Joshua Lyman
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Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Two sites (temporarily) for small business?Redirecting via 301s is definitely important when moving from an old structure to a new structure, but you have to have something legitimate to point it to. For example, if the old site had a
services.htmlpage and the new one will have a/servicespage, the redirect is great. However, redirecting fromservices.htmljust to the main page won’t be nearly as meaningful to search engines. You may wish to explain that you’d like to have the new content ready before redirecting the old. It will work out better for her in the long run.Not technically related, but perhaps a more in-depth discussion with her to discuss her business reasoning for moving up the deadline? Perhaps there’s a quick win that would allow you to do a shorter bit of work that is critical to her, get it up, and take the rest of the time to do a good job with the rest of the site?
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Speed between wordpress and htmlIn the strictest terms, a WordPress-based site, even with caching plugins enabled, will still be slower to fulfill requests than a pure HTML-based site. Even if the caching plugin is set to fully render out cached HTML versions of the pages, you are still likely using permalinks/pretty URLs (and definitely should for SEO purposes) and so your server software will need to parse these, and it will most likely still pass at least some data through the main WordPress application before returning the cached page.
The better question, however, is does this really matter? True, Google likes faster sites more than slower sites. However, the speed differences between a well-run and cached WordPress site and an HTML-only site are not on the magnitude that matter. Consider how many large and very important sites run WordPress (Time, CNN, TechCrunch, etc.). You will gain much more by basing the site on WordPress and having the easy flexibility to expand in the future than you will lose in any small speed difference.
So I’d say go with WordPress, do turn on an caching plugin, but don’t worry about the speed difference.
Okay, I updated my version of the code, which is now unfortunately a few versions behind scribu’s official plugin. However, hopefully Lee will be able to use this for his project.
You can get the code on the “checkbox-work” branch on my Github page here: https://github.com/jlyman/wp-query-multiple-taxonomies/tree/checkbox-work. You can just download the zip from there, and you should be good to go.
Selvester, I’ll try and update the Github fork of it I made (https://github.com/jlyman/wp-query-multiple-taxonomies) to reflect the most recent changes, which you can then grab and use. I’ll let you know when it’s available.
Scribu and I worked on a couple of pull requests together, but my needs were a little more specific than would be appropriate for a general-purpose plugin. What I have is functioning, however, and you can see it on the site that I implemented it on (my wife’s hobby site: http://www.thegamegal.com/. Click on the “Search for the perfect game” dropdown at the top of the page to see it in action.)
Should anybody want that, I can see what the differences are between that and the current fork that I have up there and update it. Let me know.
@plamba, I got about half way through and then had to direct my efforts to another project for a bit, but I recently took it up again and hope to finish that in the next week or so. I’ll post here when I do.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Core Dev Team Meetup Q&AThe past couple of years have scene a schism form in the Drupal community over the size, scope, and goals of the package. Has the WordPress team considered ways to ensure that the same thing doesn’t happen to the WP core, and if so, what are those plans?
Great pointer, thanks. I think I’ll fork the GH project, and submit a pull request when finished. Entirely up to you if you choose to accept it. Thanks again!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Travelogue theme: possible bug solutionI’ve uploaded a new version of the theme to the WordPress repository, but I have to wait for it to be approved.
In the meantime, if there is anyone else with this issue, here’s how to quickly fix it. Find line 51 in sidebar.php that says:
<?php get_links('-1', '- ', '
', ' ', 0, 'category', 0); ?>
and replace it with:
<?php wp_list_bookmarks('title_li=&categorize=0'); ?>The new version of the theme has a couple other fixes as well, but this is the patch for this particular bug.
Joshua
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Travelogue theme: possible bug solutionStephan,
Thanks for noticing that and for your very well-done investigative work. I hadn’t heard about this, but after reading your post I took a look at the sidebar.php file and realized that I hadn’t replaced an old, deprecated function call to grab the links with the newer version of the method. That is probably what was causing the root of the issue.
I’ll patch that up and put out a fix on the theme. Thanks, and have fun with your travels!
Joshua – Travelogue Creator
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Subheadervfloyd,
I didn’t get back to you immediately because it took some tinkering. What you are looking for doesn’t exactly fit into the layout, because the header has a fixed height. However, you could try and force things around a bit. I’ve only tried this in Firefox, so cross-browser results aren’t guaranteed:
In style.css…
Add to the style of #subheader:
display: none;Add to the style of #content:
position: absolute;
top: 200px;See how that works out for ya. And you can put the search and browse widgets in the sidebar under Appearance > Widgets in the admin panel.
Joshua
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: SMS Text message an entry to WordPress blogI forgot to also specify that you would need to enable the email-to-blog feature in Settings to use this idea.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: SMS Text message an entry to WordPress blogThis is not the full solution that you may be looking for (hopefully others can provide more ideas!) but here’s a thought: Many providers treat text messages just like emails, that’s why you can send an email to xxxxxxxxxx@vtext.com or @mobile.att.net and have it arrive at a cell phone.
Likewise, depending on the provider and the phone, sometimes you can put in an email in the Number field and have your phone send a text message just like an email. Your mileage may vary however. You can try experimenting with that. Good luck!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: After upgrading to wordpress 2.8 nothing worked anymore!Syntium, you can’t see the text of the post you are writing? Doesn’t sound like a WordPress problem, more like a browser issue. Of course, anything could randomly be a WordPress problem.
Are you experiencing any other issues with the blog? Do you have any plug-ins that would normally affect posting or the post page?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: After upgrading to wordpress 2.8 nothing worked anymore!Heltskay, you more than likely have a Javascript problem. Follow MichaelH’s direction to deactivate all plugins. If you can’t do that from the Admin panel, follow these directions: http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F.
Also definitely clear your browser cache and cookies. Try it in a different browser. Make sure Javascript support didn’t somehow get turned off in your browser.