Important Things 1999

Today, upgraded laotudou.com to WordPress V3.0.5, also all of plugins.

After login,  there is a “Turbo” link on the right-top corner before the link of  “Log Out” in your siteadmin page. If you never click it, you should read the follow content I’ve written today(Jan. 11, 2009).

Part I: turbo of admin pages

First, click “Turbo” will lead you to install Google Gear. If you don’t know what’s it, let the dog(Google’s nickname) find it.  Turbo will accelerate your web browser, because it will download and cache the pages you often visit. This “Turbo” link is for turboing your admin pages.

Second,  after installation of Google Gear, restart your web browser, re-login siteadmin page, click “Turbo” again(maybe different), and enable the Gear, mark your website trust. Now, the content will be updating. Waiting, waiting and waiting…, don’t quit before it finish. We’ve finished the part one, siteadmin pages’ turbo.

Third, this is an option, bookmark “Press This” in your tools page. The URL maybe like this

javascript:var%20d=document,w=window,e=w.getSelection,k=d.getSelection,x=d.selection,s=(e?e():(k)?k():(x?x.createRange().text:0)),f=’http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-admin/press-this.php’,l=d.location,e=encodeURIComponent,g=f+’?u=’+e(l.href)+’&t=’+e(d.title)+’&s=’+e(s)+’&v=2′;function%20a(){if(!w.open(g,’t',’toolbar=0,resizable=0,scrollbars=1,status=1,width=720,height=570′)){l.href=g;}}setTimeout(a,0);void(0);

Part II: turbo of website pages

Fourth, let’s turbo webpage part using a plugin named “WP Turbo”, which is written by a Chinese. The following “Read the rest of this entry »” content is copied from his website.

Refer: http://blog.istef.info/wp-turbo/

Fifth, Go to admin page, modify theme according the guide, add code

<?php if (function_exists(‘wp_turbo_button’)) wp_turbo_button(‘Turbo!’); ?>

in your header or menu php source file.

Congratulation! You’ve turboed your WordPress. If you want know the effect, please click “TURBO!” on this blog’s menu.

Read more…

I just copied and pasted the code from source php file,

// Add custom shortcuts
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+c’, ed.getLang(‘justifycenter_desc’), ‘JustifyCenter’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+r’, ed.getLang(‘justifyright_desc’), ‘JustifyRight’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+l’, ed.getLang(‘justifyleft_desc’), ‘JustifyLeft’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+j’, ed.getLang(‘justifyfull_desc’), ‘JustifyFull’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+q’, ed.getLang(‘blockquote_desc’), ‘mceBlockQuote’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+u’, ed.getLang(‘bullist_desc’), ‘InsertUnorderedList’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+o’, ed.getLang(‘numlist_desc’), ‘InsertOrderedList’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+d’, ed.getLang(‘striketrough_desc’), ‘Strikethrough’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+n’, ed.getLang(‘spellchecker.desc’), ‘mceSpellCheck’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+a’, ed.getLang(‘link_desc’), ‘mceLink’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+s’, ed.getLang(‘unlink_desc’), ‘unlink’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+m’, ed.getLang(‘image_desc’), ‘mceImage’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+g’, ed.getLang(‘fullscreen.desc’), ‘mceFullScreen’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+z’, ed.getLang(‘wp_adv_desc’), ‘WP_Adv’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+h’, ed.getLang(‘help_desc’), ‘WP_Help’);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+t‘, ed.getLang(‘wp_more_desc’), ‘WP_More‘);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+p‘, ed.getLang(‘wp_page_desc’), ‘WP_Page‘);

if ( tinymce.isWebKit ) {
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+b‘, ed.getLang(‘bold_desc’), ‘Bold‘);
ed.addShortcut(‘alt+shift+i‘, ed.getLang(‘italic_desc’), ‘Italic‘);
}

Somebody said WordPress V2.7 has a totally different administrator interface, this make me curious about it, so decided to upgrade my website this night, just want to look at how different it is.

1. no backup db, no backup WordPress V2.6.5 codes, just using last night backup

2. access wp-admin, disable all plugins

3. ftp login, uploaded default theme

4. modify theme used from my personal theme(SimpleIT1999) to default theme

5. upload new codes of WordPress V2.7

6. access wp-admin, click upgrade, succeed. Read more…

WordPress V2.7 released today.

But my upgrade failed. After upgraded from V2.6.5 to V2.7, the page cann’t be opened, it shows “Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_remote_request()”.
So, return V2.6.5.
The newest is NOT the best!

I think this could be plugins or themes problem.

The result may be different, if deactivate all plugins and use default theme before upgrade.

Refer: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224102

The most popular plugins I have used,

1. Add to Any: Subscribe Button
2. Akismet
3. All in One SEO Pack
4. FeedBurner FeedSmith
5. Google XML Sitemaps Read more…

The post to remember my first theme, SimpleIT1999. The theme took me one afternoon and one and half night, about 14 hours to finish it.

In this theme, I use 4 sidebars to display dynamic and fixed content.

The left image is screenshot.

WordPress default theme is very beautify, but the usage of sidebar is fixed.

Today, tested some thought of the sidebar’s usage, passed.

If there is enough time, maybe I’ll make a new theme based on the default theme.

From 2008-11-20, I have used WordPress for half of month(used before, but didn’t understand its plugins), and most functions/Plugins have been tested. It’s time to read code and do some modification.

Today, tested WordPress database recover backuped by “WordPress Database Backup”

1. I have set up WordPress Database Backup to backup WordPress database daily and email to my gmail account

2. download the last database backup file .sql.gz from gmail

3. open phpMyAdmin, choose import, and select .gz file downloaded

4. apply.

Succeed!

My backup plan:

1. Plugin using auto-update, and download plugins and other directories to local by FTP

2. WordPress Database backuped by “WordPress Database Backup“, and email to Gmail daily.

3. local files backup to Mozy.com daily.