Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress’

Border-radius, WordPress, and IE

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

I just spent the last I-won’t-even-tell-you-how-many hours trying to figure out why all the google results on border-radius were not working for me.  Now suddenly it works.  So here is my process for the next time I try to use border-radius.

  1. Download the stuff from css3pie.com
  2. Upload files to the root.  I saw references all over the place that the PIE.htc needed to be in the theme directory, that didn’t work for me.  It is in the root, hence the php bloginfo(‘url’) bit in the next bullet.
  3. Put this code in the header.php.  Replace the elements with yours #whatever or .whatever.  Now here is the thing, there was an indent before #home1 and it was keeping #home1 from getting the rounded corner, even though the rest of them were working.
    • <code><style type="text/css">
      #home1, #home2, #home3, #home4,
      #home4 .widget, #home5 .widget, #home6 .widget,
      #home5, #home6, #supplementary.two { behavior:url(<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/PIE.htc); }</code>
      </style>
  4. Put this in your stylesheet, change the px amount and background to whatever you want:

    background: #ccc;
    -webkit-border-radius: 8px;
    -moz-border-radius: 8px;
    border-radius: 8px;

Seems crazy that the last I-won’t-even-tell-you-how-many-hours comes down to 4 bullet points, but such is the web.

Getting my domain ready for domain mapping

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

For some reason I was having a very hard time getting my domains ready for domain mapping.  We have been getting a new website ready for WordCamp Albuquerque 2011 and for our new Albuquerque WordPress Meetup group.  Some time ago I set up a MultiSite website for K Design and I run my main site, my blog, the wordcamp site, and the meetup site off of it.

Obviously I don’t want people to see wordpress.karenarnolddesign.com when they go to the MeetUp site, so I bought a couple of domains to point to it.  But for some reason I missed the primary domain part of the whole domain mapping thing.    When I pointed albuquerquewp.com to the MeetUp site it was creating a redirect loop.

So, I undid everything and started from scratch.  First I made sure I followed the instructions very carefully laid out on this fabulous tutorial about the domain mapping plugin.

Then, I undid all the settings on the domains I bought, just to be safe.  When I redid the settings, I did this:

Set the nameservers to ns1.mynameserver.com and ns2.mynameserver.com (use your own nameserver here :-) )

In my CPanel and parked each domain on my main domain.

Logged into my MultiSite dashboard and went to Super Admin=> Domains

Added the domains I wanted to associate with my new site, site id (from the site list on Super Admin => Sites),  Domain name, and checked the Primary button for only the one domain I want to show up in the browser address bar.

That’s it!  I think the piece I missed first time around was the parking.  I thought I only had to set the nameserver on the new domains, but I had to park them as well.   The Domain Mapping plugin talks about cnames and that sort of thing, I found a reference on the WordPress Codex that mentioned namesevers working better as IPs can change from time to time.  I have no idea if that is accurate or not, but I am choosing to go with that.

Getting ready for WordPress Meetups

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

We are gearing up for our new WordPress Meetups. You can find out more info at the official meetup site.

We will be covering a vast variety of WP topics, if you have an idea let us know!!

Here are the basics:

Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 5:30 PM
Straight Up Pizza – 6501 Wyoming Blvd NE Albuquerque, NM

Your Dashboard: Managing the Space

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

The WordPress dashboard has a lot of stuff on it, most of which you will never need.  In case you missed it in previous posts, here is a screen shot of the dashboard (click on it to increase the size):

You can get rid of any most of these sections permanently by going to the upper right hand corner of the screen.

Click on the “Screen Options” link and you will see (again, click on the image below to view it better):

Each box corresponds to a section on the dashboard. You can tick or untick any of the boxes to make those sections go away.  You can also decide whether you want to see the dashboard laid out in 1,2,3,or4 columns.

Your Dashboard: Right Now

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Your website at a glance:

Called “Right Now”, you can see how many posts you have, how many pages, what categories the posts are in, how many tags you have created, how many comments people have made on your post(s), and whether those comments are approved, pending, or spammed.

You can also see what theme you are using and how many widgets, what version of WP you have installed, and finally a quick button to access your theme area to change to another theme.

Your WordPress Dashboard

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

As you start learning how to use your WordPress (hereafter called WP) site you will need to learn a few new vocabulary words. Are you familiar with the desktop on your computer? You have a desktop on your new WP site, it is called the dashboard. Your dashboard (control panel, back office, etc) is your starting point for everything you will ever do on your WP site.

What can you access from your dashboard? Glad you asked! Read on!