Tag: php
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How's your wp-config.php file?
WordPress relies on wp-config.php file to connect to database. Here, there are some basic settings about our WordPress installation like database-related information and language interface. When we upgrade our WordPress installation to new release, we can have our WordPress blog running without problem, even without touching wp-config.php file. But, in some release, there are some…
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'cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode' error on WP-DownloadManager
I am currently working on a WordPress-powered site. One of its features is a download section. After comparing some WordPress plugins, I decided to use Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan‘s WP-DownloadManager. When I use that plugin on WordPress 2.5.1, I got an error. It’s something like this: Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /home/…/wp-downloadmanager.php on…
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Pimp your WordPress 2.5 Dashboard
One of the gret improvements offered by WordPress 2.5 is on the dashboard interface. Collaborating with Happy Cog studio, WordPress offers some great improvements. One of them is about managable widgets for dashboard. It means, we can manage what kind of ‘widgets’ should be presented on the dashboard.
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Modifying WordPress custom database error connection page
Reading what Derek Punsalan mentioned about custom error database connection page, his updated tutorial is very interesting. I mean, we (actually) can modify that error page into something better. In short, to have a custom page for database connection error page, just create a file called db-error.php and put it under your /wp-content/ directory. That’s…
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WordPress 2.3.3: Urgent security release
There is a small but urgent security release for WordPress 2.3.2. If you use XML-RPC gateway for your WordPress, upgrade now. What’s the issue?
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SimplePie Updates
Last week, Geoffrey Sneddon of SimplePie planned to leave his role developing SimplePie. As a reminder, SimplePie is a code library (written in PHP) that can be use to do creative things using RSS and Atom feeds.
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Sanitizing HTML tags in WordPress MU
If you run a Wordpress MU installation, you probably notice that there are some HTML tags that are stripped (removed after an entry was posted). For example, when you upload a picture, you want to add style=”float: right; margin: 10px;” so that you get a better entry formatting.
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WordPress 2.2.1
WordPress released its latest package yesterday. It is recommended to upgrade your WordPress installation to the latest release. Since 2.2 was released a month ago, the WordPress community has been improving fit-and-finish by identifying and fixing those little bugs that can be so annoying and by fine-tuning some small details. The result is a nicely…
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Handling error when WordPress plugin functions are not available
If we share our theme (someone uses our theme), and his/her WordPress installation does not have Gravatar plugin installed, the theme might be broken. There will be an error. Single page (where the gravatar/comment should appear) will stop loading. Why? Because there is a Gravatar plugin tag/function, but the plugin is not available.
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Modify WordPress MU suspended/archived page
How to change the message for the archived, or deactivated page in WordPress MU?