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Missing extention for php and mysql

I'm trying to install word-press on my website. i have php and its working and my mysql is working too. i need to install mysql extension for php. This is my error im getting when trying the word-press install file. "Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress." thanks btw its window...

WordPress Filter Escape Problem

I am trying to replace some text in a WordPress post with the help of WordPress Filter (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-filter/) but but all ' and " are get escaped. What should I do to prevent it from escaping? ...

Wordpress or Code Ignitor?

As a quick background. I am a web developer. I tried to develop 10-15 of my domains. Due to lack of time/focus, none got anywhere - as such I decided to focus on two, and do them properly. In the past, I have used wordpress for a CMS of sorts. One of the sites is essentially a blog with additional PHP based dynamic features. Using the P...

Common template for Joomla + Wordpress + phpBB or Drupal + Wordpress + phpBB

Hi all, I'm struggling to try and find an answer to this question and was hoping someone might be able to help me. Are there any common/easy editable themes that I can use across Joomla (or Drupal), Wordpress and phpBB? I know that you can find decent forum and blogging modules in both Joomla and Drupal but I want to stay with Wordpre...

Wordpress cforms session gets lost only in Firefox!

Hi there, I am using wordpress 3.0 with cforms (newest version). Here I use a multi-page form. It works fine in Internet Explorer It works fine in Safari It works fine in Google Chrome It does not work in Firefox! After Step 2 you get redirected to Step 1 instead of 3. In the debug information you can see it lost the session and creat...

Quick beginner XSLT reference?

I need to learn XSLT for Wordpress andSymphony theming. What are some beginner friendly resources that are relatively easy to follow along to? ...

Remove /category/ base wordpress

So this is my url: http://site.com/category/my-nice-category/my-nice-subcategory/ how can I remove category from the URL, i've tried alot of things and plugins but doesn't work. Best Regards, ...

Allowing For Custom Images Sizes with WordPress's Gallery Shortcode

Hi, In WordPress 2.5 and up, there's a built in Gallery feature that allows the option to add an image gallery to a Post or Page on your WordPress blog. (Ref: http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode) You can use a size option to specify the thumbnail size you would like displayed. Valid values include "thumbnail", "medium", "larg...

Optimize APC Caching

Hello, here is a link to how my APC is running : http://www.animefushigi.com/apc.php As you can see, it fills up pretty quickly and my Cache Full Count goes over 1000 sometimes My website uses Wordpress. I notice that every time I make a new post or edit a post, 2 things happen. 1) APC Memory "USED" resets 2) I get a whole lot of Fr...

Add "Top of Page" link to a Script

I am using this plugin to make a list of all the Categories on my Wordpress blog : http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=T6rvtwkS The script can be seen in action here : www.animefushigi.com/full-anime-list Now, I want to add a link to Top of page under each set of alphebetical listings, so right after each </ul> I want to add this : <a ...

changing the title of a custom Wordpress integrated page

When I need to add a custom page to Wordpress based site I always load the theme's header first: <?php require('../wp-blog-header.php'); include('../wp-content/themes/mytheme/header.php'); ?> Unfortunately then every custom page gets the same title (the blog's name) due to this code in header.php: <head> <title><?php if(is_home()...

In Wordpress how do you add a link to the Dashboard menu box in the top left?

I found a way to add a "Dashboard Widget", but that is not what I want. All I want is a link in the first menu on the top left that says "Dashboard". ...

Wordpress Categories and SubCategories

Hello all, I am doing some changes on my blog theme, and i need to list the subcategories when user is inside the parent category, example: main-category -- subcat1 -- subcat2 So i need to show the subcat1 and subcat2 only when the user is inside main-category. At this moment i have 2 divs, one for the main-categories (this is what ...

How to get posts' content as HTML from a wordpress blog remotely

Hi, I have self-hosted word-press Blog, and I am making a static home-page for my website based on jQuery. So, I wanted to display some content from my blog , in my home page ( in widgets ) , as a news section For example , I may fetch latest 5 posts titles & contents OR a specific page content ( via passing page id ) OR a spec...

Advice on Wordpress Frameworks

Just installed Wordpress on my server for the blog component of my site and came across graphpaperpress.com who make awesome themes for WP. I installed one and thought I could use a heavily modified version for the entire site. Then I started to look into WP frameworks: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/… What are your experiences with the...

How to add extra classes to Wordpress's body element?

In the default Wordpress template, there is this in header.php. <body <?php body_class(); ?>> This echos some useful hooks for CSS and JavaScript. Some example output is <body class="page page-id-45 page-template page-template-gallery-php"> Is it possible, within the header.php even, to add my own classes in addition to what is the...

Robots text, wordpress - block directory

Hello, In my robots.txt i have this: Disallow: /lo lo is a directory with a script i want blocked. Problem is that "Disallow: /lo" blocks a post of mine: /lonely-cars-etc/ How shall i block lo directory corectly? Please, take a look at my robots.txt. Maybe there are other problems i don't know about. User-agent: * Disallow: /bin...

wordpress list pages function

Im cutting a template I got built into wordpress, im having difficulty with the menu, I need to have the first list item( <li> ) that is returned from the wp_list_pages function to have value="1" in the tag as well so the jquery menu starts there, therefore would be the first item ...

Wordpress problem with htmlentities

I make some changes over the post before storing it in the database. I use content_save_pre. Some characters like " get done into &#8220; in the JavaSript code which I insert (part of the change). How do I prevent that from happaning? ...

PHP / Wordpress - get http requests from a page

Hi I have a test wordpress intallation on localhost and recently I noticed the administration pages load very slow. Everytime I'm connected to the internet and open the /wp-admin pages it takes 14-15 seconds to load. This does not happen in the front end. Is there any way to get info about all the http requests that are being made in t...