I recently was contacted by a client who simply wanted to increase their organic rankings in Google. My approach was to do the following: A) Take them off of their overpriced host and move them to a nicer, cheaper, more feature-rich hosting solution which included a simple Wordpress install. B) Apply a theme to WordPress which followe...
I imported a series of blog posts from blogger to WordPress, and the YouTube embed tags were stripped away. Now I just have the YouTube URLs in the posts, as opposed to the complete embed tags. I am trying to restore the embed codes. ...
I've got a WordPress powered blog that I'm trying to get setup on our IIS6 server and everything works besides the permalink structure which I'm having a big headache with. After googling around/wordpress codex I learned that it's because IIS6 doesn't have the equivalent of Apache's mod_rewrite which is required for this feature to work...
I run my blog using Wordpress and all too recently became a big believer in SCM. I really want to put my site into subversion (that's what I'm using right now, maybe git will come later) but I can't think of the correct way to do it yet. Basically, my repository is set up currently with an 'implementation' directory and a 'resources' d...
If you want to develop against WordPress (i.e., have a local instance running on your machine so you can develop themes, get blogs and sites laid out, etc.) and you're running Windows on your development machine with IIS and SQL Server already installed, what's the best way to do it? I found a method online which sets up a little "mini"...
I have added author pages to my company blog recently. Although I've no trouble pulling through relevant fields to populate the page - e.g. Author Name, User-profile, etc, I would really like to be able to add a small amount of html to the user-profile. Currently the whole thing is just dumped onto the author profile page - you can view ...
What do you use to monitor the uptime / performance of your websites, specifically those based on a PHP/MySQL platform like Wordpress? I'm looking for something that alerts me if the site is down, or performing too slowly, and has some useful (not volumeous!) charts showing me any potential problems, and what to do about them. Thanks! ...
I like the simplistic look and design of some of the Microsoft blogs. Alas, I can't join the Microsoft dev party and create my own development blog on the blogs.msdn.com page because I don't work at Microsoft, and I already have my own wordpress blog. I was looking to have my blog styled to one of the default looking themes shown here: ...
I need to setup a blog using wordpress engine but i need it support multi languages (3 languages), currently i am thinking of using custom field to identify the language of current post though i knew thats not a best practices, does anyone has better suggestions? ...
I'm part of a group that's considering a PHP-based system to serve a community for communications purposes, including collaboration, event calendars, and a photo gallery. We're also loking into social networking integration (particularly Facebook) and maybe payment processing for community events. The two main CMSs we're considering ar...
I moved a WordPress installation to a new folder on a Windows/IIS server. I'm setting up 301 redirects in PHP, but it doesn't seem to be working. My post URL's have the following format: http:://www.example.com/OLD_FOLDER/index.php/post-title/ I can't figure out how to grab the /post-title/ part of the URL. $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] - ...
So the question is how to distribute/offload the media files from Wordpress posts across multiple domains. The reasoning being to overcome this limitation: "Most browser will only make 2 simultaneous requests to a server, so if you page requires 16 files they will be requested 2 at a time." In relation to: http://codex.wordpress.org/W...
I have a WordPress install and a .htaccess that looks like this: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress I tried installing a fresh install of WordPress into a subdirectory ...
Is there a way to use THE LOOP in Wordpress to load pages instead of posts? I would like to be able to query a set of child pages, and then use THE LOOP function calls on it - things like *the_permalink()* and *the_title()*. Is there a way to do this? I didn't see anything in *query_posts()* documentation. ...
i have a wordpress blog and want to give people the same user experience for adding comments that is in stackoverflow. There are a number of comments ajax plugins out there but i can't find a working one that allows you to inline on the main page, go in and add comments without first drilling down into a seperate single post page. Can ...
I am using wordpress and use custom permalink structure: /%category%/%postname%/ My problem is that a decent number of people link to the site without including the trailing slash in the URL, so users get a 404 page. I'm using the default .htaccess file that comes with wordpress because no solution I've tried has worked. I've tried usi...
I recently had to work on a project where the previous developer modified the wp-admin directory. It seems like a bad idea to me, since Wordpress is constantly updated. Am I just not at that level of expertise with modifying Wordpress? ...
Hello all, I changed the folder that my wordpress installation was in. However, this worked fine, except now all my images are not showing up. The problem is that each post has the full url of the image in it. (not my doing, this seems to be the default setting) Is there a tool or a quick fix available for this? ...
I don't know how much information you need for this, but WP-ContactForm-7 is a contact form for WordPress. By default it has one server response message for all forms on the website. I have multiple forms and would like a different server response messages for each one. function message($status) { switch ($status) { case 'mail_sent_o...
I have a WordPress site (2.6.2) in which I have set the Home page to a static page instead of the normal posts page. The ID of this page is 2, so in the WordPress template I have changed the wp_list_pages to look like this: <?php wp_list_pages('exclude=2&title_li=&depth=1' ); ?> this works fine, but now the Home page doesn't get "lit ...