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Quick Guide to New WordPress Install

PokerOConnor — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:50:55 +0000

http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
Logon to your server, and cd document_root_name
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
cd wordpress
cp -r * ../
cd ..
rm -r wordpress
rm latest.tar.gz
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Using_phpMyAdmin
sudo chown www-data document_root_name/
http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL. This is followed if you want to change the WordPress site name from example.com to www.example.com. You may need to add update_option(‘siteurl’,'http://example.com/blog’); and update_option(‘home’,'http://example.com/blog’); to the theme functions.php file. Then reload site, then DELETE these two lines from theme functions.php file.
Change default theme to custom theme, so future updates don’t wipe your changes: cp -r twentyten/ customtheme
Run script as defined on http://www.pokeroconnor.com/recursive-sed-script/ to change all previous theme name mentions

Add New Header Image to Theme

PokerOConnor — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:24:09 +0000

In WordPress, for example in the TwentyTen theme, you may want to add a new header image to the default options available. This is useful for example if you are copying this theme, to use as the basis for a new theme.

To do so, first upload the image you want to use, and a thumbnail of it to the wp-content/themes/NEW_THEME_NAME/images/headers directory.

Then, in wp-content/themes/NEW_THEME_NAME/functions.php edit the register_default_headers function, to replace ‘sunset’ below with your new image details:
'sunset' => array( 'url' => '%s/images/headers/sunset.jpg', 'thumbnail_url' => '%s/images/headers/sunset-thumbnail.jpg', /* translators: header image description */ 'description' => __( 'Sunset', 'copied_twenty_theme' ) ),

Then go to Appearance -> Theme -> Headers in your Admin panel, and you should be able to select the new image as header.

WordPress Visual Editor Missing

PokerOConnor — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:20:48 +0000

This is an annoying issue that happened to me lately, whereby the WordPress visual editor had its buttons and icons missing.

I trawled various forums, and got the usual “do a full re-install” etc, or disable and re-enable all plugins blah blah blah.

The solution is here – its elegant, simple and a one-liner: add the below line to your wp-config.php file.

define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false );

WordPress site redirect

PokerOConnor — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:01:51 +0000

I had the following problem lately: I added the typical rules to htaccess to redirect example.com/anything to www.example.com/anything, e.g.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC] RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,NC,R=301]

RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

But when I went to example.com I got infinite redirects…reason being I had the siteurl field in the wp_options table of the database set to http://example.com.

So, you need to change that to http://www.example.com, and also edit wp-config.php as follows:
define('WP_HOME','http://www.example.com'); define('WP_SITEURL','http://www.example.com');

That should be it - see here if not.

WordPress Helpers

PokerOConnor — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:05:31 +0000

Here’s some useful WordPress stuff – let’s get the ball rolling: