This updated article describes how to use the page widget to build a page menu in the WordPress header. For the background to this see the previous post Move the WordPress page links to the header that described a simple way of listing the page links on the header.
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Move the WordPress pages to the header – revisited
Monday, January 25th, 2010Warning – backup before updating to WordPress 2.8
Monday, June 22nd, 2009The first problem with updating to WordPress version 2.8 was with the automatic update facility, the new version comes with it’s own automatic updater built in. This means the WordPress Automatic Update plugin is no longer required and should be disabled. The actual error message will vary according to the Theme that is in use on your site but will start with:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction()
After disabling the WordPress Automatic Update plugin and clicking on the Automatic Update link on the dashboard again the update worked correctly. So that is easily dealt with and not a major problem.
The second problem was more serious, the automatic updates had overwritten the contents of the default theme with the original Kubrick design. If like me you have updated the default or the classic themes but never bothered to create a new theme then WordPress will replace your changed files with the originals.
Move the WordPress page links to the header
Monday, April 27th, 2009The default theme for WordPress places the links to pages in the sidebar. Moving them to the header is relatively easy to do if you’re comfortable making minor changes to the code.
The first thing is to find the path to the theme that you are using, for the default theme the path is:
⁄wordpress⁄wp-content⁄themes⁄default
For other themes the path will vary so make sure you have identified the correct one for the theme you have in use.
Then using your favourite text editor open up the following files:
- sidebar.php
- header.php
Note: Before you make any changes to these files make sure you have a backup
Next look for the following code fragment in sidebar.php which is used by WordPress to generate the list of page links.
Move the WordPress search box to the header
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009The default theme in WordPress places the search box in the sidebar. Moving it to the header is relatively easy to do if you’re comfortable making minor changes to the code. The first thing is to find the path to the theme that you are using, for the default theme the path is:
⁄wordpress⁄wp-content⁄themes⁄default
Then using your favourite text editor open up the following files:
- sidebar.php
- header.php
Note: Before you make any changes to these files make sure you have a backup
Next look for the following code fragment in sidebar.php which is used by WordPress to generate the search box (What this code does is to insert the contents of the searchform.php file at this point in the page. The searchform.php file contains the code to produce the search box and the search button).
Fuzzy Images with WordPress
Saturday, January 31st, 2009Uploaded Images ‘Blurry’ with WordPress
Being new to WordPress I have been using the standard image upload facilities. After upgrading to WordPress version 2.7 the Flash uploader stopped working so I resorted to using the browser based version. This was annoying but not annoying enough to make me do something about it. Then I noticed that images which were fine when captured looked fuzzy when viewing the published article, specially when using Internet Explorer.
So what was going on? Well, for one selecting anything other than full size meant the images were being re-sized by the uploader and that reduced the image quality, you notice the difference in quality compared to re-sizing the images yourself in Photoshop.
