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Comment on Building a top contributor list in Wordpress by Mark

Mark — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:57:17 +0000

Thank you so much for this SQL snippet! It really helped me get my head around querying multiple tables. I’m using it for a Top Authors box on the front-end of one of my sites. Works a treat!

Comment on Password Protect Wordpress Attachments (files) by Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:48:25 +0000

This is great! However, I am on a Windows IIS server. Do you know if there is an equivalent way to do this with IIS? Thank you.

Comment on Password Protect Wordpress Attachments (files) by Flick

Flick — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:05:51 +0000

This worked really well for me, thanks!

Comment on Easy redirect with Wordpress function wp_redirect by Sean

Sean — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:51:32 +0000

Good day Guillaume,
I think this is exactly what I am looking for.
google indexed a bunch of category archive pages, and I really don’t want people going to them.. I would like to redirect them to the home page.
I looked for the “template” folder.. but could not find it anywhere.
Your thoughts on how I can fix this?
Thanks so much.
sean

Comment on Quick Search and Replace in MySQL for Wordpress Database by Guillaume

Guillaume — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:52:38 +0000

@Brian: Yeah good points for the widget, however I have been using this method for a couple of sites and it works fine, maybe this could be a problem for certain widget and not all the widgets. Also for the user email this was just to reset the admin or other email related to the old domain. Thanks!

Comment on Quick Search and Replace in MySQL for Wordpress Database by Brian Layman

Brian Layman — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:24:49 +0000

Oh and I think you need a tweak here:
UPDATE wp_users SET user_email = REPLACE(user_email, ‘www.olddomain.com’, ‘www.newdomain.com’);

Comment on Quick Search and Replace in MySQL for Wordpress Database by Brian Layman

Brian Layman — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:19:37 +0000

I’m sorry to tell you this Guillaume, but this can do very bad things.

The problem is the update of the options table. Quite often there will be references to the domain name in a widget. Widget settings are stored within a serialized string in the options table. If you are changing to a domain name that is of a different length than the original, running this query will corrupt the widget configuration and all of your sidebar content will go away. Permalink values suffer from the same problem. So you’d have to go into the permalinks page, change it to something else and change it back to reset them all. When I do this process, I usually adjust the widgets by hand, or use a php script I wrote that can handles the serialized array values.

FWIW, I’d recommend removing the options line and telling people to do the permalinks reset and adjust any references in the widgets.

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