Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress’
Fatal error in media.php on line 953 or menu.php
Recently one of my clients performed an upgrade to WordPress 3.5.1. Unfortunately, the upgrade failed for some reason and they were locked out of the Admin panel with an error about undefined function get_taxonomies_for_attachments in menu.php. Research of the web produced the suggestion to manually reinstall all the WordPress 3.5.1 files. Doing that manual installation,…
Read MoreGiving WordPress Its Own Directory
Follow these instructions to move WordPress into its own folder, rather than residing at the root. Giving WordPress Its Own Directory « WordPress Codex
Read MoreHiding download pages and other pages from search engines
As you develop your website you will no doubt have various pages that are “backend” pages. These pages might include download pages, thank you pages, policy pages, or whatever. For web marketing we optimize our sites for search engines and we do not want these types of pages to show up in search engines.…
Read MoreUsing categories on WordPress pages
One of the differences between WordPress Pages and Posts is that Posts can have a category assigned to them, whereas pages cannot. Frankly, I think that is just dumb… why shouldn’t pages have the ability to have categories assigned. Well, I’m not the only one that think pages should have categories and there are several…
Read MoreLinking WordPress posts and FaceBook Pages
Duplication of effort is, well, duplication. And when it comes to effort, who needs that? Well that’s what many of us who have both a WordPress blog and a FaceBook Page are faced with…. Whenever we make a post on our blog we have to make a similar entry on our FB Page Wall. Makes…
Read MoreLinking to an existing WordPress Post
One of the most valuable features of the Web is how information is linked. That applies to your own information on your WordPress site. Linking from one post to another is a viable way of helping your visitor find information, and it also can help with your Search rankings. Here’s a quick video showing you how…
Read MoreFatal error: Call to undefined method dbrc_wpdb::delete() durring WordPress 3.4 update
I was updating some client WordPress sites the other day to version 3.4 and ran across an error on one of the sites. The error message was something along the lines of the following, although I can’t say it would say the same thing for everyone. Fatal error: Call to undefined method dbrc_wpdb::delete() . Arghhh,…
Read MoreCreating a Sign-up Form with MailChimp List Setup
Creating a sign-up form for the MailChimp email service is pretty easy with the MailChimp List plugin, unfortunately there are also several limitations that you either have to live with or find a way to work around (and I haven’t found a workaround yet.) After installing the MailChimp List Subscribe Form you will have…
Read MorePutting WordPress Login at the Top of Your Site with Registration-Login Bar
Sometimes I just want to make the registration and login process a little easier to access. Well, not just easier to access because you can use the Meta widget to put login and registration links on your web site. The thing is, when you use the Meta widget you are directed to a separate login…
Read MoreSimple Local Avatars
Here’s a situation for you… let’s say that a visitor has a Gravatar profile set up to display a picture whenever they author or comment on a WordPress site. That generally works quite well and makes your site more personable. But what if either you, as the site owner, or the visitor, want to have…
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