Allow Me To Solve Your Biggest WordPress Problem
[tag-tec]WordPress[/tag-tec] is awesome blog platform but as with any script there are many opportunities for things to go wrong. Now add to the mix multitude of plugins that extend functionality and enhance our blogging experience and we are looking at a real issue.
And let’s not forget about the themes available for free download… Can you see what I’m getting to?
I have decided to to give back to community from which I have already benefited so much. I think it will be only fair to at least in some form give back and since technical knowledge is my favorite area, I would like to make an offer…
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Allow Me To Solve Your Biggest WordPress Problem
Quite honestly I don’t know what exactly will come out from this offer but just in case I would like to lay some ground rules. Obviously this offer will not include me going to your blog and fixing your problem.
- Instead – do you have an issue that is been bugging you for a while and unable to find solution to it?
- Do you have a question related to doing something specific with your blog and need someone to outline in details how to get it done?
- Any other issues I can provide a solution to in form of HOWTO guide shared on this blog …
If your problem within my knowledge – I will post a solution!
Please post your questions via comments and I’ll do my best to provide answers in form of new article dedicated to solving issues that might surface from comments below. One thing you might want to do is subscribe to my feed if you asked a question. This way you will not miss solution to your problem.
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Alex Sysoef is an IT Consultant, Internet Marketer and ProBlogger who shares his passion and knowledge of WordPress, SEO, Social Media and traffic strategies on his blog WordPress Howto Spotter. Connect on Twitter or Facebook
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Allow Me To Solve Your Biggest WordPress Problem…
WordPress is awesome blog platform but as with any script there are many opportunities for things to go wrong.
I have decided to to give back to community from which I have already benefited so much. I think it will be only fair to at least in some fo…
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Allow Me To Solve Your Biggest WordPress Problem…
I have decided to to give back to community from which I have already benefited so much. I think it will be only fair to at least in some form give back and since technical knowledge is my favorite area, I would like to make an offer…
* Allow Me T…
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[...] Alex says, “WordPress is awesome blog platform but as with any script there are many opportunities for things to go wrong. Now add to the mix multitude of plugins that extend functionality and enhance our blogging experience and we are looking at a real issue”. Allow Me To Solve Your Biggest WordPress Problem… [...]
My 2 biggest WordPress annoyances are:
1. Trying to get Javascript based ads and widgets to behave right in sidebars, headers and footers. Technically these are more CSS issues than WordPress but it’s still a pain.
2. Trying to get the RSS feed to always be a full feed. There seem to be dozens of ways to make it a partial feed, even by accident, but none to force it to always be a full feed.
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I want to ask a couple of this is there a really good way to create a membership blog as we want to be a membership site which up to 3 types of members trial, free and paid.
These will be in support of the online radio network we are building which will be up to 10-20 channels of awesome music split by genre. To this want to make our site a blog that offers the three types of membership.
What is the best solution, in the meantime take a listen too HotSpot Radio http://www.hotspotradio.com
Paul
I am having a hard time adding a logo to the header of my blog. I can add the logo without the title text but it does not display correctly. I can add the logo and everything integrates perfectly but the title text remains over the top of the logo. I would like to find a way to add the log seamlessly into the header in the most SEO friendly and seamless manner possible.
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Alex,
Fantastic offer of giving back to the community.
I don’t know if anyone has started the ball rolling but if not, I’ll be the first.
My question today is actually multi-part. On a blog that covers several subjects, ie: travel/health/financial etc. how and where do you place the RSS feeds from a variety of sources on the different subject pages so the relevant feed shows up on the correct page?
Also, can you make posts on the same blog to different pages? and how?
I am using WordPress.org
Thank you for your help, I follow your stuff religiously.
Best,
Abi
I have a problem which is sending me around in circles. I wanted to change the permalinks (which I stupidly hadn’t done before I started) but I didn’t want to break all of the links on the sites.
I tried the two main plug-ins to allow for 301 redirects and neither worked – I think it is because I am on a Windows server.
Is there a way to change them, and put redirects in for the posts I have currently created, or do I have to sigh and realise I have rubbish links or worse, break my site and lose all of the inbound links I do have.
If you could help me with this, I would be eternally grateful!
Thanks for the questions guys! I’ll see what I can do about answers that require more extensive answers but some require immediate response and easy to solve so here they are…
@Franks C – if you are on a WordPress 2.0+ it is by default cuts off your feed at “more” tag. You need a plugin to force full text RSS feed. I describe it here:
http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/wordpress/jack-london-your-blog-rss-feed-and-wordpress
@Paul – yes, you can do that with WP. Have a look at this plugin: http://gootix.com/
@Mark, this will require more extensive answer … Stay tuned.
@Abi, I need a bit more info on this one and it will require more extensive answer if at all possible.
@Nancy – sorry, I don’t work with Windows servers and my expertise is useless here. Windows bxes don’t support .htaccess and that is where you run into issue. Most plugins will work on modifying that file … another reason I don’t like “Windblows” servers
sorry for the pun …
Alex
Alex,
I’ll try to explain a little better.
Both questions are related. Basically, all posts typically go to the index page. My question is can I make posts to show up on different pages so the article is actually relative to the page it is on. As on my blog which I am just starting I have one page for travel and a different one for cigars. 2nd question is basically same as first but can I place different RSS feeds on different pages, again, different subject matter and if I ca, how?
Thanks again,
Abi
Abi,
OK, now I understand your idea …
Answer is simple and complex at same time – anything is possible …. or almost but it will require some coding knowledge on your part to present articles in relevant pages and plugins that go with it. In nut-shell you will create a new page for each category and use custom PHP code on it to pull posts from specific category.
Obviously front page will need to be modified as well to exclude those posts. On RSS for each page – you best bet is a tool provided by Jack Humphrey (not free) that allows you to present different RSS feeds based on keywords:
http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/reviews/big-free-plugin-for-wordpress-bloggers-released/
I think multiple pages dedicated to subject might be a good HOWTO in making
Alex
Alex,
Thanks once again for all your help. Just found a book on PHP and I’ll start reading. I have also learned a lot from other peoples questions of course.
Keep it up.
Best,
Abi
You are welcome Abi.
This post seem to generate interest. I’ll see what I can do to address some of the questions in form of howto soon and perhaps will make another run at this format.
Alex
Here’s something that might help Nancy: WordPress Hacks for IIS
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Hi,
I am new with wordpress. Just setup my first blog at http://www.fredchanblog.com. I experienced some problem with permalinks. Initially I set the permalinks to show dates, directories, name (ie. change it from basic). The comments link dissappear (ie can’t make comments). I thought it was my wordpress installation problem as I changes some scripts in the theme directory.
The problem persist even after I re-installed wordpress. Then I found in google search a forum stating that by changing the permalink from basic to other, the comments doesn’t work with some theme. I am using silver-lotus theme.
Any idea which php script that I should amend to allow me to change the permalink from basic to others?
Hope you can help.
Regards.
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A very simple query. I want to get the related posts below each post. I have activated the WP23 Related Posts and configured it. But I am not getting the related posts on this blog – Instant Food
Rangoo
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Rangoo,
You have to replace code as I explain in upgrade video. Reason it doesn’t work right now is because your single.php file has code to use UTW and it needs to be replaced with code to WP23 as I advise in upgrade video.
Please contact me via normal support means if you need further help wit hthis one.
Alex
Sometimes I come across some really good PHP scripts. I’ve tried using customizable widget plugins that allow you to use your own PHP code, but I lack the coding experience to get them to work. There must be an easier way.
Also, I can’t get any of the Adhesive or Sticky Post plugins to work with my Super Adsense theme.
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@Fred Chang – interesting question and I will research it …
@Michael – PHP-Exec plugin now does that. Starting with new version he released couple weeks ago – you can insert php code into widgets. On your theme – contact Gobala Krishnan who is the author of the theme and let him know. He is great guy who I personally worked with on several occasions and since he is the author – he will be most qualified to help you with it.
Also on side note: looks like you are doing keyword stuffing (whole bunch of em at the top of your blog when I visit it) – I would advise against it. It will only hurt your blog.
@Mark – it is worth looking into. Link exchange should be integral part of any blog and there should be plugin that allows that. Will investigate.
Alex
Dear Alex,
I am very new in blogging and wordpress, so I hope you don’t mind if I ask a few more questions.
My first question that I sent you was on the permalinks.
Below are a few more:
1. I have installed a pluggin from Alex King to put smiley in my posting and comments. I activated them but I can only get the “character” sich as ;lol; and not the picture in my posting. Although the smiley pictures appear a the bottom of the form.
2. I sign up with ShareIT and installed the pluggin. I managed to paste the code. However the ShareIT logo appear right in the middle of the bottom half of the page. How do I change the alignment or position of the logo just like in your blog?
3. Also on ShareIT logo, I selected a few services and when I try clicking the logo in my site, the windows appear is overlapped by my right sidebar (ie. half the shareit window can’t be seen). If I can place the shareit logo to the left of the page, the shareit windows might not be obstructed. Any suggestion?
4. I managed to add subcribe to my feed link with feedburner but I can’t get the feed for my comments. Maybe its because my site, http://www.fredchanblog.com is only 2 days old and there is no comment available that feedburner link generator for comment feed cannot create the link. Do I have to enter my own comment first before trying with feedburner again? Or is it due to my permalinks problem.
Hope you can help.
Thanks.
Fred Chan
Miracle Kids and WordPress
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Fred,
Here are some quick solutions for you:
1. In your blog Admin panel go to Opetions->Write and place check mark next to option “Convert emoticons like
and 
to graphics on display” and save. This will convert your smiles code into images.
2. and 3. Which version of ShareThis are you using? His latest release or the old one?
4. In order for feedburner to generate feed for comments – you have to have them first. So yes, make one comment on your blog and then try it.
On permalinks: what you describe points to possible problem with theme. First try to go Admin->Options->Permalinks and click Update Permalink Structure. This should fix any issues with permalinks and if doesn’t I recommend looking into another theme.
Dear Alex,
Thanks for you advise.
Managed to change permalinks but as my earlier posts were with the basic permalinks, I get error message when I click comment. I think I can rectify that by reposting them after I change the permalinks since I just started a few posting.
I was using shareit ver 2.0. Alex King just posted an upgraded shareit classic that allow user to position the logo. I will try that.
Thanks again.
Fred Chan
Miracle Kids and WordPress
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Can I just say thank you to both Alex and Frank C for taking the time to try and help me with my permalink nightmare…
Still haven’t got it fixed but I really appreciate the response.
Nancy
@Fred – yes, since your blog is so new, I would experiment first and make sure everything works the way you want it to before going forward with too many posts …
@Nancy – sorry I’m not much of help for you. Windows based hosting is just something I never even considered and as result I have no experience with it. While I don’t know your situation Nancy – your blog looks great and provides very interesting info. I personally would migrate to Linux hosting in this case because permalinks are just SO important to WordPress SEO …
I know quite a few plugins that written specifically for Apache running on Linux and the frustration will only mount on your part as you continue to use WP on current platform …
Alex