WordPress

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  • WordPress style name not visible

    In WordPress block themes you can set the style for the site using “Styles”. By clicking on “Styles” and then selecting “Browse styles”, you can see a list of the available styles. When you do this you can only see the list of styles, with the font and colors associated with those styles, but you… read more…

    WordPress style name not visible
  • YARPP tweaks

    These are the customizations I made to get “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin”, YARPP, doing what I wanted on the Zoyinc site. Bear in mind this is being done for the “Twenty Twenty-Three” theme which is “designed to take advantage of the new design tools introduced in WordPress 6.1” using Gutenberg and blocks. It is… read more…

    YARPP tweaks
  • New categories can’t be added to post

    I have now found that if I add a new category in WordPress I can’t add it to my posts. For example I have added the top level category “Trains” and a category beneath that “Wrapped Trains”: However if I try to select “Wrapped Trains” it isn’t in the list of categories: In fact before… read more…

    New categories can’t be added to post
  • This file exceeds the maximum upload size for this site

    This is related to the WordPress error you may get when trying to upload a file greater than 2MB: While you can install plugins to get around this I found this did not work for me and I then got the error: My install of WordPress or more specifically PHP follows the instructions in CentOS… read more…

    This file exceeds the maximum upload size for this site
  • Failed to start The PHP FastCGI Process Manager

    I am running MythTV on CentOS7 as per MythTV on CentOS 7 and it has been running fine and for no particular reason after cloning the VM it would not start FPM. When I cloned the VM I selected “I moved it” so it should have just worked. FPM is installed as a service and uses… read more…

    Failed to start The PHP FastCGI Process Manager
  • CentOS 7 VM for WordPress and MythTV – Post install setup

    In the post CentOS 7 base VM for WordPress and MythTV I described how to create a base CentOS 7 VM. This post describes follows on from that post and describes the post installation tasks to make the VM a good solid base for me to run WordPress or MythTV. When setting up a Linux server… read more…

    CentOS 7 VM for WordPress and MythTV – Post install setup
  • Backup and restore WordPress

    I run WordPress on Apache 2.2 on RedHat. A WordPress instance, is just a bunch of PHP files, various image files and uploaded files and a database – that’s pretty much it. So to backup and restore you need to back up one directory tree and a DB. This post details what I did to… read more…

    Backup and restore WordPress
  • Creating a Weaver Slider in WordPress

    As a user of the Weaver WordPress theme I have moved to using the Weaver sliders in my posts. This is how to create a slider. Click on “Add Media”: Then: select the images you want, remember if you want to select multiple images use <ctrl><left click> Select “Create Gallery” and then click on “Create… read more…

    Creating a Weaver Slider in WordPress
  • Auto-post to Facebook

    Zoyinc is my “brand” and this is my site so when I decided to auto-post to Facebook I thought it would be straight forward, but it did quite work out that way. These are some of the tips I found out along the way, yes the info will date because Facebook is a constantly evolving… read more…

    Auto-post to Facebook