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problem with japanese character encoding in wordpress

I have a wordpress installation in english but all of the content is in Japanese. I have set the charset to utf-8 in the head section of the page and all the characters display fine. However if I use the wordpress search widget to search for something in japanese, all of the characters get encoded into some wierd encoding that looks like...

Editors for different parts of Wordpress

Hi team, I'm preparing my page (not published yet) and need Your help. I didn't find any answer in forums about roles and capabilities. Have you heard about plugin or an other solution, that allows editor to publish only in his category/page. I have 10 departments, in each of them 1 author and 1 editor. I need to ensure that editor from...

how can i use ugly slugs in wordpress using non-western character?

hey like i said in the question : how can i use ugly slugs in wordpress using non-western character? more details at : http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-title-url/ If your language uses a non-western character set, long post titles can break post slugs. To fix that, shorten the post slug to a single word. so i wan...

Wordpress blog : Import content

Hi, I am running a website using PHP/MySQL. Now I want to allow Blogs using wordpress in my website so I can use Google Adsense along with blog content. I have installed Wordpress on my site, using tools provided by host service provider. Now is there anyway I can import selective-content from MySQL database to these wordpress blogs? ...

Looking For a "Camera Flash" like Page Transition

I hope this makes sense. I'm would like to add a page transition effect for one of my wordpress sites. I'm looking for a simple white flash, ie. in single frames, webpage filled with white, then black, then white, then webpage is revealed. If possible I'd like to set the opacity. Any ideas? ...

How can I display posts from the other sites in a WordPress multisite setup?

I have a small network of sites setup with WordPress 3.0's multisite feature. I would like to create another site which pulls certain posts from the various other sites to display. This new 'hub' site would seem like its own separate site to the user (with domain mapping), but its content is coming from the posts from the other sites. H...

Active menu state in wordpress

Hello, I have two blog pages: other one gets all post from one category and the other gets all post from all other categories. And Im using the new menu system that was introduced in 3.0. Now the problem is that when user is on lets say on category2 single post page, but still in the menu the category1 has active state class. On both ...

Wordpress - links no longer working in my posts, returning bad request

i'm having problems putting links into my wordpress blog. the site has been up with no problems for two years now but it is no longer letting my post links in my posts. i'm trying to add in a link like this: <a href="http://google.com"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; when the blog is published this link is returned as this: http://spacesaverscom...

random custom field wordpress

I have 3 custom fields on a page, they are dailytip_1, dailytip_2 and dailytip_3. So I want to show only 1 tip of the 3 tips randomly on the page. What I can do? Thanks! <?php $dailytip_1 = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'dailytip_1', true); ?> <?php if ($dailytip_1 !== '') { ?> <p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'dailytip_1', true)...

embed short video clips directly in wordpress site

I'm new to working with video. I would like to put some tiny video clips into a wordpress 3.0 site. Each one will last a few seconds and is very small. They're for pronunciation. I need a way of getting them into the wordpress page. I'd like the visitor to be able to click something and then right away hear the pronunciation and see...

How to increase the width of the image in nextGen (galleryview template) wordpress plugin?

Hi guys. I just wanted to ask you how to change the width/height of the image in nextGen (galleryview template) wordpress plugin? After I set everything up it works like charm but I can't increase the size of the image. This is the code I found inside the template: <script type="text/javascript" defer="defer"> jQuery("document").ready(f...

include function in php

is it correct or not because it show an error when im done that if(is_page('payment-success')) { include("/wp-content/ga-ecommerce-tracking/ga-ecommerce-tracking.php"); } ...

Integrating a php blog in a website

Hi, I have a project website and wanted to add a blog to the website. But I do not want it do be a external blog, it should be within the site. I do not want to develope the blog on myself but suggested to use some kind of blog module written in php. I use zend framework for my project site. Can you provice some links or ideas? Is it...

Tags and Categories in Wordpress

Hi. I would like to discuss the right usage of tags and categories. I have a review site with over 1000 reviews of bars and clubs. I have set up post categories like this: Bar, Club, General Article. Since this is a very much geo-based review site, I have added Tags for each post, like for example this: Madrid, Spain. I store the exact ...

WordPress Mobile Pack Custom Page Template

Heya, Hoping someone can help. I've inherited a WP based website which has WPMP already installed & activated & working on it (I can see it work on many pages). I've had to create a custom template & a few pages that use this template. Unfortunately, when I switch to mobile mode (or check out the new pages on my iPhone), no posts show...

VB.Net App to check personal Wordpress site for last post

I have a personal website that I want to see when the last post was made to it. Is there a way to find the last posted date on my blog? In my application, I have a notification that I want to fire if we've made a 'News' post on our site so that our users are aware of any issues and I figured the best way would be to see when the last p...

How to Remove author credits on posts on my wordpress site?

How do I remove the date added/admin/no comments section of each one of my posts in my wordpress blog here http://www.kvylfm.com ...

Wordpress gallery plugin issue.

I am trying to use the "Ycyclista" gallery plugin for a wordpress site i am working on but i'm having some problems making it work correctly. http://piersrueb.com/blog/archives/450 The issue is that the footer comes up and is obscured by the images and the slideshow navigation is also not visible. I have gone through the css checking ...

Display column values from database

Hi. I'm trying to display all the values from a specific column created by my Wordpress plugin (specifically, the ID's). Here is the code I have managed to use to display the column names, but I cannot get it to just display all the ID's. Here is the code: function test() { global $wpdb; global $table_name; $testing = $wpdb-...

what is the easiest way to migrate my wordpress site from one hosting provider to another?

i have a windows hosting provider and i am moving to another one. what is the best way to migrate a wordpress blog from one hosting provider to another ? ...