lorenzo

hi Frederick, i can see that this is still a hot topic as the last post was 5 hours ago.

i’m also getting the error when i try to set up the pull zone: (box in red at the top of the W3 dashboard:

“A configuration issue prevents CDN from working: The “Replace default hostname with” field cannot be empty.You need to select / create a pull zone. Specify it here.:

the error when i go to the CDN is the following
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class OAuthException in /home/brightsp/public_html/mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/lib/OAuth/OAuth.php on line 0

please note that i’m using the latest version of WP, but in my case i have a multisite installation with domain mapping… not sure what/how this will affect things, but worth mentioning

indeed there are tons of plugins that allow you to play a flash file. one which is very popular is viper video quicktags. you need to enable the button for the flash file format in the settings, but then you just copy and past your url for the media file and it’s all done!

So, what version of wordpress are you using? i’m just not convinced about what you have been doing…

the htaccess method is what you need to ‘override’ the url as basically you create a rule which is re-writing it. look at the doc suggested above and you can also google the topic for more info

ahah! now i get what you meant!

so try something like this (including all steps just in case):

<h3>Recent custom posts</h3>
<ul>
<?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query('showposts=5'.'&paged='.$paged);
?>

The first thing the code does is create a temporary variable to hold a reference to global variable $wp_query. The wp_query variable is set to null, and we instantiate a new WP_Query object.

Notice in the query above that we have these parameters:
$wp_query->query('showposts=5'.'&paged='.$paged);

The paged portion of the query is critical in order to have paging.
From there, we can now do our own query and begin our custom loop.

<?php while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>
	<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>

Now it’s time to create navigation links for paging:

<div class="navigation">
  <div class="alignleft"><?php previous_posts_link('« Previous') ?></div>
  <div class="alignright"><?php next_posts_link('More »') ?></div>
</div>

hi Roy,

i found your rambling about custom post types quite interesting as i kind of went through a similar process in the attempt to figure out this very powerful beast!

i assume you have come across this?

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/introducing-wordpress-3-custom-taxonomies/

i think it is a very simple and useful guide on what you can do with custom posts and taxonomies and from what you say i think you will find it useful too.

after playing around with the code and custom functions i cam across the custom post type UI plugin (the webdevstudios one) and this is doing most of the things for you!

What version of WP are you using?

For sure in WP3, but i think since 2.7 there is an option in the edit post under the title which allows you to customise permalinks manually.

as far as i know if you change the structure (i.e. from the settings >permalinks) all of them are changed at once.

i personally would do this offline: i.e. copy the wp_posts (or back it up), change the permalink option to what you want and then overwrite the old posts GUID to keep the old posts with the old links, but there might be someone else out there with a simpler solution.

there are also a couple of plugins which create a permanent redirect using htaccess, but you might not be able to do this depending on where you host your blog. (see http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/permalinks-migration-plugin-for-wordpress/ for one example)
some hosts don’t allow editing htaccess files in subfolders.

hope this helps