I recently moved a friends blog onto his new web hosts but unfortunately the images are not working.
This is due to the old host having the following path for images:
http://www.example.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/imagename.jpg
The new host uses a different layout and has this path for the file:
http://www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/imagename.jpg
'Blog' has been removed.
Does anyone know the easiest way to fix this issue?
Use this query on your database:
UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://www.old-domain.com/blog','http://www.new-domain.com');
I've found this tutorial on Exporting and Importing Wordpress very helpful in such situations.
Search RegEx is a good plugin to be able to search and replace with Grep through all posts and pages. Also look in template files for hardcoded links in the form of <>php bloginfo(); ?> for the unneeded /blog/ in the path.
Search replace is a good plugin as well as Search RegEx. Especially if your data to replace is widespread throughout your site. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/
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I use a CDN to serve my images, which I upload into Wordpress. My settings were:
It worked perfectly but it doesn't work anymore since I updated to Wordpress 4.5. This are my settings now:
This filter doesn't work either:
function my_cdn_upload_url() {
return 'http://media.mydomain.com';
}
add_filter( 'pre_option_upload_url_path', 'my_cdn_upload_url' );
Does anyone know how should I serve my images from a CDN?
Thank you.
Looks like you upgraded from quite an old WP version, didn't you? Uploads folder and path options were removed in Settings -> Media a long time ago.
So what does your real path for uploads look like? It's not a standard domain.com/wp-content/uploads// correct?
If yes - where do new images get uploaded to after the upgrade?
Try playing around with https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-upload-dir/ and see if it helps get your images back to CDN.
The easiest way is editing the content of "upload_url_path" in the wp_options table:
upload_url_path > http://media.mydomain.com
Thank you!
The problem with the approaches above are you won't have file write permissions to upload images to your CDN.
Another approach is to upload all of your images to somewhere - e.g. Amazon S3, or keep them on affiliate network CDNs - and then store your image URLs in postmeta for your posts or products.
You then need to alter your theme files to pull the images from the postmeta fields instead of from the featured image or thumbnail fields.
FYI - this approach will massively speed up imports since WordPress will create multiple sizes of images using up CPU and disk space.
I created a plugin to solve this:
https://www.wpintense.com/product/external-images/
There is a hidden admin page where you can find all the options:
http://localhost/wp-admin/options.php
Find the upload_url_path option and set a value.
Note:
After you give it value, then the "Store uploads in this folder" which is the upload_path, and "Full URL path to files" which is the upload_url_path options will also appear on the Media Settings page:
http://localhost/wp-admin/options-media.php
The options only appear on the Media Settings page if a value is already set. This is the code in WordPress Core that defines how it works:
/*
* If upload_url_path is not the default (empty),
* or upload_path is not the default ('wp-content/uploads' or empty),
* they can be edited, otherwise they're locked.
*/
if ( get_option( 'upload_url_path' ) || get_option( 'upload_path' ) && 'wp-content/uploads' !== get_option( 'upload_path' ) ) :
BEST WAY is to use w3 total cache.
It has a built in cdn support and of course you can use it's main functionality , caching , most useful to speedup website.
Some background if you want to see why I'm doing what I'm doing:
I have a client who wanted a new blog done with Wordpress on a separate subdomain. Their existing website is on Drupal, which I have had 0 experience with prior to this. They have a pretty extensive navigation on that site (multiple levels), so rather than create duplicates of nav menus that would need updated on both wordpress and drupal, I am using YQL to pull in the whole navigation onto the Wordpress website. I know this isn't great for SEO, but at this point I'm not worried about that.
The issue I have is that all of the links on the Drupal website do not include the http://domain.com so that none of the links work on the blog site, because they're going to relative pages on that subdomain that don't exist.
So in summary, what I'm trying to accomplish:
I need each href that Drupal is generating to begin with 'http://domain.com'. Currently they just start with '/pagename'. I have no clue what Drupal version the site is on nor on how to find it, sorry. The site is using Drupal's Nice Menu plugin as well. I've been digging through the files for a couple of hours now, and can't figure out where I need to make the change. Please help! Thanks
Edit: dobeerman mentioned using custom_url_rewrite_outbound to settings.php. This seems to accomplish close to what I want. I tried adding this to the end of settings.php:
function custom_url_rewrite_outbound(&$path, &$options, $original_path) {
global $user;
$path = 'http://www.reillypainting.com/'.$path;
}
However, the end result of an href in the menu becomes this example:
href="/http%3A/%252Fwww.reillypainting.com/services/sell/rent-your-house"
So the other code generating Drupal's menu is trying to escape the :// and it's also still adding a / to the beginning of the href. Anyone know how to avoid this?
Drupal has function custom_url_rewrite_outbound you can add to settings.php
Use this code:
function custom_url_rewrite_outbound(&$path, &$options, $original_path) {
$options['absolute'] = 1;
}
i created a Worpress 3 Multisite with 5 Sub-Blogs.
Is it possible to share the same Media-Library in this Blogs?
i changed upload_path in wp_1_options and wp_2_options for example and also in my backend in "Super Admins" Menu but it has no effect.
The files are uploaded to wp_contents/blogs.dir/1-2-3/files and the options have no effect.
any ideas? thanks!
One way around is to hook onto the load events of all media admin files, and switch to the main blog using switch_to_blog(1).
This would mean in any blog admin, the media library will always run as if it were on the main blog.
Note that a couple caveats include;
The media library for all blogs is stored in the main blog database table.
You may run into problems with inserting media into posts outside the main blog admin
You will run into problems with inserting galleries into posts outside the main blog admin
User permissions may be false positives or negatives
My best advice would be to use the code example below, and have a good play around with blog admins, logged in as different users, with different roles, and see what happens.
function use_main_blog_library()
{
switch_to_blog(1);
}
add_action('load-media-new.php', 'use_main_blog_library');
add_action('load-media-upload.php', 'use_main_blog_library');
add_action('load-media.php', 'use_main_blog_library');
add_action('load-upload.php', 'use_main_blog_library');
In my searching on this topic, several posts lead back to this one, so I figured I'd share an idea that might help someone wanting to develop a suitable plugin to solve this...
Use get_site_option() and update_site_option() to store global plugin options.
Add an option via hooks to choose if a media upload should be shared network-wide and let the plugin track which media files and where they're located at.
Again, using hooks, have the shared items show up in each blog's media library and perhaps add an indicator showing the file is a network share.
I have spent several hours playing with the administrator hooks and filters and this could be accomplished through them, although I'm not savvy enough to know how to fully integrate it with all of the media library features.
The Shiba Media Library Plugin could serve as a valuable reference since they have utilized several custom features for the Media Library via hooks and filters.
I really wish I had the spare time to work on this right now because I would take my best shot at it. I hope this helps someone else.
I have found a possible solution, which works for me in WP3.7.1 (I haven't tested it in earlier versions)
Create a filter, which overrides the default upload directories:
add_filter('upload_dir', 'ms_global_upload_dir');
function ms_global_upload_dir($uploads)
{
$ms_dir = '/sites/' . get_current_blog_id();
$uploads['path'] = str_replace($ms_dir, "", $uploads['path']);
$uploads['url'] = str_replace($ms_dir, "", $uploads['url']);
$uploads['basedir'] = str_replace($ms_dir, "", $uploads['basedir']);
$uploads['baseurl'] = str_replace($ms_dir, "", $uploads['baseurl']);
return $uploads;
}
Important: the 'Upload Url Path' settings should be empty in Site Settings or if you need to customize it, check the results by dumping the $uploads array to view possible conflicts.
To check if your version of WP supports this method, locate function wp_upload_dir() in file wp-includes/functions.php and find function call: $uploads = apply_filters( 'upload_dir' ...
If it presents, the solution above should work.
Hope, this helps ...
Additionally, I have spent almost two days to make a solution to replicate/delete the uploaded media in each of the blogs with action hooks 'add_attachment' and 'delete_attachment' by generating the necessary post and postmeta entries in the corresponding database tables. With this, you can add/delete media in any of the blogs, that will be visible in/removed from all blogs media library. If you are interested, I can share it...
Cheers
I'm putting together a web site that needed to include some signup and blogging capability. Wordpress seems to be a perfect fit for that portion of the app, so I've started experimenting with it. I see plenty of tutorials on creating custom themes so I don't expect that to be a problem.
What I'm not able to figure out is what to do with the rest of my site. I will have other non-blogging related php pages that will access a database, etc. I see that wordpress has a capability for generic pages of static content, but these would need to be coded PHP pages. I just can't find a way of having the wordpress theme apply to other php pages outside of wordpress. I was hoping of just doing something like
wp_header();
blah blah
wp_sidebar();
blah blah
wp_footer();
but I'm not really seeing any examples or documentation on how this might be done. Am I missing a key piece of documentation?
EDIT: The answer is to essentially copy and paste a file from the theme, with one crucial addition:
require( dirname(__FILE__) . 'path_to_wp_root/wp-load.php');
That sets up the wordpress environment and allows me to call get_header(), get_sidebar(), get_footer(), etc.
Generally, "yes".
A well-designed WordPress theme uses mostly CSS/Stylesheets for display, and you are correct in your assumptions: Look through the "Codex" about Theme Design / Template Design (http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates).
Essentially you could base your design on some of the current theme files, but leave out "the loop".
I think what you really want to do is include wp-load.php at the top of your php file. This will give you access to all the wordpress functions (wp-header(), wp-footer(), etc).
wordpress has pages in it. each page can have its own content and its own template and still be part of the whole wordpress site. i mean it will share the header and the footer if you want and will share the css and javascript that you include in both.
for more information on pages and pages templates
What you should do is develop your other non-blogging related php pages as a wordpress plugin. There are plenty of references online on how to do this, for example:
http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Creating-a-Custom-Wordpress-Plugin-from-Scratch/41834
Another option is to use Wordpress as the CMS for all content on your site. This is increasingly becoming popular, as Wordpress is quite good at non-blog-things these days.
define('STYLESHEETPATH', '');
define('TEMPLATEPATH', '');
$base = substr(__DIR__, 0,strrpos(__DIR__, '/[name of the dir where u store the php files]'));
require_once($base."/wp-load.php");
require_once($base."/wp-includes/pluggable.php");
easy to use wordpress function outside
I've been looking for this all over, and simply cannot find it.
I have a blog that has no titles in its blog posts, but I'd like, for various usability reasons, to have the permalinks use the first few words from entries that do not have titles as the permalink slug.
ie, if the post on sample.com/blog is
Title: (no title)
Content: Ten Easy Ways to Lose Weight
The permalink could be sample.com/blog/ten-easy-ways-to-lose-weight.
Are there any plugins that do this? For the life of me, I cannot find one. (xposted to WP support, but no one is responding)
You could enter in titles, and then not display them in your view template.
I doubt there's anything like this already built for wordpress. To get your blog to do this, you have to write a plugin that does the following:
Generates the slug while checking
for uniqueness should you ever start
more than one entry with the same words
Processes URL requests to recognize slug permalinks and then updates the query step to locate the correct post in the database. This might involve a new db table of slugs (which would also help with the uniqueness issue)
In short, WP is designed to retrieve almost everything by keys, and to support slugs like this you'd have to create a new key type.
btw: if anything is retrieved by IDs (keys), it is technically not a permalink. so, wordpress probably fails in providing true permalinks.
ps: it's not that difficult to write an handler/dispatcher that would parse URL and takle out the unique permalink and then match it to the DB by the string (not by the key!).
something like:
$url=$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
echo 'URL called: ',$url,'<br />';
$dispatchfile=$dispatcher->Dispatch($url);
if ($dispatchfile)
{
echo 'launching ',$dispatchfile,' inclusion<br />';
require($dispatchfile);
}
else
{
echo 'dispatcher failed to find module, will check physical file<br />';
if (file_exists($url)) echo 'dispatcher found physical file<br />';
else echo 'nada, throw 404!';
}
You can get a permalink redirect plugin from
http://scott.yang.id.au/code/permalink-redirect/
Works fine with WP2.71
It takes the Title and auto-creates a slug from that so you would have to manually enter the slug you wanted for each page if you have a Blank Title.
You should be able to hack Scott's PHP file (it is one page only) to look up the page code and select a portion of it to use as a slug though.
In addition, I solve incorrect page requests using a .htaccess rewrite file to bring up the index page upon an incorrect page request.
Download a copy of my rewrite file here
https://oulixes.com/htaccess_example.zip
Unzip the txt file and rename as .htaccess and upload into your root directory
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
Billy