So I recently moved one of my wordpress site from one spot to another.  Well that no biggy but the problem was I couldn’t upload images.  I was baffled for half an hour why my image wouldn’t upload to the upload folder.  Or why my image wasn’t being displayed.  So after a little bit of playing I found out the problem and here how I fixed it.

Go to WordPress backend and go to Settings\Miscellaneous.  The go to the Store uploads in this folder and edit the directory to the proper lockation.

A simple fix but lots of hair pulling!

I was playing with my blog I changed the wordpress address (URL) settings under general settings.  This cause some problems obviously it pretty much broke my wordpress and most of my functions didn’t work. So after taking sometime trying to figure out how to revert my settings I finally figured it out!

First you have to go in to the SQL database (I use phpMyAdmin so I use that to explain how I fixed it from there). In phpMyAdmin go in to your database and got the “wp_options” section.

There you should see “siteurl” under the “option_name” column and right next to it is the “option_value” there you will see your newly entered url.

To change it just click on the edit button and change that current url to what it was originally hit save and everything so be just fine!
Well at least it worked for me ;D

So I bet you all wondered like I did how do they create those neat icons on their web site and have it displayed in the bookmarks? Well here a few short steps on how to make one.

First you need to create a image that is 16×16 pixels because this is the size for the icons for the bookmark and browsers. Once you have Create that icon (that one is mine) save it out as a .gif or a png with transparency if you need it.

Next we will go to our favorite web page http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ where they are super nice and have given us a tool to create our favicon! Yes that right we don’t have to install any software just upload and download.

Once you have created your FavIcon for your website upload it somewhere on your website.  Please make sure you know where you saved it cause you will need to link back to that file.  I put mine in the same wordpress theme folder that I am currently using.

The next step is to open up your page and go to the HEAD section and add the link.

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”/favicon.ico”>

If your using wordpress and uploaded the icon to the theme folder you are using please use the code below. Just copy and paste the code in the HEAD section of that theme.

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/favicon.ico”>

Once you’ve added the code save your page and your done.

1. Download XAMPP you can download XAMMP or light version doesn’t matter.

2. Install in your C drive You can skip the next few steps if you want if you’re not installing WPMU

a. C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\host change localhost to localhost.enter_a_name

b. Go To apache\conf\httpd.conf

c. Change

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
to
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Continue with WP/WPMU install.

3. Download wordpress or wordpress-mu extract the files into your c:\xampp\htdocs dir.

4. Now run C:\xampp\xampp-control.exe and click on start button for apache and mysql.

5. Open your web browers and enter in the url: http://localhost/ or http://localhost.enter_a_name if did steps a, b, and c.

6. Select a language and click on phpMyAdmin.

7. In the Create new database fields enter wordpress and select utf8_unicode_ci and hit the create button.

8. Change url to http://localhost /your_word_press_folder/ or http://localhost.enter_a_name/your_word_press_folder/ in the Database section enter the following

Database Name:wordpress

User Name: root

Password: erase whatever is there and leave blank

Database Host: Leave it as “local host”

9. Fill in your Site Details and press Submit and your done!

So after an hour of pulling my hair out wondering why my image won’t display on my categories page. My theme had set my Categories or Archive page to display in summery mode. To change this or any of your page from summery mode back to a regular post. You have to find the code.
“the_excerpt” change to “the_content” to display the full article.

In my case I found it in the “archive.php”