Posts tagged with ‘wordpress’

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Stopping Plugins Automatically Updating

July 28, 2010

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 [...]

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Geeks New Site

April 8, 2010

I’m late writing this post as the new design has been ‘live’ since January but mention should go to this beautiful new theme which was designed by designed by Stone Creative Design but built entirely by my own fair hand using a Wordpress backend.
Geeks is a great website with a lot of good, exciting and [...]

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[Solved] Change the number of posts on archive pages

April 5, 2010

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 [...]

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[Solved] Wordpress Top Category Function

January 22, 2010

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 [...]

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Neo Gallery’s New Site

November 11, 2009

Debs did most of the work choosing the theme and sorting out the content – but was able to lend her a hand sorting out some of the installation and configuration issues.
Jolly good looking site I think: Neo Gallery.
Neo’s Gallery can be found in Market Place, Cockermouth, Cumbria.

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[Solved] Wordpress Error: “open_basedir restriction in effect”

November 10, 2009

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 [...]