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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Plugin error interfering with ability to edit siteFTP into your server and delete or move the plugin.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Web page can not be foundLooks like you need to redo your permalinks.
Duane, you should start a new thread instead of hijacking someone else’s – you’ll get more help that way.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Site Load Times Plummeted over WeekendDoing a quick run of the developer tools in Google Chrome, you’re having an issue with something called “ga_social_tracking.js” (“_ga is not defined” is the error message) and you have TONS of errors with whatever you’re using to connect to Facebook with. (“facebook.com/plugins/recommendations.php”, line 416, is what’s pulling in and causing these errors)
From what I can see, these two items are what’s slowing down your site *incredibly*.
Whatever that “ga_social_tracking” thing is, I’d remove it.
What Chris said – this is definitely a problem for the designer and your client, not the WordPress forums.
That being said, if you have access to the domain name, and you have a recent backup buddy backup (with the importbuddy.php file you need to extract and install the backup) then you can get new hosting somewhere, set up a database on it, point the domain name nameservers to it, pop in the importbuddy.php file and the zipped backup, and just run it.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Question for you experienced WordPress usersI recently did something similar for my son’s Cub Scouts troop. it doesn’t have as much of an “approval process” as yours does (but you’re handling the entire district, so there’s a lot more to do there).
I used a combination of Gravity Forms (with the PayPal and User Registration add-ons), Theme My Login (because it not only make the login and profile pages “pretty”, but it’ll also add in a “pending” status for new subscribers who haven’t been approved, which you can use in gravity forms), and Events Manager. Using “Is_user_logged_in()” and “current_user_can()” helped keep several sections private (requiring login to access those areas).
They went from a mess to simply using the site for everything, and really enjoy the ease of keeping things all in one spot. I *was* using a plugin calle d”User Messages” for “internal messaging”, but something’s up with it and it’s no longer working. I’m looking into just using BuddyPress instead, as it seems it’ll have all that “internal functionality” – including messaging – that they’re looking for.
VTX is right – this is something that really can’t be covered over in the forums – it’s quite a complex project that will requie a lot of coding. But i can be done (as I’ve done it, albeit on a smaller scale. However, they are hoping that the work I did will finally convince the other scouts in the district to combine in one spot and use the domain name they bought for just that purpose. So it’s definitely scalable.) Hopefully that gave you a place to start!
Ah! Yes. You’re correct – thanks for pointing that out.
I do like this idea though – I’ll definitely incorporate this into the next release, so you can easily change this sort of thing. 🙂
Hi mauriciomesquita,
I was away on a family emergency last week, but I saw your question on my site. I’ll repeat what I said over there:
“Do you mean how to replace the text with an image?
Open up “jQuery-comments.php”, and around line 35, look for
function start_lvl(&$output, $depth, $args) {That’s the function that has the text (“Show Replies” and “Hide Replies”) for the expansion trigger. Just replace the text with the image call. You have to make sure the image path is correct, too (relative paths don’t work, unless you upload the image in the plugin directory).
This sounds like perhaps I should make an option page, to edit the text and/or use an image? I could do that for a future release… thanks for the idea!”
Your idea might be better in a separate functions.php file – that way you don’t have to edit the core plugin file (and thus have it overwritten when I update it).
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Finding Page on GoogleYes, you have to go into your webmaster tools and submit to Google. If the site is linked from other sites, then you don’t need to (it’ll take longer for them to index you though), but to get a move on things, you just need to tell Google it exists and submit it to them. they’ll put it in their queue, rather than you having to wait for them to get to it in a roundabout way.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Finding Page on GoogleThis isn’t really a WordPress question, it’s an SEO one.
However, how long ago did you put the site up? Was it a brand-new domain name? Have you submitted it to Google? If it’s a brand-new domain name, and a brand new website that’s never existed before, it takes Google a while to pick sites up. I’ve seen it take as long as 6 months. it’s NEVER instantaneous – not unless your site is well-established and has lots of good incoming links.
You’ve just stepped into the thing that *everyone* believes – you put up a site and that’s all you have to do. A website is only *part* of your marketing strategy. You have to get the name out there, get people linking to it, etc. etc. You can’t just “built it and they will come.”
You might want to go read Jill Whalen to get some ideas on how to proceed (because again, this isn’t a WordPress question.) That’ll get you started.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Backup Questions – ie: don't I only have to backup certain files?Maybe if you were a little more clear on *why* you want to know this? it seems I’m answering piecemeal questions, and maybe if I had the whole story, i could point you in the right direction.
In any case, the XML file is sort of like an RSS feed. It simply backs up the post and page content on your site. Sometimes it’ll download the backups of the images (but only when you’re importing the XML file, not exporting – so if something has gone wrong and say, your filesystem was wiped, it won’t be able to download the referred-to images in the XML file) it certainly doesn’t back up any settings you have – like your widgets (and widget content), theme settings, menus.
If you want a ull and complete backup, so you have something in case your site is compromised – you’ll want to do a FULL backup if your files *and* database. There’s tons of plugins for that. (My personal favorite is Backup Buddy, but it’s not free.) If it takes a long time to back up your site, I’m wondering if you already have backups, and they are stored on your server, and you’re making backups of backups. That will *certainly* make backups take a while – which is why, when you make a backup, you should download it, or send it somewhere else, and get it off your server. (and if your site is compromised, then the backups that stay on the server could be too. it’s just good practice to put them somewhere else.)
Does that help?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can you make templates for other error pages?I’m thinking you could – like do the “server template” thing and use the wp-blog-header.php file to pull in everything, but I was just curious if you *could* do the others. Maybe query string or something? I dunno. The Page is a good thought, too.
I think I found something new to play around with XD
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: what page.php is served when a page is not found?404.php
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Backup Questions – ie: don't I only have to backup certain files?But what about the posts? Where are they? I couldn’t find them in the WP files.
They aren’t in the files. They’re in the database.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Trouble logging in after upgrading versions, page simply refreshesMaybe this would help?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Backup Questions – ie: don't I only have to backup certain files?Images are in the wp-content/uploads folder, not the database. Information about where they are, what they’re called etc is in the database.
Sorry, yes. Wasn’t clear on that. The actual image *files* are in the uploads folder, resizing and compression take place with the WP system (and therefore have all that info associated in the database). So you do need to back up the files *and* database regularly. The uploads folder probably needs backing up more frequently than the rest.