In reality it is very hard to know when a page is affected by an edit. A page contains footer, memus, widgets, shorcodes and meta data which might change “globaly”. Having a general detection which page is affected by any such change is bordering the impossible. Cache expiration in general is just a very hard … Read more
Install a page caching plugin and configure it for a very very long time. This have the advantage of you being able to post things when you decide that its time to do that again. Side note: abandoned blog creates actual noticeable load on a DB server? I find it hard to believe. front end … Read more
If you want an external redirect from /2016/<anything> to /2016/a/<anything>, then you can do something like the following before the existing WordPress directives (ie. before # BEGIN WordPress) in your /2016/.htaccess file: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(\d{4})/(.*) RewriteRule !^a/ /%1/a/%2 [R,L] The negated RewriteRule pattern prevents the redirect from occurring when the URl-path already starts with a/ … Read more
The reason to follow WP standard is for another DEV to pick it up later, or to transfer it without issue. The problem is content. I could easily make a site from pages regardless of your plugins/themes if the database was set up in WP. But you are saving content differently so now I have … Read more
Short Answer No. The Reason If you take a look at the .htaccess file in the root of your WordPress installation, you will notice these few lines generated by WordPress ( If you have pretty permalink enabled ): # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond … Read more
You can use: get_queried_object_id() to get the ID of the static posts Page. Alternatively, you may also use get_option( ‘page_for_posts’ ). $post_id = get_queried_object_id(); //$post_id = get_option( ‘page_for_posts’ ); // you should use the above on the blog page $content = get_the_content( null, false, $post_id ); get_queried_object() to get the full data of the static … Read more
The WP Codex gives two examples of excluding a subdirectory from multisite’s control. .htaccess method (as Karthik noted) Virtual host method .htaccess Being sure to call the sub rewrite BEFORE the rewrite of ww.domain.com to domain.com RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} subdomain.domain.com RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subdomain/ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ 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