Posts tagged wordpress

34 posts in total.

How to make WordPress regenerate the thumbnails after I changing the media aspects?

By Q A | In QA |

I recently changes the media aspects. The problem is that the existing thumbnails are not changed to the new aspects. How to make WordPress regenerate the thumbnails after I changing the media aspects? The “Regenerate Thumbnails” works like a charm for me: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ . It allows you to regenerate your thumbnails after changing the thumbnail […]

How to redirect WordPress search query to Google CSE?

By Eric Z Ma | In QA |

How to redirect WordPress search query to Google CSE? You can configure Google CSE to read the query variable (by default, it is q). Then, in your WordPress’s .htaccess file, add these 2 lines RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^s=(.*)$ RewriteRule ^ https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=xyz&q=%1 [R,L] Here, “https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=xyz” is your CSE’s public URL or the webpage that contains the Google […]

How to install WordPress Buddy Press template?

By Eric Z Ma | In QA |

How to install WordPress Buddy Press template? Themes for BuddyPress are available at:http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/tags/buddypress Make sure that the theme tagged as “buddypress” is compatible with the BP/WP version activated in your server. As of BuddyPress 1.7, BuddyPress works with most any WordPress out of the box. BuddyPress 1.7 includes base template files that should fit into […]

How to allow pre tag in WordPress comments?

By Eric Z Ma | In QA |

How to allow pre tag in WordPress comments? You can add a filter hook for pre_comment_approved: <?php function filter_handler( $approved , $commentdata ) { // inspect $commentdata to determine approval, disapproval, or spam status return $approved; } add_filter( ‘pre_comment_approved’ , ‘filter_handler’ , ’99’, 2 ); ?> Reference: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/pre_comment_approved Answered by Eric Z Ma.

WordPress theme TwentyFourteen interfere with AddThis Welcome Bar

By Eric Z Ma | In QA |

The AddThis welcome bar will make a empty gap on top of the WordPress webpage with the TwentyFourteen wordpress theme. Is there a fix for it? You will find AddThis will add this div to the webpage: <div class=”addthis_bar_placeholder” style=”height: 46px;”></div> which cause the problem. A little trick that works is to set that div’s […]

How to allow contributors to Upload Files in wordpress

By Eric Z Ma | In QA |

How to allow contributors to Upload Files in wordpress? I allow my wordpress site’s contributors to submit posts. But by default, WordPress contributors do not have the capability to upload files. How to allow them to upload files? The key to my solution to add the upload files capability to contributors in WordPress is the […]

Installing WordPress in a sub directory while working for the whole site

By Q A | In QA |

How to install WordPress in a sub directory while working for the whole site? Putting the WordPress files in the root directory seems messy. A method is introduced here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory The process to move WordPress into its own directory is as follows: Create the new location for the core WordPress files to be stored (we […]

How to change an attachment’s parent post in WordPress

By Q A | In QA |

How to change an attachment’s parent post in WordPress? The in WordPress posts depends on the child-parent relationship. It will be good to change the parent posts for attachments. The Change Media Parent WordPress plugin works great for me. After installing and activating it, a link to change the parent appears in the media control […]

Excerpt in homepage, category, tag and author pages for WordPress theme Twenty Thriteen

By Q A | In QA |

Excerpt in homepage, category, tag and author pages for WordPress theme Twenty Thriteen. Also add the “read more” link after the excerpt. The patch: diff –git a/wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/content.php b/wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/content.php index 4f61b22..53b4686 100644 — a/wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/content.php +++ b/wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/content.php @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ </div><!– .entry-meta –> </header><!– .entry-header –> – <?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display […]

WordPress: how to list a page’s child pages

By Q A | In QA |

How to list a page’s child pages in WordPress? wp_list_pages can list the sub pages of a page. Check this code (also include the HTML that wraps it as an example): <h3>Pages under <?php the_title(); ?></h3> <div class=”entry”> <ul> <?php global $id; wp_list_pages(“title_li=&child_of=$id&show_date=modified &date_format=$date_format”); ?> </ul> </div> Answered by SA.

Disable WordPress Built-in Canonical URL link tag in HTML head

By Q A | In QA |

The built-in canonical URL function since WordPress 2.9 is great. But under some situation, it is not needed. For example, all the Mingle Forum threads’ canonical URL is set to the URL of the page that contains the [mingleforum] shortcode, which, of course, is wrong. How to diabled it? We can disabled WordPress’s Built-in Canonical […]

Accelerating WordPress with WP Super Cache, Opcache and Autoptimize

By Eric Z Ma | In Linux, Web |

WordPress can be very fast after some effort on performance optimization with the help from its plenty of plugins. Possible ways include using cache to cut down the number of database queries, improves HTML/JavaScript/CSS code, and optimizing PHP’s performance with opcode cache. In this post, we introduce how to speed up WordPress with OPcache, page […]