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How to make Permalinks work on wordpress in my windows hosting plan?

Mark — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:17:53 GMT

Basically, Wordpress Permalink works with our servers' default settings, provided that the /index.php/ is in the Permalink structure.

If you would like more customizations on Permalinks on Windows environment, please follow the below steps:

Create a page named wp-404.php and place it in within the Wordpress installation root folderThe content of wp-404.php is shown below:
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<?
$qs = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
$pos = strrpos($qs, '://');
$pos = strpos($qs, '/', $pos + 4);
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = substr($qs, $pos);
$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
include('index.php');
?>
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Set the 404 custom error page for the wordpress site to pointto wp-404.php via hosting control panel->site admin->set customerror
Set your own custom Permalinks structure in the Wordpress admin section

P.S. By applying this method, the Wordpress site cannot setup another custom error pages for 404 status code, so it is suggested to have Wordpress installed on a domain/sudomain. Install on a subfolder/virtual directory may not work.

Setting up SMTP Authentication in WordPress

Mark — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:56:07 GMT

To enable SMTP authentication, you need to install Wordpress plugin "Cimy Swift SMTP". If your wordpress is deployed with our Control Panel "PHP free plugin" function, "Cimy Swift SMTP" is already deployed.

There is only one step:

First login to admin page of your wordpress (http://yourDomain/wp-admin). In admin page -> setting -> Cimy Swift SMTP, you will see the form same as below. Enter “From Address” and other SMTP information.

P.S. Ensure the inputted information is under the criteria stated in this article.

Why can't I see my Wordpress posts? All I see is Sorry, no posts match your criteria?

Mark — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:04:41 GMT

Clearing your browser cache and cookies may resolve this problem. If the issue cannot be resolved by clearing cache/cookie, please check your search.php and index.php template files for errors.

What is the easiest way to install youTube videos to your wordpress blog?

Mark — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:03:42 GMT

If you would like to add youtube.com videos to your WordPress blog there are a few plugins you can install, but the easiest way is following the steps below:

1) Disable the visual rich editor by unchecking that box under Users>Your Profile.

2) Paste the following text into your post, changing the link to the video you want to use:

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ValVQNo6hPE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed>

How to use the same MySQL database for more than one WordPress installation?

Mark — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:01:26 GMT

Please follow the steps below:

1. Please open wp-config.php of the new installation

2. Modify the value of the parameter "$table_prefix" to an unique value that do not exist in your current database.

How to move WordPress within your sites?

Mark — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:53:06 GMT

There are three cases and the steps are listed below:

1. URL remain same and just the folder moved

- Just simply move the wordpress folder to new one

2. Domain Name changed, but path not changed

- Please login to your blog.

- Go to the Administration > Settings > General panel.

- In the box for WordPress address (URI): change the address to the new location of your main WordPress core files.

- In the box for Blog address (URI): change the address to the new location, which should match the WordPress address (URI).

(Do not try to open/view your blog now!)

- Delete the folder wp-content/cache.(WordPress 2.0 only)

- Move your WordPress core files to the new location. This includes the files found within the original directory, such as http://example.com/wordpress, and all

the sub-directories, to the new location.

3. Domain Name and path both changed

- If you are using Permalinks, go to the Administration > Settings > Permalinks panel and update your Permalink structure to your .htaccess file, which should be in the same directory as the main index.php file.

- If you have problems with missing images that you've uploaded, you need to change the path to the images on every post directly on your SQL database.

How to make foreign language wordpress display properly in utf8?

Mark — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:45:42 GMT

1. Please login "WordPress" administration section and goto the Reading section under "Setting".

2. Please modify the "Encoding for pages and feeds" to reflect the change.

3. If default MySQL client does not use UTF-8 encoding, please also modify the wp-include/wp-db.php to include this line, $this->query("SET NAMES UTF8");

How to fix "admin dashboard is a white Blank page after upgrade wordpress"?

Mark — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:08:48 GMT

Generally, the issue can be solved by the steps belows.

1. Please locate the and edit the file wp-cache-phase2.php file in your favourite text editor(the file normally reside in "<domain>/wp-content/plugins/wp-cache"(e.g. : domain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase2.php)

2. Locate the wp_cache_ob_end function

3. Then inside that function find the line with: ob_end_clean(); (it should be line 219 or about)

4. Finally replace that line with: ob_end_flush();

How do I solve the Headers already sent warning problem?

Mark — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:27:26 GMT

It is usually because there are spaces, new lines, or other garbage before an opening <?php tag or after a closing ?> tag, typically in wp-config.php.