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huey
07-29-2009, 10:36 PM
I am a total novice at using WordPress and am trying to embed some flash videos into a blog .... it's here at www.wankoffblog.com if anyone would care to look and see if they can help answer my problem detailed below ....

I currently have 6 videos done ... this morning I had all 6 of them on the first page of the blog and while they were there they all worked fine ... but this afternoon I decided to tell WordPress to only have 3 posts per page ... now the 3 videos which were moved down onto page 2 no longer work .... anyone know what I am doing wrong?
gaydemon
07-30-2009, 05:56 AM
The reason is that your templates for Page 2+ do not have the neccessary java and css code to display the videos. Its missing on anything but the first page, I'm guessing the templates you use are different for each page.

Open each of the 2 pages and view the HTML, look at the header part and you can see there is a massive difference and a lot of missing code.
peterf
07-30-2009, 06:15 PM
I think it has nothing to do with wordpress and instead to do with file relative file paths
eg: embed/player-licensed-viral.swf needs to be changed to /embed/player-licensed-viral.swf
huey
07-30-2009, 06:46 PM
Thanks guys .... between your 2 replies I have worked out the problem and the vids seem to be working fine now.

Huey
peterf
08-06-2009, 12:50 AM
Hi all, re: Syndication feeds show the most recent

under: /wp-admin/options-reading.php

its set currently to 10

should we have it sey higher etc if we have 80+ etc

?

thanks P
peterf
08-06-2009, 01:49 AM
I have another potentially dumb question re:
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<p style="text-align: left;">It might have taken us a while but by massive popular demand both hung Jake and straight Ed are back and this time its together! In simple terms straight Ed has sex for the 1st time on camera with Jake! Here's part one of them outdoors getting to know each other!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong>This Free Preview Video Courtesy of WankOffWorld.com:</strong></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong></strong></p>

<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><script src="http://www.jeroenwijering.com/embed/swfobject.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<div id="player093" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">This text will be replaced</div>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
var so = new SWFObject('/embed/player-licensed-viral.swf','mpl','600','400','9');so.addParam('all owscriptaccess','always');so.addParam('allowfullsc reen','true');so.addParam('flashvars','&#038;file=http://www.wankoffblog.com/videos/edandjakeoutsidewow.wmv.FLV&#038;image=http://www.wankoffblog.com/images/exc093.jpg&#038;plugins=viral&#038;dock=false');so.write('pl ayer093');
// --></script>


<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">
<h3 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?CA=936115-0000&amp;PA=1714225">Full video &amp; more at WankOffWorld.com - Click Here</a></h3>
</div>

Some how in each of our html updates we have: >This text will be replaced<
and its showing NOT on the blog update pages eg: http://www.wankoffblog.com/
but its showing on: http://www.wankoffblog.com/feed/
Weve obviously accidently copied this over, but we are not sure what it actually refers to etc and or should even delete or keep etc ?
peterf
08-09-2009, 08:29 PM
bum bump bumpy
gaydemon
08-10-2009, 12:39 PM
I asked this before actually, like you I wondered if it was not better to have more posts in a RSS feed. But it seems some readers and applications won't like it if you go above 20.

RSS are only supposed to show the last few posts so it also depends on how frequently you post. The more often you post, the most you should include in the RSS feed. If you only post once a week, a feed with 20 posts would cover 20 weeks worth of posts.



Hi all, re: Syndication feeds show the most recent

under: /wp-admin/options-reading.php

its set currently to 10

should we have it sey higher etc if we have 80+ etc

?

thanks P
gaydemon
08-10-2009, 12:43 PM
Not sure about your last question, but a quick look in your RSS feed I notice a couple of things. You got things like "<guid isPermaLink="false">, that doesnt look like a correct <guid> element, more like parts of the template which shouldnt be shown is printed out.

Also you have no images in your RSS feed, I dont think you will get any suscribers to your feed as it is now.
peterf
08-10-2009, 06:42 PM
thanks again for feedback Bjorn. Wheres everyone else, no one else doing blogs ? :)
We thought we would do two blogs / rss feeds one with pics and one with videos - have not started the pics one yet.
Re rss feeds http://www.wankoffblog.com/feed/
I thought only 10 at a time should be listed, with the 10 most recent ones showing etc ? but now it seems we will increse to 20 etc.
peterf
08-10-2009, 06:53 PM
I just reread your comment about no pics on http://www.wankoffblog.com/feed/
i assumed it is like that as its a rss feed but maybe not, who ever said blogs were quick and easy ! :)
gaydemon
08-11-2009, 02:03 AM
thanks again for feedback Bjorn. Wheres everyone else, no one else doing blogs ? :)
We thought we would do two blogs / rss feeds one with pics and one with videos - have not started the pics one yet.
Re rss feeds http://www.wankoffblog.com/feed/
I thought only 10 at a time should be listed, with the 10 most recent ones showing etc ? but now it seems we will increse to 20 etc.

Well there are reasons sometimes not to show images / vidoes in the RSS feed, people can copy it and use it.. but in your case thats probably what you want people to do so you should include it.

20 seems safe to use so you might as well.