Ron Strilaeff
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Unique Headers] [Plugin: Unique Headers] WordPress Custom HeadersI see it a bit clearer now. There are two steps to get set up.
1. add-theme-support for custom-header, using some default args
2. tell my theme where to show the header_image() WooThemes does this with the add_action.The problem with this working with a woo theme is the header_image call is added above the normal logo logic and does not replace it.
Even if I decided to edit my header.php file which breaks the easy upgrade, how do images get known to the header_image function? And how does each get associated with the particular page I’d like them to be shown on? There must be more wp documentation about actually using custom headers.
I’m surprised that Woothemes does not have this capability build into one of their themes?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Unique Headers] [Plugin: Unique Headers] WordPress Custom HeadersHi Tim,
I am trying to integrate this with canvas also. Does the last step about the “WooThemes Hook” take care of everything? Or are steps 1,2, and 3 all necessary?
Also, when I remove my Custom Logo from the Canvas theme options, the title and tag line for the site also show up in addition to the dynamic header images. How did you make that invisible without modifying the header.php file?
Thanks,
RonForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Child and Parent Categories – Displaying Posts ProperlyNow if someone chooses to view all posts with the category “Super Smash Bros. Brawl”, it only shows posts in Brawl, and nothing else. I would think it would show all Brawl posts, and all generic Super Smash Bros. posts, aka moving up the ladder.
That’s because some of the posts that match the parent will not match the child. But the user clicked on the child category. So, from his point of view, many non-matching posts were found. Using your example, something that was specific to Melee might be found since it has the common parent of Brawl, even though it may have nothing to do with Brawl.
I’m in the middle of trying to comprehend how categories work too, so I don’t have too many answers yet.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: WordPress multisite to connect subdomains and posts?This is a very interesting discussion. Where can I find more (not sure what to search for except “Do I really need multisite?”)
By default QC won’t cache for logged in users.
However, even after logging out I sometimes don’t see the verification text, but I did after trying 3 different ways to clear my browser cache. Chrome especially tries hard to hang on to everything. Apparently QC uses that to sense you might still be logged in.
So maybe try Ctrl-F5, and go to the options to clear the cache, then stop and start the browser. I managed to finally see the verification text that way. Good luck!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permanent URL RedirectThanks guys.
Here is my write up of how I plan to proceed.
And so you don’t have to follow that link, here is the redirect code I’m going to use (the 302 will become a 301):
RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.:]+\.)*testsyte1\.com\.?(:[0-9]*)?$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://one.testyng.com/$1 [R=302,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.:]+\.)*testsyte2\.com\.?(:[0-9]*)?$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://two.testyng.com/$1 [R=302,L]It works very well on my test sites. The live sites will be a bit more complicated since most of the content is in 3rd party tables and needs to be converted to a new custom post type.
But that’s for another day.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permanent URL RedirectThanks for the details doomnezeu. However, I’m thinking the 301 redirect is what I want. I responded “yes I do..” to wpismypuppet’s comment about Apache and ability to modify my .htaccess.
I want the oldone.com to never be seen but have all visitors immediatley be redirected in the background to newone.main.net without that extra bounce to the old site. Imagine that canada.com got absorbed by usa.net, we would not want a million visitors hitting canada.com/content/index.html before being sent to state51.usa.net/content.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permanent URL RedirectHi, thanks. Yes I do in fact. I have several domains pointing at different folders on my host. So which .htaccess file to I put the redirect code in?
oldone.com lives at /oc and has its own .htaccess file.
main.net lives at /mn with the subdomain flavor of the wp-multisite .htaccess file.
And wpismypuppet you are right the whole point of this is to maintain the SEO and never abandon the thousands of archived links floating around out there. Some one clicking on and old link will get exactly the same content but the address bare will show the new URL. New links will be made to the new url, but the old ones could be there forever.
-Ron
Hi Ron R.,
I’m having trouble comprehending those Domain Options in this Domain Mapping plugin.
Are you saying the if I check both the Remote Login and the Redirect Admin boxes that when a user logs in to any subsite, they should then be logged in to all other sites within the network?
Hmmm … just tried this, The user exists only in the primary site. I was able to login as him to a sub site, but then following a link to another subsite in the same browser session returned the dreaded “unknown login key” white screen.
Thanks for any insights,
Ron S.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress Widgets Automatically ClosingI’m not able to reproduce that collapsing behavior anymore. I was happy with my workaround but recently updated my:
wordpress to 3.4.2 woothemes-canvas to 5.0.8 woo-framework to 5.4.1Which are the latest at this time (Oct 17, 2012)
The fact that it went away when I activated the plain vanilla twenty-eleven theme definitely points at some negative synergy in the javascript/css realm (which drives that collapsing behavior). So that’s not quite as bad as “unravelling the very fabric of the space-time continuum”, but definitely annoying.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: One login for all blogs in a multisite!I’m glad this thread is not closed since I’d like to do something similar.
The blogs on my multisite are not personal blogs, but photo galleries and links in different content areas (like categories I guess, but bigger with separate URLs). What I want is for anyone who registers on any site to be automatically registered for all sites and get a profile made for them on the main buddypress site and bbpress forum.
But I’m not sure how to do it. Does buddypress have a way to handle that and somehow “know” that someone registered on a sub site?
Nio, did you find an answer to your single login page for all sites question?
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: reset site id's on multisiteYeah, I know that sometimes you just want the numbers to all line up.
In my case, I’ve been playing with various multisite features and have added and deleted several test subsites. Thus, I had a nasty “gap” 🙂
Since the subsites are all mine, and nobody is going to make another blog, I did that alter command using the autoincrement value as the current highest numbered site_id + 1. It worked with out a hitch.
Should I try to install that patch or wait for an update to the plugin?
One more bug I noticed is the subsites see the plugin as activate-able even after the “Network Activate” was done, but before the mainsite config page was found and the key entered.
After the key was entered, the Akismet plugin disappeared from the subsites’ plugin list (which is good).
But now, one of my subsites still says that I need to enter my key. Do I need to enter the key into every subsite? If true, I’d like to make a suggestion: I think a more consistent design would be that the network super admin should be able to enter the key once for all subsites if it was network activated. As it is, when network activated, an “invalid” error shows up on every subsite dashboard.
I think the author needs to clarify his installation doc.
To activate QC on multi-site, navigate to the Network-Admin -> Dashboard -> Installed Plugins. Find the “Quick Cache” plugin and press the “Network Activate” link. Refresh the page and you should a new menu section on the left sidebar labeled “Quick Cache”. Click on Config Options and enable it under the first options (on/off).
Activating it under a subsite will have no effect except to make it disappear from the list of plugins available to that subsite. To me that’s a minor bug in his installation logic. It should not ever show up under the subsites since all configuration has the same effect for the whole wp installation.
It’s not clear how the dynamic cache pruning works, since I chose the option “single + front page”, then edited a page on a subsite but the home page of that subsite did not get purged (re-cached). But the edited page was re-cached. And this proves that activating it on the admin site DOES make it active on the subsites (all the cached pages are saved (as human-readable text files) in the same wp-content/cache folder).
I’m bumping this because I’d like to see that QC verification comment at the end of my view-source file. I do see many current files in the wp-content/cache folder so I guess that’s even better proof, but why are the stats/comments not showing up?