Guillotine

Not really an informative post here, but I’m happy right now, and wanted to share.

Ever since I installed WordPress I have had an issue with the post preview. It never worked to be honest. I couldn’t see a post until it went live on the site errors and all. The spell checker saved me from most spelling errors, but grammatical errors or just clumsy writing was a problem… Usually leading to several edits which I know are annoying to RSS readers since it pops up as an unread post again. Turns out the whole thing was the blog url in the setting section was missing the “www” from the link.

The really fun thing was that while I was searching for a fix to the preview problem I landed on a page that fixed another of my issues. The person that designed the theme I started with decided to encrypt the footer so that it was not editable. Any attempt to change the footer resulted in the page breaking. I’m sure there are others out there with the same issue.

In my case there were several reasons why I wanted the footer changed.

1. So I can edit it as I see fit (I can’t stand not being able to control the elements on my own site)
2. The built in copyright info was wrong (The author set it to “guillotine” the blog title rather than “girochin” I guess this was more an issue with me using a title different than the domain).
3. the designer left links to all his sites as well as some text ads in the footer. Now I don’t usually have a problem with giving credit by a link back to the designer’s site, but in this case the theme was so buggy that I spent a good deal of time fixing bad code, and general editing of the theme, so at this point I feel it’s more my theme than theirs… Other than the graphics there isn’t much left original… Besides… The fact that they were sneaking affiliate ads onto my page is grounds enough to want it gone.

The fix for the footer is rather simple (matter of fact it’s amazing I didn’t run across it myself), so if you want to remove the encrypted code from a WordPress theme footer check the post linked below out, and be sure to leave some feedback as this guy deserves the hero award for figuring out something as useful as this.

Leateds.com: Ever have a wordpress theme with an encrypted footer!