Any Wordpress Guru about?

[peter]

Hey all...

I have a Wordpress question...

I have done some searching but getting tricky Wordpress support is like going through a maze...

I'm not sure this is posible but it has to be done somewhere.

The question:
Can I get a widget to display different stuff based on either a post or category?

ie. I have a blog with 3 posts. Let's call them post1, post2 and post3.

In my widget for post1 i want an image displayed, for post2 I want some adsense and post3 I want a pdf download.

Is this possible? And if so can you direct me to the appropriate page?

Thanks in advance,
Peter.

[Kensamson]

Hi Peter,
here is one suggestion,
1. get the widget logic plugin for here; this plugin adds an additional field to every plugin being used that will allow you to turn on or turn off the widget on a per post basis
2. use 3 text widgets or similar to show your image, adsense, pdf link (1 widget for each piece of content)
3. use the widget logic field and make sure;
- widget 1 is only visible on post 1,
- widget 2 visible only post 2,
- widget 3 only visible on post 3

that should do the trick

Ken

[CarlosAmigos]

Peter,

you can use conditional coding for this..and place it within your sidebar or where ever you're putting it.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

Its under the "is_single()" part, you write several conditional codes in a row..

eg.

PHP Code:

<?php if (is_single('1')); ?><img>Show Image<?php endif; ?>

<?php if (is_single('2')); ?>Show Adsense<?php endif; ?>

<?php if (is_single('3')); ?><pdf>Show PDF<?php endif; ?>

The numbers 1,2,3 have to be your post ID's

[esea99]

Does anyone know of a Wordpress expert that can help me fix my blog? It has 4-5 issues that I don't know how to fix and I am completely clueless about techie stuff. Maybe an outsource WP repair person from oDesk who resides in some other country that has been used before who is very WP tech savvy AND inexpensive?

[CoolyKid]

What are the problems you are experiencing as there could well be members in this forum who could help you. What is your blog URL?

[esea99]

Ooops! Didn't mean anything by that "from some other country" thing. Just happy to get help from anywhere across the globe. As long as they are a "WP guru" and can help me fix my blog... :-)

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My errors I need fixing on my WP blog are as follows:

1. I have 2 'fatal error' messages on my Wordpress dashboard saying I have exhausted all my bytes on my blog. (I have hardly posted anything, but I do have 2 YouTube videos on my blog.) I need to know in non-techie easy-to-understand instructions how to fix this and how I can avoid this error in the future.

2. I have installed the all-in-one SEO Pack plugin, and it is asking me to enable it and put in the correct settings. Please tell me how to enable it and what the correct settings are suppose to be for this plugin.

3. I cannot get any images to show up on my Wordpress blog. All that is visible is an empty box where the picture should be seen. This happens whether I try to put a picture in a post or in the sidebar. Please tell me what I am doing wrong and how I can upload pictures that will be visible on my blog.

4. I need instructions on how to upload a youtube video so that it is not too big. What size should any posted videos be, is there a limit to how many videos one can have on a site, and how do I adjust the size either before or after I upload a video?

5. At this time, I have the Flexibility 2 Theme on my blog. When I go into the Flex 2 settings, I have tried to choose 'dual sub sidebars' in the Theme Layout Changer but when I click on 'save changes' the changes will NOT 'save'. Other changes I have done to my Flex 2 Theme have "saved" but not this one. How do I fix this so that my blog has dual sub sidebars in my Flex 2 Theme?

Hopefully in getting answers to these issues, others can find help for their Wordpress blogs as well...

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Also - could you answer the following 2 WP questions:
A.) If I have one Theme and I change it to another Theme, will all my installed plugins and the way I have my widgets set up stay the way they are if I change to a different Theme? Or does everything go back to a basic "nothing-done-to-it" Wordpress page when changing Themes?

B.) Can I save the way I have currently set up the Flexibility 2 Theme in a file somewhere, so that if I change to a different Theme, and then later decide to put back the Flexibility 2 Theme with all my preferences and saved changes, I can quickly reinstall it again with all my current preferences, widgets, and plugins? And if so, how do I reinstall it?

Thanks so much...

[CoolyKid]

Okay, first things first, let's try and solve the fatal error message.

Is the fatal error message something like this:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2355395 bytes) in /home/yourdomain/public_html/blog/wp-includes/http.php on line 380

Then if so this is a php out of memory error and usually occurs when someone has tried to upgrade their Wordpress installation without de-activating their plugins - is this the case with your installation?

If so, then you need to de-activate all your plugins and try to upgrade your installation again.

If you don't have access to your dashboard to de-activate all the plugins, then have a look at this video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Dqoh496Ng

Once we solve the first problem we will look at the others

John

[esea99]

I have deactivated all my plugins and the Fatal error message that went something like: "Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2355395 bytes) in /home/yourdomain/public_html/blog/wp-includes/http.php on line 380" is now gone!!!

Yeah! Thanks so much. Now how do I upgrade? I am using WordPress version 2.9.2 Isn't that the latest one?

And should I now re-activate my plugins or should I fix the other issues first?

[CoolyKid]

Yes, Wordpress 2.9.2 is the latest upgrade. Just make sure everything is working correctly before you go to the next step as my concern is that Wordpress may not have fully updated due to the error it encountered - this could well be the cause of some of your other problems, eg images.

The next step is to activate your plugins one at a time and make sure there are no conflicts or errors and that everything is still working correctly ie. activate one plugin then move around to a few different areas within your dashboard and also check that your website is okay as well - if all is okay, activate the next plugin and repeat - do this until you encounter a problem or have all your plugins activated and tested.

Once you have all your plugins activated and your website is working okay we will look at your other problems

[CarlosAmigos]

(04-02-2010 01:20 AM)esea99 Wrote:  2. I have installed the all-in-one SEO Pack plugin, and it is asking me to enable it and put in the correct settings. Please tell me how to enable it and what the correct settings are suppose to be for this plugin.

I have attached a jpg file with what I have found works best for me..but you can set to what ever

(04-02-2010 01:20 AM)esea99 Wrote:  3. I cannot get any images to show up on my Wordpress blog. All that is visible is an empty box where the picture should be seen. This happens whether I try to put a picture in a post or in the sidebar. Please tell me what I am doing wrong and how I can upload pictures that will be visible on my blog.

This can be a number of things, make sure you upload the image via your admin panel, either via the posts, pages or media sections.

On posts and pages it is just above the content and below the title (Upload/Insert) and its the first button..

Make sure you don't upload a photo that is greater than a few hundred Kilobytes (or wider than your blog width, as this will slow things down.) I usually make them about 350 px wide as this is a nice size and does not add to the load times.

(04-02-2010 01:20 AM)esea99 Wrote:  4. I need instructions on how to upload a youtube video so that it is not too big. What size should any posted videos be, is there a limit to how many videos one can have on a site, and how do I adjust the size either before or after I upload a video?

You don't need to upload a video of you are using a youtube one, all you need to do is copy the code from youtube and paste that into your post page (make sure you view the HTML version and not the Visual version when you paste the embed code)

Or get a WP plugin that handles short cut code eg.

Code:

[youtube N7Dqoh496Ng width=450 height=230]

(04-02-2010 01:20 AM)esea99 Wrote:  5. At this time, I have the Flexibility 2 Theme on my blog. When I go into the Flex 2 settings, I have tried to choose 'dual sub sidebars' in the Theme Layout Changer but when I click on 'save changes' the changes will NOT 'save'. Other changes I have done to my Flex 2 Theme have "saved" but not this one. How do I fix this so that my blog has dual sub sidebars in my Flex 2 Theme?

You may have to talk to the developers on this one, since it may be a coding issue. Or you can try disabling all your plugins then try and save it, as one of the plugins may be messing this up? Then activate each plugin one-by-one and do a save each time, then if one messes it up..you know which one then.

(04-02-2010 01:20 AM)esea99 Wrote:  Also - could you answer the following 2 WP questions:
A.) If I have one Theme and I change it to another Theme, will all my installed plugins and the way I have my widgets set up stay the way they are if I change to a different Theme? Or does everything go back to a basic "nothing-done-to-it" Wordpress page when changing Themes?

B.) Can I save the way I have currently set up the Flexibility 2 Theme in a file somewhere, so that if I change to a different Theme, and then later decide to put back the Flexibility 2 Theme with all my preferences and saved changes, I can quickly reinstall it again with all my current preferences, widgets, and plugins? And if so, how do I reinstall it?

Thanks so much...

Normally the theme is saved somewhere either in a file within the system or in the database, so you should be ok..but you would have to test this on that particular template as I have never used it before.

[deadmau5]

You might want to give Thesis a whirl.

Small learning curve, but once you have that down, think of it as a completely customizable, premium wordpress theme.

The sky is the limit!

I use thesis so I can customize my widgets, place them anywhere, and still have their design match what I'm trying to go for aesthetically.

You don't have to be a php nut but it helps..

[srikat]

For the memory issues, this might be useful:

http://frugaltheme.com/cobalt-wp-boost-a...-problems/