Category: WordPress

WordPress 3.1 vs 3.0 vs. 3.1.1 and “archives” URL’s

Updated on Apr 07, 2011 @ 02:54:

If you made the change below for 3.1RC-3.1 and/or used manually created tag/category links in 3.1RC-3.1 and just upgraded to 3.1.1, you may find that the links are broken. The reason is that in 3.1.1 the tag and category links returned to the 3.0 style with the word “archives” in the URL.

To make it work you can change .htaccess to the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase / #or where your blog root is

#RewriteRule archives/category/(.*) category/$1 [L,R=301]
#RewriteRule archives/tag/(.*) tag/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^category/(.*) archives/category/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^tag/(.*) archives/tag/$1 [L,R=301]

Posted on Feb 25, 2011 @ 00:22:

In WordPress 3.1 the link structure have been changed

from (< =3.0.x):

wp/archives/category and wp/archives/tag
to (>= 3.1.x)
wp/category and wp/tag

If you have existing “hard” links to tags or categories, add the following lines (in red) to .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule archives/category(.*)$ category$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule archives/tag(.*)$ tag$1 [L,R=301]

How to serve attachments from a free CDN (Coral)

You can use Coral free CDN to off-load the WordPress attachments (usually images). In order to use Coral you need to add “.nyud.net” to the site DNS address. For example, http://www.alekz.net will become http://www.alekz.net.nyud.net. Coral is usually too slow to serve all static content, so the most effective solution would be to use it only for the biggest files.

Here’s a simple solution. Add the following to functions.php of your current theme:

add_filter ('wp_get_attachment_url', 'freecdn_url');

function freecdn_url ($url)
{
    if (! is_attachment () ) return $url; 
    $cdn_url = ".nyud.net";
    $decomposed_url = explode ("/", $url);
    $decomposed_url[2] =  $decomposed_url[2] . $cdn_url;
    $url = implode("/", $decomposed_url);
    return $url;
}

Your theme (e.g. the bundled “TwentyTen”) must use wp_get_attachment_url(), of course. If not – you got the idea, didn’t you? πŸ˜‰

Also, you can use freecdn_url () function to rewrite any URL you want to download from Coral.

How to replace the WP comment form with a WYSIWYG editor

You can replace the standard WordPress comment form with a built-in WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE.

Find the file where the comment form is defined. Usually it’s comment.php in your theme

For WP <3.0 it looks something like:

 Continue reading "How to replace the WP comment form with a WYSIWYG editor"

WordPress and TinyMCE

TinyMCE (platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor) is developed by Moxiecode Systems AB.

Update wp-includes/js/tinymce with files from tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce

3d party TinyMCE plugins can be downloaded from SourceForge and should be placed in wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins

To activate plugins and/or tune TinyMCE edit wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php (do not forget to make a backup copy first).

To add/remove plugins change $plugins variable. By default (wp2.6) it’s set to:

$plugins = array( 'safari', 'inlinepopups', 'autosave', 'spellchecker', 'paste', 'wordpress', 'media', 'fullscreen' , 'wpeditimage');

If you use full version of TinyMCE (e.g. downloaded from Moxiecode) instead of the bundled one, this string may look like (see Plugins reference):

$plugins = array( 'safari', 'inlinepopups', 'autosave', 'spellchecker', 'paste', 'wordpress', 'media', 'fullscreen', 'advhr', 'advimage', 'advlink', 'emotions', 'inlinepopups', 'insertdatetime', 'layer', 'nonbreaking', 'pagebreak', 'preview', 'searchreplace', 'style', 'table', 'visualchars', 'xhtmlxtras' , 'wpeditimage');

To add buttons to 4 available rows modify corresponding variables $mce_buttons, $mce_buttons_2, $mce_buttons_3 and $mce_buttons_4 (see Control reference). For example:

$mce_buttons = apply_filters('mce_buttons', array('search', 'replace', 'bold', 'italic', 'strikethrough',  'underline', '|', 'bullist', 'numlist', 'blockquote', '|', 'justifyleft', 'justifycenter', 'justifyright', 'justifyfull', '|', 'link', 'unlink', 'image', 'wp_more', 'pagebreak',  'spellchecker', 'fullscreen', 'table', 'wp_adv' ));

$mce_buttons_2 = apply_filters('mce_buttons_2', array('formatselect', 'code', 'forecolor', '|', 'pastetext', 'pasteword', 'removeformat', '|', 'media', 'charmap', '|', 'outdent', 'indent', '|', 'undo', 'redo', 'wp_help', 'advhr', 'emotions', 'insertdate', 'inserttime', 'preview' ));

$mce_buttons_3 = apply_filters('mce_buttons_3', array('fontselect', 'fontsizeselect', 'fullpage'));

The result can be viewed in a browser:
/wp/wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php

Note: AdBlock Plus Firefox extension blocks the contents of the TinyMCE popups (you will see empty pop-up windows).Β  You might consider replacing ABP with Adblock or whitelisting your whole site.