Aug
11
2010
I would like to add something to my earlier article How to enable WordPress Multisite 3.0. If you are upgrading from WordPress MU (WPMU) to WordPress 3.0.x Multisite make sure to check your HTACCESS file. There have been many reports of broken images on Multisite installations after upgrading from WordPress MU. If you notice any broken images on your Multisite subdomains after upgrading, make sure to check your HTACCESS.
I tried the following HTACCESS and it fixed all these problems with broken or missing images:
#Wordpress Multi site
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
#END WordPress Multi Site
Jul
21
2010
Former WordPress MU (WPMU) is now known as WordPress Multisite in version 3.0. This feature is not activated by default, you must enable it manually. The Multiuser function, lets you create a network of sites. You can run and host many different blogs with the same installation of WordPress. You must have web server file access to activate it. The instructions to activate Multisite are easy to follow and you should be able to get your installation activated with just 10 minutes work.
Start activating the multi-site features of WordPress 3.0 by adding this line of code to your wp-config.php file:
/** Enable or disable Worpress Multi-site features **/
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);Refresh your Dashboard and got to ”Tools -> Network”. You will see a screen that looks similar to the one in the picture below:
If you want to install your additional blogs on virtual sub-domains instead of sub-directories you will need to create a wildcard DNS record on your server to enable the sub-domain (blog1.yourdomain.com, blog2.yourdomain.com, blog3.yourdomain.com) functionality of WordPress 3.0.
Jun
18
2010
WordPress 3.0 has been released with the name “Thelonious”. This is the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard).
New features in this WordPress release include a new default theme called “Twenty Ten”. Let me add that it really looks like “Patagonia” Theme, so I guess less people are going to use my theme, time to “adapt and change” I guess. But in the other hand I can feel proud to work as inspiration to whoever designed Twenty Ten.
Jun
3
2010
Are you looking for some high quality search engine traffic? Then take a look at the links below and submit your Blog to those sites. Five high quality sites is all you will need to start. Try to stay away from automatic submission software (so 90′s) that claim to auto submit your site to 1000′s of sites. That’s not true. By the way, Google, Bing and Yahoo manage 95% of Internet search engine traffic, so these links will have you pretty covered.
Google Search submission URL. Submit here if your site is new and/or still not listed in google. How to know if your site is listed in Google?
May
31
2010
WordPress 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for download. A “Release Candidate” comes after the beta release and before the final launch. Also, a “Release Candidate” has all features finished and all potential issues fixed. However, there are millions using WordPress with a wide variety of configurations and hosting setups, so it’s possible that they have missed something.
You can download the RC and test it out if you want, directly from wordpress.org
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May
13
2010
I just added the Menu Management feature for compatibility with WordPress 3.0, the next version of WordPress. Menu compatibility has been added to Patagonia, Tandil and Director.
It’s one of the most exciting features in the coming WordPress 3.0. It gives you full control over your site’s navigation menus. Users can easily drag and drop items, to create menus that include any mixture of links to internal pages, external URLs, categories, basically a customized widget. Then you can embed these custom menus as a widget, in the sidebar, footer, etc.
Apr
26
2010
Today, April 26th 2010 is WpThemesPlanet’s first birthday! To celebrate I’m releasing a new and original theme called Director. Check it out. This WordPress Theme is compatible with the latest WordPress Release and includes theme options, threaded comments, JQuery menu and a very Professional and unique look inspired by Hollywood and Cinema in General. However this theme can be used for any kind of site, niche or business. By the way, the Hollywood Sign has been saved today by a fund raising and announced by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Demo Theme
I designed this template in Photoshop, coded and edited it in Dreamweaver and Notepad++. Although this theme is visual attractive (which in many cases means “heavy”) it does not take a lot of resources like some other similar wordpress themes. Most of the visual attractive themes tend to be heavy for your host and slow loading for the user. Most of those themes load a lot of add-ons in their header.php, plus they have a very complex functions.php. I designed Director to be as “lite” as possible, yet visual attractive.
Many more features will be added in the next versions of Director. Some extra features like custom CSS, Analytics, Adsense and more. Custom CSS will let you modify the stylesheet and save the customization, so you don’t lose the changes when you update. Twitter, Facebook and Custom RSS can be added from the theme’s options. Enter the WordPress Dashboard, go to Appearance -> Director Options. You can also send suggestions here. This WordPress theme will be offered in Spanish (my native language) in the next few versions. Want to translate Director Theme to another language? You can contact me as well and I will add your credit (name and site) to the changelog!
Here are some stats of WpThemesPlanet first year:
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