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[NOT INCLUDED IN SELECTED SKIN!] – Widgets not appearing in b2evolution

I finally got around to upgrading my b2evolution blog today from version 1.10 to the much improved 2.4. Version 2 of the b2evolution blog has seen a lot of improvement, and as such my upgrade from the previous version was not as simple as I had hoped. The main problem was that my custom skin needed to be completely rebuilt based around the new template. Whereas the main page template in 1.10 was called “_main.php” it’s not called “index.main.php”, and uses a whole new array structure to pull in various bits.

One fantastic addition is the inclusion of installable widgets that get automatically added to your blog once you install them in the back end. However, upon completing and installing my custom skin my admin are was telling me “[NOT INCLUDED IN SELECTED SKIN!]” next to my Sidebar, Sidebar 2, Header, Menu and Page Top sections. Sidebar is the only one I’m using, and I know that I’ve got it included on the page. The 2 widgets I already had installed were showing up fine, but trying to add new ones resulted in an error message and them not showing up on the front end.

The b2evolution forums and support were no help, but I finally ran into the solution after some random clicking about on things. If you go to Blog Settings > Skin > Manage Skin you will see a “Reload” icon next to each skin. Hit that for your custom skin and it will rescan your files and realise what areas are included on your page.

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Nov 22

Adobe Dreamweaver 9 crashes when selecting text in code view

I just started doing some work on one of my sites and an annoying problem cropped up which I had (thankfully) forgotten all about. Whenever I selected any text at all, regardless of length, language, or any other criteria, in code view Dreamweaver would freeze and XP would prompt me to kill the program. Fortunately this problem seemed to be restricted to one specific include file in one site. Problem now is I have quite a bit of work to do in this file, and I don’t fancy using Notepad. I like code colouring, alright?

Renaming the file, copying it, or saving it elsewhere using Notepad did sod all to fix it. There’s nothing wrong with the code, because I’m amazing and don’t write broken code. Dreamweaver is just being plain balls.

Google to the rescue! Maybe I was being a little bit hopeful with my search for “dreamweaver 9 crash”, but I guess luck was on my side today. Result number 2 – Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 crashes when selecting text in code view …

Swish! A quick read, some quick clicks, and my problem fixed! Here’s a short copy and paste of what to do to fix the issue:

The crux of it was deleting the winfilecachexxxxx.dat file – Once doing this, it was plain sailing and hasn’t crashed since.
On Windows Xp, the file is at:-
[drive]:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver
9\Configuration
On Windows Vista, you can find it in:-
[drive]:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration
or accessible via windows explorer in
Desktop\[username]\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration

My Dreamweaver is back to it’s awesome self now, running like sex. Thank you very much Martin Parry for being at the top of Google! I hope you don’t mind me ripping off and linking your junk.

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Dec 23

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection – An Installation Nightmare

Along with everyone else in the web world I have been eagerly anticipating the release of the new Creative Suite from Adobe. Since Adobe aquired Macromedia not so long ago I’ve been interested to see what would happen to the Macromedia Studio products I had come to know and love. Would Fireworks have gone all Photoshopey? I’d spent a short period of time playing with the Fireworks 9 beta, but hadn’t really gotten into it, so didn’t have much of an idea of what had changed. But who cares. New software means I’m getting it.

I am slave for shiney new things. I can’t help it, it’s in my geeky veins. That’s just how I roll.

Master Collection: Check.
PC: Check.
Time to kill: Check.

In my world that means it’s time to install some software. Adobe disagrees.
Read more …

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Jul 29