It’s inevitable when you install Jetpack that some things on your site will need to be re-updated.  I found this out when I installed Jetpack and couldn’t find the footer overrides so the site was showing the “Proudly powered by WordPress” message at the bottom.

Gotta love Jetpack by WordPress‘s “infinite scroll” feature though — and Jetpack in general is great!

After a little digging, I found the solution.  I only wasted another 10 minutes of my life updating something so small but so necessary.  Again.  Don’t you love how the web has turned us all into overly-anal critics paying attention to things that in normal life elsewhere just plain simply wouldn’t matter?  Yes, the line at the footer of the website that no one reads, when did we all turn into such hollow digital echoes of our real selves?…..  🙂

Here’s the code you need to put in your child theme’s function.php file:

add_filter( 'infinite_scroll_credit', 'my_footer_text' );

function my_footer_text() {
return '<a href="http://linkOrNot">Proudly created not by WordPress, or whatever you want to put in here, everyone knows its WordPress anyway....</a>';
}

 


I’ve seen some interesting solutions to making sure files that get uploaded outside of WordPress that are meant to be digested by WordPress get handled.  Scripts, plug-ins, etc.  The crux of the problem stems from the fact that if you FTP files into your WordPress site’s “uploads” directory, those files won’t show up.  That’s because a user didn’t use the media manager to alert WordPress to their existence and essentially register the files in WordPress, which is basically another record in its database.

There’s a simple plug-in that will allow you to find any file on your webserver and transfer those files and import them into the media library.  This blog article, though somewhat dated, is still relevant.  I’ve used this “Add From Server” plug-in before and works as advertised!

Here’s the link to the article about the challenge “Add From Server” solves:

“How to Bulk Upload Files to the WordPress Media Library”

I hope I saved someone a little time and trouble with their website!

 

– Aaron Belchamber


The newest version of WordPress is 4.1 and it keeps getting better and more convenient to upload and embed videos on your website.  Just a note of caution, however!

Be sure your .mpg/.mp4 video files have an audio track or it is likely your video will not be recognized or play in WordPress.

I’m not complaining, just hoping I will save others who may produce videos the trouble of having to rerender their video files with an audio track when they don’t have one.  This isn’t a deal breaker, but it’s also not efficient.  After all, if you have a video, say an animation that is without sound, you shouldn’t have to output an empty audio track, it’s just a little more work and makes the files just a little bigger.  Not a big deal in the whole scheme of things, but then again, in the aggregate, is still is wasteful and a bit annoying.

– Aaron Belchamber


I recently ran into some issues with a heavily customized WordPress site.  Something was overriding something else somewhere, somehow...

The dreaded “find the problem then traverse back through the code” solution again raised its ugly head.  Oh, the futility, you time-sucking code bug.  Why didn’t the previous developer leave more DOCUMENTATION?!!!!!

Sometimes, you can at least speed up the “backtracing” involved by using more debugging tools that are available when the regular standby, WP_DEBUG constant doesn’t quite cut it for you.

To learn more, go the the Debug Bar WordPress page.  It helped, then when you resolve the problem, just deactivate the plug-in!

– Aaron Belchamber