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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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 ...
Posted in Advanced Use, Toubleshooting WordPress | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Advanced Use, Areas of WordPress, Customization, Pages, Posts, User Familiarity | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Previously, we have talked about modifying your post excerpts. This is great if you always use the automatic excerpts that WordPress provides. However, if your customer every puts in a manual excerpt, this functionality won't give you the "read more" that you are expecting. What a pain, right!?
Well, I have ...
Posted in Advanced Use, Customization | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
We're big advocates of favicons here at WP-Relief. They give a website a professional edge over any website without a favicon. In today's competitive internet markets that competitive edge can be the difference between no dollars, and lots of dollars, success and failure. You get the idea, so pay attention ...
Posted in Basic Use, Content, Getting Started With Websites, How to set up your website | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
WordPress Plugins
Plugins are one of the best features of WordPress. They allow you to extend the functionality of the default WordPress site to do thousands of different things. All you have to do is put a couple files in the right place on your server using the built-in Plugin Installer ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
I have heard this complaint form a couple different people where all of a sudden their visual editor is gone and they only have the plain-text (HTML) version of editor. It seems like this mostly happens after an upgrade, but in older versions of WordPress it seemed to happen almost ...
Posted in Basic Use, Configuration, User Profile | No Comments »
Monday, July 12th, 2010
Recently a long time friend contacted me because he saw a new user on his site that he did not set up.
The user's first name looked like the below two screenshots:
Upon viewing the page source, I saw that WordPress has a safety measure in place to html escape all this ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
I spent a good 30 minutes trying to figure out how to give a User administrator access throughout all of the the WordPress MU blogs. Here's what I found:
1) Under the Users Menu, click on the User's name
2) Click on the 'Grant this user super admin privileges for the Network.' ...
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
The question we received through our contact form was:
Hey guys. I'm trying to figure out how to disable admin email notifications when a new user signs up without using a plugin. Any thoughts?
So I did some research into the code and found out that the answer is No, with the ...
Posted in Basic Use, Plugins | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
It is that time again, when a new version of WordPress comes out. Since this is a major release (3.0) and not a minor release like 2.9.2, site owners are starting to feel a little bit of pain due to the upgrade. Some people may not notice anything and happily ...
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