Do you want to make photo galleries for Wordpress at lightning speed?
Do you have a Lightbox plugin?
Do you have Photo Shop 7 or above?
Do you have an HTML editing program with Advanced Search & Replace?
Do you have FTP software and know how to use it?
If you answered Yes to all of the above, read on…
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Wordpress web site owners often come to realize that they want to change the URL of their web site, whether it is because they want the site to be accessible from the root folder (without using a redirect) or because they want to change the domain name of the web site.
If you’d like to do this, first ask yourself if you feel comfortable editing the code in your theme files, and if you feel comfortable using FTP to upload the edits to your web server. Remember to use a plain-text editor to make all of your edits, not a word processing program like MS Word. If you can do those things without hesitation, you’ve made it over the first hurdle.
Atahualpa from Bytes For All just might be the most impressive free Wordpress theme available to date.
Much like the Thesis theme from DIY Themes, you get a complete back-end interface for customizing the theme. However, Thesis starts at $87 for the Personal license, and Atahualpa is free.
The most important thing to know about how to customize Atahualpa is that you can create your own PHP templates for pages such as multi-post archives (including category & tag pages), search results, single posts, etc. People are often confused by the fact that the theme does not come with templates such as archive.php, search.php, single.php and others that you might expect, but what is not entirely obvious is that you can create these templates and upload them, and Wordpress will automatically use them.
I see a lot of people asking how to make their Wordpress site accessible from the root directory folder. In most standard installations, Wordpress is installed in a sub-folder and the only way to access the site is to add that sub-folder name to the site’s URL.
If you read the wordpress.org support forum you’ll find posts suggesting that you move the Wordpress index.php file to the root folder and change a few things in that file. You’ll also see replies from people who have tried it unsuccessfully.
Here’s a little trick that will allow you to access your Wordpress site from the root URL without moving or modifying any of the Wordpress installation files. This method will “hide” the Wordpress installation’s folder name when people access your home page but they will see the folder name in URLs when they start clicking around…
WOT (Web of Trust) is a free Internet security addon for Internet Explorer (PC only) and Firefox (Mac or PC). This utility allows you to rate web sites for trustworthiness and will warn you before you enter an untrustworthy site. The simple setup offers three levels of protection:
Set to Basic default, WOT will warn you if you attempt to connect to any sites that have a poor level of Trustworthiness, Vendor Reliability, or Privacy. A “poor” or “very poor” rating in any area will trigger a warning. When child safety mode is in place, it will also block sites that contain mature or inappropriate content.
