rhys
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Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Look-See Security Scanner] This Plugin is A Sanity SaverSorry – I should have said that the plugins/themes” tabs were helpful to reassure me that all things are up to date – Rhys
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Look-See Security Scanner] This Plugin is A Sanity SaverYep there is a wide open back door – he installs new bombs, while I am deleting the last ones, but my skill level won’t let me use your suggestions.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Visual editor not working in 4.4Renewing all the wp-includes solved it for me
😀Rhys
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: comments box twentytenThe “30” you edited refers to the icon size, I believe.
RhysForum: Plugins
In reply to: The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed..My slideshow broke when I updated WP.
I have a slide show coded into the header and got the error message: “The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed..”
The cure was to update Nextgen, copy imagerotator.swf to wp-content/uploads, and put new code in the header with the correct paths:
<div class="slideshow" id="ngg_slideshow1"> <object style="visibility: visible;" id="so3_1" data="http://mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/imagerotator.swf" name="so3" class="slideshow" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="204" height="152"><param value="opaque" name="wmode"><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen"><param value="file=http%3A%2F%2Fmysite.com%2Findex.php%3Fslideshow%3Dtrue%26gid%3D3&linkfromdisplay=true&shownavigation=false&showicons=false&overstretch=true&rotatetime=10&backcolor=0x000000&frontcolor=0xFFFFFF&lightcolor=0xCC0000&width=204&height=152" name="flashvars"></object></div> <script type="text/javascript" defer="defer"> var so3_1 = { params : { wmode : "opaque", allowfullscreen : "true"}, flashvars : { file : "http%3A%2F%2Fopotiki-real-estate.com%2Findex.php%3Fslideshow%3Dtrue%26gid%3D3", linkfromdisplay : "true", shownavigation : "false", showicons : "false", overstretch : "true", rotatetime : "10", backcolor : "0x000000", frontcolor : "0xFFFFFF", lightcolor : "0xCC0000", width : "204", height : "152"}, attr : { styleclass : "slideshow", name : "so3"}, start : function() { swfobject.embedSWF("http://mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/imagerotator.swf", "so3_1", "204", "152", "7.0.0", false, this.flashvars, this.params , this.attr ); } } so3_1.start(); </script></div>Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Version 3.0 FeaturesGiven that the prime motivation of bloggers is to get their posts noticed, and that the prime mechanism for this is the search engine, then I’m wondering why a Permalink system based on this logic is not the NORM. My thinking suggests that a URL structure of site/index/category/postname would be the most rational approach to using keyword identification of content for fast, accurate reference. In this context, ‘date’ or numerical ID is meaningless.
My Blogs rank in the top 10 in their SERPs because I use a url/category/postname/ keyword structure. Seems Wikipedia agrees with me: “The basic conclusion from studies of the structure of blogs is that while it takes time for a blog to become popular through blogrolls, permalinks can boost popularity more quickly, and are perhaps more indicative of popularity and authority than blogrolls,…”
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: htaccess not needed for permalinksI think I can label this post resolved – well as resolved as it’s going to get!
Part one of my question, as to whether htaccess mod_rewrite is not needed anymore is answered by this: Pretty permalinks work fine without htacess/mod_rewrite provided there is /index.php/ in front of the permalink. See PATHINFO “Almost Pretty”
However, I’m still no wiser as to why the update htaccess mod-reWrite function won’t work on any blog on my server. I have tried averything for Automatically Updating HTACCESS and also Fixing HTACESS Generation Issues – see my post directly above.
@btw miqrogroove – Your gravatar is now much more ‘credible’ for a WP Guru!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: htaccess not needed for permalinks2.8.6 produces a htaccess file and warns when it cannot update automatically and proposes to add the code manually!
Half the reason for writing this post was because that didn’t happen!
@miqrogroove
Still no sign of htaccess updating, I’ve experimented with every value of CHMOD (600 thru 777) and as the Codex suggests, I have FollowSymlinks on plus allowing AddHandler mod-rewrite as in”Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on AddHandler mod-rewrite allowForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: htaccess not needed for permalinksSo I think it is very likely a file or directory permissions issue preventing it from happening.
The directory permissions are set to 755 by default, and the trial htaccess file I loaded is the same so I don’t see how permissions can be affecting the issue. Just tried all this on an older 2.8.4 blog with identical results.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: htaccess not needed for permalinksLooks like your theory about index.php is the one. I’ve set up a test site WordPress Test Site and tried all the listed Permalink combinations, and they all work happily WITHOUT htaccess/mod_reWrite, provided there is index.php preceeding the permalink.
This applies to 2.9.0 as well (Upgraded and tried it) and it still makes no attempt to upgrade/write htaccess.
P.S., and please update your profile miqrogroove – it does absolutely NOTHING for your credibility to have an icon that suggests you are a 17 year old sex-kitten????
😉 – thanks, Rhys.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: htaccess not needed for permalinksThanks for the explanation, I had several blogs break when I updated them to 2.8.6, but they worked again when I included the /index.php/.
Still don’t understand why my latest blog version makes no attempt to write/update htaccess??
As to why I don’t use the “ugly” proper(?) date format links, I set up “top 10” blogs that rank very well for the site keyword, and to pull off that trick I need proper keyword linking in the URLs and anchor texts
😀 – RhysForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: htaccess not needed for permalinksYou said:”actually it’s necessary. To use pretty links, WP will create an entry on your .htaccess file (or create a new one if you dont have it yet on your root), pretty”
Actually it is not necessary, on these 2.8.6 installs, it is working fine without it amd there is no sign of htaccess being created. On my older blogs, every time I set up permalinks, it showed suggested new code for htaccess.
It looks to me like there is now some provision built in for Pretty Links that doesn’t need the mod_reWrite in htaccess.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: htaccess not needed for permalinks@seoyourblog
Bad advice! Because I have had several blogs lately that will not work with pretty permalinks starting with /%category%/.Google for “Starting Permalinks with %category% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons” to see one reason why.
@miqrogroove
I am talking about a plain standard WP default blog, on a plain standard Apache server, not using anything esoteric like Multiview, or any plugins/widgets other than Akismet.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: AJAXed WordPress] Inline Comment ErrorGot it sorted, I Hope!.
Apparently it is a case of, if you have the threaded comments enabled make sure you don’t have simple threaded comments enabled at the same time.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Page Template Problems with 2.6Looks like WPress only reads the theme directory once on install of theme, so changing themes triggers another read of the theme folder, and viola, the templates get found.
Worked for me 🙂