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rugbert: Mar 26, 2003; yea, fuck you

cheese eats mouse posted:

Trying to get an idea of a hourly freelance rate. I've been charging super low since i was student, but now have an agency wanting me to do a template. I've been doing Wordpress for about 2 years now. I'm in the mid-west in a small city.

I'd say anywhere between $25 and $50 an hour. I do a lot of local freelance work in Richmond, VA so I keep my hourly rate there low to beat the competition.

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spiritual bypass: Feb 19, 2008; Grimey Drawer

If you're actually paying income tax on a $25/hr contract rate, that's pretty lovely

# ? Jan 13, 2014 16:22

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Does WordPress log plugin deactivation times, IPs, etc.? Someone disabled 'coming soon' on a site and it was live all weekend - a half finished skeleton. I want heads on a plate.

# ? Jan 14, 2014 02:18

slartibartfast: Nov 13, 2002

There's no audit trail for plugins internal to WP, but the link to disable a plugin is usually something specific, like /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=deactivate&plugin=name. Depending on your web server's logging level, you may be able to get IP and time by searching the HTTP log for hits to that URL.

# ? Jan 14, 2014 03:59

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Good call, thanks.

# ? Jan 14, 2014 04:43

Sad Panda: Sep 22, 2004; I'm a Sad Panda.

Can anyone recommend a slider plugin that can use external links? I've been looking through lots of different plugins and they keep trying to pull from images in my Wordpress folder as opposed to letting me paste external URLs instead. I've used nivoSliderLight for a while, but I'd like to try something else.

# ? Jan 15, 2014 20:52

Robot Arms: Sep 19, 2008; R!

I'm trying to get my theme to automatically add a "from the archives" tag to posts that are older than one month/30 days. So something like this:

code:

<?php if ( post is more than 30 days old ) { ?>
   <div class="archive_tag">From the Archives</div>
<?php } ?>

I'm just not sure how to say "post is more than 30 days old" in WordPress/PHP-ese. It will be within the Loop, if that matters.

Little help/push in the right direction?

# ? Jan 16, 2014 19:54

Pseudo-God: Mar 13, 2006; I just love oranges!

EDIT: late night dumbness struck me, I had no issues after all

Pseudo-God fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Jan 17, 2014

# ? Jan 17, 2014 00:11

krystal.lynn: Mar 8, 2007; Good n' Goomy

samglover posted:

I'm just not sure how to say "post is more than 30 days old" in WordPress/PHP-ese. It will be within the Loop, if that matters.

Little help/push in the right direction?

Something like this (not tested):

code:

<?php 
    $date = new DateTime(get_the_date());

    $thirty_days_out = new DateTime(get_the_date()); // init to the post's date
    $thirty_days_out->add(new DateInterval('P30D')); // add 30 days to it
    
    $today = new DateTime(); // defaults to today's date

    if ($today > $thirty_days_out)
    {
        // do stuff
    }
?>

You might need to play with the formatting from get_the_date() a bit depending on what your Date Format under Settings > General is set to, but if you've never touched those settings this should be fine.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_date
http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.dateinterval.php

# ? Jan 17, 2014 05:30

Bearnt!: Feb 6, 2004; No onions, no onions

Sad Panda posted:

Can anyone recommend a slider plugin that can use external links? I've been looking through lots of different plugins and they keep trying to pull from images in my Wordpress folder as opposed to letting me paste external URLs instead. I've used nivoSliderLight for a while, but I'd like to try something else.

You can use external links with vSlider. I like Meta Slider the best so far out of all the free slider plugins I've tried but I can't remember off the top of my head if that one allows them or not.

# ? Jan 17, 2014 06:41

Robot Arms: Sep 19, 2008; R!

Kanpachi posted:

CODE

Worked like a charm. You rock!

# ? Jan 17, 2014 17:58

kedo: Nov 27, 2007

Is there a way to prevent WordPress from setting menus and sidebars back to the default whenever you change a theme? This is super obnoxious when I'm making a minor update to a via activating a new child theme.

# ? Jan 17, 2014 23:13

Flaggy: Jul 6, 2007; Grandpa Cthulu needs his napping chair; Grimey Drawer

Looking for a way in wordpress to create a "secure" series of pages that you would have to log into to gain access too. Something relatively simple, the people using it are not tech savvy. Something that could set up temp passwords, it would need to have the ability to store user logins and passwords. Basically they will get to a page with a log in, we will have given them the log in in advance, and they can get to a set of pages, videos, pictures what have you that a normal person couldn't get to on the website.

# ? Jan 22, 2014 20:20

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Wordpress pages have password protection built-in (create a page, click 'visibility'). Or do you need a different password per person?

# ? Jan 22, 2014 22:12

Flaggy: Jul 6, 2007; Grandpa Cthulu needs his napping chair; Grimey Drawer

pipebomb posted:

Wordpress pages have password protection built-in (create a page, click 'visibility'). Or do you need a different password per person?

Different password per person.

# ? Jan 22, 2014 22:29

kedo: Nov 27, 2007

How about allowing users to register accounts as subscribers and then making all those pages private?

This seems like it might be helpful: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-private-posts-visible-for-subscribers And there are a million registration plugins out there.

# ? Jan 22, 2014 22:39

Flaggy: Jul 6, 2007; Grandpa Cthulu needs his napping chair; Grimey Drawer

kedo posted:

How about allowing users to register accounts as subscribers and then making all those pages private?

This seems like it might be helpful: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-private-posts-visible-for-subscribers And there are a million registration plugins out there.

I tried searching for registration ones, don't know if you have any good ones off the top of your head. Basically I am looking for something like this:

Click on that button to bring you to a page like this:

Which once logged in, takes you to a members only webpage.

Once they register they get to a page like this, with more lines and stuff. Is there any plugins that would create this kind of table?

Flaggy fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Jan 23, 2014

# ? Jan 23, 2014 14:53

tater_salad: Sep 15, 2007

I've got a theme that I really like, but if I remove all widgets from the widget area I get a standard search/meta.
I don't want that.
Can I comment out the widgets PHP call somewhere so that they won't show any, or is there a plugin to remove the widgets?

# ? Jan 24, 2014 20:18

nadav: Sep 6, 2005; My last name is actually something very jewish. Like Leibovitz, only longer. And more jewish.

Take a look in sidebar.php. The default crap for when there are no widgets is probably after <?php if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( 'whatever' ) ) : ?> before the endif and you can just remove it.

*EDIT*: If you're never going to want sidebar widgets, you can remove <?php get_sidebar(); ?> from index.php or clear out sidebar.php

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tater_salad: Sep 15, 2007

Great that worked perfectly.

# ? Jan 25, 2014 06:05

poxin: Nov 16, 2003; Why yes... I am full of stars!

Does anyone have a recommendation for a plugin or how to setup something that will manage an inventory? (in this case used cars). Attempting to make a site for a friend.

It seems something like WooCommerce isn't really made for that type of application. I found Pods CMS but that may be a little too much as well.

# ? Jan 29, 2014 18:09

Sad Panda: Sep 22, 2004; I'm a Sad Panda.

I am editing a Wordpress plugin (SmugMug Embed) and trying to add a newline to some php. I'm apparently not doing a very good job. The code that I have at the minute is...

if ($imageLink!=""){
$html="<a href='".$imageLink."'>".$html."</a>";
}
$out.=$html;
}
media_send_to_editor($out);

I would like to add a new line after the closing > of the first <a> and then also one after the closing of the </a>

I don't know php so I googled. It said \n or \n\r which I tried inserting as

if ($imageLink!=""){
$html="<a href='".$imageLink."'>\n".$html."</a>\n";
}
$out.=$html;
}
media_send_to_editor($out);

But when I do that, when I click the insert into post button that calls this method, it does nothing.

# ? Jan 30, 2014 18:06

-JS-: Jun 1, 2004

The \n is adding a new line to the code (look at the source of the page) - but that's not the same as an HTML line break. Replace the \n with <br> instead.

php:

<?
if ($imageLink!=""){
  $html="<a href='".$imageLink."'><br>".$html."</a><br>";
}
  $out.=$html;
}
media_send_to_editor($out);
?>

Depending on layout, you might find that this is better:

php:

<?
if ($imageLink!=""){
  $html="<br><a href='".$imageLink."'>".$html."</a><br>";
}
  $out.=$html;
}
media_send_to_editor($out);
?>

Or even better still, target the <a> with CSS and use display:block to force it onto its own line. This has the added bonus that you'll be able to update the plugin in the future without having to reapply your changes.

# ? Jan 31, 2014 13:00

Sad Panda: Sep 22, 2004; I'm a Sad Panda.

Thanks for that, but I think maybe I didn't explain myself properly. At the minute, the code outputs like this

code:

<a href='XL Link'><img src='M Link' title=' '/></a><a href='XL Link'><img src='M Link' title=' '/></a>

I'd prefer it to output like this

code:

<a href='XL Link'>
<img src='M Link' title=' '/>
</a>
<a href='XL Link'>
<img src='M Link' title=' '/>
</a>

They both will look identically to the end-user, it's just for my code to look prettier and be more manageable. That's why I was trying the \n

# ? Jan 31, 2014 14:23

slartibartfast: Nov 13, 2002

You need to use the PHP_EOL constant rather than \n.

# ? Jan 31, 2014 14:38

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

On one hand, you're a pedant. On the other, I applaud that.

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tater_salad: Sep 15, 2007

Looking to use wordpress in a way that I normally havent' yet.
I have a customer that wants a single domain but then separated to 2 different areas (Different menus up top)

Example

code:

            [url]www.thissite.com[/url]
            /              \
           /                \
    Option A                Option B

Option A would have different menu's /articles / pages than option B

Almost like 2 subsets of the same site.

I know I can do by installing
https://www.thissite.com/optionA/
https://www.thissite.com/optionb/

But managing would be rough.. Does multisite (Something that I haven't handled much) manage this type of installation well?

# ? Feb 3, 2014 00:25

hedgecore: May 2, 2004

On a similar note to the privacy question above, is there a best practice for locking down a site just prior to launch? As in, every public user sees a static "coming soon" page, but if you log in through wp-admin you can not only polish things up in the admin, but also view the site normally?

The above discussion seems to lead to setting privacy for every individual post, which isn't ideal (there will be hundreds). http://wp-types.com/home/types-access/ seems like it may do the trick (and it's from the people behind types, a plugin I am presently reaping the benefits from), but it's a little pricy.

# ? Feb 10, 2014 06:27

Authentic You: Mar 4, 2007; Listen now this is your
captain calling:
Your captain is dead.

hedgecore posted:

On a similar note to the privacy question above, is there a best practice for locking down a site just prior to launch? As in, every public user sees a static "coming soon" page, but if you log in through wp-admin you can not only polish things up in the admin, but also view the site normally?

There's a plugin for that...

Really, just go to Wordpress.org and search "coming soon page" or something and you will find exactly what you need.

# ? Feb 10, 2014 07:13

tater_salad: Sep 15, 2007

I've used maintenance mode plugin before. I don't know of it allows admin to see other than page previews thought

tater_salad fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Feb 10, 2014

# ? Feb 10, 2014 13:11

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

"Under Construction" works for me. http://wordpress.org/plugins/underconstruction/

You can assign IP access, user roles, etc.

# ? Feb 10, 2014 15:48

invision: Mar 2, 2009; I DIDN'T GET ENOUGH RAPE LAST TIME, MAY I HAVE SOME MORE?

How do you find clients? I'm not a WP superstar by any means, but I know that there are people out there willing to pay me to install and set up a wordpress site. I've looked on craigslist and theres a lot of nothing and then some crazy lady trying to pay $10 an hour.

# ? Feb 11, 2014 04:15

tater_salad: Sep 15, 2007

I try and hit up stores that are just opening around me and ask them if they are looking for a simple site. I'm not going to do a shopping cart or anything because I don't have the time, but if they want a simple site with location, about, menu's or products etc I'll do it. It's sometimes rough and you gotta move fast or the phone company hits them up.

I've been hitting up vape shops recently, and I have done craigslist, I don't list prices until i talk to them.

# ? Feb 11, 2014 04:27

Weird Uncle Dave: Sep 2, 2003; I could do this all day.; Buglord

What's the current state-of-the-art for managing lots of WordPress sites?

At work, I'm responsible for about ninety sites, between test and production. We're presently using InfiniteWP, which is great for updating everything all at once, but not so great for anything else. In particular:

It always wants to update everything to the current version, and can't handle interim changes (update test today, update production two weeks later, but if a new version of a plugin comes out between the two you can't specify "update to this older version")
You can see what users have what privileges on which sites, but it won't export them in any usable format like CSV. Ditto for plugin and theme versions.
Its backups are only hosted on the site you're backing up, and if you want them somewhere else you have to manually download them one at a time
Support is pretty much non-existent, I've had emails take weeks to receive a response and it was just a link to their forum (where another user was asking a similar question but there still wasn't an answer)

Since they do provide a plugin structure of sorts, I'm about to start trying to read their code and see how hard it would be to hack in the features I need. But my employer isn't overly averse to spending money if it solves real problems, so if there's another management solution that has non-poo poo reporting I'd love to see it.

# ? Feb 11, 2014 19:48

Bearnt!: Feb 6, 2004; No onions, no onions

Check out ManageWP. It's been awhile since I've used them but am heading back into that direction as we have hundreds of sites as well. I remember their support being pretty awesome when I used them last year, they are in Europe somewhere and very responsive.

# ? Feb 11, 2014 20:23

snakeater: May 17, 2008; A paranoiac in reverse.

Bearnt! posted:

Check out ManageWP. It's been awhile since I've used them but am heading back into that direction as we have hundreds of sites as well. I remember their support being pretty awesome when I used them last year, they are in Europe somewhere and very responsive.

ManageWP is basically hosted Infinite WP + Premium plugins, though. I don't think it will solve many problems that InfiniteWP doesn't.

# ? Feb 11, 2014 23:20

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

Anyone have a favorite Google Analytics plugin?

# ? Feb 13, 2014 01:44

tater_salad: Sep 15, 2007

Wp Google analytics.
It's simple but allows you to not log admin activity or users

# ? Feb 13, 2014 02:19

Robot Arms: Sep 19, 2008; R!

Weird Uncle Dave posted:

What's the current state-of-the-art for managing lots of WordPress sites?

I don't know if it's state of the art, but we just went with a multisite install for our sites. It's 37 sites now, and multisite is working well so far.

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# ? May 9, 2024 23:22

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

I know this is a simple fix but I have no clue why I can't get it right.

Here is the start of my blog - http://dcstrength.com/

I'm trying to move the menu in the header (about, blog, store, social, contact) to the right side of the header instead of below the logo.

I'm using Canvas theme but can't get it to move.

What do I need to do to get it moved to the right so the logo and it are even with each other?

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