Anybody experienced with Wordpress?

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   ryankettposted 14 years ago

   On my site Excerptz.com I have had a yellow 'Recent News' thing appear from nowhere above the posts.
   
   It looks awful. I have searched through the code for the term 'recent news' and for the term 'recent' but to no avail.
   
   Does anybody know how this may be coded in order to allow me to find the offending code, or perhaps another way to find it?
   
   Thanks,
   
   Ryan.

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      SimeyCposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Just looking at the source on Explorer I found:
      
      <div class="featcat"><h3 class="featcat">Recent News</h3><ul class="featcat" ></ul></div>            <div class="post">

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   SunSevenposted 14 years ago

   Benn there to have a look around.
   
   My advice will be to get a new layout or template. Its not good enough for a micro site. Not very user (new) friendly.
   
   Certianly you do not want old timers there, who can bypass all the conditions mentioned on the rules page and still able to post there.
   
   Just imagine, on what scale HP is

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      ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I don't want to change the theme, I like it, I want to get rid of the recent news thing.
      
      Neither do I ever want a site to rival Hubpages, I could do without 30 servers in my living room. And neither does Excerptz quality as a "micro-site".
      
      And neither will people be able to break the rules, seeing as the rejection process will be:
      
      a) automated with plugins
      
      and
      
      b) subsequently manually approved.
      
      Now, do you have an answer to my question?

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   skyfireposted 14 years ago

   WP explorer's theme ? Let me check. I'll be back in few minutes.

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      ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Sorry, hope you don't spend too long searching, SimeyC seems to have found the code!

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   ryankettposted 14 years ago

   SimeyC, for some reason Hubpages doesn't allow code to be quoted.
   
   Right, excellent, I will search for that.... not sure why my search didn't pick that up, I will try a different browser.
   
   I deleted that 'Top Posts' plugin for you by the way

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   SunSevenposted 14 years ago

   Ah!I see, its a full time thing, I will be starting in June only, may be I will watch you too and learn a little more before I take the plunge.

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      ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I won't rule out changing themes to keep things fresh once and a while, but it took me a long time to find a theme which made good use of thumbnails and space on the posts page, and that is why for now I am happy with it.
      
      I went through at least 20 themes before settling for this one, I didn't like the way that the tag, category and archive pages interacted on those. There are themes which would be better suited to AdSense placement, its just a case of finding one which is both optimised for both reader friendliness and AdSense placement.

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   ryankettposted 14 years ago

   OK, that is a featured category plugin that I must have had a play with at some stage. Plugin deleted, problem solved

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      skyfireposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      and i was searching for the class that Simey quoted. LOL

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         ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Cheers for the effort though
         
         And many thanks to SimeyC!

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            SimeyCposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            yw! BTW HELP! I just completed an article and went to add a link - the dialog box opened and is blank - it's stuck and I now can't get back to my article...noooooooooooo! Any way to close the dialog - or does the site auto-save?!

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               ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               It is showing content on the admin panel

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                  SimeyCposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                  OK  - I guess I'll shut down - no problem really as I can rewrite - just wanted to save myself a few minutes.
                  
                  Must be my local server as I can't get to the site at the moment!

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                     ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                     Simey, it is showing as auto-saved on the admin panel, no need to rewrite

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                        SimeyCposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                        Wonderful! Thanks for providing this useful forum - Excerptz has is my 18th best traffic source! I suspect it'll overtake Google.com LOL

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                        lakeerieartistsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                        Ryan, a lot of the plug in and theme writers sneak in a link to an ad that shows up when their code is added to your wp site, so you always need to look for that.  Sometimes they will let you turn it off from the plug in, and sometimes, you need to delete the code directly.

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                           ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                           Yes, I find that a lot, this one wasn't an ad... it was actually the header for the plugin (it would have showed a list of posts under 'Recent News'), but I expected it to a sidebar widget awaiting my implementation, hence the reason I didn't relate the two
                           
                           Cheers though, I've been building up lots of wordpress sites, finding decent plugins is the most time consuming part, I must deactivate around 90% that I try! I actually donated to one yesterday, as I was so happy to find a plugin with frequent updates and a strong support system.

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                              lakeerieartistsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                              Yep, there are a lot of mediocre ones, finding the good ones takes some trial and error.

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   Bill Manningposted 14 years ago

   Guess you got it all fixed now. I myself don't use anymore plug-ins then I need to. I'm convinced too many start breaking things.

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      brandonhart100posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I agree and it can make it horribly slow, especially when browsing through your dashboard stuff...

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         ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         A database compression can solve that

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