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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: No 404 happening – confirmed with hostI was able to get permalinks to work in IIS, just not as well. I followed the helpful advice from a support page I found a while back:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
Look under, “Using Permalinks Without mod_rewrite”. However, what really sucks is that I just could never get rid of “index.php” in IIS.
Anyways, that was for anyone reading this thread in the future.
IIS is great for a lot of things, don’t get me wrong. It just really sucks for times when your host is using it and you want to use an awesome program like WordPress:(
Oh well, thanks for getting back to me though everyone!
If anyone else finds an answer to this problem please let all of the community know about it in this thread!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: No 404 happening – confirmed with hostThere is no .htaccess, my host is using IIS (yuck!). I know getting a different host running Apache would be the easiest solution for this problem, but it would cause way too many other problems:(
The same URL is entered for both my WordPress and Blog URL:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: No 404 happening – confirmed with hostThe problem that I kept having was that 404 errors were not getting generated. For example, last month I changed my “pretty” permalink structure from:
/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
to
/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
I thought that all of the old incoming links with “/archives/” should now generate a 404 error, because they no longer follow the permalink structure. Unfortunately they don’t and that is why I contacted my host. I wanted to make sure that everything on their end was 100% correct, and according to them, it’s a problem with WordPress.
What’s really weird is that I cannot get a 404 error to generate no matter what address I try.
http://blog.trossenrobotics.com/index.php/blahblahblah
http://blog.trossenrobotics.com/blahblahblahNone of the above links generate a 404 error page.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: barter? help me get my blog in working orderNot to sound like buzzkill, but it’s doubtful someone will fix your blog for you. Even if they did, I guarantee this will happen again, so…
We all had to start somewhere, some in a more beginning state of mind than others. Me, I had limited web development experience, but at least some, so I was a little lucky. The best advice that I can give you, is to read through all of the documentation and educate yourself about WordPress:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
WordPress has put a lot of effort into writing all of this documentation, and TRUST ME, it helps tremendously to read through it. I’ve found a ton of useful information and have solved many of my own problems by looking through all of this.
My first post though, is the easiest way to determine what post is giving you the problem.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: SideBar at Bottom :(ah yes, the good old “tag wasn’t closed or in the wrong place” issue:)
This is the fastest way I’ve found to solve this problem, and find out which post is giving you the problems:
Starting with the most recent post,
1) go to edit, HTML and copy all of the HTML code content and paste it in notepad (save as backup).
2) Once the content is saved as a backup in notepad, go back to edit post screen, remove all of the content, and hit save.
3) Go to “View Site” and see if the sidebar is back in the correct position.
4) If not, repeat steps 1-4, keeping each post backup (in HTML format) in it’s own seperate file.
You don’t have too many posts, so this shouldn’t be that bad. Once you find out what post is giving you the problems, you can go through the HTML to figure out just what tag is giving you the problem. I noticed on your validation, the following:
end tag for “div” omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified .
This should give you and indication to keep an eye out for div tags.
Good luck, I know this can be a pain in the a@@ sometimes.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: barter? help me get my blog in working orderValidating your XHTML is a daunting task. From my own experience, I found that it’s best to take post validating one step at a time.
That is, if your blog homepage is the one that you ran through the validator, then take every single post URL on your homepage and send it through the validator. I know it’s very tedious still, but at least this way way, it’s not as overwhelming and you can narrow down what posts are giving you the errors.
Just keep in mind in the future to run your validator each and every time you post, or just set up your editor so that it’s not the Rich Text Editor. Sure it’s nice and “easy” to use, but a lot of times, that it spits out invalid XHTML. I learned that the hard way. There were close to 30 posts that I had to correct.
Has this issue been corrected in the WP 2.1?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Image VerificationI had a huge problem with Spam as well. I tried a ton of different plugins, all of which were mediocre at best. Then, I found Spam Karma. SP is by far the best anti-spam plugin I have found. I’m no way saying that there aren’t ones that are better, but I’ll put it this way. I tried 12 different anti-spam plugins, and this one worked the best:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permalinks structure not updating in databaseThank you for replying HandySolo:)
That’s pretty close to what I was talking about, but I think I may have been a bit unclear, so let me explain a little more.
I was actually asking two different questions, one I think you answered, but I’m not 100% sure. When I change my permalink structure from one non-Default style to another non-Default style, is that supposed to update all of my previous post links (guid attribute in the wp_posts table) in the database?
Your second statement about breaking old links is relating to my second question, and what I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to figure out. Now that all of the old links are broken (no longer containing “/archives/”), how can I issue a 301 redirect to the correct link, so that my SEO isn’t harmed? The hard part is that my host is running IIS. I know, change servers to Apache would be the easiest thing to do, but unfortunately that can’t happen:(
I would think that I could just write a php script that checks all inbound traffic URLs for the string, “/archives/” and removes it. However, I have no clue how I would do this and where I would put it.
Is something like this along the lines of what I should do:
http://www.stevenhargrove.com/redirect-web-pages/under “301 redirect using PHP”
<?
header( “HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently” );
header( “Status: 301 Moved Permanently” );
header( “Location: http://www.new-url.com/” );
exit(0); // This is Optional but suggested, to avoid any accidental output
?>How would I do something like this in my situation though? That is, how would I check for “/archives/” and redirect them to the link with “/archives/” removed?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: “Email this post to a friend” How do I do it?Sure there are plugins, but if you already have a feedburner account, then why not just do it through feedburner? It’s already at your fingertips, all you have to do is read the directions. imo, a lot less of a hassle than getting a plugin installed and crossing your fingers on it working on the first try. With Feedburner you can also see who all of your email subscribers are.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Help me with FeedBurnerThis question should really go to Feedburner’s forums, but all you have to do is log into your feedburner account, go to Publicize -> FeedCount, and activate the service. Once you activate the service, it will generate the HTML code for you. Just copy and paste it wherever you want it to be displayed on your blog.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: “Email this post to a friend” How do I do it?If you burn your feed in feedburner (don’t worry, it’s free), it will give you this option, plus a lot more (analytics, optimization and publication tools):
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home
Once you burn your feed, go to Optimize -> Feedflare.
I highly recommend burning your feed:)
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Scripting in PostsIt looks like there was some discussion about this in the following thread:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/56674?replies=14
Otto42 said,
if you want to put PHP code into actual posts, you need the Exec-PHP Plugin.
http://bluesome.net/post/2005/08/18/50/
Better check around to see if this will work with your version of WP though, because it looks like there hasn’t been any work done on it for a while.
I found this by running a search for, “embed php in post” in the support forums.
Hope that at least points you in the right direction:)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Blog registered, but posts not showing up in Google Blog SearchI just found out today that there quite a few other blog search engines that are no longer indexing our posts. All of our pinging services are set up through Feedburner’s PingShot service. Has anyone had any problem with this service before?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: robots.txtMan, you are just the little kid in the playground that always has to have the last word huh? As you had stated, “This thread isnt about me or you, it’s about the correct usage of a robots.txt file.”
The user posted in this thread because he/she had a question about what they should put in a robots.txt file. So let’s drop our egos and help this person out, ok? You seem to be the expert on robots.txt whooami, so how about some help? You provided those links, but it doesn’t really give too much info on what to/not to put in there. I can’t help much with the answers, but I can with the questions, because I’ve seen the same questions go unanswered in many forums.
I believe the users original question was,
“What do you usually put in your robots.txt?”
I also believe that they were concerned about what they should/shouldn’t block because of, and I’m taking a shot out in the dark here, to not hinder, but improve SEO? So, if this is the case, what types of files/folders should we disallow to improve SEO? Is it better or worse for SEO if we allow all directories/pages to be read?
This is the only decent article that I’ve found on this topic, but it’s a few years old and doesn’t say too much about it:
http://www.seotoday.com/browse.php/category/articles/id/230/index.phpLet’s try another question, say I disallow an images folder. Does this cause the robot to break/screw up when it tries to read a page with images from that folder?
Should I disallow all of my folders containing my php files? What would be the result of me not doing so?
I can go on and on with these types of questions, but I’m sure this will keep anyone who wants to share their expert advice on, busy:)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: robots.txtGod whooami. I guess netiquette or even just simple common courtesy isn’t part of your vocabulary. Merry Christmas to you! I do feel sorry for those that have to be around you on a daily basis.
That aside, Otto42, thank you for being kind with your constructive criticism:) I am very well aware of the purpose of the robots.txt file, my apologies if I wasn’t more clear about this in the first place.
I was in fact mistaken however with what I had said regarding password protecting the robots.txt file. Where my confusion came from was when I had originally uploaded my robots.txt file to my host’s server and tried to access it via the URL, it asked me for a username/password. I thought just as you had mentioned, how in the hell does a crawler/robot see it then? When I logged into Google, however, and entered the URL for my robots.txt file, I was able to see it in the Google Webmaster’s Tools panel. I was pretty confused about the whole thing, but I still contacted my host and told them about it, and requested they publicly expose the file, because I didn’t want to take any chances.