So I have been using the Divi Template from Elegant Themes and really have paid no attention for a long time. But just today I was looking at the Youtube and discovered the Visual Builder. To describe it I would say it gives you Squarespace style inline editing within...
Elegant Themes Visual Builder No Worky on NGINX Server
Symptoms: You are running php-fpm and nginx You can enter the visual builder from the home page https://jamesmcdonald.id.au/?et_fb=1 but not from a another url such as https://jamesmcdonald.id.au/contact?et_fb=1 Problem: The Divi Visual Builder uses ?et_b=1 query...
WordPress.com JetPack Plugin — The Interconnectedness of All Things
Just hooked my blog up to Wordpress.com jetpack plugin which allows publicizing a self hosted blog using any number of social accounts that one subscribes to. So I've hooked The Telarah Times up to Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. As this is my first post after doing...
Create a WordPress Page Tab that leads to a non WordPress URL
I have my Wordpress setup to display all the blog posts on the front page and the Wordpress "Pages" as tabs on the navigation at the top of the page. However I also would like the navigation to point to other non Wordpress areas of my domain and go straight there. For...
Migrating the WordPress MYSQL Database to a New Table Prefix the Hard Way.
So I have moved my domain to dreamhost.com Why? Got sick of my home computer being a VMWare Server. Couldn't reboot or upgrade when I wanted Computers are evil time suckers. Moving my website means I don't have to worry if it's up, down or sideways. dreamhost.com can...
WP-Highslide Plugin XHTML gotcha
I have the WP-Highslide plugin installed. When I attempt to validate my highslide enabled pages over at http://validator.w3.org/ I get: Line 231, Column 62: document type does not allow element "div" here; missing one of "button", "map", "object", "ins", "del",...
Create a Favicon in GIMP and apply it to your WordPress Install
I have added a favicon.ico to this site. This is how I did it using GIMP. Open a picture in GIMP Image => Canvas Size (Change the canvas to be square) Unlink Width to Height Chain Increase the narrowest dimension (either width or height) to be the same as the widest...
WP-Syntax Plugin
I have been attempting to use the <pre> tag to simply copy and paste information into Wordpress but the result has been that it doesn't accept all the whitespace as being whitespace. Anyway I installed WP-Syntax plugin and attempted to insert some code and it...
IE7 Embedded Squirrelmail Login JavaScript Error
I have embedded my Squirrelmail login into the front of my wordpress blog by putting into the header.php the following function The default squirrelmail code uses the format document.forms[0]. this causes the code to see the first form on the page which may not be...
WordPress Exploit Appearing in Apache Logs
This appeared in my Apache logs this morning: //wp-content/plugins/mygallery/myfunctions ... rm%20-rf%20kk*?: 1 Time(s) Looking back through the logs the full request was: //wp-content/plugins/mygallery/myfunctions/mygallerybrowser.php?myPath=...
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