Something seems a bit different…
Yeah, so I got bored with the theme again and switched to a new one. This one is called Blueline by GPS Gazette. The theme is widget-enabled, which means dealing with the sidebars is way easier now.
Since I’m playing around with my blog, I figured I’d try to see if there were any other interesting plugins I could add. So far, I haven’t downloaded anything aside from upgrades to WPG2 (Gallery plugin) and SexyComments. SexyComments wasn’t working earlier; I kept getting this message:
The SexyComments Theme used to render comments does not exist or it has not yet been initialized. Please check the Comment Display Theme setting in the SexyComments options.
I’d go to the SexyComments options, and there would be a pulldown menu to select the comment display theme, but it was empty. I couldn’t find a solution online anywhere, but I looked through the code and figured out what the problem was. The plugin uses the function get_template_directory() (which gives the directory location of your theme) to figure out the location of the plugin/templates. I accidentally had my theme in a deeper folder, so instead of wp-content/themes/theme_name, it was in wp-content/themes/theme_name/theme_name. Being off one folder level screwed up the SexyComments script’s finding of its own files. It was looking for get_template_directory().’/../../plugins/sexy-comments/templates’ when it wanted get_template_directory().’/../../../plugins/sexy-comments/templates’. Anyways, I fixed my theme directory structure back to typical, and the plugin worked again.
Not like anybody is going to use it. If you want to take advantage of its features (mainly forum-like comments), you can get an avatar at Gravatar. I could also do MyBlogLog instead of Gravatar; I know Kelvin and some people he knows uses it. Meh, I’ll contemplate it later and just use Gravatar for now.
New thing I learned today: Aside from being used in text to point out unusually or incorrectly spelled words, “sic” also means to incite or urge an attack, usually with a dog.
I thought Kelvin was spelling it wrong when he typed “sic balls” instead of “sick balls”, but apparently “sic” is the right spelling (tho “sick” is also acceptable).
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I wonder how SexyComments is looking.
Edited: Looks okay!
1I came across this while searching in Google. I changed that section also to /../../../ and it pulled up the default.php file of SC.
I’ve clicked “this CSS” using IE and Firefox, but neither would show me the CSS code possibly needed to use on my blog’s CSS. Could you, say, post the CSS code here?
I searched in the WP support forum and the author’s comments, but neither seem to present it.
Thanks for sharing one solution to one issue! :)
2I’m not really sure what you mean by the CSS code, as I didn’t mess with any CSS for SexyComments. Are you trying to get the colors of SC to match your blog or something? I think when I installed it, it automatically used my blog’s theme’s default CSS settings (under SC settings, “Disable default CSS” was left unchecked). The SC php file has CSS stuff in it; maybe you modify it and stick it in your theme’s CSS file? Sorry, I have no idea :( You’re probably better off asking the BorkWeb folks.
3Under “Disable disable CSS”, there’s a hyperlink supposedly to give the CSS code that just won’t work for me. But you’re right, the code’s in the plugin like you said. :)
I’ll experiment with that and see how it works with my theme. Thanks!
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