Archive for the 'WordPress' Category

Upgrading a Customized WordPress Theme

Problem: You’re using a third party wordpress theme but have made changes to customize it for your own needs (changed a picture, added advertising, etc.). When the third party releases an upgrade to the theme you’d like to upgrade but don’t want to lose your changes. Solution: Let your version management system move your changes […]

Redirect Pages in WordPress

Problem I want to move a page in a WordPress site to a different location, but I still want the old address to be active and instead redirect to the new address. Solution Unfortunatelly as per WordPress 2.7 there isn’t any standard functionallity to accomplish this, so the easiest way to go is to use […]

Force a www Prefix

Problem: You want to force the World Wide Web prefix of your domain name, even though a page was requested without it. For example, if you would like all requests to http://hans-eric.com be redirected to http://www.hans-eric.com Solution: Solution from Alister Cameron. It works for Linux/Unix and requires .htaccess file access. In the web root directory […]