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Amd, E Mail, greyzed, media integration, Site Revamp, Theme, wordpress

Site Revamp

We’ve had a bit of a spruce-up.
The new theme is “greyzed” by “the forge”.
It includes feedburner RSS, Feedburner e-mail, amd social media integration as standard, and looks amazing.
Let us know what YOU think..

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Access Database, Admin Functions, Admin Panel, Business Website, Dashboard, Doubt, Ingenious Solution, Messes, Notepad, Options, plugins, Running, Slider, Small Business, Supercache, wordpress, wordpress plugins

WORDPRESS: How to disable all active plugins, without access to the dashboard..

See my earlier post as to why I needed to do this:

WP-Supercache Ate My Website

My site was down. Dead. No access to the admin functions. The problem was a plugin gone bad (when I tried to disable it).

So, I needed to disable plugins, but couldn’t get into the admin panel.

The excellent support guys at Unlimited Web Hosting came up with this ingenious solution:

Here’s what you do: use CPANEL or PLESK to access the WordPress database of your site directly. It’ll be something like phpmyadmin. Details vary with web hosting firms. If in doubt, ask yours.

Browse the WP_OPTIONS table. Look for a record called “active_plugins”.
Copy the contents of this field into notepad, and save it, just in case.
Now go back to the database, and EMPTY the contents of “active plugins”, and save it. (you can always restore it from the copy you made).

Now access your site. It should come back up, but with no plugins running, so it’ll be weird. Now go into admin as usual, and re-enable all plugins one-by-one, EXCEPT the one that caused the problem.
I’d DELETE that one..

** DISCLAIMER. If you try this solution, and it messes things up, that’s your problem. I take no responsibility for it. It worked for me. **

** If it all goes wrong, simply restore the database from your backup. You DO have a backup, right? **

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Access Database, Admin Functions, Admin Panel, Dashboard, Doubt, Ingenious Solution, Messes, Notepad, Options, plugins, Running, wordpress, wordpress plugins

WORDPRESS: How to disable all active plugins, without access to the dashboard..

See my earlier post as to why I needed to do this..

My site was down. Dead. No access to the admin functions. The problem was a plugin gone bad (when I tried to disable it).

So, I needed to disable plugins, but couldn’t get into the admin panel.

The excellent support guys at Unlimited Web Hosting came up with this ingenious solution:

Here’s what you do: use CPANEL or PLESK to access the WordPress database of your site directly. It’ll be something like phpmyadmin. Details vary with web hosting firms. If in doubt, ask yours.

Browse the WP_OPTIONS table. Look for a record called “active_plugins”.
Copy the contents of this field into notepad, and save it, just in case.
Now go back to the database, and EMPTY the contents of “active plugins”, and save it. (you can always restore it from the copy you made).

Now access your site. It should come back up, but with no plugins running, so it’ll be weird. Now go into admin as usual, and re-enable all plugins one-by-one, EXCEPT the one that caused the problem.
I’d DELETE that one..

** DISCLAIMER. If you try this solution, and it messes things up, that’s your problem. I take no responsibility for it. It worked for me. **

** If it all goes wrong, simply restore the database from your backup. You DO have a backup, right? **

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Cach, Dashboard, Database Login, Disaster, Heading Home, Jackpot, Neat Trick, Red Letters, Speed Issues, Supercache, Train, wordpress, wordpress plugin, wp

WP-SUPERCACHE ATE MY WEBSITE! – It’s EVIL!

Whatever you do, BE CAREFUL if you are using the WP-SUPERCACHE WordPress plugin..

I’ll explain the problem: My site was having speed issues, so I investigated alternative cach plugins. I settled on Quick-Cache.
So, I disabled Supercache, which then argued, in BIG RED LETTERS at the top of the dashboard, and advised me to visit it’s settings page, as caching was off. I didn’t want to do that, so I hit “deactivate” again.

BANG!. The site was dead. Not only that, but it was displaying the contents of the WP-CONFIG file in plain text on the frontpage!!! Including database login details, password, etc.. DISASTER!

I was heading home on the train as all this was unfolding, so I got the support guys at Unlimited Web Hosting to shut down the site, which they did, instantly.

We then spent most of the night, on and off, trying to get the site back up.
Unlimited showed me a neat trick to disable all WordPress plugins without access to the site.. I’ll be posting about that later..

Anyway, I decided that wp-supercache had corrupted something, probably wp-functions, so I reloaded WordPress over the existing files (after configuring wp-config).

Jackpot! The site came back up. I then re-enabled the plugins, one-by-one. (they were all disabled from earlier).

DELETED WP-Supercache, and installed and enabled Quick-Cache.
I suggest you do the same.

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Cach, Dashboard, Database Login, Disaster, Engine Optimisation, Heading Home, Jackpot, Neat Trick, Offline Marketers, Red Letters, Speed Issues, Supercache, Train, wordpress, wordpress plugin, Wordpress Themes, wp

WP-SUPERCACHE ATE MY WEBSITE! – It’s EVIL!

Whatever you do, BE CAREFUL if you are using the WP-SUPERCACHE WordPress plugin..

I’ll explain the problem: My site was having speed issues, so I investigated alternative cach plugins. I settled on Quick-Cache.
So, I disabled Supercache, which then argued, in BIG RED LETTERS at the top of the dashboard, and advised me to visit it’s settings page, as caching was off. I didn’t want to do that, so I hit “deactivate” again.

BANG!. The site was dead. Not only that, but it was displaying the contents of the WP-CONFIG file in plain text on the frontpage!!! Including database login details, password, etc.. DISASTER!

I was heading home on the train as all this was unfolding, so I got the support guys at Unlimited Web Hosting to shut down the site, which they did, instantly.

We then spent most of the night, on and off, trying to get the site back up.
Unlimited showed me a neat trick to disable all WordPress plugins without access to the site:

Disable all active plugins.

Anyway, I decided that wp-supercache had corrupted something, probably wp-functions, so I reloaded WordPress over the existing files (after configuring wp-config).

Jackpot! The site came back up. I then re-enabled the plugins, one-by-one. (they were all disabled from earlier).

DELETED WP-Supercache, and installed and enabled Quick-Cache.
I suggest you do the same.

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15 Minutes, Cpanel, cron jobs, digi auto links, Direct Access, Domains, Find Jobs, hosting, Job, Running, Unix, Unix Commands, unix cron, Unix Shell, Web Hosts, wordpress

SETTING UP CRON JOBS IN PLESK

My web hosts Unlimited Web Hosting use the PLESK system rather than CPANEL.
There’s no direct access to the Unix Shell, so you can’t directly use Unix CRON commands.

The solution is in PLESK itself. Select Domains, then the domain you want to add a job to. Now find “Scheduled Jobs”, and select a “System User” – probably the FTP user.
Click “Add Scheduled Job”.
In “Minutes”, add the Minutes you want the job to run, eg “15,30,45,0” to run every 15 minutes.
In “Hours”, add the number(s) of the hours you want the job to run, eg “4,8,12,16,20”, or “*” for ALL hours.
Same applies for the “Day” and “Week” fields.

So, for example, if you want to run a task twice an hour, every hour, every day, use the following:
Put “00,30” in the Minutes field, and put “*” in all the other fields. Simple, but not immediately obvious.

I now have proper CRON jobs running my feedwordpress systems, and also “DIGI AUTO LINKS“. I’ve timed them to minimise cpu use..

Minutes:

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ad rotate, Amazon Affiliate, car books, Car Site, Ccb, Cheap Books, cheap car, custom menu, seo, total control, Widgets, wordpress

Cheap Car Books – Total Site Revamp.

www.cheapcarbooks.com/

The previous theme was based on twentyten. It looked awful.
I’ve spent so much time on my higher-profile sites, that I’ve not touched CCB in months.
Well. Today fixed that.
New Theme “Retro-Fitted”.. Custom menu.
Ad-Rotate. Adsense, Amazon affiliate ads.
New SEO plugin. (all-in-one-SEO -SFWD)
Sorted.

I really MUST mention ad-rotate again here. Set up your ad groups, set up your widgets to use them. Slot in your ads, and you have total control. Wonderful. How I managedusing datafeedr I will never know.

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ad rotate, wordpress

Cheap Car Books – Total Site Revamp.

www.cheapcarbooks.com/

The previous theme was based on twentyten. It looked awful.
I’ve spent so much time on my higher-profile sites, that I’ve not touched CCB in months.
Well. Today fixed that.
New Theme “Retro-Fitted”.. Custom menu.
Ad-Rotate. Adsense, Amazon affiliate ads.
New SEO plugin. (all-in-one-SEO -SFWD)
Sorted.

I really MUST mention ad-rotate again here. Set up your ad groups, set up your widgets to use them. Slot in your ads, and you have total control. Wonderful. How I managedusing datafeedr I will never know.

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Change Address, detective work, feedburner, Images, long time, rss error, wordpress, wordpress rss

WordPress / Feedburner RSS Issue resolved

For a LONG time, no images have been appearing in the RSS feed for www.quirkycars.net. Now, it’s not as simple as it looks, as the standard WordPress RSS is redirected via a plugin called Feedsmith, to Feedburner.
So, either the images were being removed by feedburner, or they were not there in the output from the site.
So I disabled the plugin, and examined the output directly. No images. (http://www.quirkycars.net/feed). Damn.
Checked the Settings->Read options, correctly set to “Full Text”. No option to block images.
After looking around on the web, I FOUND the problem: Change the RSS address to http://www.quirkycars.net/?feed=rss2 : The images ARE present in that one.
So, then: change the Feedburner RSS feed address to [websiteaddress]/?feed=rss2, and we are sorted. Don’t forget to re-enable Feedsmith..
Sounds simple, but this has taken a LOT of detective work..

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feedburner, rss error, wordpress

WordPress / Feedburner RSS Issue resolved

For a LONG time, no images have been appearing in the RSS feed for www.quirkycars.net. Now, it’s not as simple as it looks, as the standard WordPress RSS is redirected via a plugin called Feedsmith, to Feedburner.
So, either the images were being removed by feedburner, or they were not there in the output from the site.
So I disabled the plugin, and examined the output directly. No images. (http://www.quirkycars.net/feed). Damn.
Checked the Settings->Read options, correctly set to “Full Text”. No option to block images.
After looking around on the web, I FOUND the problem: Change the RSS address to http://www.quirkycars.net/?feed=rss2 : The images ARE present in that one.
So, then: change the Feedburner RSS feed address to [websiteaddress]/?feed=rss2, and we are sorted. Don’t forget to re-enable Feedsmith..
Sounds simple, but this has taken a LOT of detective work..