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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Finding your FTP server:
In your bluehost cpanel, go to the left sidebar - click "expand stats" if that link is present.
You are looking for an entry called "xxx IP Address" either one will work here
"xxx" might be "Shared" or "Dedicated" depending on your serve
For grins, lets say your shared IP ...
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Finding your FTP server:
In your hostgator cpanel, go to the left sidebar - click "expand stats" if that link is present.
You are looking for an entry called "xxx IP Address" either one will work here
"xxx" might be "Shared" or "Dedicated" depending on your server
Connecting with FTP:
In your FTP program, enter ...
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
We had this happen on a customer's site today. It is actually not a huge deal as it seems to be caused by a cookie problem.
To be able to log in to your wp-admin, simply add /wp-login.php?logout=true to your domain name and hit enter. This will cause WordPress to log ...
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
When optimizing your wordpress, it is a great idea to use a CDN. This can be done in many ways but the easiest is to create a subdomain that points to the same directory as your main site.
The reason CDNs works so well is that it allows your browser to ...
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
This was not perfectly clear out of the gate with bluehost, so we're writing it up here for the next time we need it.
The term you are looking for in the blue host help docs is "Temporary URL" - if you want to search for it. The information is below ...
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
This is not obvious unless you dig into the help docs, stumble on it, or ask for help (like I did).
Finding your FTP server:
In your bluehost cpanel, go to the left sidebar - click "expand stats" if that link is present.
You are looking for an entry called "Hostname" or "Shared ...
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Monday, December 12th, 2011
If you are using Contact Form 7 and Nivo Slider then you might need to add the following code to your functions.php file, so that your slideshows work.
add_action( 'wp_print_scripts', 'my_deregister_javascript', 100 );
function my_deregister_javascript() {
wp_deregister_script( 'contact-form-7' );
}
This will remove the contact form 7 version of the jQuery easing script, which removes ...
Posted in Toubleshooting WordPress | 3 Comments »
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Where are the user roles stored for WordPress?
If you have ever been looking for where the actual user roles are stored for WordPress, say because all of a sudden you have no user roles anymore, they are actually socked away in the database. Go to your wp_options table and find ...
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
There may be a time as a plugin developer when you wrote a plugin that effects the post-editing or page-editing interface for WordPress. In this case, you may also need to somehow trigger the content to auto save, like WordPress will do automatically from time to time.
The best and easiest ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
In your theme files, you may want to add some functionality that shows after your post content if and only if you have a specific custom field set.
This is actually pretty easy to do, just add this code to your functions.php file and make sure to change the name of ...
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
So many great podcasts have referral or affiliate URLs that absolutely rock, something like myblog.com/affiliateName.
I was curious how they were doing this, because most of my favorite podcasts are about streamlining and the hosts aren't that technical! I realized instantly that they were not doing this with .htaccess, which would ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
Previously, we talked about how to disable your website to visitors but not logged in users through your theme.
We have been using a plugin in our projects for some time to do this a little bit easier. The plugin is called WP Require Auth plugin. It very simply makes it ...
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