My 2 biggest WordPress annoyances are:

1. Trying to get Javascript based ads and widgets to behave right in sidebars, headers and footers. Technically these are more CSS issues than WordPress but it’s still a pain.

2. Trying to get the RSS feed to always be a full feed. There seem to be dozens of ways to make it a partial feed, even by accident, but none to force it to always be a full feed.

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I want to ask a couple of this is there a really good way to create a membership blog as we want to be a membership site which up to 3 types of members trial, free and paid.

These will be in support of the online radio network we are building which will be up to 10-20 channels of awesome music split by genre. To this want to make our site a blog that offers the three types of membership.

What is the best solution, in the meantime take a listen too HotSpot Radio http://www.hotspotradio.com

Paul

I am having a hard time adding a logo to the header of my blog. I can add the logo without the title text but it does not display correctly. I can add the logo and everything integrates perfectly but the title text remains over the top of the logo. I would like to find a way to add the log seamlessly into the header in the most SEO friendly and seamless manner possible.

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Alex,

Fantastic offer of giving back to the community.

I don’t know if anyone has started the ball rolling but if not, I’ll be the first.

My question today is actually multi-part. On a blog that covers several subjects, ie: travel/health/financial etc. how and where do you place the RSS feeds from a variety of sources on the different subject pages so the relevant feed shows up on the correct page?

Also, can you make posts on the same blog to different pages? and how?

I am using Wordpress.org

Thank you for your help, I follow your stuff religiously.

Best,
Abi

I have a problem which is sending me around in circles. I wanted to change the permalinks (which I stupidly hadn’t done before I started) but I didn’t want to break all of the links on the sites.

I tried the two main plug-ins to allow for 301 redirects and neither worked - I think it is because I am on a Windows server.

Is there a way to change them, and put redirects in for the posts I have currently created, or do I have to sigh and realise I have rubbish links or worse, break my site and lose all of the inbound links I do have.

If you could help me with this, I would be eternally grateful!

Alex,

I’ll try to explain a little better.

Both questions are related. Basically, all posts typically go to the index page. My question is can I make posts to show up on different pages so the article is actually relative to the page it is on. As on my blog which I am just starting I have one page for travel and a different one for cigars. 2nd question is basically same as first but can I place different RSS feeds on different pages, again, different subject matter and if I ca, how?

Thanks again,
Abi

Alex,

Thanks once again for all your help. Just found a book on PHP and I’ll start reading. I have also learned a lot from other peoples questions of course.
Keep it up.

Best,
Abi

Here’s something that might help Nancy: Wordpress Hacks for IIS

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Hi,
I am new with wordpress. Just setup my first blog at http://www.fredchanblog.com. I experienced some problem with permalinks. Initially I set the permalinks to show dates, directories, name (ie. change it from basic). The comments link dissappear (ie can’t make comments). I thought it was my wordpress installation problem as I changes some scripts in the theme directory.

The problem persist even after I re-installed wordpress. Then I found in google search a forum stating that by changing the permalink from basic to other, the comments doesn’t work with some theme. I am using silver-lotus theme.

Any idea which php script that I should amend to allow me to change the permalink from basic to others?

Hope you can help.

Regards.

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A very simple query. I want to get the related posts below each post. I have activated the WP23 Related Posts and configured it. But I am not getting the related posts on this blog - Instant Food

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Sometimes I come across some really good PHP scripts. I’ve tried using customizable widget plugins that allow you to use your own PHP code, but I lack the coding experience to get them to work. There must be an easier way.

Also, I can’t get any of the Adhesive or Sticky Post plugins to work with my Super Adsense theme.

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Dear Alex,

I am very new in blogging and wordpress, so I hope you don’t mind if I ask a few more questions.

My first question that I sent you was on the permalinks.

Below are a few more:

1. I have installed a pluggin from Alex King to put smiley in my posting and comments. I activated them but I can only get the “character” sich as ;lol; and not the picture in my posting. Although the smiley pictures appear a the bottom of the form.

2. I sign up with ShareIT and installed the pluggin. I managed to paste the code. However the ShareIT logo appear right in the middle of the bottom half of the page. How do I change the alignment or position of the logo just like in your blog?

3. Also on ShareIT logo, I selected a few services and when I try clicking the logo in my site, the windows appear is overlapped by my right sidebar (ie. half the shareit window can’t be seen). If I can place the shareit logo to the left of the page, the shareit windows might not be obstructed. Any suggestion?

4. I managed to add subcribe to my feed link with feedburner but I can’t get the feed for my comments. Maybe its because my site, http://www.fredchanblog.com is only 2 days old and there is no comment available that feedburner link generator for comment feed cannot create the link. Do I have to enter my own comment first before trying with feedburner again? Or is it due to my permalinks problem.

Hope you can help.

Thanks.

Fred Chan
Miracle Kids and Wordpress

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Dear Alex,

Thanks for you advise.

Managed to change permalinks but as my earlier posts were with the basic permalinks, I get error message when I click comment. I think I can rectify that by reposting them after I change the permalinks since I just started a few posting.

I was using shareit ver 2.0. Alex King just posted an upgraded shareit classic that allow user to position the logo. I will try that.

Thanks again.

Fred Chan
Miracle Kids and Wordpress

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Can I just say thank you to both Alex and Frank C for taking the time to try and help me with my permalink nightmare…

Still haven’t got it fixed but I really appreciate the response.

Nancy

My Biggest PROBLEM is……..

1….Planning My Blog

2….Implementing My Blog

3….Keeping…keeping On.

REALLY appreciative of your offer Alex, Thanking you.

There’s an ancient Israelite saying…….
Place enough bread on the “waters-of-life”
and in TIME, it will return to thee in ABUNDANCE.

Alex,
First off I would like to thank you for all help you have given, in your info and videos and links.
The problem I am having is to put a contact form on my WordPress blog and hook it up with responder. I have a responder unfortunetly not Aweber, but I have a responder with another programand want to use that at this time.
So how and where do I put the form from my autoresponder, should I use the
responder and email with my host or do I just make a form with my responder and use the mail feature there? And how do I make this all work. I haven’t been able to figure out how to set up email with my host to put a contact email in my mailings when I get people in my auto-responder.
I have seen a lot of info on setting up the blog and plugins, themes etc but nothing ob hooking this up, any help ob this would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Darwin

Alex,
Thanks for the quick reply, I am definately going for the double opt in like you do. But I have no idea what a widget really is, let alone a text widget. That’s where I am getting stuck, I know how to create the form in my auto responder, but then what do I do with it? I looked over the WordPress website and checked the cPanel help section and haven’t got the answers need to get my forme on and hook up my email in cpanel.

Thanks,
Darwin

Hi Alex, i hope you will not regret for this offer quite soon My biggest problem with WordPress is font problem for my Turkish blog http://www.evdenisyapiyorum.com. I am using Voda Host as hosting service, and they have one click Wordpress setup feature. I installed WordPress to http://www.evdenisyapiyorum.com. After a while i understood that it does not support Turkish. Thus as a beginner (1 year ago) i removed the VodaHost manually, and then copied one which supports Turkish fonts. But even in that case i could not achieve Turkish fonts to appear correctly. What do you suggest me to do ? Your help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Mert Erkal

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Hi Alex,

I have two pesky problems with my wordpress blog:

1) I am using the Mandigo theme and have a “break” right between the header and body of the blog, I do not know how it happened as I have not done any editing of the header. You can see what I mean at my blog:

http://www.MarkEdwardBrown.com

2) I have installed wpads but can not figure out where to place the code in my sidebar so that the plug-in will actually work. Right now I just have a banner in a text box however wpads would allow me to rotate banners which is what I really want to do.

Thanks Alex,

Mark Brown

AKA - The Militant Marketer

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Hi Alex,

Many thanks!

Mark

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