pre-launch gremlins

  • paperlion

    (@paperlion)


    19 years, 10 months ago

    I didn’t want to just list somewhat unrelated problems, but since searching didn’t seem to help that much, and also I now decided to, since perhaps these are all common to many new installs. So thanks for understanding, AND for helping me reduce this last minute shopping list…
    Although I’ve cleared the cache and all the history cleanup type stuff on Internet Options (IE6), when I hit the Login link on the index.php, it doesn’t ask for a p/w; instead just let’s me in. I don’t have another PC nearby to check this with, but is there a way to force p/w checking with each access (ie, what if I were logging in on a public machine)?
    I noticed a few posts on backing up content that’s now on the server, but I’m not sure I get it. Is there an easy way to do this?
    If I want to have another blog based on my original one (most of the categories and content will be the same), is there a way to copy the site with content to a different location? (Actually, in my case the content would be located on the same mySQL account, but the blog location at a different domain).
    I set the number of lines per post to show on the front page at about 10, but the entire post shows there anyway. Anyone have any clues as to why THAT would happen?
    I set the Link description fields to off (on all link categories), but they show with the links anyway! Anyone solve this?
    I’m afraid to play around and modify and change categories. I know that if a post is correlated to a single category, then deleting the assigned category will send it to the General category. What if the nam of the assigned category is only changed though? What if one category is deleted but the post had been assign to several?
    Thanks everyone. I’m really liking this program.

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  • TechGnome

    (@techgnome)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    The reason WP lets you right in is because there’s a cookie set that has your login info. There’s supposedly a way to have it automaticaly log you out when you close the browser, but I don’t know what it it. Alternatively, you can click the “Logout” link from the admin screen.
    It is possible to move your blog from one point to another, but it isn’t straight forward and requires you to use a tool called phpMyAdmin. Copy the files to their new location. Open phpMyAdmin, open the database, then the wp_options table. Look for any entry that has your old url address and update it to the new one. Once done, try the new address and see if everything works. If so, delete the old files in the old location.
    the setting isn’t the number of lines per page, but rather the number of posts. If yo uwant to limit the amount of text posted when on the main page, you can use the <–!more–> tag. That will create a text link (more…) that the reader can click on to read the rest of the post.
    Dhanging the name of the category won’t hurt hte post – I do it all the time. Deleting a category when a post is in multiple categories won’t hurt it either. It’ll appear in the regular categories it was assogned to, plus General (I *think*).
    The description setting, I believe is hiding/showing the description for the Link Category, not for the links themselves.
    TG

    Thread Starter paperlion

    (@paperlion)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks TG!
    I can’t believe the logout thing was so easy. I thought I had tried that, but maybe it didn’t work when I did it. It does closed me out when I logout – like it should! Thanks.
    I hope to get to follow the other guidelines later on, but I wanted to copy the site and keep the old one as well. Any idea as to how that could be done?
    Thanks (TG and anyone else)!

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