j’s blog

http://jblog4u.blogspot.com/

Until the server access and speed problems are fixed it seems I’m forced to temporarily (?) switch back to my old blogger blog.

I’ve heard its a no-no to be excessively self-referential, but I can’t help it, I’m my biggest fan.

If you too hang on my every word, then you won’t want to miss my latest forum post:

www.blogsome.com :: View topic - directed to admin - ads not showing, newsletter

for my fans in a hurry, here’s the gist of the reply from admin.:

We intend that blogsome is around for a long time. The only problems we can forsee will be related to our success and growing too fast. Also we intend updating the features as WordPress develops and there may be bugs along the way. We are examing ways of doing backups and hopefully we’ll have that up and running soon. But the first priority at the moment is to get moved over to WordPress 1.5 and other upgrades.

We would put a photo up, per your request, but we’re too good looking.

Blog Ireland

The folks that run Blogsome also run this service as well. Maybe Blogsome is the International version of their service.

I don’t like having ads on this blog, but blogsome asks that we keep them up and it appears they check.  Anyway, I don’t benefit financially in any way from them.  They remain out of gratitude.

www.blogsome.com :: View topic - Sub Categories Not Working Right

spoutnik:

It works fine for me this time.
I have the following code in my sidebar

Categories:

insert argument children="1"

It turns out spoutnik did know, adding the children argument did the trick

Thanks spoutnik and all

www.blogsome.com :: View topic - Sub Categories Not Working Right

Splash,

Thanks for the fix, but I can’t get it to work for me. Could you telll me how u got it to work on your site? Could you send the link to your site or a blogsome site with sub-cats displaying properly so I can see what it should look like?

This is what I found at the link u gave:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats
"hierarchical
(boolean) Sets whether to display child (sub) categories in a hierarchical (after parent) list. Valid values:

* 1 (True - default)
* 0 (False)

Note: The hierarchical parameter is not available in versions of WordPress prior to 1.5"

and this is what I have that doesn’t show sub-cats properly:

• Categories:
  {list_cats hierarchical=’true’ hide_empty=’0′ optional=’1′ all=’All’ optioncount=’1′ sort_column=’name’}

I also tried =’1′ instead of ‘true’ , but that was no more successful

both cat and sub-cat have posts assigned to them

did I input the argument correctly?

any other suggestions?

also, does anyone know why blogsome doesn’t upgrade to wordpress 1.5? or offer both versions? and more plugins?

Thanks, Jim

www.blogsome.com :: View topic - Sub Categories Not Working Right

Ok, I finally found an answer on the sub-categories. Basically it doesn’t work, but I haven’t been able to find out why. See forum thread above.

I don’t know if this is a Wordpress, Blogsome or me problem.

So, I give up for now, I just made all categories parents or top level and will leave it at that for now.

Well, lookie what I found. Here’s an spell checker extension for Firefox and it’s even supposed to work under Linux, which is what I primarily use, even tho I’m a dual-booter.

I’ll look into the spellchecker for Wordpress under Blogsome, but I suspect I’m not the first to want to spell check and if Blogsome wanted me to spellcheck my stuff, they would have installed the plugin already.

Not to worry, I prefer the easiest built-in sprell checking possible, but will find one way or another eventually.

I just installed this extension, so I probably have to restart firefox to get it to work, so, back in a few…

SpellBound - Spellchecker for Firefox and the Mozilla Suite
What is SpellBound?
SpellBound is a port of the spellchecker code and user interface from the Mozilla Suite’s Composer that enables spell checking in web forms such as html textarea / input elements (html input password elements are not checked by SpellBound) and rich text form elements. This allows you to spell check forms (e.g. message board posts, blog entries, wysiwyg, etc.) before submitting them when using your Mozilla Firefox or Mozilla Suite browser.

I want to thank my Mother and Father and 1st grade teacher and dog and, last but not least, Blogsome, for hosting my blog for free. I appreciate the service and will try to draw some traffic to your site (I assume that’s one of your ends)

Please don’t interpret any of my whining about the software as a putdown of your service, it’s not, I really apprecite what you’re doing for people. However, I hope you don’t totally ignore me either, since some of my observations may lead to an improvement of your service.

In any event, I am grateful (and not yet dead)

jim

New Problem. I have about 6 categories and sub-categories selected for my posts, but, only 2 categories are showing on my blog. I closed and reopened browser, looked in the wiki and docs, none of that helped. I found someone with a similar problem in the forums, but I don’t want to and shouldn’t have to mess with a plugin to fix this. If a blogger creates and selects a category for his post, it doesn’t seem unreasaonable to me that all those categories and subcategories should appear under the categories section on the right column of the page. Chosen categories attached to a post should display under the categories section, seems like the most likely outcome to me. So why do only 2 of my chosen 6 categories display under the categories list? I guess I’d better try and find out. Ok, off to the docs and forum again, back in a while.