The WP Codex gives two examples of excluding a subdirectory from multisite’s control. .htaccess method (as Karthik noted) Virtual host method .htaccess Being sure to call the sub rewrite BEFORE the rewrite of ww.domain.com to domain.com RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} subdomain.domain.com RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subdomain/ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subdomain/$1 [L] # Rewrite http://www.domain.com to domain.com … Read more
I don’t think it’s overkill. IMHO even a small site can benefit from running WordPress. World wide web is a very dynamic environment and your site should stick to this flow. You can keep your site up to date when it comes to terms of usability, security and other standarts just by keeping your WordPress … Read more
This is because you call get_header() which already require your theme header.php, in which the meta tags are defined. You should learn how to use get_header() in the WordPress Codex To summarize: You must rename your wp-blog-header.php file to header-blog.php and place it in your wordpress theme directory. Then you can require it using this … Read more
You can do either, it’s up to you depending on how invested in your static site you are and how much work you want to do transferring things over. The Codex page on Integrating WordPress with your website outlines how you could have WordPress installed in the /blog directory, and show recent posts on your … Read more
Turn on pretty permalinks, and run a spider/archiver on the address of your website. This should give you a static site you can place on a CD/DVD/USB drive. You can use a tool such as http://www.httrack.com/ to do the latter part. If you’re on linux you can use the following command: # Mirror website to … Read more
I am doing this right now (still in process). The best setup seems to be: Add the .html extension on posts – easy, just use custom post pattern Add the .html extension on pages – need a plugin for that, if you use pages Disable feeds (in function.php by removing headers for it) Use wget … Read more
Why not just disable comments and registration? This comes to mind also: (Redirect all requests to login page or admin pages to homepage. A little irreversible.) $currentURL = $_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”] . $_SERVER[“REQUEST_URI”]; if (strpos($currentURL, ‘wp-admin’ ) or strpos($currentURL, ‘wp-login’ )) { header( ‘Location: ‘.site_url() ); } Caution: this stops you from logging in also. Edit: And … Read more
You have multiple options here, depending on the amount of flexibility you want to give the editor of the text blocks. Create a custom loop with WP_Query. See our examples and the Codex page for usage. Then you print the excerpts of the page these boxes are linked to. You can use attachments (images) and … Read more