WordPress, HungryFEED and (french) accented words.
Last time I moved my (WordPress) Web site, I started from scratch ; mostly because I did a lot of testings on the previous instance. Anyway… On the “News” page, I use the HungryFEED plugin to aggregate...
View ArticlePretty 404 pages on WordPress
Since my Web site was created, it ran various rendering software ; each of those generated URL that Google sometimes seems to remember. Many of those URL aren’t relevant nowadays ; although the...
View ArticleNatural WordPress benchmarking
I am planning on benchmarking various OS and HTTP daemons to host my WordPress site. A well-known (free) tool to benchmark Web servers is ApacheBench. But it can only use a single URL for each...
View ArticleLAMP/NAMP/OAMP with WordPress just needs CPU
According to the Google robot, my actual configuration serves WordPress pages in about 1-2 seconds. I was looking on improving this a bit. So I tried various OSes on various machines: A VIA Nehemiah...
View ArticleOptimize PHP on NetBSD
On a NAMP (NetBSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server, you can get a faster PHP rendering using eAccelerator. First of all, install the php53-eaccelerator package. Then, configure PHP to use it and the system...
View ArticleAutomatic WordPress installation
Here’s a quick trick that allows automatic installation of WordPress on an HTTP server. The normal process is: browse to wordpress.com, grab the archive locally, upload to your server, unzip and run...
View ArticleManually change WordPress’ home and siteurl in MySQL
In my tidy process, I had to copy WordPress from one host to another, then access it from various URLs so that the production and the development versions were both accessible from the same public IP....
View ArticleAdd a Table of Contents in WordPress articles
I use to have TOCs in articles when this site ran DokuWiki. But by default, WP doesn’t provide this ability. After a few Googling, I found the Table of Contents Plus plugin. I choose this one for two...
View ArticleMove WordPress admin bar to the bottom
I’m building a WordPress theme that has a fixed top menu bar. Hence, the admin bar supersedes it ; and that’s not nice. So I just wanted to move it to the bottom of the page, where nothing lies. You...
View ArticleSolve a “Submit For Review” issue on WordPress
Lately, I couldn’t publish any more articles on my WordPress instance. Instead of the “Publish” button, I only got “Submit For Review”. As I upgraded WordPress recently, I thought this might be either...
View ArticleRemove all WordPress Featured Images
I used to use “Featured Images” in my posts to illustrate the main tag. Now that I changed my theme (namely Twenty Fourteen), those icon-sized images don’t show up well. I decided to simply drop them...
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