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

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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

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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

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Using Themes in WordPress

Using Themes « WordPress Codex. Activate in Administration -> Super Admin -> Themes before using it in the individual sites.

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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”

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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