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Control WordPress 3.X.X Admin Bar Options for Subscribers
WordPress admin bar contains many interesting and convenient links for admins and editors. But it is totally useless, redundant and confusing for regular users. Here is how to hide it for subscribers while viewing the site. Open your theme functions.php file and add these lines at the very end: if(current_user_can(‘subscriber’)) add_filter( ‘show_admin_bar’, […]
IIS
ERROR: Unreadable CAPTCHA cookie – RESOLVED!
RESOLVED! One of the test WordPress instances had an impossible, unpleasant and not covered on Google error message. When user is trying to register, the CAPTCHA code is displayed properly and validation is correct, but when the button Register is press, the page would display this: ERROR: Unreadable CAPTCHA cookie […]
PHP
Integrating bbPress Forum with WordPress Theme
Problem When I was preparing to roll out bbPress forum as a part of WordPress site, I discovered that process of bbPress user and login integration has a very good coverage on the Internet. This article deals with integrating bbPress forum “look and feel” with WordPress. How to make bbPress forum […]
ASP.NET
Move WordPress to a new Windows Server 2012 on Amazon AWS
This article is about moving your Windows-based WordPress and other sites (some ASP, some ASP.NET) from older to a newer instance using AMAZON cloud server instances. Procedures described here do not involve any installation. Just copy files and edit CONFIG files. We do not manipulate Registry as well (except to change […]
PHP
Include HTML from HTML and PHP
Just before I forget, this article is about 2 great ways to load (include) HTML file from another HTML or from PHP. Among other things I will show how to load HTLM file from WordPress text widget. Problem – Why would you need to load an HTML text file in WordPress? Say, […]
PHP
XML Parsing Error in Firefox; Cannot Display This Feed in IE
This article describes, how to fix RSS Feed error messages in WordPress. In Firefox the error is “XML Parsing Error”. In IE you see “Internet Explorer cannot display this feed”. Symptoms When you click on RRS link in WordPress (or bbPress), you are getting this error message (see images […]
PHP
Block Remote Comments on a WordPress site
How to block remote comments on a WordPress site? How indeed? Here is a question for all of you – WordPress masters out there. Right now I am a bit puzzled. Problem – Comments without Visits I am noticing that people are posting a spam comments in a very tricky way. […]
PHP
How to limit a WordPress plugin to just one page?
How to limit a plugin to just one page, or a few pages? How to load a plugin only where you need it? I encountered a problem, where plugin Contact Form 7, if activated, would slow down entire WordPress site to a crawl. Contact Form 7 is great, and I […]
Hardware
Add User Register Date Column in WordPress 3.X and 4.X
This solution was last tested on WordPress 4.1.1 in March 2015. This solution was tested on WordPress 3.1 running on IIS7 and IIS 7.5. It will work on WordPress 3.1.1, on 3.2.1, and on 3.5.1. This solution was just tested on WordPress 3.8.1 and works very well. This […]
IIS
How to Install WordPress 4.X on Windows 10 and IIS 7.5
This article is written for those who need to test/evaluate features of new WordPress release on a local machine before rolling it out to all the serves. This article describes running PHP on IIS 7.5 through FastCGI. For best results, reader is required to be able to start and stop […]