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The databases connection information is normally stored in wp-config.php.
See http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Editing_wp-config.php
The line you’re looking for has the format
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourpasswordhere’);
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: CMS Tree Page View] icons off in v 0.8.8This is still a problem in v 0.8.10
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Categories/SubcatagoriesWhat permalink structure are you using?
I’m not at all sure I understand your original “one post per category” strategy, and if you put %category% into your permalink structure, then yes, the links would change. WordPress seems to be pretty smart about this (I’ve moved categories from under News to under Archive and things keep working), but I don’t know anything about how it works under the covers.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Categories/Subcatagories680 posts? 680 categories to be consolidated to 30 categories? The information architecture sounds complicated, but tractable — and presumably you know the data and the outline structure of the new categories.
Here’s one proposal (TRY THIS ON A TEST SYSTEM FIRST!)
– Go to Post > Categories and delete all those “one post per category” categories.
– Go to Posts, and to a Quick Edit on each post in turn. Add *tags* that correspond to what you want the new categories for that post to be.
– Go to Tools > Import and install the Category/Tags converter
– Convert the Tags to Categories, add in the parent/child relationships for the categories, and do whatever cleanup needs to be done.Obviously it’s kind of tedious to go through all those posts. If there’s any way to programmatically decide which posts go in which larger categories (e.g. all the ones with eLearning in the title go in the eLearning category) it may be possible to update the database directly with a MySQL script. [Be sure to backup everything first!]
Let us know if either of those solutions appeals and how you end up solving the recategorization. Best wishes!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress and domains questionThe details depend on where you are hosting the websites and, perhaps more important, where you have registered the domains.
- You may have to transfer the domain registration for mypresentwebsite.com to the new registrar (where you registered mynewwebsite.com)
- Backup the site once you have it working as http://www.mynewwebsite.com and before you try to change its address
- You will need to go to Administration > Settings > General and change the WordPress address and Site Address to replace mynewwebsite.com with mypresentwebsite.com. [Do that just before you do the next step since the site will stop working when you do that. Be sure you have the site backed up before you do this.]
- You will need to use the tools in your domain registrar to point mypresentwebsite.com to your WordPress installation, just like you set up mynewwebsite.com to point to that installation (or talk to your hosting support people if they did that for you).
If while you’ve been building the site, you’ve used any absolute URLs, e.g. “http://www.mynewwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/myfile” for images or attachments, you should go back and fix those to relative, e.g. “/wp-content/uploads/2012/myfile” …
PS: I usually use http://www.mysite.xxx and test.mysite.xxx when running two separate installations so I don’t have to pay for more than one top level domain.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: widgits moved to bottom of pageI looked at the site with the Firefox extension Firebug, and got the sidebar to pop up to the right hand side by setting the following CSS rules:
#primary {
float: right;
width: 100px;
}It looks as if something changed (maybe inserting the gallery?) so that the width of your #container div (which includes the #content div) plus the width of the #primary div (which has the widgets) is greater than the width of the #main div — so the browser had to put #primary after #container instead of beside it.
You should be able to fix it by adjusting the CSS file. Best wishes!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: Mini Loops] Disable "continue reading" with custom excerpt?And why do I want to do this? I’m working with fairly short excerpts and the list is clearly a set of links for additional information.
The list has the title as a link to the post and the extra link at the end of the excerpt just seems redundant.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: Mini Loops] Disable "continue reading" with custom excerpt?Nevermind … It appears that text is coming from WordPress and/or the theme when the custom excerpt is rendered. There’s not an obvious CSS selector to hide it. I guess I’ll look for some other hook to turn it off.
Thanks again for the plugin!
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Flashy but useless "distraction free editor"Thanks! I hadn’t noticed the Google docs keyboard shortcuts (aka command calls?)
But Google docs still does have a full complement of editing buttons for those who prefer the GUI interface.
Everything old is new again (says she at age 62 when it’s a bit harder to cram more keyboard shortcuts into the brain than it was 20 years ago 🙂
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Flashy but useless "distraction free editor"Thanks! I posted a question over on wordpress.com to see if they agree this is a bug.
But I still think throwing away so many of the formatting buttons when switching to full screen is a bigger problem. If they’re going to be hidden while the focus is on the edit window, what’s the problem with having more of them there?
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Flashy but useless "distraction free editor"@jlkamens. Well, yes I understand the CTRL/+ CTRL/- CTRL/0 — I recommend the CTRL/+ to my mother at least once a month.
But all I can tell you is that I did use the ALT keys and saw the screen change as expected. I thought I’d check it again on WordPress.com == where there is the Help file that says the keys should work == but now I’m seeing just what you are: the ALT keys don’t seem to have any effect. I went back to the site (ww.wp.xz.cn) where I did the original test a couple of days ago — and now they aren’t working there either. And there haven’t been any changes on the site in awhile.
I haven’t taken the time to search the WordPress.com support forums (yes, I know they are different) or to do a fresh clean install of WordPress from ww.wp.xz.cn. Hmm…
So yes, @ipstenu, I found the ALT keys only because the help button/question mark. Thanks.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Flashy but useless "distraction free editor"@jikamens. No, I meant Alt and they work for me to, for instance, increase the number of words on a line. Firefox 9.0.1.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Pages and Menu extern linkI can only guess that your theme isn’t using the relatively new menu system and that no other changes you make in Administration > Appearance > Menus affect the main menu.
How are you setting up menus? If your theme doesn’t support them (you might let us know which theme you are using), then yes, modifying header.php (in a child theme) as suggested above is the way to go. You can either
o find where the header.php creates the menus and modify that code to add the links that you want, or
o add code to functions.php and header.php so that it will recognize the Navigation Menus you define in the Administration > Appearance > Menus panel.See http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Navigation_Menus for additional info.
If that’s not clear, to provide additional help we will need info on your site’s theme.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Pages and Menu extern linkI’m not entirely sure I understand the question, but if you’re using the built in Menu system (i.e. Administration > Appearance > Menus) there is a section that allows you to define a “custom menu” item. Simply enter the link to the external site (URL) and the text that you want to appear on the menu (Label), then click “Add to Menu”, drag the item to where it should appear and save the menu.
If that’s not the answer, please clarify. Thanks.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do i create a page that displays all of my posts?Not to worry – it’s not that complicated 🙂
Since your web site home page is a “Page”, at some point you went to Administration > Settings > Reading and told the system which WordPress Page you wanted as the home page of the web site.
To add a blog section, just create a new (empty) page that’ll be your “page of posts” and go back to Administration > Settings > Reading and choose that page as your “Posts Page”.
See http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page for more details.