I maintain a Wordpress site for a client of mine. They do all the content, I just keep it running and do the theme work.
A site they've linked to a few hundred times has changed domain and they've (very rudely) not redirected traffic from their old domain, so users clicking on an old link see a 404.
So we're left in the position where we need to fix all the links. The static ones (in theme files) have been easy enough to replace but, as I say, there are hundreds of these blighters littered all over the website in the posts.
Is there a quick method to find-and-replace links like this?
If there's not a Wordpress or PHP method, I'm happy to log in to the database over SSH and fire some SQL off manually... But what SQL do I want?
Running a query is indeed the easiest and cleanest way.
Back up the database of course
According to this blog post (I'm too lazy to look the columns up on a live WP but this looks about right), the right query is
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content =
REPLACE (post_content,
'http://www.oldsiteurl.com',
'http://www.newsiteurl.com');
There also is a WordPress plugin for that: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/ I have used it when moving my own site and it worked nicely.
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Say I have api.wordpresssite.com where I will be entering data, uploading images and so on. Then saw that I want to consume the WordPress API on another site like mysite.com.
WordPress will then assume that every link in content will be api.wordpresssite.com It will also embed images with the same URL because the links and media are absolute.
Am I supposed to process the content on mysite.com looking for links but ignoring media or is there a plugin or function that I can add to my theme to do this?
I have tried changing the base URL and while it works for links, it breaks media uploads.
There are multiple endpoints so I am thinking that even if there was a function to add, it would be too far down the line of execution to do anything.
For Example, there is the WP API, as well as JetPack, and Yoast that I am using.
There are tonnes of articles on "How to use WordPress in Laravel" but not a single article has talked about how to "normalize" the content for the site that is consuming it.
The API feels like it's only true out of the box use is to be used with some kind Javascript based front end.
What I would like is a headless WordPress API with relative URLs for content links.
I was looking for the same answer and solved it this way:
What you would need to do is set the site URL to www.remote-domain.com.
You can do this by going to WP Admin > Settings > General
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Then on your functions.php file or somewhere you can add a filter (plugin etc.) add this filter in.
add_filter( 'rest_url', 'fix_rest_url');
function fix_rest_url( $url ) {
return $url;
}
Got the answer from: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/49146
My suspicion that no one really uses the WordPress API seems to be confirmed. Mainly on an external site.
I had to create some render methods that looked for HREF links and remap them on the content, and menus.
It still seems silly and not very polished.
It seems like others have experienced similar issues as me in the past on this subject, but nobody has provided a complete answer.
I'm attempting to run a PHP script to update the permalink structure in the wp_options table for a slew of Wordpress blogs. I want to connect to each database and update the permalinks without having to log in to each blog and update the setting through the UI.
I'm successful at connecting to the DB and updating the permalink_structure field with the proper codes, but it causes a 404 when attempting to view any posts.
Is Wordpress updating other tables/fields to fully enable the permalink?? I'm having a hard time finding the complete answer to this.
BTW: If there are edits being made to the .htaccess when this is done through the Wordpress UI, I'm not seeing it. The htaccess looks unchanged when I do this through the UI.
Thanks!
Wordpress permalink rewrite_rules are kinda troublesome. They are great if you wanna do basic stuff, but it's damn hard to do some complex rules with it.
What exact structure you wanna use?
Remember that htaccess created by Wordpress just redirects everything to index.php, which loads Wordpress system (wp_load()), and one of its components parses REQUEST_URI.
First it tries to to bind REQUEST_URI into one of its regexes, which makes it understand what kind of resource is being requested (category, tag, page, post, etc), then it tries to find which resource it is (if it's a post, find which post by it's slug).
So, I've read The Loop and I got the hang of it. (I created a page that lists the 3 most recent posts, a page that shows a page (as opposed to a post), and so on.)
However, it seems silly that, in order to integrate a WordPress blog into an existing site, I'd have to replicate all the different kinds of pages (lists of posts, the posts themselves, pages, etc.)
Is there a generic way of doing this?
The full idea is something like this.
The blog itself (with its ugly default template) is installed at http://blog.example.com.
I want to integrate the blog into an existing site, at the URL http://example.com/blog.
I'm doing a mod_rewrite that forwards the entire query string, e.g. http://blog.example.com/?p=7 gets rewritten to http://example.com/blog?p=7.
Now, in my PHP code at http://example.com/blog, I want to do something like this:
query_posts($_GET);
// display results
wp_reset_query();
That's where I'm stuck. Basically, I want to display exactly what's in the "content" area of a default WordPress template, on my site, according to whatever the query string dictates. Almost as if I were just using an iframe. I would rather not have to parse the query string to figure out whether I have to loop through this or that or turn off the $more global or not, etc.
What am I missing?
Instead, should I be installing the blog at http://example.com/blog and creating a template that mimics the website? This seemed complicated so I didn't go this route, but maybe someone should change my mind.
Appreciate any help, including advice for alternative designs.
Have you considered outputting the blog into a full rss/ outputting the blog as json and then pulling it in that way?
I'm testing a new template for a wordpress based site, and I'd like to test it directly on the live version instead of making copies. I thought I could create a test user (wordpress is bridged with vbulletin which handles user auth), serve the usual theme to anyone BUT that specific user, who would get the new testing one.
I don't want to install a plugin, I'm looking for the right place to edit to insert this check:
if logged user == test_user_id
serve 'testtheme'
else
serve 'normaltheme'
The userid can be get from $_COOKIE.
I tried hacking the get_template() function in wp-include/theme.php but apparently that was not enough. Any suggestion?
This is the best way to "test" or develop a theme behind the scenes without needing to alter too much of your Wordpress core or make custom changes...
http://digwp.com/2009/12/develop-themes-behind-the-scenes/
Just logging into my old Wordpress.com blog, I see that I can do all the previewing I want from the themes manager already - click around to any page I like, or bring up the frame's URL to see what query string I'd have to append to a URL to get the same preview, e.g.
?preview=1&template=pub/mytheme&stylesheet=pub/mytheme
Any reason that's not enough?
Perhaps you should add a column to your user table, call it "is_beta" and if it's set to 1 then enable beta features/themes. This way you can easily add or remove people from the beta, and when you're beta is ready to launch, you flush the column for everybody and make the features default.
Hello I've recently added a weather widget for people to add to their site.
Is basically a php page that people can link to.
My question is can I somehow put a counter or something to count how many people are using my widget?
my widget is located here http://www.site.com/widget/ it's in farsi language.
Well, it depends - do you want to know how many people have used your widget in their web site, or how many people have watched web sites that use your widgets? These numbers are completely different.
For the later option, jonstjohn's method would work great: For easy implementation and lots of features I recommend the Google Analytics way - they have really fancy graphs that show a lot of interesting information.
If on the other hand you want to count how many web sites are using your widget then you can do as follows:
Create a table in your database with a varchar column. Put a unique index on that column.
In your code, read the $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"] parameter to get the URL that called your widget.
Now you want to strip just the domain part from that URL as a web site would probably put your widget in their template so it will be available in all of their pages. So if you want to count web sites and not pages in web sites, then do something like
$domainParts = explode("/", $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]);
$domain = $domainParts[2];
Now insert the domain you found out into your table. If this web site has already called your widget once then the insert would fail with a unique constraint error - just ignore the error (for example by using "#" on your insert command, like #mysql_query("INSERT INTO...") ).
To know how many web sites are using your widget, simply count the number of rows in the table.
You can place tracking code on the PHP page. Possibilities are:
Google analytics code
Record each time the .php page executes by inserting a row in a database
I'm sure there are others, but those should work.