ronmerk

Hal, You’re awesome!! That worked and thank you very much!
Ron

If you have FTP access, just rename the directory on your server for the specific plugin and the plugin will go away. Once you know that getting rid of the plug-in doesn’t cause you any problems, you can go back and delete that directory. I use this technique all the time if I’m not 100% sure about getting rid of a plug-in. It’s a “better safe than sorry technique”

The downside is that you may have some residual info in your database. The upside is the plug-in should be gone

There are some plug-ins that will create thumbnails. The best method is to create 2 versions of your picture on your desktop and load both of them up at the same time.

WordPress will scale pictures, but as you know, you’re still dealing with the original file size when loading pages etc.

Nope, no “invite” process in WordPress – Send them an email to your Registration page, then go in and change them to “Contributor” once they’ve registered.

You could set newly registered users to have a “contributor” profile immediately, but that would be scarey!!

Every page or post has this ability on the individual page or post edit “page”

Make SURE when you’re in your edit window that you click on the “screen Options” tab, top right so that all the options drop down. Make sure you have a Check in the :comments” box.

Now when you scroll down your edit page there will be a :check box” to allow or not allow comments. Make sure it’s “unchecked to disallow comments. Save you page and you’re done!

OK! NOW it makes sense. THANK YOU Simon!! ??

Probably if it worked and just “stopped” there is something wrong with your Host company. If it started after you made changes, think about what you’ve recently changed. You answer probably lies in what your changed.

Most WP web masters will only load 10 posts at a time, exactly for that reason. If you set our site to load the most recent 10 posts. there will me a >more tag at the bottom of the post page.

Go to Dashboard>settings>reading> set your blog posts to 10

Once you’d done that, then check in the codex here for “Moving a site” – That info gives you all the details to reconfigure you WP install to it’s new location.

Basically you need to use an HTML WYSIWYG editor, You can create your page in the editor and then copy the “source code” to the text tab of your wordpress page.

Formatting a page in a Word processor will cause all kinds of problems because the formatting codes with in the Word Processor are not recognized by the world standards that WordPress uses for the internet

Microsoft products are notorious for having non-standard text formatting.

WordPress gives you the “Visual” tab in your page editor so you can see/format you page text directly with in your editor. It’s a bit of a shift in mindset, but once you understand the formatting with in WP, you can create some great articles. Otherwise get yourself a good HTML editor and use the copy/paste drop your HTML code to your text tab in your article.

That’s a big job and not for the feint of heart, but if you have a patients and perseverance it’s completely doable.

You’ll need to run some kind of “server on your local box like XAAMPP.

Check here for the www.ads-software.com codex on the subject

Also check here for for a less technical explanation and another alternative.

XAAMPP is my fav and you can find the process here.

Good luck

Ron

Shripad:

Register Robots is a BIG question and tends to drive WP Admins crazy, especially if your site is popular or has been online for a while (it takes time for time to track you down)

There are ways to make it more difficult. Everything from your .access file, to plugins to CAPTCHA code required during the registration process.

Start with doing a search for plugins through the search window at the top of www.ads-software.com’s web site (here). You can also try “blacklist” plugins, but I find it just creates more work. “They” just change their IP addresses.

Good luck

Ron

Hi There:

The search box, top right corner of www.ads-software.com is your best friend ??

There are all kinds of great articles in the Codex here on changing URL’s for WordPress sites. Check out this one 1st.

Goof luck

Ron

Hi Glenna:

Use a good FTP program or the file manager in yuur Host’s Cpanel access.

Take a look at the directory/file structure of your wp-dbmanager plugin. wp-content>plugins>wp-dbmanager

There is a text (htaccess.txt)file in your new wp-dbmanager plugin directory that is the content for .htaccess file that needs to exist in your “backup” directory that the plugin creates for your data base back up files.

You need to copy it using a good FTP program to you hard drive – then upload it to the “backup” directory (usully wp-content>backup-db) and rename it to “.htaccess”

This file needs to exist in the “backup” directory so that that directory is NOT visible to people “browsing” your web site

Hi Jeremy

Most templates allow page formats that include full page, sidebar etc.

When you edit a page, you should see an option on the far right side to choose “page attribute” > drop down that allows you to save the page “full width” without a side bar.