Tag: WordPress

  • Configure WordPress to Use Proxy

    If you setup a WordPress site on a server in intranet behind a proxy, you might get following error when you search plugins and themes in admin console. An Unexpected HTTP Error occured during the API request. This is because WordPress does not know the proxy server to talk to external internet. To resolve this,…

  • WordPress Remove Admin Bar

      Admin bar is one of new features in WordPress 3.1. It’s automatically enabled for all logged-on user. To disable the admin bar in WordPress 3.1, append the following code into functions.php file, you can find function.php under the theme folder. remove_action( ‘init’, ‘wp_admin_bar_init’ );

  • WordPress 3.0 Cannot Export

    WordPress 3.0 is finally released with some great new features. I just upgraded my site to 3.0 today. The upgrade was smooth, however, I find that export doesn’t work any more. When I try to push export button to download posts xml file locally, I get following error. Warning: Illegal offset type in isset or…

  • WordPress 3.0 Beta 2 Released

    WordPress team has announced WordPress 3.0 beta 2 is shipped. It seems that release candidate will be coming very soon. Things to test in 3.0 beta 2 Revised menu user interface Changes to the WordPress exporter and importer to make it more flexible WordPress 3.0 changes Check out my previous post WordPress 3.0 Features. I…

  • WordPress Keyword Description

    In most of WordPress themes, there is not meta description and meta keywords handle. This result every page of site has a empty description and keyword in page header, which is not good from search engine’s perspective. This can be workaround by installing plug All in One SEO. But for those who concern plugin will…

  • WordPress 3.0 Features

    WordPress 3.0 has a few great new features and improvement. Ability to Choose Username When Installing WordPress In previous version WordPress, default username for Admin is hard coded as admin. In WordPress 3.0, this secure hole is fixed, default user name can be customized when you install WordPress.

  • Forget WordPress Admin Password

    After setup local WordPress environment, WordPress will generate a password for admin logon. The password is so strong that forget the password can easily happen. The easiest way to get admin password back is reset it again in database. Here is the SQL command that will do it: UPDATE ‘wp_users’ SET ‘user_pass’ = MD5(‘PASSWORD‘) WHERE…

  • Install Local WordPress Environment on Windows

    WordPress is one of most popular blog applications. This application is very easy to use however setup a local environment for theme or plugin development on windows system is not that easy for bloggers. In this post, I will walk thru you how to setup local WordPress environment using Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 with…