Title: op_maroon's Replies | WordPress.org --- # op_maroon [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 22 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) * Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) In reply to: [Redeveloping site over existing wordpress install – plugin?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redeveloping-site-over-existing-wordpress-install-plugin/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redeveloping-site-over-existing-wordpress-install-plugin/#post-2686047) * Awesome, thanks. Will make sure I have a full backup before messing with .htaccess! * Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) In reply to: [Redeveloping site over existing wordpress install – plugin?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redeveloping-site-over-existing-wordpress-install-plugin/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redeveloping-site-over-existing-wordpress-install-plugin/#post-2686045) * Thanks esmi, I have put a new install in a sub-directory and made progress with the new theme and content. * Am I correct that I can use the “Using a pre-existing subdirectory install” instructions here: * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory) * once the new site is finished to make the new site respond to the main URL? * Not sure whether I need to delete the original install. * Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) In reply to: [Redeveloping site over existing wordpress install – plugin?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redeveloping-site-over-existing-wordpress-install-plugin/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redeveloping-site-over-existing-wordpress-install-plugin/#post-2686038) * Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately this isn’t going to be workable as I need to share progress with the new site with the person I’m developing for. I’m working at home and need to be able to share the site progress. * Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) In reply to: [Redeveloping site over existing wordpress install – plugin?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redeveloping-site-over-existing-wordpress-install-plugin/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redeveloping-site-over-existing-wordpress-install-plugin/#post-2686018) * Perhaps I be better using a new host? * Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) In reply to: [Redeveloping site over existing wordpress install – plugin?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redeveloping-site-over-existing-wordpress-install-plugin/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redeveloping-site-over-existing-wordpress-install-plugin/#post-2685816) * But this means I wouldn’t be able to populate the site as I need to change the content. * I think I need two full wordpress installs but not sure the best way to go about it. I’m trying to make the transition to the new site as easy as possible. * _[ Please do not bump, it’s [not permitted here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#No_Bumping).]_ * Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) In reply to: [Redeveloping site over existing wordpress install – plugin?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redeveloping-site-over-existing-wordpress-install-plugin/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redeveloping-site-over-existing-wordpress-install-plugin/#post-2685800) * Thanks govpatel, can you confirm that this won’t cause issues when I start populating the new site? I will not be using content from the old site. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Customising the RSS feed widget?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customising-the-rss-feed-widget/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customising-the-rss-feed-widget/#post-1998251) * I’ve now tried various ‘RSS image feed’ type plugins but can’t get anything to work – can anyone advise? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Adding thumbnail to RSS widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-thumbnail-to-rss-widget/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-thumbnail-to-rss-widget/#post-1918987) * Third bump lucky? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Adding thumbnail to RSS widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-thumbnail-to-rss-widget/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-thumbnail-to-rss-widget/#post-1918982) * Futile bump! * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Adding thumbnail to RSS widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-thumbnail-to-rss-widget/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-thumbnail-to-rss-widget/#post-1918955) * Bump! * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [RSS feed widget – garbled text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-widget-garbled-text/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-widget-garbled-text/page/2/#post-1914820) * Thanks again for the help. I’m starting a new topic now on the thumbnail issue. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [RSS feed widget – garbled text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-widget-garbled-text/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-widget-garbled-text/page/2/#post-1914819) * Turns out it was an issue with the way the blog had been setup to feed data to an iphone app, to summarise: * If a truncated description (WordPress calls this an Excerpt) is not present with a blog post, WordPress supports the synthesis of fields from fields. This is achieved by selecting the “For each article in a feed, show Summary” option within the “Settings>Reading” control panel page. WordPress will then strip all non plain text items (HTML tags / Javascript Code) out the blog post content, truncated it to a few hundred characters and include it as the description. Looks like some javascript is appearing in the field. * So simply by adding a manual excerpt into the blog post the garbled code dissapeared. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [RSS feed widget – garbled text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-widget-garbled-text/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-widget-garbled-text/page/2/#post-1914810) * I’m doomed, arent I… 🙂 * I do appreciate the help though. If anyone else has any ideas please shout! * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [RSS feed widget – garbled text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-widget-garbled-text/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-widget-garbled-text/page/2/#post-1914782) * [http://www.purplecircle.co.uk](http://www.purplecircle.co.uk) is the main site, not a blog, it just happens to be built on wordpress. /blog is a seperate blog with posts formatted differently and different content. Sorry if this wasn’t obvious, wordpress was chosen for the main site for usability/upgradability over clunky CMS systems. * So the problem is bringing in posts from /blog (seperate WP install) to the main. co.uk site. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [RSS feed widget – garbled text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-widget-garbled-text/) * Thread Starter [op_maroon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/op_maroon/) * (@op_maroon) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-widget-garbled-text/#post-1914709) * Just had a look at the recent posts widget – looks promising. * One thing I can’t work out though, is how to tell it to grab posts from the blog? The blog is located at /blog and is a separate wordpress install… I can’t see the option to link it there. 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