WordPress Admin General Setting page

However most custom themes have been pre-configured and require manual modifications. Open your HTML/PHP editor and search your WordPress theme files for this strings:

<?php the_time('F-j-Y') ?> *those in green may be different on your themes.

Change the green codes by referring to this table:

Table from WordPress.Org Codex: Formatting Date and Time

Example coding:

Example on how to apply the codes to your WordPress themes.

Actually I have not tried every codes I’ve written here so I am very sorry if you have problems applying them.

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WordPress

WordPress is a blog script and a personal publishing tool with focus on aesthetics and featuring cross-blog tool, password protected posts, importing, typographical niceties, multiple authors, bookmarklets. WordPress has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations. WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; multiple author capability; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters that provide for proper formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes) are also included. WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or article. Finally, WordPress has a rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install.

Homepage: http://www.wordpress.org/

b2evolution

b2evolution is a blog script featuring multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories, skins, search function, multiple languages, search engines friendly URLs. b2evolution is a multi-lingual, multi-user, multi-blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is available without charge. François Planque forked b2evolution from version 0.6.1 of b2\cafelog in 2003. Another popular fork of b2 is WordPress. b2evolution is focused on ease of installation and feature richness. It can easily be installed on almost any LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) host in a matter of minutes. With the latest release, no configuration file editing is necessary, as all configuration is handled through the installer or administrative back-end. One of the main differentiating features of b2evolution is its ability to manage multiple blogs under a single installation.

Homepage: http://www.b2evolution.net/

Joomla!

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. Joomla! is a free open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a Model–view–controller (MVC) Web Application Development framework. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. Joomla is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo. It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database. There are over 3,500 extensions for Joomla! available via the Extensions Directory.

Homepage: http://www.joomla.org/

Drupal

Drupal is an advanced portal with collaborative book, search engines friendly URLs, online help, roles, full content search, site watching, threaded comments, version control, blogging, news aggregator. Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. It is used as a “back end” system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites. The standard release of Drupal, known as “Drupal core”, contains basic features common to most CMSs. These include the ability to register and maintain individual user accounts, administration menus, RSS-feeds, customizable layout, flexible account privileges, logging, a blogging system, an Internet forum, and options to create a classic “brochureware” website or an interactive community website. Drupal was also designed to allow new features and custom behavior to be added by third parties. For this reason, Drupal is sometimes described as a “Content Management Framework”. Although Drupal offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration. Drupal can run on any computing platform that supports a web server capable of running PHP (version 4.3.5+), including Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, and nginx and a database, such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, to store content and settings.

Homepage: http://www.drupal.org/

phpWebsite

phpWebSite is a very powerful Content Management System with document manager, announcements, menu manager, photo album, block maker, FAQ, web pages maker, polls, information categorizer, calendar, link manager, form generator.

Homepage: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/

phpBB

phpBB is a widely-popular open-source bulletin-board package, works well, simple user interface and admin panel, clean look, scales well, and can be customized. phpBB is a popular Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language. The name “phpBB” is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board. Available under the GNU General Public License, phpBB is free software.

Homepage: http://www.phpbb.com/

Simple Machines Forum

SMF (Simple Machines Forum) Elegant. Effective. Powerful. Free. SMF is all of the above. SMF is a next-generation community software package and is jam-packed with features, while at the same time having a minimal impact on resources. SMF is a freeware Internet forum application. The software is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database backend, although multi-database support is being developed for version 2.0. SMF is developed by the Simple Machines development team.

Homepage: http://www.simplemachines.org/

Coppermine

Coppermine is an Image Gallery system featuring categories and albums, thumbnails and intermediate size pics, search feature, new and random pictures, user management (private galleries, groups), user comments, e-cards feature, slideshow viewer. It requires PHP, MySQL, and ImageMagick or the GD Graphics Library, and works with most web server software such as Apache. Coppermine Photo Gallery has interfaces with many popular software packages, including e107, Invision Power Board, Joomla!, Mambo, phpBB, PostNuke, PunBB, Simple Machines Forum, vBulletin, Woltlab Burning Board, and YaBB SE.

Homepage: http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/

yoursite.com/category/blogging/blogging-wordpress/

instead of

yoursite.com/category/blogging/wordpress/

The reason for this is because the initial slug was already in the WordPress database and converting any category to a sub-category will be as same as creating a new category. The database will not overwrite the existing slug but will create a new one. Similar problem will occur if you try to rename a category to a name you had deleted previously. Browsing in the WordPress Support Forum, I still can’t find any solution for this therefore I’ve decided to try on my own. Thank God I manage to find a solution but still required quite a messy job if you are not familiar with the database system of your hosting server.

Here’s what I did to fix all the category slugs:

1. Login to your hosting server account.
2. Open the MyPhpAdmin (or phpMyAdmin or anything with similar function).
3. When the list of tables had been listed, look out for the wp_terms table. (note that I’m using the standard wp_ table prefix).
4. Delete the terms and slugs that are not in use. Make sure you check the ID for every Posts Categories and Link Categories because everything are in the same table. To ease the job, I just clear or delete the table database. Just be careful not to delete all other table database. Just clear the wp_terms table database. Note that If you delete everything in the table, you have to know which ID represent your Posts Categories and which are for Link Categories because you’ll have to rebuild them again.
5. Also edit the wp_terms_taxonomy which contains the hierarchical data of your categories. If you don’t edit this table, some new categories might be automatically become sub-categories based on previous data. My version allow me to delete all post categories and tags data in this table because they will be generated again when creating new category in the WordPress admin page. Just don’t delete the link_category term or clear everything in this table because this will bring hell to you. I did this mistake earlier and I won’t help if you did the same mistake.
6. After clearing the database, all the categories in you blog will be removed. Just go to the Categories section and create a new category. Just start all over again. This time make sure you plan every categories nicely to avoid any mistake. If you did make a mistake. Just repeat the steps mentioned above.

The method worked fine for me and I know there are many people are having the same problem. Please give me your feedback for this.

1. The XML Parsing Error for the feeds, and
2. The category menu is not working where no categories were listed.

For the RSS Feed problems, the solution is to remove any blank lines outside of <?…..?> tags. “Any” in this case does not really means “any” because some spaces are required as the theme’s formatting. When using the previous theme, I manage to fix this problem by browsing the source codes and remove all blank lines in wp-rss2.php, wp-atom.php, wp-config.php, and theme’s functions.php as suggested by feedvalidator.org. However, for the GrungeMag theme, this method could not fix the problem because there were more blank lines that what I can find. The solution is by using a plugin called Fix Rss Feed that will scan all files in your WordPress folder and automatically remove all blank lines that might cause the problem. Unfortunately you’ll have to CHMOD your files to 777 in order to allow the plugin to fix the problem. Quite a lot of job to CHMOD the file to 777 and then back to their original permission setting.

For the category meny problem, I’ve already knew that there must be something in the source code that have to be fixed to make it work. Said to myself “The main menu is working fine but why not the category menu?“. I’ve analysed the source codes several times and made some try-and-error because I’m not really good with PHP coding. After looking at some forum posts, I thought this might be because the theme used wp_list_cats() tag which is now being replaced with wp_list_categories() tag. Actually for this theme both tags are working but both will require different arguments to function properly for the menu category. The real problem was in the argument.

Initial argument setting for the code:

<!--Begin Categories Navigation Bar-->
<div id="categories">
<ul class="nav superfish"><?php wp_list_cats("sort_column=name&optioncount=0&depth=2&exclude=$artsee_exclude_cat;"); ?></ul>
</div>
<!--End category navigation-->

Working argument setting for the code:

<!--Begin Categories Navigation Bar-->
<div id="categories">
<ul class="nav superfish"><?php wp_list_cats("sort_column=name&optioncount=0&depth=2;"); ?></ul>
</div>
<!--End category navigation-->

The exclude=xxxx argument is used in the menu category and working fine but I don’t know why it is not working in for the category menu. Maybe I can tell later after my knowledge about PHP is getting better or if any of you know why, please share it in the comment box. Hope this information is helpful.

OK back to the main topic, since using WordPress I’ve been having a lot of bot generated spam comments. These are spams with nothing you can understand except the included links. There are at least 2 of them everyday eventhough this blog is still not reached a month old. Maybe this is why Akismet is so important to WordPress blogs. I had never received of these bot generated spams in my Blogger blogs and I wonder why. Is it because of Google’s or Blogger’s protection system? or because we don’t have to use capcha to write comments in WordPress blogs? At first I’m very satisfied with Akismet spam protection but from time to time there are more spam comments that can get through the Akismet filter. A friend suggested the Math Comment Spam Protection and I am just trying to use it. Still not sure if it will satisfy my need but I will try to update later.

Try this:

1. Go to the Module Manager
2. Edit the mod_login module
3. In the Module Parameters section, select No for Encrypt Login Form option.

mod_login

I hope this would help. If you’re still experiencing the problem, check out Joomla Forum because it probably not because of the secure connection capability of your server.

If the problem is settled after trying my suggestion, don’t try to change your site setting to use SSL in the Global Configuration>Server>Force SSL. With force SSL, your site will be using https and you might not be able to login to administration page to remove the setting if your server does not offer SSL. The only way to revert back is by editing the configuration.php file.

Non-SEO friendly URL: http://www.ridhuan.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=3&Itemid=4

SEO friendly version: http://www.ridhuan.com/categoryname/articlename

Finally I’ve found why Joomla 1.5.9 SEO Friendly URL doesn’t work. It is in the .htaccess file.

Replace:

RewriteRule (.*) index.php

in .htaccess file with

RewriteRule (.*) /index.php

and the SEO friendly URL should work fine. You must already turn on the Apache mod_rewrite. I’m not sure if this solution can be applied for other version than Joomla 1.5.9 as I’m using. I’m also using the latest MySQL, PHP, and Apache version therefore if the solution does not work for you, try check out you version and contact you hosting server.

I’m still having a problem with the site’s login module. Users cannot login to the site using the login form but new users can register without any problem. Unless this problem has been settled, I just can’t start to write any good article to the site. Maybe because of my nature where everything has to work fine before I can start doing my job. I’ve searched for the solution in the Joomla forum and still waiting for some solution.