jaybong
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Connecting it to the Internet…?No worries, just be certain you’re aware of the drawbacks. If you like getting everything just right (like myself) the .com might hinder you later on.
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/disadvantage-to-using-wordpresscom
Though yeah, learning the (minor) tech stuff required isn’t fun for a lot of people, so for a personal blog it’s probably the right call.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: upload content onlineYou can block search engines from seeing indexing files in a certain directory.
Create a blank txt file, name it robots.txt. Put something like this in:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-contentThen upload it to your root directory.
See half way down this page for more: http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_WordPress
Just be careful you don’t block search engines from indexing you’re actual posts/pages.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Connecting it to the Internet…?If you have downloaded all the wordpress files on your computer and you’re modified stuff there, and are using localhost, that basically means all the files are being loaded from your machine, and are not really ‘on the internet’.
So yeah you’ll need a host and you’ll need to pay for it, though shared hosting is only a few bucks a month. Once you have a host you’ll need to upload your files and create your database. If you haven’t done too much mods and you’re not too tech, I’d advise you to instead do a fresh install of wordpress through cPanel’s Fantastico, than repeat your mods once you have the out of the box version of wordpress running.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .htaccess fileI think you should be able to do this by going to Settings–> General, and just type http://yoursite.com in the WordPress address. I would assume WordPress would auto mod your .htaccess file as you want it.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 404 for hidden pages in IEI figured this out so I’m posting it here in case anyone else needs this.
For some reason Firefox was showing the private pages, so I assumed private meant that they wouldn’t show up up the menu – but actually they weren’t supposed be accessible at all.
To set it up so that the pages not be automatically put into the menu, change the line in header.php to this:
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&exclude=3,6,9'); ?>And change 3,6,9 to whatever page ID you want to hide.