Category Archives: Setup
Increase Upload Quota in WordPress
In WordPress Network, there is a upload size quota limitation, defaulted to 10MB. Which works for ISP selling their spaces at premium, but not if you already buy the space: Administration -> Super Admin -> Sites Choose the site that … Continue reading
Google Analytics with WordPress
Use Google Analyticator Plugin – there are others of course, but I choose this one for now as it shows up first in the Administration -> Plugins -> Add New page when searching for “Google” Support article for Google Analyticator … Continue reading
WordPress Error: “File type does not meet security guidelines”
WordPress › Support » File type does not meet security guidelines. If you are uploading “media” (WordPress’s term for generic files), you might have encounter the error in the title. This is because WordPress filters files by extensions as a … Continue reading
Using Themes in WordPress
Using Themes « WordPress Codex. Activate in Administration -> Super Admin -> Themes before using it in the individual sites.
WYSIWYG Editor for Comments in WordPress
Having a wysiwyg editor for writing comments is a nice feature to have. TinyMCEComments plugin provides such capability: Install via Administration -> Plugins -> Add New “Network Activate”
Comment Spam Filter Via reCAPTCHA
Akismet, the built-in spam filter for WordPress, appears to suffer from some reputation problems, so we’ll avoid using akismet for now, and instead, we will use reCAPTCHA. The nice thing about reCAPTCHA is that it’s got descent strength, and people … Continue reading
Change Permalink Structure In WordPress
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks For each of the sites: Administration -> Settings -> Permalinks Choose Custom Structure Structured Tags are as follows %year% %monthnum% %day% %hour% %minute% %second% %postname% %post_id% %category% %author% I choose /%postname%/ – to ensure each post is equivalent to … Continue reading
Enable SSL Protection of the Admin Area in WordPress
Once SSL is enabled, the next step is to protect the admin area with SSL. The simplest approach appears to be to modify wp-config.php: define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true); This approach, however, does not work well with blog networks. Specifically, when you try … Continue reading
Setup Domain Mapping to WordPress Network
Once Network is enabled, you can have multiple blogs created under the same site. Domain mapping allows for each blogs to appear as a different site. The WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin accomplishes the goal: Install the plugin via … Continue reading
Create a WordPress Network
Since WordPress now has the network capability built-in, it’s very straight forward to create a network of blogs. WordPress handles two different types of network: sub-domains – i.e. http://<blog_name>.your-site.com sub-sites – i.e. http://your-site.com/<blog_name> The sub-domain approach requires more work in … Continue reading


