Another geeky post (again), but these are pages from WordPress.com this afternoon…
This can’t be right can it? Is it a joke or what? What happened here WP.com!!
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Install WordPress MU in a subdirectory
I tried to do this this afternoon, and as before, I found something really annoying happening. It created all sorts of error messages after the initial upload of files.
1. Open “/mu/wp-blog-header.php”
2. Locate line 9: if ( !file_exists( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-config.php')
&& !file_exists( dirname( dirname(__FILE__) ) . '/wp-config.php')) {
3. Edit this line to be: if ( !file_exists( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-config.php') ) {
Hope this is useful sometime, I know it will be to me!
WordPress Tools and Plugins – WP Greet Box
This is a great little plugin that adds a message to each post instructing the user to subscribe to an RSS feed, follow, friend or bookmark the site. It is so easy to use and to install and it is just another tool to get repeat subscribers and to help push up awareness of your site and to build links.
I would really recommend it and I hope you go and try it out!
How to use WordPress RSS Feeds – URL hacks
WordPress is a pretty amazing platform from which to run your website. In today’s world, especially if your website content is popular, it is not just common but expected to have RSS feeds available from that site. These allow you to distribute your information over various platforms, some automated, some not, and for readers to easily get hold of your news items quickly.
Yet, despite this some websites still do not provide this service. If you have your site built on WordPress, or even just the news section, RSS feeds are just so so easy to create with a little URL-hacking. Here’s what you can do…
Main site feed – http://yoursite.com/feed
How easy it that!!
Eg – http://robparker.org.uk/feed
Comments feed from all news items – http://yoursite.com/comments/feed
Eg – http://robparker.org.uk/comments/feed
Comments feed for individual posts – http://yoursite.com/(post-url)/feed
I’ve put in post-url because you can have different choices of how you have your post URL, such as ?p=345 or /year/month/day/custom-url
Eg – http://robparker.org.uk/2009/02/16/its-sunny-in-february/feed
Feed for categories – http://yoursite.com/category/(category-slug)/feed
You can find the category-slug by going to http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/categories.php
Eg – http://robparker.org.uk/category/general/feed
Feed for tags – http://yoursite.com/tag/(tag-slug)/feed
You can find the tag-slug by going to http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php
Eg – http://robparker.org.uk/tag/bbc/feed
Feed for authors – http://yoursite.com/author/(author-slug)/feed
Eg – http://robparker.org.uk/author/admin/feed
Combination feeds for categories, tags and authors
You can add multiple tags together to get custom feeds, and you can also add categories together and authors together. You basically start with the same structure as above, and then you can put a + and then the category, tag or author slug after it – no spaces though!
http://yoursite.com/tag/(tag-slug1)+(tag-slug2)/feed
http://yoursite.com/author/(author-slug1)+(author-slug2)/feed
Although I’m not sure, it looks like the number of addition tags/categories/authors you use is limitless!
Eg – http://robparker.org.uk/tag/amazon+books+orwell/feed/
And for all of the above, removing the /feed will give you a page of the results too. Another brilliant set of tricks from WordPress! Enjoy!
A Slight Change
There’s been a tiny little change in these parts. If you glance up to the header of this website, it used to read slightly differently! I have removed the ‘Design’ link and added a new ‘Home’ link…
The Design area will have a revamp in the summer, but until then its off the site. And removing that leaves plenty of space for a ‘Home’ link which should navigation. Also, played with the page ordering features in WordPress to achieve this.
Enjoy
A find – an introduction to getting a website
Happened to stumble across this site today, and its actually quite a good read. Although I am actually past the stage this particular post really talks about, its really well written, clear, simple and straight-forward advice.
Although, the focus is really on blogging, with WordPress the line between blogs and websites is pretty much non-existent (you’re on an example of that right now) so much of what works for one is for the other. Sadly, at the moment, this is only hosted on WordPress.com, but perhaps sometime in the future I will move to a proper WordPress install, plug-ins and all!
Anyway, here’s the link
# – Hash on a Mac
A quick link to this page, as it seriously helped out a moment of panic when I realised typing CSS was going to be very difficult without a hash key on my mac.
Quickly though: Its ALT + 3
PS – WordPress is an amazing system, perhaps too amazing! There are so many little things that need sorting out with CSS. For example its taken me a good few months to realised I had accidentally hidden the links to past pages of posts. They’re there now.
Just The Odd Few Tweaks
Posted on Saturday 20th March 2010
Just made a few little tweaks this site needed after the more major (if quickly done) design change a while back. There’s new date, category and tag displays for each post as well as new icons for all of those and for the comment section on posts. Its only little but its a nice touch!
A couple of other tweaks too, including a ‘Donate’ and slight footer simplification as well as an improvement to ‘Image Attachment’ pages which frankly never made sense before.
Enjoy! I’m pretty pleased