I download a lot of themes for WordPress… to try them out, to have them in case I need them later or because they have features that could make them THE them I am looking for. I have been trying to sort out the idea of personal websites and blogs for a while. Building a single site to reflect a wide…
Tag: Wordpress
Replacing an image logo by text in WordPress
Some themes in WordPress (like this one) only allow an image logo in place of a title. Here is a quick way to replace that image by a text title using jQuery: 1- Install the WP-Headmaster plugin. This is a great way to allow more control over the header of pages in your WordPress site, including injection of jQuery code.…
Blogs hacked!
Sometimes this past weekend I had the joy to find my wordpress instances dead with a Server error 500. All of them. At once. I first suspected an issue with the database, or maybe a server patch impacting PHP or WordPress, but a quick and helpful call to the helpdesk of my host confirmed that was not the case. The…
SQL injected!
Google Webmaster tools alerted me to a recent infection of one of my sites with malware. The infected area turned out to be a simple directory of alumni from my former school, written in ColdFusion. I thought I had been clever by having a two steps confirmation process before updating entries in the database but that was written long ago…
Broken navigation in WordPress .. and one way to fix it
After upgrading my sites to WordPress 3.3, as well as updating a few themes, I noticed page navigation was broken in some of them. Namely, the base path was repeated in the URL. Instead of using a URL such as ‘/linfa/create/page/2’ for older posts, the URL used was ‘/linfa/create/linfa/create/page/2’. The odd thing was that the bug did not happen all…
Admin toolbar missing in WordPress theme
Funny how you don’t notice something is missing until you actually need it. I realized today that the WordPress admin toolbar was missing on one of my sites, after days working on it. Fortunately, the solution was simple in this case – wp_footer() was missing in the Footer.php file of the theme I am using (WordPress Anniversary) : xbfish.com/tag/wordpress-top-admin-bar-missing/
Fixing thumbnails in single posts of Aggregate Theme
There is a possible bug in the Aggregate WordPress theme from Elegant Themes. Thumbnails are rendered differently from single posts pages and from blog style templates. Thumbnails in single posts are using the ‘thumb’ class, are missing the white frame visible on other pages and appear broken when the thumbnail is smaller than the dimensions of the thumbnail. In addition,…
Query multiple tags with WordPress 3.2
A small clarification when it comes to querying WordPress posts with multiple tags – tags in the URL are using Slugs …. not full values. If your query is missing items or is returning empty, make sure you are using the right value for your tags. It is probably obvious to developers but it took me a bad attempt at…
Fixing Lifestream's broken icons
After a failed attempt at using action streams with Movable Type, I was very pleased to discover the Lifestream plugin for WordPress. I set up my Family site to use Lifestream with various feeds from family members. Along with the P2 theme, it has been working great as a shared hub for family members…. except for some issues with the…
Enable thumbnail support in SimplePress and a multi-site WordPress
I was looking forward to use the thumbnail and gallery options of the SimplePress theme from ElegantThemes, only to find empty thumbnails when I tried it out. A bit of research put me on the way to a solution via ‘How to make TimThumb work with WordPress mu‘. The culprit was the difference between virtual paths and physical paths in a…