» When A Deactivated Plugin Breaks Your Blog
June 6th, 2008 Sammy RussoI logged into my dashboard and saw a post in the WP feed about what to do if your blog goes down upon deactivating a plugin. I’ve had this happen to me a couple of times. The plugins I usually have this issue with are..
- Related Posts
- Breadcrumb Navigation
- Recent Posts
- My Category Order
When a plugin breaks my site.. if I know for certain I’m going to be reactivating the plugin anytime soon I go ahead and delete the PHP call for the plugin. If I think I’m going be using the plugin in question again I comment it out instead.
How to ID the Plugin Causing the Problem?
If you’re new to Wordpress and PHP, one thing the original article left out was how to ID the Faulty Plugin. The error message usually tells you. Lets say you deactivated al plugins and now your front page has this message..
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_breadcrumb() in /home/hostname/public_html/websitename/wp-content/themes/genesis-10/header.php on line 48
I have all the info I need to quickly find the bad code and either comment it out or delete it. I know that on line 48 in the header file of the Genesis theme i need to find the code get_breadcrumb(). Make sure to include the open and close php brackets that enclose the call.
» Wordpress Blog Security Measures
May 6th, 2008 Sammy RussoHere area a few tips and tricks to keeping your Wordpress blog or Wordpress CMS safe and secure. There are plenty of other tactics out there to take for increased security but these will get you started and should be considered best practice.
» Have Code Your Way in the Wordpress Editor
February 28th, 2008 Sammy RussoSo I was half way done building out a Wordpress CMS website in which I was using div class tags and inline styles inside the editor. What I soon realized is that Wordpress was removing all of code and breaking my pages. So I searched the Wordpress forums and sure enough I wasn’t alone.
» Schedule Wordpress Posts to Publish in the Future
February 9th, 2008 Sammy RussoA client emailed me the other day and asked.. “how do a schedule posts to publish in the future”? Hm, I thought… this is new.. never been asked this question before. So I went looking.. I knew Wordpress could do it.. I just never had a need for it so I was unaware.
» Upgrading Wordpress Using Dreamweaver
January 6th, 2008 Sammy RussoDreamweaver is my primary web development tool… I use it for writing code and for FTP. There are a lot of folks out there who swear up and down that Dreamweaver FTP is aweful. Personally I love it and I’ve never, ever had an issue. Sometimes I just need to things different.
Here it goes Read more…
» Moving Your Blog from Blogger to Wordpress
December 18th, 2007 Sammy RussoThe Blog Herold just published a great tutorial on moving your blog from Blogger over to Wordpress. The tutorial is very straight forward and easy to follow.
Why move over to Wordpress? This may be a biased opinion but Wordpress is far superior to Blogger for a number of reasons. It’s open source with a massive community, you can add almost any functionality you want with just a few clicks and skinning or theming a Wordpress blog is much easier as well.
I started blogging with Blogger. At first I thought it was an outstanding platform until a friend turned me onto Wordpress. As soon as I saw a fraction of what it could do I moved my blog over to Wordpress and I’ve never looked back.
» Short Display Names
September 23rd, 2007 Sammy RussoI’m currently working on a rebuild project. We’re rebuilding a static HTML website into a Wordpress CMS and ran into an issue of trying to optimize the page but keep the page display names short and sweet.
