When trying to update stock Twenty Fourteen theme today, I ran into a theme update failing problem. The error message is “Download failed. Failed to write request to temporary file.”. The first reaction was file / folder permission setting. But it wasn’t the case this time.
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How to Make TubePress Responsive
TubePress is a well-designed plugin that brings YouTube or Vimeo video gallery into WordPress website. With easy CSS hack, we can easily fit TubePress video gallry to different theme. But out of the box, TubePress doesn’t offer responsive option.
Redirect User Registration to Custom Registration Page
Let’s say we’ve customized a beautiful user registration form, with extra fields, well-designed interface blending nicely with the theme. But how about when you type in this url:
http://url/wp-login?action=register
Well, because we allow “Anyone can register” in general settings, the register link is open to public. Which will lead visitors to the default registration page you wanted to hide at the first place.
Troubleshooting: BackWPup Next Cron Job at Dec 31, 1969
As usual, on the new website, I created few backup jobs in BackWPup (Free) – my favorite WordPress backup plugin, setup the scheduled start time with WordPress cron. Because I setup one daily backup also send a copy to Box.Com via email, which will trigger an automatic notification email from Box.Com, I get to know if the scheduled backup is executed on time. But something strange happened after the following two days. The scheduled backup didn’t start as expected.
Troubleshooting: Archive Link Not Working
On one of my WordPress website, the archive link is not working. The site has over 2 dozen plugins installed, and just been handed over to me a week ago. I have no clue when and what was done to the site, neither did my client. Instead of the usual routine of disabling all the plugins, I turned to Google Search. There are few possible solutions, I quickly located mine.
Missing User Registration Date?
Default users list in WordPress dashboard yield limited information, only userame, name, email, role & posts. Once we customize the website with membership, more requests related with member registration information start emerging. For example, I want to know the user registration date.
Change Howdy User Greeting Message on WordPress Admin Bar
“Howdy, $user” is the default greeting message on the top right corner after successful user login. I didn’t give it a second thought until today. I got a request asking me to change the greeting from “Howdy” to “Hello”.
Sounds simple?
Troubleshooting: This Webpage Has a Redirect Loop
While working on a website, adjusting the custom logo for WordPress login form, I suddenly run into an error: After unusual long page loading time, I got a “This webpage has a redirect loop” error on browser window, instead of the login form. The page URL is: http://yoursiteurl/wp-login.php
The last thing I did was to add one line code in style.css, and there is no problem there. It is weird and out of blue. Well, giving this is a live website, I have to fix it immediately.
List All WordPress Posts by Category
If you are looking for a way to automatically generate a post index page, with all the post title & link in a WordPress website, the simple way is to use WP_Query, with “posts_per_page=-1” as $args.
There are ways to organize the list, for example, group the post by Category. In this case, we can add a new parameter in $args, which is “cat”, and put the query inside a category loop. Here are the code snippets.
Manually Reset WordPress User Password
From time to time, we need to reset user’s password because user forgets his / her password on a WordPress website. There are few ways to do so. Either use “Lost your password?” function on login page to reset the password, or to change password with the help of one of the site administrators. In very rare cases, none of this works.
