates.

Sadly, it costs a small fortune to undertake succesful prosecution of libel cases and whatever awards the courts may give, well, the majority goes to the lawyers.

IMO risenphoet should follow drmike's advice. If someone is sending folks to your blog via a link where defamatory statements maliciously attacking your character are being made about you, then put up a very prominent posting that states with clarity your position on the matter.

After all you have nothing to lose by doing so and it may make feel a whole lot better.:)

drmike on "Urgent Help required."

drmike — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:33:58 +0000

Actually that's not entirely true. National laws still do apply. But since the Blogger site is in the US, it would probably fall with US law.

A simple example of this would be with the eBay and Yahoo auction sites and the trouble they got into with offering Nazi artifects in the past. Germany didn't think much of it although they could only go after the servers that they had located in Germany.

marc on "Urgent Help required."

marc — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:26:41 +0000

Welcome to the internet. If you choose to be online in the form of a blog you can expect others to be critical of what you write.

As long as it's not slanderous or doesn't meet the legal criteria for libel there is very little you can do.

drmike on "Urgent Help required."

drmike — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:42:02 +0000

Not with the set up we have here.

Report him for what? You could probably take them to court for libel but that's about it and you would have to prove your case instead of them having to prove theirs.

And I get a good amount of my traffic (about 15%) on my webcomic via "negative propaganda."

What you could do if I make the suggestion is figure out where those folks are landing on your blog if those folks are pointing at a specific post and stick in a statment explaining your point of view.

Another thing you may want to think about is that the other blog may have a point as to what they are doing.

Good luck,
-drmike

risenphoenix on "Urgent Help required."

risenphoenix — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:18:07 +0000

Someone from a blogger blog is giving negative propaganda to my blog. Is there some way I can disable the link in his blog from leading to my blog? Should I report him through blogger?

britgirl on ""RSS Widget" number of posts to show"

britgirl — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:19:41 +0000

Interesting questions and answers and some great ideas. Thanks for asking - and answering.

sunburntkamel on ""RSS Widget" number of posts to show"

sunburntkamel — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:40:39 +0000

in order to link it, you can still use the same RSS icon, just use a text widget, and link to your feed like this:

TheNameOfYourBlog

as far as noteworthy posts, you should probably make a category called 'noteworthy', and then add the feed to an RSS widget, like this:
http://evolvingtrends.wordpress.com/tag/noteworthy/feed

if you use the fauna theme, it will also automatically add a heart to any posts tagged noteworthy. when the final version is released, you'll have more fun tricks to play with noteworthy posts as well.

drmike on ""RSS Widget" number of posts to show"

drmike — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:56:47 +0000

What I was saying that if you wanted to make a feed of zero posts, why not just create a link to the site in question? When you have a RSS feed of zero, all you get out of it as just a link to the site under the title. So, therefore, all you get is a link to the site the RSS feed is comeing from. The URL of the feed is not displayed, just the URL of the site in question. So, why not just make a link?

And, honest answer, if you want your visitors looking at specific posts on another site, then blog about it. That way, they don't miss them.

drmike on "Video clips on page!"

drmike — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:38:37 +0000

Just for reference, here's the write up on Youtube and for Google videos.

Also here's a trick on how to offer a link to download the YouTube video in question. :whistle:

edit: Rumor has it that staff is testing other sources as well currently. ;)

nodependenciesnologo on "Video clips on page!"

nodependenciesnologo — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:01:43 +0000

The exclamation mark(s) made me think you'd made some discovery ;-)

Not to be bitchy, but I'd go easy on them. Hurts my eyes.

sloane on "Video clips on page!"

sloane — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:57:10 +0000

But i can answer you still..
Save, at first you need a video-hoster.. http://www.youtube.com is a very good page..
When you have uploaded you video clip from there, you'll just refere it from you post..

like this [youtube=http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahx-IBNFALE]

(just without the "spaces")

THATs SOME SIMPLE HTML.. all you have to do is insert a link :)

Hope that helps a bit..

Peter

[Link fixed - drmike]

cornell on "Video clips on page!"

cornell — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:47:58 +0000

I believe that they are hosting their videos through youtube and/or google video.

There is information on how to do this at http://faq.wordpress.com

Collin

savetheoc on "Video clips on page!"

savetheoc — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:11:01 +0000

Hey how do some people get short 1-2 minute video clips on their page? I've tried doing it through the uploading thing but it only uploads images!And says the clip doesn't meet security guidelines!!

Thanks!!
savetheoc