Chmod 444 /wp-content/plugins/plugin_name
To stop other users from (easily) auto-updating plugins that might have had a lot of customisation work done to them (and thus destroying all that work, grrrr) simply change permissions for the plugin in the plugins folder. 444 should be fine. You can change this back as and when you need [...]
After looking for something for a while the best I could find – by a good margin – is Sendit.
“Sendit enable you to send newsletters and collect subscribers from your blog. You can manage one or more list and using in post/pages or using the widget(customizable). You can extract content from post or pages or [...]
When editing something like ftp_credentials:
a:4:{s:8:”hostname”;s:11:”example.com”;s:8:”username”;s:5:”admin”;s:15:”connection_type”;s:4:”ftps”;s:4:”port”;s:17:”//ftp.example.com”;
the s is the number of characters in the following value.
Been searching for how to do this for a while – the solution became much easier when I realised (Doh!) that it was the wordpress loop that controlled the number of posts being displayed per page rather than the theme.
First tried blogmum’s suggestion of using:
<? query_posts(’showposts=3′); ?>
Add this to archives.php [...]
For the new geeks.co.uk design I needed a way of finding which top level category any given post was in and use that in the CSS to make various design elements of the page the specific colour of that top level category.
On geeks.co.uk, some posts are in a top level category, eg all News [...]
Got a small scare when I went into Appearance -> Themes and I got this message:
“The active theme is broken. Reverting to the default theme.”
And my site was back into the default theme which obviously looked gash.
Panic over – the problem was that I had somehow deleted the root style.css for the theme.
As a ‘webmaster’ I use Thunderbird to download email from multiple email accounts all the time and was adding another to my list recently when I encountered an annoying wee problem.
In the Thunderbird account setup wizard I put in the wrong login name – I just guessed to be honest which isn’t usually a problem [...]
Discovered my sound was not longer working after the latest Karmic Koala upgrade (Ubuntu 9.10).
The solution:
Go to System –> Preferences –> Sound –> Output
Under this tab there were 2 sound cards listed both as “Internal Audio Analog Stereo” (the same one listed twice? why?)
Choosing the second rather than the first brought sound back.
Fellow WCDA alumnus Chris Macleod has a new website for his accountancy business based in Cockermouth, Cumbria.
Website: Oaktree Acountancy
Another Wordpress re-theming.
It seems that Red Hat Fedora must have changed a few settings over recent upgrades because I had a few things stop working when I did a simple Apache conf change to point a website at some parking space.
After editing /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
I tried to restart with /sbin/services – where has this gone? In the end [...]
Keep getting this error on Supanames hosted websites:
Warning: touch() [function.touch]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/tmp/all-in-one-seo-pack.zip) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/mydomain/public_html/) in /home/mydoamin/public_html/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 175
Download failed. Could not create Temporary file
Finally got the answer from Supanames support, which relates to this half of the answer:
http://support.supanames.co.uk/KB/a83/i-cant-upload-images-files-using-upload-file-script.aspx
What you also need to do is:
Enable PHP5 and [...]
Thought I’d update this old webspace and turn it into a more personal space for me to note events in the turning of the world and to give help to people that want to get in contact with me.
Fans of the old website never fear, it’s still here.
Just to let you know, I am a [...]
Theme: Guangzhou