robgolbeck

Hi,

Just chiming in, as I received the same Critical Problems warning this morning:

wp-includes/version.php:

$wp_local_package = 'en_CA';

and readme.html had some text changes related to the Canadian English version.

Awesome, it works now with the update. Thanks so much!

– re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

@esmi – thank you! I was having a similar problem after transferring a client’s site to a new host. In my situation I was able to login to the admin and access the homepage of the site, but when I tried to navigate to any other page it resulted in a redirect loop. Re-uploading a fresh copy of WordPress solved it.

Just thought I’d chime in before this thread gets closed for anyone else having this problem.

That answer advises changing the WordPress core. Bad idea. Whenever you update your WordPress installation your changes will be gone.

Instead, you can change it by adding a new link category (Links > Link Categories) using your desired title. You’ll then need to go through all of your links and assign the new category to them. It may be tedious if you have a lot of links, but it will replace the default title in the widget and you won’t lose the change next time you update WordPress.

In my case, I changed it to “Resources” and it worked like a charm.

There’s probably an add_filter() function to change the default title without editing the core template, and without having to reassign categories to every link, but I haven’t found it yet.

But what happens when the plugin get’s updated? Will it overwrite your change? If so, you’ll have to go back and do all this again every time the plugin gets an update.

I too need to have an email confirmation field. It would be great if this were a standard feature of the plugin. Judging by this hack, it doesn’t look like it would be very difficult to implement.

Unfortunately, the developer has said in another thread that he has no plans to implement it because he thinks “it’s useless because everybody knows ‘Copy & Paste’“. It’s disheartening when developers assume that everybody uses the internet the way they do….

My client constantly has people submitting email addresses with typos, then getting angry because they didn’t get a response. Clearly, this feature would work at solving that problem. Maybe it’s not 100% foolproof if people copy and paste an email address that has a typo, but at least it gives people a reason to double check.

The Checkmail validation for Contact Form 7 plugin does a good job of checking for matching email fields, but it falls short on the error message by relying on the default generic ‘validation errors occurred…’ message, which doesn’t indicate what the error was, or which field.

I would like this too. It would also be useful to have the field with the error highlighted. The form I’m using has several fields, so it’s not immediately obvious where the error is.

I figured it out, with some help from the codex and this thread.

Here’s what I went with:

<?php
     function filter_where($where = '') {
     //only show posts published within the last 30 days
     $where .= " AND post_date > '" . date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-30 days')) . "'";
     return $where;
     }
     add_filter('posts_where', 'filter_where');

     // Query posts
     query_posts( 'posts_per_page=1' );

     // The Loop
     if (have_posts()) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
     echo '<li>';
     echo '<a href="';
     the_permalink();
     echo '">';
     the_title();
     echo '</a>';
     echo '</li>';
     endwhile; endif;

     //remove the filter
     remove_filter('posts_where', 'filter_where');

     // Reset Query
     wp_reset_query();
?>

I’m not certain if remove_filter is in the best spot, but it works! ??

@theddavidsons: It depends when Google last indexed your site and how frequently you add new content. It should get reindexed within a couple of weeks or so, max (I’ve heard as many as 6 weeks, but it’s never been more than two in my experience).

If you’re set up with Google Webmaster Tools you could try submitting a new sitemap (Optimization -> Sitemaps -> Add sitemap). I’ve heard sometimes that can work. No guarantees though… Good luck!

@emmppp: replace the whole thing. So take out everything between <title> and </title> and put this there instead <?php wp_title(''); ?>

Alternatively, if you don’t want to mess with any code, you can enable “Force rewrite titles” from the plugin settings (I haven’t tried this myself). See the plugin FAQ page: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/faq/

True, it’s a bit trickier than All in One SEO, but overall I like Yoast’s plugin better (I’ve used both). My only complaint with Yoast is the instructions for updating the <title> tag should be in the plugin settings, rather than having to view the FAQs on the plugin download page. I forget this step almost every time I install the plugin on a new site… ??

@nashua Indigo: Using the site title and page titles for SEO is fine for keeping things simple, but if you want to do any customization you really need a plugin. Plus you can’t add custom meta descriptions without a plugin – which on their own don’t do anything for search rankings, but can be incredibly useful for users in deciding whether or not your page has what they’re looking for.

Change the default title tag in your theme’s header.php file. It should look like this: <title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>.

Did you find a solution to this? I’m having a similar problem. When I click a page number it just goes to the homepage. I’ve used the plugin on several other sites without any trouble, so I’m a little confused.

Update: the problem appears to be only on my search results template. Pagination works fine on the blog posts index.

Ok, so it appears the problem is with my theme, not the database.

After much digging last night and this morning I finally decided to just do a fresh install with a new database and re-populate the site manually. Fairly big job, but for all the time it was taking already I was prepared to do it.

Anyway, the WP install and new database connection went fine. But when I uploaded and activated my theme I got the same blank page as before. I set wp_debug to ‘true’ in my config file (which in retrospect I probably should have done in the first place!) and it listed a bunch of errors.

So I deleted the theme, activated the 2011 theme, and imported my original database again through phpMyAdmin. Now all my original content is showing up.

Still not entirely sure what the problem is with the theme (it works fine on my dev server), but at least there aren’t any database problems.

Yes, that was the first thing I read before starting the move. I also got some additional info from this blog post (which speaks directly to the GoDaddy process).

I’ll review Moving_WordPress again though and report back. Maybe I missed a step or misunderstood something.

Thanks, that worked.

A little surprised though that this is still an issue eight months after this fix was posted… I almost abandoned the plugin after the installation failed. Glad I checked the forum first.

Thanks justinendler, good to know!