rcmullins

A little late, but I don’t post in the footer or the header of a wordpress page, because this page changes with the template you are using. so if you install a new template you will have to remember to make the correct code changes.

I find it much more useful and manageable to put the code into a widget. Which gets used no matter what page people are on and is not template restricted.

Ivan Georgiev’s category icons:
I’m noticing a little glitch with this thing.
I have it installed, and activated. But when I go to ‘Options’ click on the ‘Category Icon’ tab, then click on ‘Manage’ I see a table of categories, but there is no ‘select’ options or anyway to work the plugin from there.

Does anyone have any ideas on why this is?

Here is a screenshot

btw, what do the others do? ie
.entry a:hover img, ..entrytext a:hover img
img.wp-smiley
.thumbnail
.left
.right
.noalign

I know what they kinda mean, but not what they go to. I am guessing sidebar stuff.

That was it, Thanks a ton!

I just now noticed moshu’s reply. My apologies for stepping on Mr. Vices thread. I didn’t realize how the thread system here worked or how to start a new thread. It was an innocent mistake. moshu you may try a unique little human trait called ‘tact’ next time. And incidentally there are several ways to change your pw, and several ways to hash it. cheers.

Ok, I fixed the problem. It was a stupid error on my part. Seems that my website hosting person, uses CPanel as a front end. Not knowing how to use it, I created a MySQL database, and I created a MySQL user, but there is an additional step you have to do before wordpress can log into the d-base. You have to click a little button, near the bottom that actually ADDS the user to the database. If you do not do this important step, then all you have is a dbase with no user, and a user with no dbase.

I am used to editing and manipulating MySQL from the CLI and MySQL’s front end tools, not a foreign gui. Incidentally, this is one area that the makers of cpanel could really improve on. However, if you do not use cpanel for your linux webserver you really should check into it. There are a ton of perks that come with it. Incidentally, I went through all this configuring needlessly. CPANEL has WordPress built in and all you have to do is click ‘install’ and go through a few installation procedures. Very nice.

Additionally, here is my sql dbase;

Current Databases:
rmullins_wordpress

here is my config:
<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘rmullins_wordpress’); // The name of the database

HandySolo: I figured out a way to do it, without using the phpMyAdmin thing. Using a sql command you can hash using the MD5 hashing algorithm. Its really quite easy too. Thanks to you for pointing me in the right direction. Here is the query.

UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = MD5(‘mypass’) WHERE ID = 1;

For anyone out there here is how it works.

You log into your wordpress database within MySQL. There are several ways to do this, using the commanline or the new MySQL query analyzer. The password and user information is located in the table wp_users. Once you are ‘using’ the correct database you just execute the above command/query. Since all the admin stuff is located in id# 1 the only thing you will have to alter is the ‘mypass’ part. Just fill in your desired password, and you should be set.

Anybody who needs more explanation on this, please feel free to email me at;
[email protected] It may take me a day to get to you, but I will try to respond the best way I know how.

Thanks again to HandySolo for helpin meh.

HandySolo: I figured out a way to do it, without using the phpMyAdmin thing. Using a sql command you can hash using the MD5 hashing algorithm. Its really quite easy too. Thanks to you for pointing me in the right direction. Here is the query.

UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = MD5(‘mypass’) WHERE ID = 1;

For anyone out there here is how it works.

You log into your wordpress database within MySQL. There are several ways to do this, using the commanline or the new MySQL query analyzer. The password and user information is located in the table wp_users. Once you are ‘using’ the correct database you just execute the above command/query. Since all the admin stuff is located in id# 1 the only thing you will have to alter is the ‘mypass’ part. Just fill in your desired password, and you should be set.

Anybody who needs more explanation on this, please feel free to email me at;
[email protected] It may take me a day to get to you, but I will try to respond the best way I know how.

Thanks again to HandySolo for helpin meh.

Well, it looked nice anyway. The set-up of phpMyAdmin is a brutal process that is not very explanatory. The basic idea is easy enough, but creating that set-up script is a drag. Are there any other ways to hash with MD5 than the phpmyadmin?

I think this is going to work. FAntastice, thanks handySolo!!!!

Well, I didnt change the password to the DB. I changed the admin password to get into wordpress, but i did it using sql query through the mysql, using a hash. Maybe im not being very clear?

I have a unique problem. I was messing around with MySQL and decided to try changing my admin login password using MySQL. Here is the query I used.
UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = PASSWORD(‘mypass’) WHERE ID = 1;

It worked beautifully. Only problem is, that I cannot login now. I am using wordpress on the standard apache 2, php5, MySQL 5 set up. Anybody have any ideas on how to get around this? (BTW the PASSWORD(‘mypass’) part allows the password to be hashed.) I have tried changing the password to not hash but this doesnt work either. I also have the mail settings turned off, so my password cannot be emailed to me. I looked through the php_login.php page and I cant seem to sort out how the login page is passing the password into MySQL so I can login.