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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Real problems with redirect…changed URLchanged the url for the website and blog to a different blog
Take a look at this:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URLForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: SQL attack on wpress 2.9.2My suggestion would be to double check in settings writing that XML-RPC is turned off and maybe as an extra precaution disable/move/delete xmlrpc.php.
Thanks for that tip woodja. I was wondering about that file recently after reviewing my logs, which indicated an attempt to access that file.
If the attack that you’re sites were affected by was a vector, then that would have been from the server side, would it not?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: virusdigitalartempire,
The antivirus plugin is probably picking up some bad coding in your template. Disable that template and revert back to the default one. Then run the antivirus plugin from the admin panel while the default theme is enabled. Most likely it won’t set off the bells and whistles again.
While you’re testing themes, install and run the TAC plugin, (theme authenticator). If the theme has any encrypted codes it should pick it up. A great plugin, in my opinion.
From what I understand, the timthumb.php file enables text to be hidden within an image, so it could be encrypted code within an image in the theme. I had downloaded a theme that also had a timthumb.php file, and discovered it added an image into my uploads folder. Didn’t feel comfortable with the timthumb thing so I deleted that theme.
Hi Secondgradereading,
It’s good that you at least took the time to experiment with WordPress! See you around in the blogosphere!
I know I have read the possibilities are infinate with wp but I am not seeing them in the theme options.
That depends on the theme you choose. You can experiment with many themes from your dashboard. Esmi suggested the theme, “Atahualpa”, which may give you more of the options you’re looking for.
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/atahualpamy blogger account is only one week old
Don’t worry about doing any redirects from that blog because a blog only one week old isn’t going to benefit you for a redirect, mainly because it’s on a subdomain of Bloggers. You could simply write a new post on it and include a link to your new blog, going to your own domain with your new blog.
Will the rankings be harder to affect with blogger than with wp/bluehost? If they are equal as far as setting it up to attract visitors the same number of folks then blogger wins hands down for me. Is the shorter domain name and the utilities like SEO or linking with others the same or better with wp?
With WP on your own domain you will have far more control for seo than with Blogger. With Blogger you would have to do quite a few hacks with your template for better seo, but even then you still can’t control other things that impact seo with Blogger because you can’t access everything as you can with WP.
Here their biggest competitor uses a very popular template and they aren’t even providing one like it.
Template possibilities with WordPress are far greater, and with little effort, if you select the right template that is easiest for you to work with. Again, try something like Atahualpa. But, it’s not the only one that provides ways to tweak it.
Is there a good site that I should check out?
If you really want to learn WordPress, search through the various support articles etc. for starters.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_PageForum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How to Increase width and display text in page tabsI followed the change and it did not seem to make any difference.
Did you remember to clear your cache to make sure if it did or did not change on the front end?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: I get the “comments off” message even though comments are enabledAre you using any type of comment plugin? If so, disable it and see if that makes a difference.
My main concern was that with blogger your domain name is longer and less likely to get anywhere in the rankings.
You have two choices, secondgradereading:
If you stay with Blogger, you can convert your existing blogspot blog into a custom domain, using blogger. Blogger will do a permanent redirect from your existing blogspot url to your own domain. If you decide to do that, I can provide you some info to walk you through.
However, even with your own domain using the Blogger platform, you do not have the infinite possibilities with Blogger as you will with WordPress. WordPress is by far more difficult than Blogger because you also have to maintain a cpanel, database, use an ftp etc., but learning those things again gives you greater flexibility. The old saying applies, “Good things take time.” when you’re learning a new platform. 😮
I checked again and no download button.
The download button for the template is found here, from your WP dashboard:
Appearance > Add New Themes > Upload >Or, before you select upload, locate the theme you want at ‘Add New Themes’
I saw the editor but there is no way to click on the certain widget area and then copy and paste what you want there.
If you want to use the widgets similar to how you use them with Blogger, go to this in your WP Dashboard:
Appearance > Widgets > then select from the widgets from the ‘Available Widgets’ area. For example, select, ‘Text’ and then move it to the sidebar area, footer area etc. Then add what you want into the widget. Is that what you’re asking?secondgradereading,
Did you search from either your dashboard, or from here?
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/tag-filter/
You can select the boxes in that search that will provide the features you’re looking for such as, ‘custom header’ ‘2 column’, ‘3 column’ etc.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Images Expand Beyond Posts into Sidebar WP Default ThemeThank you Esmi for that explanation. Won’t need to be concerned about that then. One less thing to think about. 🙂
Here’s the basic minima template he’s referring to (but only it’s not the ‘stretch version’. There’s also a ‘minima lefty stretch’ version of this:
http://preview-minima-blue.blogspot.com/?hl=en
This link shows the newest customizations available for their templates:
http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2010/03/blogger-template-designer.htmlForgot to add:
What is great about minima is how it allowed you to do so many changed with it and you didn’t really have to figure out the code so much just track it down and past it in the area you wanted it.
I’m familiar with what you’re saying because I have several Blogger blogs on my own domains, using the minima template customized to my liking. However, you have to keep in mind that Blogger and WordPress are two different animals all-together. Using a Blogger template, you’re only having to mess with html, but with WordPress it’s php so you will have to apply a different strategy when you want to customize things.
Did you search the theme directory?
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
Just make sure you select a theme that is suitable for your version of WPForum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How to Increase width and display text in page tabsNot sure which browser you’re using, and I know this isn’t what you’re asking, but in Firefox, when I do a mouse-over on the page title “Healthy” in your nav bar using the mouse-over does display the full text, “Healthy Aging in Business”. Just thought I would mention that, but it doesn’t answer your question.
If you copy and paste the nav code from the css from your file here, someone that’s good with coding may be able to help you fix that to your liking. If you do paste it here, don’t forget to wrap the code with the ‘code’ button above.