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Is there a way to stop WYSISYG editor in wordpress from trimming out certain tags?

I'm sick of this WYSISYG editor of wordpress. Every time I switch from HTML view to WYSISYG view & back, it trims out many tags. is one such tag. I know I can force wordpress to disable WYSISYG editor, but is there any way/patch to ask WYSISYG editor not to trim out tags. ...

Facebook notification of Wordpress post

Is there a way of sending notification about new wordpress-based blog to facebook account? Or maybe a plugin for wordpress? Restriction is that user shouldn't be logged into facebook, just specify facebook credentials to the plugin. ...

Add a Blog to an Existing Webpage.

How can I insert a blog (not created yet) into and already existing 'static' webpage? The webpage is written mostly in php. I'm considering using something like wordpress.org (host install version) and using it to update the website's news page. From what I've read, its sounds like I would need to do a lot of theme tweaking to get word...

Associating an image with a post in WordPress

Hi, What's the best way to associate an image with a post in WordPress? What I mean by that is when each post has a 'header' image which is not in the body of the post. You'd most likely use it to show a small image next to each post when they're listed somewhere. I know you can use custom fields with posts, but are there any better w...

Is there a multi-blog admin interface for WordPress blogs installed completely separately?

I'm an administrator of 10-20 separate WordPress blogs, and it's a big pain for me to login to all of them separately. Is there some sort of interface that allows me to do a single-sign-on administration of all of them, like there is under a WordPress MU umbrella? If so, what's it called? I don't even know the term I'd use to search for...

Strategy in the design and coding of wordpress themes?

For creating wordpress themes, people usually follow one of these two methods Design Mockup in photoshop or similar tool and code the HTML & CSS from the scratch Choose a base theme and design the mockup keeping the base theme in mind and code on the selected base theme. Which is the better way of these (or anything other than these)...

Changing WordPress URL structure while maintaing the proper 301 redirects with mod_rewrite

I currently have a blog set up with WordPress using URLs like so: www.domain.com/blog/?pid=384092817 This was before I knew anything about anything. There's a significant amount of content there now and I want to change my URL structure to: www.domain.com/my-post-title-384092817 Is there a way to set up my .h...

Can I install/update wordpress plugins without providing ftp access?

I am using wordpress on my live server which only uses sftp using an ssh key. I want to install and upgrade plugins, but it appears that you are required to enter your ftp login to install the plugins. Is there a way to install and upgrade plugins by manually uploading the files instead of having wordpress handle the entire process? ...

cookies created in wordpress (latest)

i just installed wordpress (the latest) and im trying to study wordpress to make my creations secure like wordpress does or to its level. I noticed upon logging into wordpress, it created 3 cookies. what I'm trying to figure out is - after logging into wordpress and after it created the cookies for the user. the hash values that are i...

Convert Wordpress theme to plain XHTML+CSS

So there is a lot of posts on the internet about how to convert your XHTML+CSS theme to Wordpress, but I have a Wordpress theme and want to convert it (or un-convert it) back to just XHTML+CSS. Has anyone done this before? Anyone know of any resources (tutorials etc.) that I can use to help me do this? Thanks ...

using phppas blowfish encryption (used by wordpress)

here is the site http://www.openwall.com/phpass/ whoever is familiar with this class, my question is this i'll be using the class found on that page to hash the password for members. the code declaration looks something like this require_once("password.hash.php"); $blowfish = new PasswordHash(8, FALSE); $blowfish->HashPassword($_POST...

Inserting a link to another post in Wordpress

I'm putting together a site based on a Wordpress template, and was wondering if there's a way to link one post to another without entering the full URL. I'd like to be able to use something that doesn't change if the parent directory or subdomain changes. Any ideas? ...

Wordpress previous_posts_link() leads to a 404 error not found

Below is the code I am using. I have tried everything I have been able to find and it still doesn't work. My permalink structure is /%category%/%postname%/. I believe that the url is correct that it is trying to go to i.e. http://localhost:8888/wordpress/blog/page/2. Annoyingly, the exact same code works on another site I have designed p...

Using .htaccess to redirect from one domain to another

Hi, I recently purchased a new domain for my WordPress site and I want to redirect anyone who visits using an old domain to the new one. I haven't moved servers, just added a new domain. For instance, if they went to either of these: http://www.example.net/some-article/ http://example.net/some-article/ Then I'd like them to be redir...

Does ASP.NET's BlogEngine.Net Stack Up to Wordpress?

I'm somewhat familiar with Wordpress and I've used it a little. There is a huge community with tons of plugins and themes etc. Does the BlogEngine.Net compare favorably? Is there another .NET CMS that you would recommend? Thanks for your help. ...

Wordpress and Widget using TinyMCE

I have written a Text/HTML widget that uses TinyMCE to allow some basic formatting. However, when I save the changes, the data in the textarea is not getting posted. If I use just a simple textarea without TinyMCE then I can save the data properly. Any ideas? ...

How would you recommend adding an image as a custom field in WordPress?

I need to add an image to each page in WordPress. I don't wish to insert it using the WYSIWYG editor, I just need the url as a custom field, which I later use in the template. I tried using the CFI plugin (Custom Field Images), and I hacked my way into getting it to work with the rest of my plugins, but then I moved the site to the prod...

Changing URL schemes in wordpress without breaking old URLs

I started a blog and after a couple posts decided I didn't like the /2009/03/26/foo-bar scheme for URLs (I changed to just /foo-bar). But for the couple posts posted before I changed this, I want to add rewrite rules so the old URLs don't break. I've tried every variation of the following I could think of in the .htaccess file, to no a...

What is the best way to capture data returned from a function in PHP?

I am new to programming and learning with Wordpress. the_title(); //outputs the title of the page I want to capture the title of the page into a string variable so I can manipulate it with strtolower and str_replace functions. The only way I have gotten it to work is with output buffering. ob_start(); the_title(); $result = ob_get_c...

Can WordPress install on IIS and how?

Can wordpress install on a IIS hosting? If yes, which is better and more simple, on IIS6 or IIS7? And how to install it on IIS? ...