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eh? what do you mean by stock functions.php file? This is the file that I downloaded and came with wordpress 3.0 - I just think there's something not right about it - I don't code PHP so woulnd't know where to start looking, it just doesn't display right in dreamweaver and I get the 'invalid markup' error message whenver I load it up.

Hey all My blog [www.milomade.co.uk/blog/] was entered into the Dorset Cereals little blog awards and I thought I was doing OK until I looked at the competitors vote count today. If you have the time to take a look at my blog and vote if you like it, I'd really appreciate it. Visit this link to cast your vote, or click on the voting button in the side bar of my blog as that will take you to the same place. Many thanks E

I;ve installed wordpress 3.0 for a new client site and trying to get my head round it - not succeeding either. Anyhow I've opened the function.php file in dreamweaver and half way down the colour coding kind of stops and this makes me think something is amiss. There alsow isn't a closing php tag ?> at the end of the code. Can someone have a look at this and let me know if there's something wrong with it. <?php /** * TwentyTen functions and definitions * * Sets up the theme and provides some helper functions. Some helper functions * are used in the theme as custom template tags. Others are attached to action and * filter hooks in WordPress to change core functionality. * * The first function, twentyten_setup(), sets up the theme by registering support * for various features in WordPress, such as post thumbnails, navigation menus, and the like. * * When using a child theme (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development and * http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes), you can override certain functions * (those wrapped in a function_exists() call) by defining them first in your child theme's * functions.php file. The child theme's functions.php file is included before the parent * theme's file, so the child theme functions would be used. * * Functions that are not pluggable (not wrapped in function_exists()) are instead attached * to a filter or action hook. The hook can be removed by using remove_action() or * remove_filter() and you can attach your own function to the hook. * * We can remove the parent theme's hook only after it is attached, which means we need to * wait until setting up the child theme: * * <code> * add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'my_child_theme_setup' ); * function my_child_theme_setup() { * // We are providing our own filter for excerpt_length (or using the unfiltered value) * remove_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'twentyten_excerpt_length' ); * ... * } * </code> * * For more information on hooks, actions, and filters, see http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API. * * @package WordPress * @subpackage Starkers * @since Starkers 3.0 */ /** * Set the content width based on the theme's design and stylesheet. * * Used to set the width of images and content. Should be equal to the width the theme * is designed for, generally via the style.css stylesheet. */ if ( ! isset( $content_width ) ) $content_width = 640; /** Tell WordPress to run twentyten_setup() when the 'after_setup_theme' hook is run. */ add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'twentyten_setup' ); if ( ! function_exists( 'twentyten_setup' ) ): /** * Sets up theme defaults and registers support for various WordPress features. * * Note that this function is hooked into the after_setup_theme hook, which runs * before the init hook. The init hook is too late for some features, such as indicating * support post thumbnails. * * To override twentyten_setup() in a child theme, add your own twentyten_setup to your child theme's * functions.php file. * * @uses add_theme_support() To add support for post thumbnails and automatic feed links. * @uses register_nav_menus() To add support for navigation menus. * @uses add_custom_background() To add support for a custom background. * @uses add_editor_style() To style the visual editor. * @uses load_theme_textdomain() For translation/localization support. * @uses add_custom_image_header() To add support for a custom header. * @uses register_default_headers() To register the default custom header images provided with the theme. * @uses set_post_thumbnail_size() To set a custom post thumbnail size. * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 */ function twentyten_setup() { // This theme styles the visual editor with editor-style.css to match the theme style. add_editor_style(); // This theme uses post thumbnails add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' ); // Add default posts and comments RSS feed links to head add_theme_support( 'automatic-feed-links' ); // Make theme available for translation // Translations can be filed in the /languages/ directory load_theme_textdomain( 'twentyten', TEMPLATEPATH . '/languages' ); $locale = get_locale(); $locale_file = TEMPLATEPATH . "/languages/$locale.php"; if ( is_readable( $locale_file ) ) require_once( $locale_file ); // This theme uses wp_nav_menu() in one location. register_nav_menus( array( 'primary' => __( 'Primary Navigation', 'twentyten' ), ) ); // This theme allows users to set a custom background add_custom_background(); // Your changeable header business starts here define( 'HEADER_TEXTCOLOR', '' ); // No CSS, just IMG call. The %s is a placeholder for the theme template directory URI. define( 'HEADER_IMAGE', '%s/images/headers/path.jpg' ); // The height and width of your custom header. You can hook into the theme's own filters to change these values. // Add a filter to twentyten_header_image_width and twentyten_header_image_height to change these values. define( 'HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH', apply_filters( 'twentyten_header_image_width', 940 ) ); define( 'HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT', apply_filters( 'twentyten_header_image_height', 198 ) ); // We'll be using post thumbnails for custom header images on posts and pages. // We want them to be 940 pixels wide by 198 pixels tall. // Larger images will be auto-cropped to fit, smaller ones will be ignored. See header.php. set_post_thumbnail_size( HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH, HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT, true ); // Don't support text inside the header image. define( 'NO_HEADER_TEXT', true ); // Add a way for the custom header to be styled in the admin panel that controls // custom headers. See twentyten_admin_header_style(), below. add_custom_image_header( '', 'twentyten_admin_header_style' ); // ... and thus ends the changeable header business. // Default custom headers packaged with the theme. %s is a placeholder for the theme template directory URI. register_default_headers( array( 'berries' => array( 'url' => '%s/images/headers/starkers.png', 'thumbnail_url' => '%s/images/headers/starkers-thumbnail.png', /* translators: header image description */ 'description' => __( 'Starkers', 'twentyten' ) ) ) ); } endif; if ( ! function_exists( 'twentyten_admin_header_style' ) ) : /** * Styles the header image displayed on the Appearance > Header admin panel. * * Referenced via add_custom_image_header() in twentyten_setup(). * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 */ function twentyten_admin_header_style() { ?> <style type="text/css"> /* Shows the same border as on front end */ #headimg { border-bottom: 1px solid #000; border-top: 4px solid #000; } /* If NO_HEADER_TEXT is false, you would style the text with these selectors: #headimg #name { } #headimg #desc { } */ </style> <?php } endif; /** * Makes some changes to the <title> tag, by filtering the output of wp_title(). * * If we have a site description and we're viewing the home page or a blog posts * page (when using a static front page), then we will add the site description. * * If we're viewing a search result, then we're going to recreate the title entirely. * We're going to add page numbers to all titles as well, to the middle of a search * result title and the end of all other titles. * * The site title also gets added to all titles. * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 * * @param string $title Title generated by wp_title() * @param string $separator The separator passed to wp_title(). Twenty Ten uses a * vertical bar, "|", as a separator in header.php. * @return string The new title, ready for the <title> tag. */ function twentyten_filter_wp_title( $title, $separator ) { // Don't affect wp_title() calls in feeds. if ( is_feed() ) return $title; // The $paged global variable contains the page number of a listing of posts. // The $page global variable contains the page number of a single post that is paged. // We'll display whichever one applies, if we're not looking at the first page. global $paged, $page; if ( is_search() ) { // If we're a search, let's start over: $title = sprintf( __( 'Search results for %s', 'twentyten' ), '"' . get_search_query() . '"' ); // Add a page number if we're on page 2 or more: if ( $paged >= 2 ) $title .= " $separator " . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentyten' ), $paged ); // Add the site name to the end: $title .= " $separator " . get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ); // We're done. Let's send the new title back to wp_title(): return $title; } // Otherwise, let's start by adding the site name to the end: $title .= get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ); // If we have a site description and we're on the home/front page, add the description: $site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' ); if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) ) $title .= " $separator " . $site_description; // Add a page number if necessary: if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 ) $title .= " $separator " . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentyten' ), max( $paged, $page ) ); // Return the new title to wp_title(): return $title; } add_filter( 'wp_title', 'twentyten_filter_wp_title', 10, 2 ); /** * Get our wp_nav_menu() fallback, wp_page_menu(), to show a home link. * * To override this in a child theme, remove the filter and optionally add * your own function tied to the wp_page_menu_args filter hook. * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 */ function twentyten_page_menu_args( $args ) { $args['show_home'] = true; return $args; } add_filter( 'wp_page_menu_args', 'twentyten_page_menu_args' ); /** * Sets the post excerpt length to 40 characters. * * To override this length in a child theme, remove the filter and add your own * function tied to the excerpt_length filter hook. * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 * @return int */ function twentyten_excerpt_length( $length ) { return 40; } add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'twentyten_excerpt_length' ); /** * Returns a "Continue Reading" link for excerpts * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 * @return string "Continue Reading" link */ function twentyten_continue_reading_link() { return ' <a href="'. get_permalink() . '">' . __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>', 'twentyten' ) . '</a>'; } /** * Replaces "[...]" (appended to automatically generated excerpts) with an ellipsis and twentyten_continue_reading_link(). * * To override this in a child theme, remove the filter and add your own * function tied to the excerpt_more filter hook. * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 * @return string An ellipsis */ function twentyten_auto_excerpt_more( $more ) { return ' …' . twentyten_continue_reading_link(); } add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'twentyten_auto_excerpt_more' ); /** * Adds a pretty "Continue Reading" link to custom post excerpts. * * To override this link in a child theme, remove the filter and add your own * function tied to the get_the_excerpt filter hook. * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 * @return string Excerpt with a pretty "Continue Reading" link */ function twentyten_custom_excerpt_more( $output ) { if ( has_excerpt() && ! is_attachment() ) { $output .= twentyten_continue_reading_link(); } return $output; } add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'twentyten_custom_excerpt_more' ); /** * Remove inline styles printed when the gallery shortcode is used. * * Galleries are styled by the theme in Twenty Ten's style.css. * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 * @return string The gallery style filter, with the styles themselves removed. */ function twentyten_remove_gallery_css( $css ) { return preg_replace( "#<style type='text/css'>(.*?)</style>#s", '', $css ); } add_filter( 'gallery_style', 'twentyten_remove_gallery_css' ); if ( ! function_exists( 'twentyten_comment' ) ) : /** * Template for comments and pingbacks. * * To override this walker in a child theme without modifying the comments template * simply create your own twentyten_comment(), and that function will be used instead. * * Used as a callback by wp_list_comments() for displaying the comments. * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 */ function twentyten_comment( $comment, $args, $depth ) { $GLOBALS['comment'] = $comment; switch ( $comment->comment_type ) : case '' : ?> <li <?php comment_class(); ?> id="li-comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>"> <div id="comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <?php echo get_avatar( $comment, 40 ); ?> <?php printf( __( '%s <span class="says">says:</span>', 'twentyten' ), sprintf( '<cite class="fn">%s</cite>', get_comment_author_link() ) ); ?> </div><!-- .comment-author .vcard --> <?php if ( $comment->comment_approved == '0' ) : ?> <em><?php _e( 'Your comment is awaiting moderation.', 'twentyten' ); ?></em> <br /> <?php endif; ?> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( get_comment_link( $comment->comment_ID ) ); ?>"> <?php /* translators: 1: date, 2: time */ printf( __( '%1$s at %2$s', 'twentyten' ), get_comment_date(), get_comment_time() ); ?></a><?php edit_comment_link( __( '(Edit)', 'twentyten' ), ' ' ); ?> </div><!-- .comment-meta .commentmetadata --> <div class="comment-body"><?php comment_text(); ?></div> <div class="reply"> <?php comment_reply_link( array_merge( $args, array( 'depth' => $depth, 'max_depth' => $args['max_depth'] ) ) ); ?> </div><!-- .reply --> </div><!-- #comment-## --> <?php break; case 'pingback' : case 'trackback' : ?> <li class="post pingback"> <p><?php _e( 'Pingback:', 'twentyten' ); ?> <?php comment_author_link(); ?><?php edit_comment_link( __('(Edit)', 'twentyten'), ' ' ); ?></p> <?php break; endswitch; } endif; /** * Register widgetized areas, including two sidebars and four widget-ready columns in the footer. * * To override twentyten_widgets_init() in a child theme, remove the action hook and add your own * function tied to the init hook. * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 * @uses register_sidebar */ function twentyten_widgets_init() { // Area 1, located at the top of the sidebar. register_sidebar( array( 'name' => __( 'Primary Widget Area', 'twentyten' ), 'id' => 'primary-widget-area', 'description' => __( 'The primary widget area', 'twentyten' ), 'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget-container %2$s">', 'after_widget' => '</li>', 'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">', 'after_title' => '</h3>', ) ); // Area 2, located below the Primary Widget Area in the sidebar. Empty by default. register_sidebar( array( 'name' => __( 'Secondary Widget Area', 'twentyten' ), 'id' => 'secondary-widget-area', 'description' => __( 'The secondary widget area', 'twentyten' ), 'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget-container %2$s">', 'after_widget' => '</li>', 'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">', 'after_title' => '</h3>', ) ); // Area 3, located in the footer. Empty by default. register_sidebar( array( 'name' => __( 'First Footer Widget Area', 'twentyten' ), 'id' => 'first-footer-widget-area', 'description' => __( 'The first footer widget area', 'twentyten' ), 'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget-container %2$s">', 'after_widget' => '</li>', 'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">', 'after_title' => '</h3>', ) ); // Area 4, located in the footer. Empty by default. register_sidebar( array( 'name' => __( 'Second Footer Widget Area', 'twentyten' ), 'id' => 'second-footer-widget-area', 'description' => __( 'The second footer widget area', 'twentyten' ), 'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget-container %2$s">', 'after_widget' => '</li>', 'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">', 'after_title' => '</h3>', ) ); // Area 5, located in the footer. Empty by default. register_sidebar( array( 'name' => __( 'Third Footer Widget Area', 'twentyten' ), 'id' => 'third-footer-widget-area', 'description' => __( 'The third footer widget area', 'twentyten' ), 'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget-container %2$s">', 'after_widget' => '</li>', 'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">', 'after_title' => '</h3>', ) ); // Area 6, located in the footer. Empty by default. register_sidebar( array( 'name' => __( 'Fourth Footer Widget Area', 'twentyten' ), 'id' => 'fourth-footer-widget-area', 'description' => __( 'The fourth footer widget area', 'twentyten' ), 'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget-container %2$s">', 'after_widget' => '</li>', 'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">', 'after_title' => '</h3>', ) ); } /** Register sidebars by running twentyten_widgets_init() on the widgets_init hook. */ add_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentyten_widgets_init' ); /** * Removes the default styles that are packaged with the Recent Comments widget. * * To override this in a child theme, remove the filter and optionally add your own * function tied to the widgets_init action hook. * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 */ function twentyten_remove_recent_comments_style() { global $wp_widget_factory; remove_action( 'wp_head', array( $wp_widget_factory->widgets['WP_Widget_Recent_Comments'], 'recent_comments_style' ) ); } add_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentyten_remove_recent_comments_style' ); if ( ! function_exists( 'twentyten_posted_on' ) ) : /** * Prints HTML with meta information for the current post—date/time and author. * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 */ function twentyten_posted_on() { printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted on</span> %2$s <span class="meta-sep">by</span> %3$s', 'twentyten' ), 'meta-prep meta-prep-author', sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">%3$s</span></a>', get_permalink(), esc_attr( get_the_time() ), get_the_date() ), sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></span>', get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ), sprintf( esc_attr__( 'View all posts by %s', 'twentyten' ), get_the_author() ), get_the_author() ) ); } endif; if ( ! function_exists( 'twentyten_posted_in' ) ) : /** * Prints HTML with meta information for the current post (category, tags and permalink). * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 */ function twentyten_posted_in() { // Retrieves tag list of current post, separated by commas. $tag_list = get_the_tag_list( '', ', ' ); if ( $tag_list ) { $posted_in = __( 'This entry was posted in %1$s and tagged %2$s. Bookmark the <a href="%3$s" title="Permalink to %4$s" rel="bookmark">permalink</a>.', 'twentyten' ); } elseif ( is_object_in_taxonomy( get_post_type(), 'category' ) ) { $posted_in = __( 'This entry was posted in %1$s. Bookmark the <a href="%3$s" title="Permalink to %4$s" rel="bookmark">permalink</a>.', 'twentyten' ); } else { $posted_in = __( 'Bookmark the <a href="%3$s" title="Permalink to %4$s" rel="bookmark">permalink</a>.', 'twentyten' ); } // Prints the string, replacing the placeholders. printf( $posted_in, get_the_category_list( ', ' ), $tag_list, get_permalink(), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); } endif; it's arount this bit when the colour coding stops and doesn't look right: /** * Register widgetized areas, including two sidebars and four widget-ready columns in the footer. * * To override twentyten_widgets_init() in a child theme, remove the action hook and add your own * function tied to the init hook. * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 * @uses register_sidebar */

I'm looking for an e-commerce solution for Milomade and was thinking of running it through Wordpress. I downloaded and installed WP e-commerce and found it a total nightmare. No decent documentation on how to customise the look or set it up - just found info on the basics which just isn't enough for me. So I did a search for other wordpress plugins and found eShop and EcWid and out of the two I thik EcWid looks great. It may not be so good for SEO right now but it looks like the easiest to implement and I could probably add it to my site as well as my Facebook page at the same time. Has anyone else used it? Is it any good?

It's best to get a signature on pronted paper, but if you want to send out a PDF contract via email and get this accepted by email, then simply state this when you send the contract out. Say that the client has to reply and formally accept the contract via email and that their response/acceptance will be printed out and attached to a copy of the invoice as proof. I did have a client who figures out that you can digitally sign a PDF - so it can be done like that and emailed back to you, but I prefer the first option where they spell their acceptance out so that you can print it out - make sure that when you print it out, you include the email headers that show the date and time it was sent and from whom.

yes I have - but thought it would be nice to hear from someone who's actually used one of the plugins and had success with it rather than just picking one at random trying it out and finding out it's crap and having to move onto another one. I thought someone on this forum might have tried running a membership type site...

have you made any headway with this as I'd like to ask the same question. I'm setting up a aite for a client using Wordpress and in the near future he wants to add a members only section for paying subscribers. So I'm looking for a plugin or the means to set something like this up, where people join the site and pay a monthly fee - no idea how this would be done, so if anyone can shed any light on this that'd be great. Thanks

thanks for the reply - I was expecting more, but maybe not many people use wordpress for ecommerce stuff. Will have a look at the site link and maybe sign up for the 30 day trial and try it out.

My client is wanting to set up a new website and we want to use wordpress as the CMS as that would enable a site and a blog all in one and he's used to using wordpress as a CMS on his other site, so it's seems like the best solution. The initial purpose of the new site is to advertise a course he's running in Novemeber and he wants people to be able to purchase tickets online. I'm wondering what the best approach is - should I use one of the many e-commerce plugins that come with wordpress, and if so which one would be best, or do I use an external open source shopping cart script. I need to set it up initially just to sell tickets for the course, but in the future he's also going to want to sell e-books and digital downloads so it would be good to find a solution that would allow for all that. I need something simple that's easy to implement but is also very secure as I'm a total novice when it comes to e-commerce stuff - that's why I thought wordpress plugins would be the way to go - but are they secure. I guess they all integrate with PayPal - client says that's OK, but he's also looking into something that the Bank of Scotland offer for online payments as he's just opened an account with them and so might want to use their solution - not sure if I'll be able to implement it and waiting to hear from him about that. Any information/advice would be very welcome from any experts out there - I'd like to hear about plugins, scripts you've actually used and if they work well. Also with selling tickets online - how does the purchase process work? You click to pay, then pay and then what - do you get a digital downloadable ticket or just an email confrimation. I've never bought tickets online for any event, so not sure how to work this. Thanks E

If I remove the 'more' tag then it works on the index.php page. so I think I'm going to change the way the blog posts are displayed and use the_excerpt instead the_content - never had that issue before as I've got three sites which are set up as I had it set up originally and they all work fine. Very confusing.

thanks for your help - I'll keep playing about and see if I can fix it.

well I've added it and uploaded it and if I go to http://www.colinandrews.org I get the cutoff excerpt with no read more link.

I just opened the .htaccess file and found this within it: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /blog/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress I didn't put that there - I guess it's just automatically generated. Should I just put: DirectoryIndex home.php index.php index.html index.htm after that?

The files are identical in content - so not sure what you mean? I took the original home.php file and saved it as index.php without changing anything. I want to get rid of the home.php file.

I have this at the start of the document: <?php // Include Wordpress define('WP_USE_THEMES', false); require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php'); query_posts('showposts=1'); ?> And then where I want the blog excerpt to appear, I have this: <h3>Latest News</h3> <?php while (have_posts()): the_post(); ?> <h4 class="nopadding"><?php the_title(); ?></h4> <?php the_excerpt(); ?> <br /> <?php endwhile; ?> In the blog functions.php file I have added the following: <?php function improved_trim_excerpt( $text ) { if ( '' == $text ) { $permalink = get_permalink(); // my addition $text = get_the_content( '' ); $text = strip_shortcodes( $text ); $text = apply_filters( 'the_content', $text ); $text = preg_replace( '@<script[^>]*?> . *?</script>@si', '', $text ); $text = str_replace( ']]>', ']]>', $text ); $text = strip_tags( $text, '<a><b><em><i><p><strong><sub><sup>' ); // allowed tags (change as needed) $excerpt_length = apply_filters( 'excerpt_length', 80 ); $excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ' . '[...] <a href="' . $permalink . '">read more »</a>'); // my addition $words = explode( ' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1 ); if ( count( $words ) > $excerpt_length ) { array_pop( $words ); $text = implode( ' ', $words ); $text = $text . $excerpt_more; $text = force_balance_tags( $text ); // my addition } } return $text; } remove_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt' ); add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'improved_trim_excerpt' ); ?> If you need anything else, let me know.

I've been working on my partners website this weekend and have just put it live but a strange glitch has just occurred. Over the weekend I had a holding page up as the index.php and was using home.php as the temporary home page link. So just now I changed the name of home.php to index.php and upoaded this to overwrite the holding page - so the code for the new index.php is identical to that of home.php which is still on the server to deomnstrate the glitch. If you visit: http://www.colinandrews.org/home.php'>http://www.colinandrews.org/home.php You'll see the latest blog post being pulled in at the bottom of the page with a read more link. If you then visit: http://www.colinandrews.org/ You'll see part of the latest blog post [less than on the home.php file] and no read more link. I'm totally baffled as the files are identical apart from in name. Anyone got any ideas? Am I missing something totally obvious?

fixed it - there was another reference to the TagName within the jquery.hoverimagetext.compressed.js file - so I changed that to span and now it works. Thanks for the help - got so much to do on this site tonight that my brain is melting!

Ok I've changed it to be 'span' instead of 'p' - I've adjust the css for it and changed the javascript bit that refers to 'p' to be 'span' in the jquery.hoverimagetext.js file like so: /* Available options*/ $.fn.HoverImageText.defaults = { AnimShow: {opacity: "show"}, AnimShowCallback: null, HoverCheck: 600, HoverIn: 500, AnimHide: {opacity: "hide"}, AnimHideCallback: null, HoverOut: 300, TagName: 'span' }; it no longer works - there is no hover. So I add your version of the javascript line and that made no difference either. Why won't it work with anything but a p tag???

I tried <span> instead of the <p> but that brought up the same validation error in the browser. IN order for it to work bothe the text and the image need to be hyperlinked. I think I might go and look for another script...

I applied this script to the header of a site to get text to appear when you hover over the masthead image. Got it all working, but wasn't thinking about the structure of the code - new to jquery so I was more concerned with getting in working than what the code lloked like - until now. Now that I look at it I realise that I can't have a paragraph tag where it is. I don't know how I can make this code valid - any ideas? <div class="imageLibrary"> <a href="#"><p>...detail from 'I may be some time...'</p><img src="masthead/masthead-7.jpg" alt="...detail from 'I may be some time...'" /></a> </div> The jquery code specifies that anything within the 'p' element is the hover text. I can't attach the jquery file as WDF won't let me, so go view the source of this page and get the links to them from there: http://www.colinandrews.org/home.php Any jquery experts out there who can help?

it's for the other half - it's been in the making for three years and we've just never got round to completing it - so it's had three or four redesigns in the time but no content. He needs it up and running asap as he's applying for some residencies and so we're doing a bit of a rush job to get it done this weekend.

you guys are just pure geniuses! Thanks you so much for your help!!! This is beginning to work/look the way I want it to now. my fella is going to be really impressed when he gets back in as I thought the two columns thing would be really complicated - I didn't even think to do with CSS - what a fool am I!! Ta very much!

No I didn't do it right - but I have now and it works, but I'm getting a weird thing happening where there is a large images appearing with accompanied text and I have no idea where the script is pulling this from as I've checked all the files within the featuredwork folder and none of them contain a large image and text. Any ideas? This is the link - http://www.colinandrews.org/home.php ignore this - I've found it - there was a file in that folder called featured_0.php which I hadn't noticed. Now I've got to figure out how to do two columns - any ideas?

If I do this: <?php $files = scandir("featuredwork/"); //loads the name of all files in a direct to an array shuffle($files); //randomly shuffle this array $num_img = 5; //we want to only print out 6 images foreach ($files as $key=>$file) { // loop over our randomised array of imagenames if (strpos($file,".php")!==false) { //check that they actualy have a .jpg extension, (we do this because scandir returns "."(current directory) and ".."(parent directory) also if($num_img--<0) { break; } // stop looping after we have 6 images. ?> <div class="imageholder"> <?php print $file; ?> <!-- prints out a image tag for $file --> </div> <?php } } ?> It prints out a list of random file names. I've treid to change this to 'include' rather than 'print' and that doesn't work - so how would I get it to show the contents of the file and not the file name itself?

Been playing with james' script and it would work great if it was just images - but I need to have links on each of the images, hence having them all in separate php files. Tried to adapt it to use php file and failed. Any help???