It sounds like you need to copy the file /blog/index.php to /index.php and modify a line in the new copy you create: require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’); to require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’); Here is a complete guide to moving WordPress into a separate folder: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
If in your template you create a 404.php all not-found requests will be handled by this template file, and there you can put whatever you want. Just as example, in the 404.php file is possible to use something like (it’s just a draft): <?php get_header(); ?> <h3> <?php $slug = get_query_var(‘name’); if ( $slug ) … Read more
If you look in the database in the $wpdb->postmeta table you will see a meta_key named _wp_old_slug. That is how WordPress tracks slug changes. By editing the database directly you bypassed the mechanisms that create that postmeta entry. You never want to edit the database directly if you can use WordPress Core functions instead. Attempting … Read more
change input name for name field to contactName or cName etc. <input type=”text” name=”cName” id=”name” placeholder=”Your name” autocomplete=”off” tabindex=”1″ class=”txtinput” value=””/>
I am about 99% sure the reason for much of this is that someone has used relative links in the post body. A link that looks like this: <a href=”www.whufc.com/”>Some link Test</a> Will end up looking like this: 2010/premiership-forecast-title-race-hots-up-gunners-prepare-for-adebayor/www.whufc.com/ If it shows up on this page of the site: 2010/premiership-forecast-title-race-hots-up-gunners-prepare-for-adebayor/ You need to have the … Read more
some time it’s most likely the permalink structure is missing or something went wrong after migration from localhost to live server, the solution is reflush permalink rules to avoid 404 errors.
The domain didn’t have www. in the wordpress settings. Adding this worked. No idea what the problem was exactly, but this solved it. Edit: Not yet fixed. It was mod_security which blocked ‘WordPress.com.’ (I’m at Namecheap which uses mod_security)
You can load your own .php files outside WordPress but you do not have WordPress’ rewrite magic to support you. If you want to load the file from http://bhaa.ie/realex-ipn.php that file will have to be at the root of your installation– same directory as license.txt. If your file is in your theme you have to … Read more
you’re using name=”name” for your first input. That breaks it. Change the name to something else as suggested above, prefix everything. name=”my-prefix-name”
Based on your comments above: Oo, thanks, good questions. Just realized now that the Settings > Reading has nothing selected for Posts page. (The Front Page is of course set for the static home page.) The problem is, indeed, that you have failed to assign a static page as the posts page (the page ID … Read more