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willi — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:06:54 +0000

Will Brown – Team Lead, Maintenance Crew
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WordPress 2.1 in its Own Folder with a Static Front Page

willi — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:32:24 +0000

If you have an existing WordPress 2.0 and you’ve been using the old static_front plugin from Semiologic you might run into some issues… I was using v 2.4 of sem_static_front and once I upgraded to WordPress 2.1, the plugin wasn’t working any longer. While WordPress 2.1 now offers its own control for that setting, that too was not working correctly for me. But please, forgive us a word from our sponsors and read on…

My installation of WordPress is in a folder below my root directory. Therefore all of my WordPress folders and files are below www.soulcode.net in a folder named blog. Of course I didn’t want visitors to www.soulcode.net to be presented with a different look and feel and so I followed the WordPress codex about giving WordPress in its own directory while leaving the WordPress index.php at the root of my site. And so in the world of WordPress 2.0, using the sem_static_front plugin and the /* Short and sweet */ index.php, I was whistling dixe, bob’s your uncle, a-ok, rockin’ like dokken… in other words I had a static front page and my blog postings lived beneath www.soulcode.net/blog. Whew, all this typing’s making me thirsty… How about we sell some Carlsberg beer or something right about here…

And so, I merrily upgraded to WordPress 2.1 with illusions that it would be as easy as the upgrade from WordPress 2.02 to 2.05 and boy did I cry. In WordPress 2.1 Options/Reading the first section is titled Front Page and looks a bit like this:

Well I had selected Home to be my Home page and another page that I called Blog to be the index of my blog and it wouldn’t work. The root address of my site kept returning the latest posts, i.e., the blog index page.

By the way, I had followed the WordPress Codex in regard to these settings in the Options/General of my WordPress address (URL) and Blog address (URL). And so, WTF?

I tested on a different site, doing a fresh install of WordPress 2.1 and using the Options/Reading/Front Page settings and they worked like a charm. I searched the WordPress support forums but found no definitive answers… until I came across this very confusing document. It is written reasonably clearly, however, the authors provide too many options, and like a witch doctor in a drugstore I was overwhelmed. And so I took off my shirt, smeared my chest with chicken grease and downloaded the Filosofo Home-Page Control. I uploaded it to the /wp-content/plugins/ folder and activated it in the Plugins Dashboard section and it ‘just worked’. I left its Home-Page Page option set at WordPress Default and its Blog directory option blank. This is rather strange behavior from code, essentially I’ve activated a plugin which is telling WordPress to do what it is already configured to do that is, use a certain page as the index of my site and another “page” as the index of my blog.

Soulcode moves to WordPress 2.1

willi — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:07:51 +0000

The new version of WordPress is now available. It offers many new features as well as increased speed and security. Soulcode is in the process of redesigning its template to be 2.1 compatible so look out for our new look coming soon!

SoulCode

willi — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:19:56 +0000

SoulCode is a technology consultancy: we understand your problem, recommend an approach, and provide a solution.

We analyze, develop, implement, and evaluate solutions for Internet Marketing, Website and Application Development, Content and Digital Asset Management Systems and Information Technology (email, file, print, database).

Below is partial list, with a link to examples, of our web development technology skills:

WordPress – This site
HTML and CSS
PHP and MySQL

Work

willi — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 22:53:28 +0000

One example of our work is a WordPress website for the environmental non-profit LEAP (Land, Empowerment, Animals, People). This site features a customized theme for WordPress 2.0 with an identical WordPress installation beneath the main site serving as the Projects section of the website.

The site includes integration with Gallery 2.0 and the WordPress Gallery plugin.

The full list of technologies mastered, sites developed and mountains climbed is under development. Please check back soon!