How to change wordpress news root url

In admin create a page with slug tips-and-tricks. Than go to Settings->Reading than in first section set up your new page to be your posts page. WP will handle proper redirection of old permalinks to new.

In a subdomain network, what .htaccess settings can I use to have WP ignore requests to one subdomain?

I found this article: http://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Wildcard_Subdomains_for_multi_site_under_Plesk_Control_Panel I had used it originally when setting up the wildcard subdomains on my Plesk server. At first I didn’t need to worry about the webmail section, but now I do, and here’s what I did: $ cd /etc/apache2/conf.d $ mv zzz_horde_vhost.conf zz001_horde_vhost.conf $ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart This way, the Horde config … Read more

MAMP.app & .htaccess – Can’t override after config

Are you sure your default <Directory /> settings aren’t getting overridden somewhere else? I have mine directly in the vhost and .htaccess and rewrite rules work fine. <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName wp.project DocumentRoot “/Users/chris/Sites/wp.project” <Directory “/Users/chris/Sites/wp.project”> Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost>

Issue after changing permalink structure [duplicate]

You can use this query to generate the RewriteRules that you will need. Once generated the would go into your .htaccess file and need to be prepended with: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / The following SQL output should setup rewrite rules for /postname/ to /category/postname/ based on what is in your database now. The trailing forward … Read more