Creating Job Tickets

Yes, it’s possible. WordPress uses a relational database and you’re free to add tables to it. As a warning – you will need to create new functions/classes to work with your new tables. WordPress’ built in functions will probably not work with new tables. As a side note, new content types such as reports and … Read more

Trying to edit a WP site locally using MAMP

Try adding this to your wp-config.php file: define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]); define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]); That will define your site URL as whatever happens to be in the browser location bar. Very useful for moving a site from server to server without actually changing the siteurl and home location in the database. Just don’t leave … Read more

How WP decide to show or not to show in admin panel the pop-up window with hint? Need a fix

Dismissed pointers are stored as user meta, you can inspect this for yourself with: $meta = get_user_meta( wp_get_current_user() ); print_r( $meta[‘dismissed_wp_pointers’] ); In your case, the meta might be empty or damaged, to update dismissed pointers for ALL users on your blog, you could run this function (only once): function wpse80084_dismiss_wp_pointers() { $dismissed = array( … Read more

Change taxonomy slug in database

You could just run DELETE FROM wp_terms WHERE slug LIKE “museum-%” on you MySQL server, but that would probably leave some orphan rows in wp_term_taxonomy and potentially in wp_term_relationships if you have used the terms. While being a bit more complicated I would recommend deleting them using the WordPress API. Something like this might work … Read more

How to back-up a database on IIS

I was able to find the name of the database in word-press’s wp-config.php file under the and was able to create a back-up of the file using MSQL workbench and the tutorial found here http://community.discountasp.net/showthread.php?t=11972.

DB access blocked when initializing WP externally

I accidentally stumbled into the answer today when I forgot to turn on my MAMP managed mysql server. At this juncture it pointed me to the critical difference. This answer is phrased for anyone running MAMP but potentially has broader applicability (certainly LAMP, WAMP, etc.); if you’re experiencing the same problem in an non-MAMP environment … Read more