By default when after adding images to post in wordpress, 3 copies of the same images (small, medium and large) will be created automatically by WordPress. Those images will be used for thumbnail if theme supports that feature. If you are not going to use those images, then is waste of resources Disk Space Backup [...]
I started using wordpress at www.HappySchoolsBlog.com since October 2007 and since then I have tried several plugins. In last 3 years, I never had courage to cleanup the wordpress database. Today, I decided to delete (drop) tables in wordpress MySQL database that were unused or from deactivated plugins. Total Number of Tables Before Cleanup – [...]
There are many scripts available to create Tabbed Contents in wordpress. Some of them are DomTab, Tabifier and idTabs, Usually, tabbed contents are used in the sidebar to display popular posts, recent comments, tags, categories or archives. I recently came across another tool to create tabbed contents in WordPress using Yahoo Developers Network Tabview. After [...]
Follow the simple steps to change the WordPress Theme ny editing MySql Tables(WordPress database). You might run into situations when you have access to only backend. Change WordPress Theme Logn into MySQL Database for your site (Example : msql.example.com) Open the Database for your site ( DB_example) Open the Table wp_options Open Browse Tab Find [...]
Default wordpress excerpt length is 55 words. It’s easy to change the default excerpt length in wordpress in less than 2 minutes to desired length. I made changes to wordpress 2.9.2 code. Login into Directory where wordpress is installed Open the file Directory > wp-includes > formatting,php Search for 55 or $excerpt_length = apply_filters(‘excerpt_length’, 55); [...]
If you are planning to upgrade wordpress to latest release, do the following Read Worpdress Support forums to see any upgrade problems Backup Entire Database Check for Minimum Requirements ( MySQL, PHP) Check if all installed plugins supports the latest version of wordpress. Deactivate all the plugins Know how to revert to previous wordpress version, [...]
Looks like 2.8.6 to 2.9 WordPress upgrade is is failing for many folks. Just after the upgrade the screen of death (blank screen) is displayed with just wordpress logo This is what happened Upgraded WordPress from 2.8.6 to 2.9 from within wordpress Refreshed the wp-admin page Following screen was displayed Database Upgrade Required WordPress has [...]
If you run into Password Recovery Error with WordPress Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid, do the following To correct this, fire up phpmyadmin ( it will be usually mysql.yoursite.com) in Cpanel, click on the database name, Select “wp_users” Table Click on Brose Icon ( first icon) Click on the Row to [...]
