It has been asked by many as to the purpose of the code that is added to the header of many modern WordPress themes. This code is to reside just above the of the header. There is very little detail in the reference to this this code online only it’s usage and placement within WordPress. I recently encountered a theme…
Read More »There are many great WordPress plugins and Search Unleashed is no exception. It serves as a great replacement to the built-in WordPress search engine. Search Unleashed extends the standard search with a full text search across posts, pages, comments, authors, and meta-data. It even offers modules that support other plugins including NextGEN Gallery. The reason anyone should want to upgrade…
Read More »To get my feet wet, I wanted to test an installation of WordPress MU (multi-user) edition. The installation seems too problematic on a Windows workstation, even when running in an environment such as AppServ , WAMP, XAMPP, or Uniform Server. My preference is XAMPP. I have tested and used all these environments. I originally preferred the Uniform Server as it…
Read More »Permalinks are the URLs to an individual post, category, page, etc. These links generally take the form of index.php?p=444 (or some number). Pretty Permalinks are the same URLs crafted to make sense to the user. Apache offers this ability, though generally not set by default. IIS through version 6 (Windows 2003) does not offer this. There are ISAPI filters both…
Read More »XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server package, comprised of an Apache HTTP Server, a MySQL database, PHP and Perl programming languages. It is easy to install and setup with little configuration. However, the default installation of XAMPP does not enable the permalinks, though the permalinks structure is customizable to create the .htaccess file. With no permalinks,…
Read More »WordPress offers a default password recovery method that is available on the login screen. Under the Username and Password box there is a link to Lost your password?. This password recovery method would recover the user password if the user defines a valid and working email address in the user profile. If the e-mail account is not accessible or unknown…
Read More »One of my continuing tasks is to search for a free open source web analytic application. There are very few to be found. An application that promises to be very good, is PiWiK. It is still in the very early stages of development and has a lot to be desired. It is, however, the continuing development of it’s predecessor phpMyvisites….
Read More »I wanted to enable LDAP in an instance of WordPress 2.6.2. To do this was not as simple as I had hoped. I spent a little over an hour trying to implement something that seemed to be self evident. After some research and testing and once all the pieces were identified and correctly configured, I finally got it working. The…
Read More »A new feature of WordPress 2.6 is the introduction of the Post Revision. This feature is by default enabled and without options. In theory, it is a reasonable mechanism to prevent data loss in the event a mistake is made in a revised Post. One may simply revert to a previous Post. However, the annoyance is that the admin has…
Read More »Upgrading WordPress from 2.3.3 to 2.6.1 is a very easy task when using the InstantUpgrade. However, the problem lies with the themes and plugins. Although, I hadn’t encountered any theme problems in my testings, I did have quite a few plugins that caused some problems. The problems were not necessarily resolved by updating them. In many cases, the updates caused…
Read More »In most cases, the host of a WordPress installation is not the same as the test installation. In the case of testing plugins, themes, and WordPress versions, an exact installation of the original WordPress install would be the best scenario. In other cases, a WordPress installation hosted by an ISP may need to be copied to another ISP. A name…
Read More »On one of my websites, I have older dated material, so it seems that the site is not being updated. I wanted to put a widget in place that would indicate that the “site was last updated” however; the native widget built into WordPress will not execute PHP code. I found a WordPress plugin called the Samsarin PHP Widget. The…
Read More »I had downloaded a great little plugin for WordPress that works as advertised. It will update a single plugin rather quickly. I recently made some changes to the table names and imported into another mySQL database. In each case, the one-click-plugin-updater plugin failed to work 100%. The plugin page would be plagued with error messages at a specific line number….
Read More »Have you ever downloaded a WordPress theme to discover that the footer.php is encrypted. This can be annoying considering that the footer may be leaving out the one detail that every site should have, your own copyright notice. Some footer.php files even have information that you may want on your sidebar not footer. For whatever the reason, write your own…
Read More »When in a situation where the internet hosting site will only permit the use of one MySQL database and it is serving one WordPress installation, and you would like to serve more than one WordPress installation, then combine the multiple installations of WordPress into the same MySQL database. This can be accomplished using phpMyAdmin to select the default WordPress database…
Read More »I wanted to validate this website against w3.org, and ran into a couple of correctable problems. The images in the lower right indicate the certifications that this site has achieved. One problem, was with the plugin, Global Translator,where w3.org validator didn’t like the use of 〈, so I replaced that line with the recommended &. After making this correction, the…
Read More »I wanted to create a condition in a theme, where if the plugin wp_pagenavi existed then use the plugin. If the plugin does not exist, then use the text Next and Previous. Researching through the internet took quite some time and without a functioning code. I found this code in another WordPress theme and applied it to another and it…
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