Tag: wordpress

First impressions of WordPress 4.3

As I type this into the text editor in WordPress 4.3, I’m wondering how to make a list of item included in the release. Menus in the customize menu – “Create your menu, update it, and assign it, all while…

How to hide the message Comments are disabled in WordPress

If you build a site in WordPress and use pages, and then disable comments, you may see the message ‘Comments are disabled’ on every page or post with disabled comments. This is somewhat annoying and you might consider updating your…

How to Turn Off Comments for all pages in WordPress

If you’re building your website in WordPress, you might want to consider turning off the comments for all your pages – if you have a blog, it’s OK to allow comments on posts, but pages tend to be YOUR CONTENT, and most often comments are not welcomed on pages.

Moving from a dev/test WordPress install to a live environment

Migrating from one domain to another – or test to live environment – is fraught with problems in WordPress – info on how to get it done RELATIVELY easily.

WordPress comment spam – clearing out the stuff..

Last updated on September 9th, 2013 at 01:54 pmFirstly – this “fix” will not work half as well if you did NOT install Askimet and configure it properly – you *did* do that – right? If not – do go…

Limiting spam comments on posts or images (wordpress attachments)

Last updated on June 25th, 2014 at 01:47 pmSpammers seem to have found a way of sending spam comments to your wordpress images – and there doesn’t appear (as yet) to be a way to default the options on attachments…

When your web host doesn’t allow your wordpress to upload plugins and themes etc…

Last updated on May 20th, 2011 at 02:56 pmThere are some webserver setups (ours included) that do NOT allow the webserver to access files on your website – this stops wordpress from updating plugins, uploading themes etc – and it…

Question: When is a wordpress blog, not a wordpress blog?

Answer: when it’s a boat anchor! WordPress with a ton of plugins can often become a bit of a slouch – even on snappy webservers… and I’ve seen it become downright boat-anchor on slower or heavily laden servers… so the…