ajd777

I’m assuming that originally your theme used the_excerpt() no the_content.did.

There are several plugins that allow you to customize the way the_excerpt displays content, but the “proper” way to do it is to change the themes the way you

Theoretically, you could do a search and replace, but you are looking at well over 100 instances in the core files alone, and there is no way to know if it will work.

As an aside, wouldn’t it make more sense to use PHP constants for the default WP folder names?

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One reason would be transparency when using WP in a heavily customized CMS. Several times I’ve wanted to do something similar.

Unless you need a “heavy” forum, I usually combine WordPress and bbPress. The two integrate perfectly, and it is really easy to use the same design for both.

P.S. bbPress is what these support forums run on.

Pseudo-ironically, I was thinking of a feature like this for one of my plugins, but no, there isn’t anyway that you can do this as of now that I know of.

No. Most people who use WordPress as both just use pages for the CMS part and posts for the blog part and then they get creative with their themes. (At least, this is the way I usually set them up for people.)

I’m going to take the pie-in-the-sky stance that the images are CC’d ones from flicker.

The usefulness of the tags is very limited, but the OP will figure that out very quickly if they try to resize large images to small ones. Just getting the right proportions consistently is going to be irritating.

[I’d rather someone hotlink my images than copy them because I can easily find out if the first is happening and stop it.]

Yup my fix will work for you.

You are going to take an initial hit from google, but WordPress (after 2.1?) should automatically redirect the old urls to the new ones.

You can actually append ?p=xxx to any WordPress website and jump to the “real” url to that post.

Use a standard website cacher/downloader like wget. To make your life easier, make sure you are using permalinks, and that these permalinks end in .html or you are going to have a hard time getting it to work.

Aside from the moral issues of hotlinking other people’s images, use the height and width attributes in the image tag to manually change the size of the image.

If you mean you want to change the catagory base, in the admin panel the option is on the bottom of the Options -> Permalinks page.

Theoretically, if he left his index.php open, someone could have added a single line of code to the loop to force it to always show a 404 error.

However, I strongly doubt it.

As stated several times in the thread, this is not a WordPress issue. All WordPress does is send a request to Technorati or Google blog search for a list of URLs.

If no list is returned then WordPress can’t display it.

Was your home page working directly after the upgrade?

By default there is no way, but I quickly wrote a module that will do it.

Just save the file and upload it to your aWP modules folder, and then activate it.

If you also want to make it so users can’t, easily, click the title to go straight to the real page, in the link above change <?php the_permalink() ?> to #.

Although this will make it impossible for users without JavaScript and search engines to find the page, but it will not keep people who know what they are doing from manually typing in the URL.