[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #8834: Flash Banner Not Displaying Under archive.php or author.php

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#8834: Flash Banner Not Displaying Under archive.php or author.php
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 Reporter:  pypo          |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect (bug)  |       Status:  closed   
 Priority:  normal        |    Milestone:           
Component:  General       |      Version:  2.7      
 Severity:  normal        |   Resolution:  invalid  
 Keywords:  flash         |  
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Comment (by filosofo):

 Replying to [comment:2 pypo]:
 > Why is this not a bug?

 Trac tickets have to do with core !WordPress functionality. Core
 !WordPress does not have Flash banners in its themes' sidebars and doesn't
 make any claims to support it one way or the other.

 And most likely, upgrading 2.7 is not the true cause of your problems, as
 someone would probably point out at the support forum.  Someone might
 point out, for example, that your Flash object has a relative path (
 {{{src="wp-content/ads/run_300x250.swf"}}}).  So of course it will work
 only on the home or search pages, because elsewhere the permalinks make
 browsers think the Flash file is in a non-existent directory, e.g. the
 relative URL gets translated into the non-existent
 {{{http://contractmanagement.us/category/applications/wp-
 content/ads/run_300x250.swf}}} path when you're on the
 {{{http://contractmanagement.us/category/applications/}}} page.

 Someone on the support forum would probably say that you need to fix the
 code you're using to run your Flash banner and that this problem likely
 started when you activated the "pretty" permalinks.

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