This has been discussed before but it looks like a lot of things have changed recently and most answers no longer apply.
Does anyone know of a way to link/bridge the user databases of phpBB and WP? For the purposes of this question i do not (necessarily) mean single sign on or sharing topics, simply that a user created in the WP frontend will have user access to phpBB and vice versa (a user created in phpBB will be added to WP user database).
There are a number of plugins out there that can 'sort of' do this. However, few will work for WP multisite. The (one?) that did has recently disappeared and most of the other plugins seem to no longer be under development (eg WP-united).
Does anyone know of either a plugin or way to do this manually?
Thanks in advance for any replies
i'd like to know this as well. my site has been broken since the WP 4.0 update
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I've been asked by a prospective client, to do an audit on their WordPress site.
They have asked me,
if I can check their all plugins are up to date too but they wont / cant (yet) give me access to the admin panel.
Is there a way I can do this? I know I can find the WP version in the code of the site (and this one needs updating)
Hope someone can help.
Thanks in advance
You could ask them for a screenshot of their plugins page (www.example.com/wp-admin/plugins.php), and then cross-reference the versions listed there with WordPress.org to check if they are up-to-date.
newbie here.
A 'Stardate' question here:
I am creating an offbeat news site 'thedailyplanetonline.wordpress.com' using the free version of Wordpress, and would like to put something in the top widget bar that calculates and displays a Star Trek Stardate, Julian and Gregorian Dates, Mayan dates, and so on.
Since Javascript has no 'easy way' of working with the free version, do you have any advice or crafty suggestions on how to get this to work?
At the moment its not possible to buy a upgrade
And again. Keep in mind this is the free version of Wordpress.
Thank you in advance!
I know this isn't an answer you'd want to hear, but wordpress.com hosted sites most likely cannot do this for you, unless you find a WordPress.com theme that already does this.
The free, hosted version of WordPress does not allow you to add your own themes or plugins, or modify existing themes. You are given a small set of allowed themes and allowed plugins.
If you wanted to have something more custom, you will need to look into self-hosted Wordpress instead. That means either setting up your own web server (only recommended if you know what you're doing), or set up web hosting.
For more information on the limitations of Wordpress.com sites, please see this link:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/what-are-the-limitations-of-wordpress-com/
and if you do go the hosted route, here's a helpful article on migrating your Wordpress.com site:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-properly-move-your-blog-from-wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/
We are planning to create an asp.net website (probably mvc), that needs a cms for news items.
Our content managers and others who require to publish news have asked if they can use wordpress for content management.
Our users have different roles, and news items should be visible to certain roles, or even specific users if possible.
The reason they want wordpress is the manager's user friendliness, so if some other alternative with the same kind of user experience would be ok.
Could anyone please point me in some direction?
NOTE: I'm still doing research at the moment, so I've got nothing holding me back at this point.
There is an API plugin that has been developed to spit out information in JSON, but I have not actually implemented a site with it:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/json-api/
Perhaps you could have the authors work on a wordpress install and create your app to draw content via that plugin?
I too was facing the same issue, little different. We want to have WP as CMS so that our site can take the benefit of SEO which is very easy with WP. SO we installed WP under a folder in the Main ASP.net based website. Initially there were issues, I was unable to run it. Finally managed to run it. Solution is posted here - http://www.wwwlabz.com/how-to-run-a-php-based-website-from-a-subfolder-in-asp-net-website. Hope it will help someone. Actual site where we implemented this is http://www.periproperties.com/content/.
Now I want to have specific section of WP to be accessible on my site. SO I am exploring different options and will post, if found something
Thanks.
DotNetNuke is the most popular ASP.NET based CMS (source). I am implementing my first project in it and so far I am very happy with it.
Note the free edition will not work for you since you need customizable security roles and free has a limited set of predetermined roles. You'll need the pro edition.
I don't know how similar it is to WordPress. Overall, WordPress is much more popular but of course there are platform issues with WordPress since it is Apache based and you want to create an ASP.NET website.
I'm pretty new to web design (but a very experienced programmer) and I'm creating a pretty simple wordpress blog for a friend. Take a look if you want: http://beachief.com/. Right now he has a domain mapped to a wordpress.com account, so I have no access to plugins or custom themes. This is what he wants me to add:
A like/dislike function for all posts
One section with 2 blog columns side by side (not supported by the theme - or any others that I could find)
The ability to let users log in and post their own content
My question is: is this stuff possible to do with a wordpress.com account? Or will he need to switch to an independently hosted wordpress.org site? Let me know what you think, thanks
Personally, I really like Wordpress. It's an incredibly flexible, stable, and strong CMS.
If you're really wanting the like/dislike functions, I found this:
http://www.mrphpguru.com/blog/2011/01/14/like-dislike-post-plugins-for-wordpress/
But there are also some other great post rating alternatives here:
http://www.geeksucks.com/showcases/10-cool-wordpress-plugins-for-ratings.htm
and for people logging in and posting their own content, you can manage users through the Wordpress backend (usually yoursite.com/wp-login or yoursite.com/wp-admin), and allow or deny specific permissions from them.
He will need to switch to Wordpress.org and be independantly hosted.
Wordpress.com does not let you use plugins or custom themes, unless you pay for a VIP plan.
I have a question about moving wordpress sites around. I've read most of the Support Docs about moving a wordpress site. My question is this, what would you guys recommend in regards to moving only certain posts from one site into a totally different domain. My current domain is a tech/blog installation. The past year or so, I've been posting my technical stuff to a different domain, and my current domain is collecting quite a bit of dust. What I'm wanting to do is turn my current domain into a personal blog and move only my technical articles over to the new blog.
Obviously, there's probably an easy way to move posts and comments over (i haven't looked into it but i'm pretty sure I can do this pretty easily). The true question is how I would present these posts on the current site once they are moved over to the new domain? Do I keep them on the current domain? Should I redirect users to the new domain automatically on only these posts? Should I remove them from the current site? These type of questions I'm wondering and if you guys have an pointers please let me know.
I ended up installing the Redirection plugin for Wordpress after exporting from the original Wordpress install and importing the "old" articles into the new site install. With the plugin I was able to create permanent redirections, and since then, search engines have updated and reflected the new site in search results, so this was definitely the best solution.