calicosun

Thanks so much for replying to my post. I have been looking for a plugin called role manager but it appears that one is no longer in existence as couldn’t see it in the plugin list.

One reason the local works well for me is I have quite a good backup system for my computer (3 different types – almost lost everything so now do backup overkill!). It means that if I need to revert back to something even as far back as 6 months ago that I may have deleted in error I can. Hmmm. Maybe I will do both depending on the site!

Thanks so much for your input. Very much appreciated.

Thanks samboll – have had a read through ‘Moving WordPress’ – that is what scared me! Just kidding… well sort of. It all looks straight forward and is easy to follow.

Samboll – Do you think my file structure would work if I was developing live? Or is there an easier way that is less likely to cause problems?

t3los – cute kitten! Thanks for your input also.

I have found working locally really fast, and once I had my system all set up, easy to work with. I use MAMP and TextWrangler (plus VMware Fusion for cross browser testing – now that was fun to set up!). It is quick to flick from one site to another when testing or checking code etc. Have a million windows open in TextWrangler and Firefox sometimes – well, ok 20 or so! I am one of those people who whizz around the computer at 90 miles and hour… great for speed but can accidentally ‘do things’ I didn’t mean to. I also get frustrated with slow – attention span not that great – even having to wait a split second gets me started on day dreams… tropical beaches, palm trees and… sad to say, sleep!

However, locally does prove a problem when I need support from wp and wpec forums. It also would be helpful if customers can see what I am looking at when I am discussing issues with them during the development stage. And I guess every server is different so any problems with the host I am with would be ironed out sooner rather than later (hopefully) so when I am at the end of a long project, tired after weeks of toiling away, the change over might be more issue free?! … or not? As above, it has been suggested I use Coda which I am trialing at the moment. Is a little slower (that split second!). Beautiful interface! Little pictures of your site – him, that is the graphic designer side of me coming out!

flick from and easy to flick from site to site

Thankyou much for replying. Would the following system work do you think:

I have been working locally (MAMP). Reason for not choosing live was because I was told that 1) it was really slow and 2) moving from a testing area to live mucks up the permalinks. I have been told recently that using something like Coda makes it really easy to develop live which rules 1 out as a problem. Not sure about 2.

The system I was thinking of using live would be:

Secure a domain purely for testing: mycompanytest.com
This is where all my development sites would live until completely finished.

Build sites under: clientsite.mycompany.com
Would have several sites ie. clientsiteA.mycompany.com, clientsiteB.mycompany.com etc depending on how many sites I was working ont.

Then move the sites once complete to:
clientsite.com

Is this something that would work do you think? I am a bit nervous about moving sites. Sounds very complicated and easy for things to go wrong!

Thanks!

Thanks!

Hi Michael I do have two other quick questions relating to this if you have time to answer:

1. I know (well I think I know) the global $more; $more = false; and wp_reset_query(); // Restore global post data stomped by the_post() relate to the fact I want to post a read more on a page not a post. I just don’t really understand what exactly they do. I read in the codex you were suppose to put global $more; $more = 0; somewhere in the code (didn’t understand where excactly or how to use it ie. which the php or without etc) which is similar to what you have done. Could you give me brief run down on what this does?

2. How do we enter the code in the separate frame as you have done above? Or is that just something moderators can do? Yes, this is a ‘newbie’ question! I will probably cringe in years to come if I come across it.

Thanks!

Oh thank you so much! Magic fairies do exist! It works perfectly. I can’t tell you how grateful I am for your help on this. Bleary eyed I stumbled down to my computer this morning, with my heart pounding, I went to check my RSS feeds – even closed my eyes at first as was too scared to look! I am still learning php (very early stages) hence my ignorance. I am slightly past the stage of when looking at code my eyes glaze over and blocks of code turn into one big fuzzy blob, forcing me to constantly re-focus. Seeing this has helped me to understand things a bit more. Once thing I think I was doing was, when looking at example code that read like this: post-type=>ID I would put exactly that, didn’t realise I needed to put the page id in. That was answered by another kind soul somewhere in cyber space.

Thank you so much.

Another update to above, only the first child page is displaying so there is still something wrong with my code.

I know there are other ways to achieve what I want to achieve using custom fields (although don’t know how to do a ‘read more’ with custom fields, and using posts instead of pages but, without going into details, I need to use pages for this.

I am exhausted, been sitting at my computer trying to work this out for over 15 solid hours. This website needs to get finished urgently but I just don’t have the energy to keep looking tonight. I am hoping with all my heart a magic little fairy will have posted some helpful suggestions when I wake up tomorrow… otherwise I am stuffed.

I am not even sure if this has been posted in the right page… just my luck it isn’t. If someone comes across it and knows it is in the wrong place I would appreciate if you could let me know so I don’t sit staring at my computer all day tomorrow waiting for an answer that is never going to come.

Ok. I have managed to get the child page to display on my homepage (in a php file called home-features.php) using the following code:

<?php
global $more;
$more = 0;
?>

<?php
$pageChildren = get_pages(‘child_of=2’);
if ( $pageChildren ) ;
foreach ( $pageChildren as $pageChild ) ;

echo ‘<h2>ID) . ‘”>’. $pageChild->post_title.’</h2>’;

echo ‘<p>’. $pageChild->post_content.'</p>’;

?>

I am not sure if this is the right way to go about it and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to get just the copy above the ‘read more’ insert within the page to display.

Here is a link to the static draft site: https://gridmaster.slicetest.co.nz/ The read more excerpts need to go where the orange box is, bottom right, just above footer.

Can anyone help me with this please?

Thanks.

Thanks so much from me too!

Hi. Can someone please help me out with this please? I am not sure how to get help on these forums from a moderator but I would really like some help or even just confirmation that this is a bug or not so I don’t waste even more hours (yes, hours!) trying to figure out what I am doing wrong.

I have just had a look at another website (live, not mine) and it appears to have the same problem: https://educhalk.org/blog/how-to-copy-your-online-wordpress-blog-to-xampp-on-your-local-computer-or-usb-drive/ so to me it looks like a bug.

Thanks.

Ok I have done some more testing and this is happening on all my websites. Unfortunately I don’t have any live yet so can’t provide links.

It is only happening on post pages, not pages and I always set permalinks set to custom, /%category%/%postname%/ due to SEO.

There is a change I am doing something wrong but can’t see what. Please can someone help me out with this?

Thanks.

Thanks once again for taking the time to answer but unfortunately those options don’t work either. I wonder if it is a bug? Is anyone else having this problem?

You can change your user name in phpmyadmin as far as I am aware. In wp-users. I have tested locally and it seems to work but not tried remotely. If anyone has had any problems doing this it would be helpful to know?

Thanks so much for answering my question. I have tried that and it didn’t work. What is strange is the the en dash displays fine on the home page.

I haven noticed the code I posted has some of the actual en dashes missing by mistake. I must have copied the code I was playing around with. The actual code does have the end dashes in the code for the title, archives and home. Is there a way to edit a post so I can fix this? Can see any edit buttons for older posts.