Articles tagged with wordpress

  1. Disabling Wordpress

    Posted on in Software

    A brief migration announcement explaining why the site moved from WordPress to Pelican.

  3. nginx: Blocking Access to /xmlrpc.php

    Posted on in System Administration

    I recently ran into an issue on a Wordpress site running behind an nginx web server. The site was frequently being attacked by a botnet hitting /xmlrpc.php so rapidly, it would eventually force the FastCGI processes behind nginx to consume all available CPU. Naturally, this would cause all legitimate …

  4. Google PageRank Tool 0.5.0

    Posted on in Software

    I released a new version of my Google PageRank Tool for WordPress last week. Google recently changed the URL for PageRank information which necessitated a change in the plugin. The new plugin has been tested with WordPress 3.2.1.

    You can download the latest version of the plugin from …

  5. WordPress: Tired of Dashes and Quotes Being Rewritten?

    Posted on in Software

    Using WordPress to write a technical blog can be occasionally frustrating. WordPress uses the wptexturize() function to rewrite certain ASCII character combinations into HTML entities. Although this may generally be a "good thing," it's really annoying on technical blogs where two dashes is not an em dash.

    To disable this …

  6. WordPress Stops Redirecting, Reset Permalinks

    Posted on in Software

    WordPress Horizontal LogoThis is the first time I've run into this problem.

    In the process of disabling some slightly used plugins, slaptijack.com got into a situation where every permalink simply pulled up the home page rather than individual posts. I checked everything (mod_rewrite in my Apache configuration file, changes to .htaccess …

  8. Listing WordPress Database Queries

    Posted on in Programming

    WordPress Horizontal Logo If you need to debug what queries your WordPress site is making, try adding the following PHP to your theme:

    <?php
  foreach ( $wpdb->queries as $query ) {
    echo "$query[0]<br />";
  }
?>

    For this code to work, you need to add the following line to wp-config.php:

    define('SAVEQUERIES', true);

    After that …

  9. WordPress 3.0.1 Fixes Category Base Bug

    Posted on in System Administration

    Official WordPress LogoOn one of the WordPress-based websites I maintain, I have removed the category base so that, when browsing a category the url doesn't end with /category/category-slug/. I accomplished that by putting a single '.' in the "Category base" text box of the Permalinks admin page. This worked fine until I …

  10. WordPress Permalinks Not Working

    Posted on in System Administration

    Official WordPress LogoWhile setting up a new blog for an old site the other day, I ran into a situation where the main page would work, but individual posts would result in a 404 (page not found) error. Checking the error log revealed that Apache could not find the file it was …

  11. Suggest Tags WordPress Plugin

    Posted on in Programming

    Fomenteu la lectura\<br /> Photograph by Marc Garrido i PuigFor the last couple of years, I've used the Tag Suggest Thing WordPress plugin to recommend tags for my posts based on the post content. Beginning with WordPress 2.5, that plugin started to have problems interacting with the WordPress administration pages. In August 2009, Yahoo! announced that they would …

  14. Floatutorial: CSS Float != Root Beer Float

    Posted on in Graphics Design

    I've recently begun designing my own WordPress theme. The last time I really worked with any sort of web "design" (I'm using that word rather loosely here), layout was done via tables instead of divs. Stephen at Acadian Imaging told me that in order to get my theme to work …

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