Use the script found here: https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ Because WordPress serializes some urls in option and meta tables a simple replace won’t do. A siple replace will break your data. This script will preserve your data and replace it with a new url. I use it al least twice a month.
The — to an mdash conversion happens inside wptexturize() http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wptexturize which is applied to many things (including taxonomy titles and other functions output. Look for places you might want to remove the filter from in wp-includes/default-filters.php and remove the filter with the remove_filter() function: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_filter
The permalinks by default are output relative to the site’s blog posts index (aka ‘page-for-posts’, aka posts page). You’re using a custom page template for the static page Section/News. That static page is unrelated to the site blog posts index. That’s why the permalinks don’t reference that page. If you want your permalinks to reference … Read more
If I understand you, don’t use ‘localhost’. That only works if you are testing from the same machine that is running the server. (A virtualized machine counts as a different machine.) Give your server (the machine running the server) a static IP address– something like 192.168.1.5– and use that instead of ‘localhost’. That will work … Read more
Call get_stylesheet_directory_uri() for the current theme, or get_template_directory_uri() for the parent theme of a child theme, and append your file paths to that. $url = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/images/my-icon.png’; $url = get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/images/my-icon.png’; Edit: To determine whether you’re in a plugin, a parent theme or a child theme, compare the folder you’re in (via dirname(__FILE__)) … Read more
This is about a year over due. I have had a similar thing happen on my new word press install. Creating pages dynamically and getting incremental numbers on the slug names. During this process I realised that the original slug would access the last one. ie. ../../dynammic-page would access ../../dynamic-page-4 The solution was in the … Read more
Sharing my thoughts on multiple issues you mentioned. Hoping one or two of the following would help… Firstly, you may visit your site’s wp-admin/options-media.php and uncheck the option “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders” Why can it only be attached to ONE post/page? An image can be attached to any number of posts … Read more
This is how I got it working: ADDED this to functions.php: function include_template_function( $template_path ) { global $wp; if ($wp->request == ‘state’) { $template_path = locate_template( array ( ‘state.php’ ) ); } return $template_path; } $state_name = $_GET[‘st’]; //this is added to use as a global variable ADDED THIS to header.php because WP thinks it’s … Read more
So in general there are two opinions on absolute versus relative URLs: use relative URLs because easier to move around use absolute URLs because easier to move around Confusing, yes. The argument boils down to that migrating things with relative URLs you don’t need to change domain. The counter argument is that you might need … Read more
Just use a fake query parameter on the URL to get around those sort of bad restrictions in other pieces of code. http://example.com/feed/?fakefile=feed.xml