Just made me a WordPress blargh
I've just installed a WordPress blog for the first time. It's running on Windows 2003 and IIS. It was kinda tricky to set up, but now that it's running it's very, very nice! There's plenty of...
View ArticleHow to enable mod_rewrite in WordPress
…so you can have descriptive URLs like ours. Three easy steps: 1) First, from /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load 2) Then… /etc/init.d/apache2 restart 3) Last, add...
View ArticleWhy is WordPress asking me to log in to install a new theme?
I was faced with that question, Googled it, and found that adding the following to wp-config.php fixed the problem: define('FS_METHOD', 'direct'); Thanks to Keith...
View ArticleAdd template page in WordPress
It's easy to make a new template that you can pick for certain pages on your WordPress blog. Write the code you want for your new page. If you want to keep the same general look of the other pages and...
View ArticleWordPress just won't upload plugins like it should
I found plenty of people out there who have had this problem, where you try to install a new plug in and it asks you to enter your FTP credentials and says, "To perform the requested action, connection...
View ArticleaMember old email confirmation messages fail
We use aMember to control access to some of our pay sites. One thing we noticed is that occasionally we'd get a call from someone saying that they say this error message when they tried to confirm...
View ArticleForce WordPress to use a certain URL
Sometimes I forget this (in wpconfig.php): /* set blog site */ define('WP_HOME','http://mywebsite.com'); define('WP_SITEURL','http://mywebsite.com');
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