http://forums.blogs.mu/ Just another bbPress community en Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:37:57 +0000 http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-728 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:58:35 +0000 Barry 728@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi Ben<br /> Yep, it looks like some browsers will follow a redirect for an image when it's displayed in it's own, but not within a page. Most strange and confusing.</p> <p>I've got the list of your sites blogs ready, so I'll be going through them and updating today - shouldn't take too long and you shouldn't notice any issues.</p> <p>Rgds<br /> Barry </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=114#post-727 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:54:21 +0000 Barry 727@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi @3drendering - please read the reply directly above your question, starting "We can't reactivate deleted blogs or main site blogs"</p> <p>Thanks<br /> Barry </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=114#post-726 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:11:57 +0000 3drendering 726@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>How to re-activate blogs on blogs.mu, I cant find any options anywhere. I have deactivate my blog by mistake actually. I am new for blogs.mu</p> <p>Jeff </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-725 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:38:57 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 725@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi Barry - Thanks - really appreciate it :-)</p> <p>I did notice that in FF the images are visible in the blogs, but not in IE8.</p> <p>They all were visible in IE8 prior to the change in domain name from SeedDirect.blogs.mu to vegblogs.co.uk</p> <p>Here is the URL of a typical image that does not work in IE, but does in FF</p> <p><a href="http://seeddirect.blogs.mu/fishmantom/files/2010/01/untitled-300x180.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://seeddirect.blogs.mu/fishmantom/files/2010/01/untitled-300x180.jpg</a><br /> This image is in the following blog:<br /> <a href="http://vegblogs.co.uk/fishmantom/" rel="nofollow">http://vegblogs.co.uk/fishmantom/</a></p> <p>What is REALLy odd, is if i look at the image alone in IE8, then the image actually loads (it redirects to a vegblogs image with the following address:<br /> <a href="http://vegblogs.co.uk/fishmantom/files/2010/01/untitled-300x180.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://vegblogs.co.uk/fishmantom/files/2010/01/untitled-300x180.jpg</a></p> <p>All the best</p> <p>Ben </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=165#post-724 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:31:13 +0000 griscomb 724@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi Barry,</p> <p>Thanks for the reply. The blogs are all under blogs.lancastercountryday.org (or lcds.blogs.mu). They were up for most of the day and then began failing to load again (the main page was working pretty much the entire time though). </p> <p>Do you think this could be a problem with our proxy/caching server? The error we're getting is a 504 - malformed reply from server. </p> <p>I'll send all of this over in an email. </p> <p>Thanks again. </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=165#post-723 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:29:11 +0000 Barry 723@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>You can pop a message through to contact [at] blogs [dot mu].</p> <p>If you can point me to a site with the problems and let me know which issues it's having then I'll dig down and see if I can find the issue.</p> <p>We have made some recent changes to improve the stability of the blogs.mu system and servers, so this may be a side-effect. </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=164#post-722 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:21:37 +0000 Barry 722@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>The footer is generally determined by the themes author, as such we don't have much control over it - some let you change the footer settings, others don't.</p> <p>Supporters have access to an advertising block in the footer that can be used to display plain text instead of adverts if that is any use. </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=165#post-721 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:29:27 +0000 griscomb 721@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>We're having an issue with all of our blogs. For the past few days ONLY the main site would load, and generally with a broken header image. Today the blogs are back up, but a lot of the header images and text isn't formatting properly. What's the deal? This isn't the first time we've had this happen and it's becoming pretty obnoxious. </p> <p>Also, who do I contact in regards to billing? We need to change our billing type...</p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-720 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:39:39 +0000 Barry 720@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>I can see the images on that link fine in firefox, but not in safari - which is confusing me somewhat.</p> <p>Should have it sorted soon though (as soon as I work out the main issue :) ) </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-719 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:24:59 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 719@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hia Barry - Any joy with these images? Got a few unhappy bloggers that i've promised the images will re-appear to.</p> <p>Cheers<br /> Ben </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-718 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:43:25 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 718@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi Barry - Apologies for delay - got distracted.</p> <p>Here is teh URL you requested:<br /> <a href="http://vegblogs.co.uk/faeriethyme/" rel="nofollow">http://vegblogs.co.uk/faeriethyme/</a></p> <p>Tks<br /> Ben </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=163#post-717 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:55:40 +0000 suewaters 717@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>I think you are saying you imported using their feeds?</p> <p>With Blogger blogs you are able to export their blog and then set up a new blog on your site for them so they have their own blog. </p> <p>Here is how it is done:</p> <p> 1. Create a new blog at on your site<br /> 2. Log into your blogger blog Dashboard and go to Settings &gt; Basic<br /> 3. Click on Export blog<br /> 4. Click on Download Blog and save onto your hard drive<br /> 5. Log into your new Campus blog<br /> 6. Click on Tools &gt; Import<br /> 7. Click on Blogger<br /> 8. Browse to locate Download Export file from Blogger<br /> 9. Click on upload file and import</p> <p>This will import all posts, comments, files. But you will need to manually set up your blog theme and widgets. </p> <p>To add a new user to a blog go to Users &gt; Add New </p> <p>Alternatively you can create the blogs using Users &gt; Blogs &amp; Users Creator. </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=164#post-716 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:06:33 +0000 onevoice 716@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>I see that the admin footer content I set will be in the admin area of each blog, but is there not a way to have my network name in the footer, to help brand it? It's fine to have "hosted by blogs.mu," but I thought the name of my network would be found somewhere on each and every blog.</p> <p>If this can be inserted automatically, how can I do so? The footer info seems to vary from theme to theme.</p> <p>Thanks in advance. :) </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=163#post-715 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:32:34 +0000 onevoice 715@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Well, I was able to important blog feeds for two separate users. Now my dilemma involves having set up these blogs under my name, whereas I really want other authors to be maintaining them henceforth.</p> <p>I have a lot of reading to do in the admin guide. LOL. Thanks! :) </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=163#post-714 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:14:18 +0000 onevoice 714@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>I have quite a few people who already have blogs via blogger, for example, and prefer to import the feeds into my new network via RSS feed.</p> <p>How can I do that for multiple blogs? I did it for one but can't see how I can do it for each blog in the network.</p> <p>Thanks! :) </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=162#post-713 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:33:16 +0000 onevoice 713@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>It says I can't do that via the dashboard, so I guess you guys in MU have to?</p> <p>Also, I've ended up creating another site - in WordPress -- that I'd like to link this blog network to and have it integrated with the existing blog feature at that site in some way. Are there easy plugins or something to make such integration more efficient? I wanted to ask here before mentioning it to the programmer.</p> <p>Please advise how I can change the name of my entire network and start revising the content accordingly and move ahead!</p> <p>Thanks much!</p> <p>One Voice</p> <p><a href="mailto:onevoicerising@gmail.com">onevoicerising@gmail.com</a> </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-712 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:42:01 +0000 Barry 712@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi Ben<br /> Can you give me a post url that doesn't show the image, then I can have a decent look at the database side of things as well.</p> <p>Thanks<br /> Barry </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-711 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:45:22 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 711@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Thanks for that Barry - I will amke the changes at Godaddy.</p> <p>OK, an example of one of the images is<br /> <a href="http://seeddirect.blogs.mu/boltonvegpatch/files/2010/01/5th-jan20101-300x225.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://seeddirect.blogs.mu/boltonvegpatch/files/2010/01/5th-jan20101-300x225.jpg</a></p> <p>You are correct, it has "Seeddirect.blogs.mu" in it, wheras it should be "vegblogs.co.uk".</p> <p>I note that the images only don't show in IE. If they are looked at in FF they are visible. I have cleared my cache in IE8 and they are still not visible.</p> <p>Even spookier, if i post the URL<br /> <a href="http://seeddirect.blogs.mu/boltonvegpatch/files/2010/01/5th-jan20101-300x225.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://seeddirect.blogs.mu/boltonvegpatch/files/2010/01/5th-jan20101-300x225.jpg</a><br /> in it own in an IE8 browser I can see the image. It is only when it is embedded in the webpage that there is a problem.</p> <p>Thanks again for all the support -<br /> Ben </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-710 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:57:20 +0000 Barry 710@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi<br /> You've got www as an A record. You should put www as a CNAME pointing to @ (mirror the ftp setting), that should fix the direction issue.</p> <p>You can remove the blogs.mu CNAME record as that doesn't do anything.</p> <p>Can you post a url of one of the images not showing. The reason could be if the URL for the image in the post had stored the old (seeddirect) domain name with it. If that is the case I can probably do a mass replace for the domain names, but ideally need to see the format / structure it's using first.</p> <p>Rgds<br /> Barry </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-709 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:29:57 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 709@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi Barry</p> <p>I have created a screen grab of my settings at Godday. I have served the image on the followimng link - please click it to view my settings.</p> <p><a href="http://www.vegetableseeds.net/v/vspfiles/photos/feedback1.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.vegetableseeds.net/v/vspfiles/photos/feedback1.jpg</a></p> <p>Tks<br /> Ben </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-708 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:14:54 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 708@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi Barry</p> <p>I'm having real problems with my blos site site, I could really do with some help as my bloggers are leaving the sinking ship!</p> <p>1. I migrated from <a href="http://www.seeddirect.blogs.mu" rel="nofollow">http://www.seeddirect.blogs.mu</a> to <a href="http://www.vegblogs.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.vegblogs.co.uk</a> about a week ago. I thought I had everything sorted, but i've just been told by omne of the bloggers that none of the photos on the blogs work anymore - they are really upset as is very hard to upload images.</p> <p>2. The site is only accessible on <a href="http://vegblogs.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://vegblogs.co.uk</a>. Most people type in <a href="http://www.vegblogs.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.vegblogs.co.uk</a>" but they get "page cannot be displayed". Please advise how I can fix this.</p> <p>Tks<br /> Ben </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-707 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:36:54 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 707@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi there - Apologies for serial postings! The site is working perfectly now. I wasnt aware that DNS changes took an hour or so to come live.</p> <p>All working fine now - without wanting to anger the gods of hubris, can I say that the move to a custom domain was very straightforward - i like the way all the links on the site work without a hitch.</p> <p>Thanks again</p> <p>Ben<br /> Vegblogs.co.uk </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-706 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:28:45 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 706@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Erm.. It was working! :-) I have just checked again, and now it is not working....please advise, I am tearing my hair out here.</p> <p>1.http://vegblogs.co.uk is working<br /> 2. <a href="http://www.vegblogs.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.vegblogs.co.uk</a> is not working</p> <p>I have set up an "a" account at Godaddy for vegblogs.co.uk<br /> I have set up a Cnames resdirect for "www" poiting at "www.vegblogs.co.uk".</p> <p>Help! Mayday!</p> <p>Tks<br /> Ben<br /> Vegblogs.co.uk </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-705 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:14:51 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 705@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>All fixed - i needed to hard code the cname redirect of "www" to "www.vegblogs.co.uk" rather than to "@".</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>Ben </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-704 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:58:46 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 704@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Aha - OK this is interesting...</p> <p>If I visit <a href="http://vegblogs.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://vegblogs.co.uk</a> I can see the site, </p> <p>however if i type in </p> <p><a href="http://www.vegblogs.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.vegblogs.co.uk</a> I cannot see it.</p> <p>Pls advise<br /> Tks<br /> Ben </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-703 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:57:08 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 703@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>This is now rather urgent as I have bloggers who cannot access their sites</p> <p>Ben </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-702 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:56:17 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 702@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>OK, I've now managed to update the the seeddirect.blogs.mu "custom domain" page to <a href="http://www.vegblogs.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.vegblogs.co.uk</a></p> <p>However, now when I visit "www.vegblogs.co.uk" I get the following message:</p> <p>"No WPMU site defined on this host. If you are the owner of this site, please check Debugging WPMU for further assistance."</p> <p>Any advice appreciated.</p> <p>Tks<br /> Ben </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-701 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:49:16 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 701@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Coulkd be that it just hasnt taken effect yet - i will update here if it comes live in the mean time- tks Ben </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-700 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:45:08 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 700@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>I should also add that I deleted the default A record at Godaddy when I set up the new A record.</p> <p>Tks<br /> Ben </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=151#post-699 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:43:03 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 699@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi there</p> <p>I have a blogs.my site (www.seeddirect.blogs.mu). I am trying to migrate to my custom domain <a href="http://www.vegblogs.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.vegblogs.co.uk</a></p> <p>The domain is registered with Godaddy.</p> <p>I have created an "A" record for it using your instructions, however when I come back to my seeddirect.blogs.mu admin area to create the custom domain changes I get the message "Domain does not resolve to this server. Please ensure that your domain name DNS has been set up correctly."</p> <p>Any advice appreciated.</p> <p>Thanks<br /> Ben<br /> SeedDirect.blogs.mu (trying to become Vegblogs.co.uk!) :-) </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=157#post-698 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:36:35 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 698@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi Sue</p> <p>Just a quikie - Pipes gave problems not being visible in IE and FF consistently, so read about a work around (maybe it was you who told me?)</p> <p>1. Create a "Pipe" at yahoo pipes, using the individual Blog.mu blogs. This aggregates the active blogs.<br /> 2. Use yahoo pipes to create an RSS feed.<br /> 3. Open an account with Twitterfeed.com and use the RSS as the input<br /> 4. Point the twitterfeed.com account at your Twitter account (you need to set up the twitter account before you set upo the Twitterfeed.com account).<br /> 5. Create the twitter widget (widget_profile) and embed it in you web page. I have embedded it in the Vegetableseeds.net homepage and also in our Blogs homepage <a href="http://www.seeddirect.blogs.mu" rel="nofollow">http://www.seeddirect.blogs.mu</a></p> <p>All the best</p> <p>Ben </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=161#post-697 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:29:16 +0000 Suzanne Travers 697@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Has anyone had trouble with Paypal not paying their blogs.mu account on autopay? They are saying I don't have a back up funding source which I do so they won't pay yet there is money available in my account.</p> <p>I don't want to lose my websites for non payment.</p> <p>Thanks! Help!<br /> Suzanne </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=157#post-696 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:26:40 +0000 suewaters 696@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi Ben, well done! It is looking really good on your site and you deserve an award for it (since Pipes often gives me grey hairs).</p> <p>Sue </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=157#post-695 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:24:39 +0000 VegBlogs Webmaster 695@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Hi Sue</p> <p>Yep, got pipes working. I've used it to place a feed of the conteent from our little network of blogs onto our mother site, vegetableseeds.net.</p> <p>I'm still using twitter on seeddirect.blogs.mu.</p> <p>With pipes the one issue I had to resolve was that once I had aggregated the "sites" (our dozen or so blogs.mu bloggers) all the content was being listed in the aggregator in clusters - all of the content from one blog, then all of the content from the next etc.. It was no filtered chornologically.</p> <p>Got some advive from the Yahoo forums that by addinbg a filter which ranked the posts by publish date, was able to get the feed presenting its content chronologically.</p> <p>Next issue was the title of the "badge" (equivalent to Twitter Profile Widget). You are able to customise this title, but for some reason that escape me, it only sometimes seems to save it effectively, and once you upload the bade it is very hit and miss on how it appears. I found that if i wanted to make an adjustment was easier to make a clone of the pipe and start again.</p> <p>You can see the ""pipe" in the bottom part of the page, centre panel, on <a href="http://Www.vegetableseeds.net" rel="nofollow">http://Www.vegetableseeds.net</a>.</p> <p>Thanks again for all your help</p> <p>All the best<br /> Ben<br /> VegetableSeeds.net<br /> SeedDirect.blogs.mu </p> http://forums.blogs.mu/topic.php?id=157#post-694 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:52:50 +0000 suewaters 694@http://forums.blogs.mu/ <p>Did you work out how to use Pipes? Each time I use it I feel quite a bit of pain so let me know if you need my help. </p> <p>BTW I love your new image on frontpage -- looks really good. Really like those color combinations and including your URL.</p> <p>Thanks for adding me to your blogroll -- does this mean I will need to work harder in my veggie patch? </p> <p>PS can't guarantee what I might blog about on my personal blog (from serious blogging, PLNs to the serious topics like chocolate and Coca Cola scandals). However, you can guarantee my other blog The Edublogger is always serious (http://theedublogger.com/) :) </p>