Wordpress-IE woes
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It looks like my IE woes are past me. Well, not completely because whatever changes I made, seem to have broken my banner script and the n00b that I am, I am yet to figure out what to do to make it work.
Sometime during the week, I had a brainwave. I realized that all I needed to do to solve my IE display issues was a “switch and reload”operation with my updated template php files and with those of the virgin KKP Light template that I re-downloaded. And last night, once I started, I realized that the index.php was the file that was corrupted. I went into the index.php and started doing the switcheroo with the internal code bits and voila, within minutes I had a winner.
It appears that the “the_category” Wordpress tag was causing the issues. I had the tag set up to display all the categories associated with a post along with a small gif (in the background, set up via the style sheet). For some reason, Firefox rendered the tag perfectly. I kept making changes in the tag’s parameters (separator and parents) and while Firefox had no trouble, IE kept failing everytime. So, with no other option available, I deleted the tag. I have a faint idea that this is also related to my aborted attempt to upgrad WP to 2.2, last Saturday. Before that fiasco, this tag was working perfectly for about 6 months or so.
Soon after solving this issue, I realized that my banners were not being displayed. I have a collection of banners (in case you haven’t noticed before) that keep rotating automatically when you reload the page, based on the “rotator.php” file. And now this is broken.
The only code I have on my “header.php” for the banner rotation is this bit.
<div id=”header”>
</div>
And this “header” is defined in my CSS like this.
#header {
height:126px;
width:700px;
/*random header images from http://automaticlabs.com/products/rotator*/
background-image:url(images/headers/rotator.php);
background-position:top right;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
So, for some reason, “rotator.php” has stopped working. For the record, I did not do any edits of any sort to the file in the past 10 months. I mean, it was working perfectly before last Saturday. Do the geeks have any ideas for this php/css/anything other than basic HTML n00b?
ÜberDesi
Saravanan
July 2nd, 2007 at 2:08 amI get a 404 error for http://superstarksa.com/images/headers/rotator.php
This means that rotator.php is missing in the folder [WP_HOME_FOLDER]/images/headers/. It might have been deleted when you upgraded wordpress. Add rotator.php in that folder. Your blog should be ok.
Primalsoup http://bonniebluebutler.blogspot.com/
July 3rd, 2007 at 5:07 amWhy do you let geeks read your Blog? Once you get rid of them, anything goes.
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:04 pmSoupie: After all geeks are people too, no? And, while one wants hot gals to read this blog, in their absence, one has to make sure that there is *some* readership at all. Hence the “reach out to the geeks” type post.
Saravanan: Thanks to you, I realized that I had made one mistake. The actual link to the rotator.php file was this: http://superstarksa.com/wp-con.....t ator.php
So my style sheet should have had:
I made the change. But no effect!
Saravanan
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:50 pmYou have background style information defined for header div at two places,
one in index.php and another in the style sheet(http://superstarksa.com/wp-content/themes/KKP_Light/style.css). Remove the #header style info in the index.php(#header style is at the end of head tag. If you want to comment out then, use C style comments /**/. The html style comment syntax wont work in style declaration). This should fix your problem. Email me if the problem persists.