Tag Archive for 'wordpress'

Psychic Search Breaks K2

I’m using K2 with Psychic Search, and my blog looked a bit weird for users coming from search engines. The tag specified a class that was completely messed up. It showed Related Posts along with some keywords. I was confused, thinking it was caused by one of the Related Posts plugins I had installed.

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WordPress Role Manager Plugin

WordPress doesn’t allow anyone Author level or below to post unfiltered HTML. It silently strips things like <script> tages from their posts. Extremely annoying. Fortunately, there’s a plugin called Role Manager which allows you to give certain users specific permissions, like unfiltered HTML posting. You find it here at these sites: Continue reading ‘WordPress Role Manager Plugin’

PodPress WordPress 2.6 Fix

PodPress 8.8 (the latest version as of this writing) is incompatible with WordPress 2.6.

The fix is to add this line to wp-config.php -

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Deleting Different Posts Per Page and other plugins

I’m deleting a bunch of WordPress plugins from my mom’s Adventures in Parenting site because they’ve been inactive for a while.

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WordPress: Export Emails Of All Commenters

I managed to export the email addresses of all commenters on a WordPress blog so that I could check if they’re using Twitter. This is fairly straightforward to do:

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WordPress Amazon Code Stripped Out

I had a weird issue today where the Amazon code was properly added in the editor, but when we went to look at it on the post, it wasn’t there. Switching between Visual and HTML editing options would strip the code, too. The problem was the Trustworthy XHTML plugin 1.1. “Gives you control over how WordPress auto-formats XHTML in posts and pages. The administrator sets the defaults, and based on a user’s Role, that user may override the default setting for his or her own profile. By Leo Jackson.”

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WordPress Convert Pages to Posts

It’s quite easy, and I see no downsides as yet:

UPDATE `wp_posts` SET post_type=’post’ WHERE post_type=’page’