Category: Howtos

The Commanding Power of WordPress

• July 13, 2010 • Comments (5)
The Commanding Power of WordPress

From its first release in 2003, WordPress, an open source content management system has seen growth by leaps and bounds, which has propelled it to the top of its competition. Aside from its ease of use, WordPress is free and it comes with a great deal of features need to get your website up and [...]

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How to Prevent WordPress Mu From …

• May 29, 2010 • Comments (1)
How to Prevent WordPress Mu From …

The default WordPress Mu will display your full text article on your home page instead of an excerpt of the article. To fix this in wpmu, assuming you’re using buddypress on your wordpress installation, follow these steps: With your favorite ftp client (I found Core FTP Lite to be easy to use and it’s free), [...]

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How to Add Read More to Your WordPress …

• May 29, 2010 • Comments (1)
How to Add Read More to Your WordPress …

WordPress comes with the default excerpt ellipsis [...] without a URL to click on. This doesn’t make your WordPress home page look very professional. To change this, here is what you can do. For the regular WordPress (not wpmu) users, the file you need to add this to is functions.php in your theme folder. Add [...]

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How to Change Your WPMU Domain URL

• May 29, 2010 • Comments (0)
How to Change Your WPMU Domain URL

If you’ve tried to change your wpmu URL from example.com to www.example.com, there may be several ways to do this but here are the steps I took using your phpMyAdmin. Make sure you select your database if you have multiple databases. You’ll need to make changes to two tables: wp_1_options wp_blogs Assuming your site url [...]

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