8 Responses to “Stearn’s Farm Website Project Fall 2009”

1. Angela says:

   September 21, 2009 at 1:37 pm

   So…you worked out embedding the .swf. Was it easy to find and install the plugin? Perhaps you could show how you did this to the group. Nicely done.
2. admin says:

   September 21, 2009 at 1:52 pm

   Yep. It was very easy. I found the plugin here. I used google search and some forums to check if it’s ok. And, of course, I will explain how to install it etc, if anybody interested.
   I still can’t undestand why simple embed code doesn’t work in wordpress. The code:
   
   wordpress just screwed it up somehow.
3. admin says:

   September 21, 2009 at 9:19 pm

   It appears that placement for Comments on this Theme visually not clear. I changed the border for feedback div from top to bottom, that it will show the end of the post more clear. So these two comments supposed to be under Embeded swf test Boy1 post, but I think there is no way I can change location of the comments unfortunatly.
4. Toby says:

   October 1, 2009 at 5:37 am

   Nadia, there is a way to do it but it’s not nice. Looks like you have to run SQL queries to do so. I read this at this site. You would probably have to do this through the lostincleveland admin panel, through some sort of MySQL query panel. I haven’t looked at it though to see if one’s there.

   For this post, you’d run the following to move the posts (will move every comment from this post to that):
   UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_post_ID=5 WHERE comment_post_ID=97;

   Then you’d set the comment count of the other post, which will be 4 once this post is made, change the 4 after “comment_count=” if any more are made:
   UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_count=4 WHERE ID=5;

   FInally set the count of this post to 0:
   UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_count=0 WHERE ID=97;

   A lot of work certainly, and can of course be dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing: mainly, you’d have to make sure this was run on your database, not another. And if any comments were here that you didn’t want to move, it would be even more complicated.

   Another note, you can change wordpress from saying “admin” atop every post and comment of yours to “Nadia” by going to the “Your Profile” page and changing the “Nickname” to “Nadia”, then selecting it from the dropdown menu for “Display name publicly as”.

   Hope this was helpful.
5. Nadia says:

   October 1, 2009 at 8:53 am

   That was really helpful, Toby! I wouldn’t try anything like that on lostincl though. Even if I could , it’s just to much backup to do there. I’ll wait until I get my own server…
   I changed my name too. Thanks again!
6. Nadia says:

   November 1, 2009 at 1:37 am

   I would like to hear your suggestion
7. Toby says:

   November 1, 2009 at 7:13 am

   Nadia, do you have the Akismet plugin enabled? That is a plugin that helps capture comment spam. You just need to enable it on the plugins page, then enter a number that you can get from the wordpress.com account you had created before. One of the videos on lynda is about it.

   I think this odolverox fellow and a few other comments you’ve gotten are comment spam (look at the link the name goes to). Comment spam can grow huge once a blog becomes known to spammers. My personal blog has almost no real human visitors, but has gotten I think over 10,000 spam comments in the several years since I’ve had Akismet running.

   So if it’s not enabled, I’d enable it.
8. Nadia says:

   November 1, 2009 at 4:28 pm

   Thank, Toby!
   I activated it.