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 to edit the plugin.

“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 create your content to send to subscribers. You can also edit the template for each mailing lists just put some XHTML code on header and footer. Newsletter will be send in XHTML format.”

Works like a charm.

A tip: by default only admin can see the Newsletter option.

To fix it so that lesser mortals can see amd use the Newsletter system edit:

add_menu_page(__(‘Send’, ’sendit’), __(‘Newsletter’, ’sendit’), 8, __FILE__, ‘invianewsletter’);

(and subsequent lines for sub-menu options)

8 means admin: change this to, say, 5 for Editors.

Full numbers explanation here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#User_Level_to_Role_Conversion

Another tip: the confirmation page (confirmation.php) didn’t work great with my theme – I had to edit after line 40 to make sure there were the right amount of div tags (div="content" is both a typo and redundant).

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.

First tried blogmum’s suggestion of using:

<? query_posts('showposts=3'); ?>

Add this to archives.php to change the number of posts in category, date and author archives; to search.php to change search results’ pages, or to index.php for the front page (as ever, this holds true for the majority of themes, but not absolutely all). The line needs to go *before* the loop

However, this only showed all the categories posts which wasn’t any good for me as the archive pages are category based.

Wordpress documentation gave me the correct solution.

<?php
global $query_string;
query_posts($query_string . "&posts_per_page=11");
?>

Note: Place a call to query_posts() in one of your Template files before The Loop begins. The wp_query object will generate a new SQL query using your parameters. When you do this, WordPress ignores the other parameters it receives via the URL (such as page number or category). If you want to preserve that information, you can use the $query_string global variable in the call to query_posts(), as above.

On geeks.co.uk, some posts are in a top level category, eg all News articles, and some are in sub categories, eg some Game Reviews are in Wii but not PSP etc.

Also, CSS won’t work with spaces in the names of labels so for categories like “Game Reviews” we have to remove the space to be useful as a CSS label.

Sometimes you want the function call to echo the category name to the page, eg when it’s used as a title of the page or in breadcrumbs. Sometimes you just want it returned to use in a CSS label, for example.

So here is my function:

function get_top_cat($css = false, $echo = false){
$maffcat = (array) get_the_category();
$maffpar = get_cat_name($maffcat[0]->category_parent);
if ($maffpar == ''){
$maffcat = (array) get_the_category();
$maffpar = $maffcat[0]->cat_name;
}

}

Stick that in your theme’s functions.php and you should be able to call it by, for example,

get_top_cat('', 'true') - will put top category name with spaces on your page
get_top_cat('true', '') - will put top category name without spaces in your code

in your webpage files like single.php, archive.php etc

Nb. this works for two-level categories – it seems that this could easily be extended for more levels by further nesting.

“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.

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 as you can try another easily enough – and thus it wasn’t able to login.

The problem was that when I went into ‘Account Preferences’ this account doesn’t appear, so I can’t edit it and change the login details.

Menu Path:

[In Windows & OSX]: Tools | Account Settings, or
[In *nix]: Edit | Account Settings
.. then, in the left pane, under the account name, Server Settings

However, every time I tried to download email it checked this account – and asked me for a password etc. This was annoying. How could I edit or delete this account if I couldn’t see it?.

Thanks to advice received on this thread I found the solution.

I was able to delete the offending (non) account by editing prefs.js in the main profile folder (for example, s4u1gg1e.default) .

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.

Website: Oaktree Acountancy

Another Wordpress re-theming.

After editing /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

I tried to restart with /sbin/services – where has this gone? In the end I had to resort to the ancient looking

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

Then I got the exciting Apache restart error

Starting httpd: httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

Ehh?

Seems the solution is this:

echo HOST.DOMAIN.com > /etc/hostname

where HOST = Your host name, DOMAIN = Your Domain Name

Followed by:

/bin/hostname -F /etc/hostname

Restart now works.