Category Archives: Wordpress

Wordpress Articles – Tips & Tricks:

While I realize that Wordpress itself is not considered Inbound marketing, certainly blogging is a major component…. if not most important in the inbound scheme of things. With that said, preparing and customizing your blog falls into an important factor in the Inbound scheme of things. I have provided this section to save readers the trouble of searching hundreds of forums for the same information…. Comments and suggestions of course are always welcome.

WordPress: Visual Editor Tab (Hidden Controls) – How to Fix?

WordpressI found there are 2 instances of “Hidden controls issues” in the Visual Editor Tab
You may want to refer to this post (WordPress: Visual Editor Tab Controls Hidden – How to Fix?) if, this doesn’t do the trick

Basically, you go into your Post Editor (the Visual Editor) and find things are missing or hidden!

Depending on your version of Wodpress, it may be a plugin conflict.
For me, I narrowed it down to the “Simple Press” plugin Continue reading WordPress: Visual Editor Tab (Hidden Controls) – How to Fix?

WordPress: Visual Editor Tab Controls Hidden – How to Fix?

WordpressA new problem I ran into lately involved the WordPress post “Visual Editor” tab

As I went in to type my posts, the secondary controls row would hide (the one with bold, italic, paragraphs..etc)
My first thought was a conflicting plugin, so I deactivated everything to check it
Still no solution……

Maybe I CHECKED it in my user profile?
USERS—>YOUR PROFILE – then look for “Disable the visual editor when writing
Nope, all was good there as well (it should be unchecked) Continue reading WordPress: Visual Editor Tab Controls Hidden – How to Fix?

WordPress: ‘exceeded max_questions’ Database Error Solution | Array

WordpressThis solution does work however, your ISP database managers don’t want you to know it!
(your welcome, by the way)

Why is that?
– They like to keep you at your limit (usually 75K Queries per hour, or worse 50K)
– They’ll charge you $ if you want to increase that to 150K (per month for that matter)
– This solution actually gives you the equivalent of 225K per hour (that is a shit load!)
and best of all, YOUR IN CONTROL

What is this exactly?
Good Question, it is a way to swap user logins when you exceed the 75K queries (automatically behind the scenes – set it and forget it), thus enabling your site to keep functioning rather than getting that nasty error codes (500, or ‘exceeded max_questions’ or database can not connect) when you’ve used too man database resources. It is called a 3 User Array (for inquiring minds)

How does it work?
Instead of the default of 1 login (in your config.php file), it can choose between 3 (or more if you’d like)

Will it get me in trouble?
Not sure, but so far so good!

What should I be aware of?
All 3 database logins must use the same password, or it won’t work

How do I start?
– Log into your SQL Database menu located usually in your account on your ISP
– Create 2 more logins using the same password first!
– write each down, the login names and the 1 password Continue reading WordPress: ‘exceeded max_questions’ Database Error Solution | Array

WordPress: Exclude Category from Front Page – Still Show in Sidebar?

WordpressThis method will allow you to have a category “ONLY” appearing in your sidebar but excludes posts from the front page

1- Added this code to “index.php
(Notes: category # says -20, this # is the category I dont want on the front)
(also this needs to appear in your code before the loop)

(my excluded Category was 20, for more than one category use: -3,-20 (separate your categories with commas!)

2- Add the following code to your “index.php” file, but before the Loop

<?php query_posts($query_string . ‘&cat=-20’); ?>

This code will now exclude that category #20 from your home page posts BUT can be used to show up in one of yoru side bar plugins Continue reading WordPress: Exclude Category from Front Page – Still Show in Sidebar?

WordPress: Exclude a category from the RSS Feed?

1- Get the category # of the category you want “excluded” form your RSS feed
(note: in my example my category was “movies” which had a category number of 12)

2- open & edit  the “functions.php” file

3- add the following code below to the bottom of your functions.php file
(also make sure you replace the -12 with the # from step 1, add a – sign to it also)

4- Save functions.php file

4- want exclude MORE? then add more categories with commas between Continue reading WordPress: Exclude a category from the RSS Feed?