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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [InstallActivateGo Remember Me] Custom CSSVersion 2.1 will be out shortly with this update, and I will be looking at my other 7 plugins to be sure I didn’t make the same error elsewhere.
Note to Self: always return the first parameter in an add_filter’s call-back function. If you don’t, “anything” can happen.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [InstallActivateGo Remember Me] Custom CSSIf you are willing to test a possible solution, please contact me via http://jonradio.com/contact-us/ so I can send you what could become Version 2.0.1 of the plugin if it solves your problem?
I found a glaring error in the plugin’s code that doesn’t initially sound like it would cause your problem, but it is not documented what happens when you fail to return the passed $error variable to the WordPress ‘wp_login_errors’ Filter, which is what I accidentally did in the code.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [InstallActivateGo Remember Me] Custom CSSThanks for this!
Please give me a little while to investigate. I’ll report back here as soon as I either know something or need more info.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Error when uploading mediaGlad that it worked out so well! From what I’ve read, GoDaddy has little oddities in their Hosting that makes “generic advice” sometimes not applicable. Which makes it extra important to check out GoDaddy’s own documentation if you read something in the WordPress forums that does not work for you.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Transfer Design of old html site to new WP dummy site?I’m not going to be any help either as I’ve never done the social media stuff. I think you either have to do it the same way you would in HTML or use a plugin to simplify it for you.
WordPress is a Core software with specific functionality, which Themes and Plugins and your own code can expand upon. Non-Core functionality often requires significant time and a learning curve, typically including learning PHP.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: home page pointerThis is an issue specific to the theme you are using. You should be contacting the Theme’s Author for assistance.
I wasn’t able to determine exactly what Theme you are using.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Transfer Design of old html site to new WP dummy site?OK, it appears as if the search keyword is “Naked”. I googled “naked wordpress theme”, and will suggest that you do, too, if you can’t find just what you want from the links below:
https://wordpress.org/themes/blankslate
https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-naked/
http://naked-wordpress.bckmn.com/
http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/the-naked-wordpress-theme-a-crash-course-for-designers/I was checking my own files and see that I used an entirely different approach in the last year. I built a plugin (not good enough to release into the Plugins Directory) that overrides one or more pages by catching WordPress before it has output any HTML (the “wp” Action hook) and then doing a PHP require() on the HTML file, then a PHP exit. Not sure that would do what you want.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Transfer Design of old html site to new WP dummy site?Yes, I meant adapting to the Theme approach.
I’ll see what I can find to give you complete control of the screen real estate.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Question about WordPress website maintenanceSecond question first: major security risk, especially in a school. It seems illogical that what is Secure today is not Secure tomorrow, but it is true because “security exploits” are published on the Internet by hackers.
Hackers often use one insecure piece of software to gain access to other, more important things on a web server and even associated computers on the same network.
In my experience, it does not make sense to automate updates of plugins or WordPress (other than the already automated minor level updates, x.x.1 to x.x.2) because things change between x.5 and x.6 of WordPress that may cause plugins or custom-written PHP to fail. The same is true, although to a lesser extent, for PHP and MySQL version changes.
What can help is automated notifications when Updates to Plugins, Themes or WordPress are available. I use an out of date plugin for this, but there is likely something newer available now.
With such automated notifications available, having someone check things out manually every 6 weeks is probably good enough, assuming they read their e-mail regularly and watch for the automated notifications.
Without automated notifications, every week or 10 days is probably a good idea, given how fast major issues can come up.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Transfer Design of old html site to new WP dummy site?Sounds like me. I started out in WordPress 6 years ago, so badly wanting total control of every pixel on every page of my site that I built my own “Do Nothing” theme to let me do that. It was pretty horrible, as Themes go, so I’m not suggesting that to you.
Unless you decide to “buy into” the Theme-oriented approach of WordPress, you are probably better off having a mixed site, in my opinion. Back in the days when WordPress was “just for Blogging”, lots of sites just installed WordPress in a folder called (for example) “/blog/” and continued to do the rest of the site, including the home page at Site Root, as they had previously, with hand-crafted HTML.
By the way, a few years back, I actually saw a Theme that did what I tried to do 6 years ago: give me full control of every pixel.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress, Joomla and speedICDSoft offers SSH, but you have to ask.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Error when uploading mediaYes, “Unable to create directory” is a sure indication of a permissions error.
No, you cannot use FTP to upload to the Media Library. Yes, you can upload image files via FTP and use them on your WordPress site, but you lose all the fancy features of the Media Library, most notably thumbnails, captions fields and such.
Yes, if GoDaddy does not allow FTP to change permissions, “command not understood” would be a possible error message.
That leaves you with doing it via whatever GoDaddy control panel that you have. Here is a good place to start: https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/2535/setting-directory-permissions-with-linux-hosting-accounts
If this doesn’t apply, try a search for “file permissions” from that page.
Sorry for the delay in responding. I have now set things up so I get notified when you respond to this and future posts.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Multiple Themes] Templatic.com Theme PagesBecause of the complexity involved in the scenario you describe, I think the most reliable solution will be a WordPress Network, also known as Multisite.
With a little effort on the menus, you can create two WordPress Sites, one for each Theme, but make them look like a single website. Typically, using the Subdirectory option of Network Setup. For example, Site 1 would be example.com and Site 2 would be example.com/news/
My plugin has no built-in capabilities to detect Mobile devices, and it is not an area I’m contemplating supporting, mainly because Caching becomes an issue when you try to display two different Themes on the same URL.
In general, complex issues are going to run into the fact that WordPress was not designed with multiple themes (on a single Site) in mind, and my plugin can only do so much.
Thanks for that! I’m sure it will help others.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Multiple Themes] Version 6 problemsWonderful to hear! Thank you so much.