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I'm totally stealing that script, thanks. Also something of note worth looking into - Amazon's Free Tier for their cloud services is very good - I have a bunch of sites running off a nginx + php/mysql install and it is both fast and cheap and I don't have to deal with a third party host at all.
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EC2 is great until your hard drive randomly dies or your machine just disappears. You have to know how to keep backups and be willing to accept downtime with a setup like that. Sometimes you may just end up recreating the machine from backups because figuring out what's wrong isn't worth it. EC2 is perfect if you're a professional Linux sysadmin but I think it's harder to justify for the average web developer. I have a shared hosting plan for $10 year that lets me make one click backups and loads pages acceptably fast.
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# ? Feb 2, 2013 05:28 |
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Thanks guys - yes kedo it was .htaccess which kept getting over-written with re-directs all the time. What I've actually done now is delete wordpress (everything including the database etc) and then changed all my passwords (SQL, etc) and started to go through the tips in the link Adraeus posted. So far so good which is a good sign as before it was literally happening every few hours. Some of the tips are a little beyond my technical capabilities/knowledge so I'm sure there'll be some security issues still but I'm hoping I've nailed the big ones. My only issue now (unrelated to security) is all my images show up stretched and skinny on mobile devices. I've read I might need custom css upgrade but surely there's a way built in I can fix this? After all I am just using the basic Wordpress Twenty Twelve theme so I'm sure there's got to be a way to get around it.
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# ? Feb 2, 2013 08:30 |
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Anyone aware of a plugin that allows the creation of nested ordered/unordered lists via the WYSIWYG editor? I have a client who hates editing HTML, but needs nested lists. edit: Disregard this... turns out clicking the indent button while editing a list does exactly this. Not sure how I never figured that out until now. kedo fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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Anyone familiar with the Post 2 Post plugin? https://github.com/scribu/wp-posts-to-posts/wiki I am a pure newbie with Wordpress and for the most part it seems fine but this plugin that my company is using (just got hired on) seems to be messing me up. I am running into a issue where I am making a CSV file with dealerships and members. I can make a regular one but certain members are associated with multiple dealerships. When I make the CSV file it will only print the first occurrence of the persons name and skip them each time. Here is a snippet of the code. PHP code:
EDIT; If it helps, this is where I register the members type which only pulls in 1 unique member. PHP code:
Vintersorg fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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Anyone have experience with a "Social Content Locker" like this one: http://codecanyon.net/item/social-content-locker-for-wordpress/2221015 ? The general idea being that your readers have to do some kind of social action- Like, tweet, whatever, to access the content on a page. Ideally looking for a free one as I'm just trying to do some giveaways.
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 02:51 |
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stormrider posted:Anyone have experience with a "Social Content Locker" like this one: http://codecanyon.net/item/social-content-locker-for-wordpress/2221015 ? I don't know of a free one. WPMU DEV's 1-month membership is $39.50 right now. That will get you access to lot of great plugins, including Pay with a Like. You can continue to use plugins you've downloaded from them after your membership expires. You just won't get any updates, which isn't a big loss if you know PHP. I have most of their plugins installed, which has greatly reduced my development time.
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 03:19 |
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I'm after a simple sidebar plugin that does this: If the server time is between x and y, display this clickable image. Otherwise, display this image. I could probably knock something up myself, but after a plugin already available to save mucking about. Any suggestions?
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 12:40 |
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Broccoli Must Die! posted:I'm after a simple sidebar plugin that does this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5413505/is-time-between-two-other-times
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 12:54 |
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Thanks, I'll just do this.
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 13:25 |
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89 posted:- The website is slow One tip that can help with speed is not using .PNG files for stuff that should be a compressed JPG. PNGs are better for 2-3 colors, repeating stuff, and images that have a transparent background. You're uploading 1MB+ PNG files that should be 200-300k JPG files. Also that massive background image on the body could be sliced up better. There's also a ton of flash, which is a notorious resource hog (and the whole reason it's dying). This should be a JPG not a 1MB PNG. From a design standpoint I wouldn't recommend a blog-roll for your site. More like something with the latest big upcoming event for the week and under a future events section. cheese eats mouse fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Feb 5, 2013 |
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I have a regular old gallery that I want to speed up a bit, I tried looking in the media.php file, what file should I be looking in?
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 21:16 |
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Hacking the WP files themselves is not going to be the best way to do that - maybe write a plugin? What do you need to speed up?
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 22:19 |
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Gyshall posted:Hacking the WP files themselves is not going to be the best way to do that - maybe write a plugin? What do you need to speed up? Just want to speed up the time between pictures.
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 22:20 |
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That's probably something in your theme
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 22:28 |
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If it's JS based it should be as simple as changing some numbers.
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 22:57 |
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cheese eats mouse posted:If it's JS based it should be as simple as changing some numbers. Pretty sure it is, just can't find the numbers to change.
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Adraeus posted:I don't know of a free one. WPMU DEV's 1-month membership is $39.50 right now. That will get you access to lot of great plugins, including Pay with a Like. You can continue to use plugins you've downloaded from them after your membership expires. You just won't get any updates, which isn't a big loss if you know PHP. I have most of their plugins installed, which has greatly reduced my development time. Found this one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wplike2get/ Pretty easy to set up and seems to be working fine.
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 23:45 |
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I'm kind of at my wits end here. All I'm trying to do is add a custom image size to enable Wordpress to generate appropriately sized images for my featured post carousel. The size I'm wanting is 650x300. So I've added this to my theme's functions.php file:PHP code:
Edit: Even more puzzling, I thought maybe there was just some caching error going on so I installed the AJAX Thumbnail Rebuilder plugin which is supposed to go through each of your images and rebuild the thumbnails (for cases where you might change your thumbnail sizes after some images have already been posted in the past). The custom thumbnail size is shown in the list when I run it, but no thumbnails (even the standard ones) are actually created. putin is a cunt fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Feb 6, 2013 |
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Are you using a Custom Theme? Child theme? Commercial Theme? I've had problems with some functions/filters in Child Themes we have, which sucks and is too annoying for me to try to fix.
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Gyshall posted:Are you using a Custom Theme? Child theme? Commercial Theme? I've had problems with some functions/filters in Child Themes we have, which sucks and is too annoying for me to try to fix. Custom theme, but not a child. Built from scratch by myself so I've even tried it with the functions file completely cleared EXCEPT for the code I posted above. It's incredibly frustrating because I can't find anything wrong with what I've done, and all of the Googling I do suggests the exact same code. Edit: I also posted this question on Stack Overflow and no one has responded there either, so I'm thinking it's something annoyingly obscure. Edit again: I even tried moving the theme onto a brand new installation of Wordpress and it doesn't work there either, so it doesn't seem to be a plugin problem or anything like that. putin is a cunt fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Feb 6, 2013 |
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Gnack posted:But it doesn't work. At all. No thumbnail images are even created, let alone available for selection when inserting media. Any ideas on what I've messed up here? It seems as though the first part - adding thumbnail support to the theme - isn't even working at all. I feel like if I can fix that, the rest will be fine. Enable error reporting and check if you have the GD library installed.
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# ? Feb 6, 2013 01:51 |
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Adraeus posted:Enable error reporting and check if you have the GD library installed. You are a beautiful person - seriously, this was driving me insane.
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# ? Feb 6, 2013 02:13 |
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Does anyone have any recommendation as far as plugins go that allow a customer to sign in and have access to special pages while the general public doesn't?
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# ? Feb 7, 2013 17:07 |
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S2member does this and I live it.
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# ? Feb 7, 2013 19:37 |
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A local church that I do computer work for has a WordPress site and they are wanting to put audio recordings of the pastors message online each week. It's an older less tech savvy congregation currently, so I need a method that lets us upload the audio and link to it in a blog post preferably with a simple player that will stream it youtube-style. Anyone have any recommendations? e: what's the best all-around caching plugin for WP these days? Maniaman fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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Maniaman posted:A local church that I do computer work for has a WordPress site and they are wanting to put audio recordings of the pastors message online each week. It's an older less tech savvy congregation currently, so I need a method that lets us upload the audio and link to it in a blog post preferably with a simple player that will stream it youtube-style. Anyone have any recommendations? I know Wordpress.com has a shortcode which lets you embed audio via URL, if your WP is not hosted there you can use this plugin instead: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/audio-player/ For caching plugins it's pretty much between WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache. I prefer the latter due to more options, but you could just try them both out.
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# ? Feb 9, 2013 16:41 |
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I am having an issue where the text is supposed to be in the box, can't figure out why its doing it. Any help would be much appreciated, if you have any question or need the website let me know. I am using a TinyMCE widget plugin with 1/3 columns.
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# ? Feb 11, 2013 20:39 |
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Flaggy posted:
says there's a set height on that box in a CSS doc somewhere.. Remove it, or change it to height: auto; If not, try adding a clearfix to the bottom of that container. And/or overflow:auto; to the container.
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# ? Feb 11, 2013 20:54 |
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I'm looking for a plugin or something that performs what I think is a pretty simple task. All I need it to do is check the database and put a list of all the posts that were posted on that day into a new post. A digest post, if you will, of the day's posts. Preferably one that does it automatically every day at a certain time. Anyone seen anything like that?
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I'm looking for a scheduling/booking plugin for what may be a special situation. I want to offer practice speaking tests for ESL exams, and many of these exams are done with 2 students at the same time. The exam takes about 15 minutes but I want to book 30 minute sessions for it. I'd like to be able to set my hours and then the first student will choose their exam and select 3-4 hours (so 6-8 sessions) they are available. Then another student comes in who has selected the same exam, checks the calendar and either chooses one session that matches the first student's availability or sets their own availability. If there's a match and the second student joins one of the first student's sessions, the plugin should automatically remove the extra sessions, send confirmation and reminder emails, be able to go to paypal, etc. It would be nice if the first student could adjust their availability as well, in case the second student set theirs and the first student decides they can do it at one of their times. It's all rather complicated, what are the best affordable options in this area? Appointments+ is the cheapest (assuming I don't need support), I also looked at booking calendar but it seems the best options are in the more expensive packages. Can these do what I need anyway? Any other options I should look at?
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# ? Feb 15, 2013 11:06 |
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This is probably a really simple question, but I can't find it googling about. I have a blog about my round the world bike trip and want a thing saying "On the road for <days since April 21st 2011> days" but can't work out how to do it. I guess there's some simple javascript or plugin to use, but I'm being useless.
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Sad Panda posted:This is probably a really simple question, but I can't find it googling about. I have a blog about my round the world bike trip and want a thing saying "On the road for <days since April 21st 2011> days" but can't work out how to do it. I guess there's some simple javascript or plugin to use, but I'm being useless. Add this to your theme file where you want it to appear: code:
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# ? Feb 18, 2013 16:07 |
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I've tried searching but haven't had a huge amount of luck - is there a plugin that add the Wordpress.com-type 'New Post' page (a drop-down thing that lets you pick from text/photo/video/link and lets you post from there rather than taking you to the dashboard)? I'm working on a multisite project and navigating the dashboard each time they want to add content may be a bit too much for the intended users. The Wordpress.com new post feature is very user-friendly.
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# ? Feb 21, 2013 05:18 |
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So many questions. I am needing to export a list of companies from my Wordpress site and use that file to update a MS Access DB (client has a old site that needed work and they can't pay for updating it to a wordpress site). I tried using the export XML tool but it gives a giant rear end file when there is only 172 companies to export. I was looking around on Google but couldn't find a simple tool to get me something like: XML code:
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# ? Feb 21, 2013 17:00 |
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Vintersorg posted:
Probably not - you'd have to write your own loop to display that info. It isn't hard if you know what you are doing.
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# ? Feb 23, 2013 05:50 |
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Did anybody experience any issues after uploading to the latest wordpress? My media upload function seems to have slowed down A LOT, so there is a delay between inserting an image and having it actually show up and/or adding a featured image.
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# ? Feb 24, 2013 23:41 |
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I feel so stupid to ask this, but since any embedding method doesn't work, how the corky hell you add Youtube/Vimeo-videos in the post? What plugin I need? All I get is these "Add gazillion videos on your sidebar/banner"-things, when I need just one video on my page. drat you iFrame-haters!
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# ? Feb 28, 2013 17:13 |
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el Brainvomito posted:I feel so stupid to ask this, but since any embedding method doesn't work, how the corky hell you add Youtube/Vimeo-videos in the post? What plugin I need? All I get is these "Add gazillion videos on your sidebar/banner"-things, when I need just one video on my page.
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el Brainvomito posted:I feel so stupid to ask this, but since any embedding method doesn't work, how the corky hell you add Youtube/Vimeo-videos in the post? What plugin I need? All I get is these "Add gazillion videos on your sidebar/banner"-things, when I need just one video on my page. Jetpack lets you just copy and paste the URL for a video into a page/post and then automagically converts it into an embed. It theoretically respects the maximum media dimensions you've set, but can be finicky at times. Also requires a WordPress.com account. But it's one of the easiest ways to embed video from a content editor perspective. Not sure if it uses iframes or not, but those are hard to avoid with some video services.
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