I've been trying to use the Workaround for embedding Instagram into my blog by using the Flickr-widget. The widget does work in theory - but instead of showing thumbnail-sized images as settings assure me, it shows the original image size, scattering the layout. Anyone any idea what to do about it? I'm using the "Under the influence" layout, and'd rather not have to change it (I tried around: a few rare layouts seem to work well with instagram-through-flickr, but most have the same problem).

What's left for me to say: Please, dear WordPress.com, do give us a nice Instagram-embedding-widget, please. :/

Best

Corrisande

In the mean time, you can work around the issue by removing all the spaces between the list of elements and it should work.

background:url(fancybackground.png) repeat-x,url(myfile.png) no-repeat left top fixed,black;
}

Could you try that out and let me know if you have any trouble with it?

Note that you should make sure to use full URLs starting with http:// inside the url() function in the CSS editor at WordPress.com.

The site I am currently working on is set to private, so I have not provided a link. Sorry for any confusion. :)

Take the following, for instance:

<br /> .test{<br /> /* Fallback for older browsers */<br /> background: black url(myfile.png) no-repeat left top fixed;</p> <p> /* Newer, CSS3 browsers */<br /> background:<br /> url(fancybackground.png) repeat-x,<br /> url(myfile.png) no-repeat left top fixed,<br /> black;<br /> }<br />

Once processed by wordpress.com, it ends up as:
<br /> .test {<br /> background:black url('myfile.png') no-repeat left top fixed;<br /> background:repeat-x, no-repeat left top fixed, black;<br /> }<br />

The outputted code results in the desired fallback behaviour for older browsers, but a plain black background with no image at all in modern browsers. It's a bit annoying.

There is a workaround, and that is to specify the fallback as longhand:
<br /> .test{<br /> /* Fallback for older browsers */<br /> background-color:black;<br /> background-image: url(myfile.png);<br /> background-repeat: no-repeat;<br /> background-position: left top;<br /> background-attachment: fixed;</p> <p> /* Newer, CSS3 browsers */<br /> background:<br /> url(fancybackground.png) repeat-x,<br /> url(myfile.png) no-repeat left top fixed,<br /> black;<br /> }<br />

It would still be nice if this could be resolved in the next version of the CSS parsing whatsit. :)

#newfooter {
clear: both;
font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, serif;
position: absolute;
max-width: 880px;
left: 0;
text-align: right;
width: 100%;
bottom: 4px;
margin: 1.8em 0;
line-height: 1em;
background: #F9F8F4;
border: 0 solid #CCC;
border-width: 0;
padding: .8em 20px 1.3em;
}

I'm not sure if you meant to change the font. Keep in mind that padding is included in the total width, so I changed the right and left padding to 20px and reduced the max-width to 880px. I also set the left and right margins to zero, It doesn't look to me like the footer you created needs those. I also removed the 95% width setting.

The preferred theme is Spectrum by Ignacio Ricci. The blog is still private because the home page can't go live with a series of 1500+ word articles.

Please read > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/full-posts-in-archive-pages/
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/the-excerpt-function/

Your blog is private, we don't know which theme you have on the blog. If you want Volunteer help specific to your exact needs we have to be able to see the blog and read the source code.

In other words, I wish the "archive" page in my preferred theme(s) could be the default home page. Since I can't set the home page to be the 'archive', I'm hoping you can point me to a tutorial or instructions for creating a new page (in wordpress.COM, mind you) that lists article summaries (archive-style) for a given month.

The plan is to then choose "Front Page Displays" My-archive-style-new-page and get the home page I'm after.

Each article is already assigned a Volume/Issue category. Choosing to view "Archive for the '__________' category" also brings the perfect home page: a list that includes authors, titles, publication dates, and article summaries—just not the full posts.

I'm hoping someone will tell me this hack isn't necessary because I'm overlooking something really simple.

Thanks.

change the
dir="spreadsheets/embeddedform" parameter
to
dir="embeddedform"
(applause!)

I know this is an interoperability bug, and with WordPress and Google being pretty aggressive about updates, I'm sure it was somehow overlooked in testing. I understand this is probably a feature that few people use, so I'm happy with a good workaround. Thanks one and all!