For whatever reason you lose the admin password and you can never get the e-mail that is sent by the password reset facility. But all is not lost. This allows you to copy a file to your web server to reset the password, see village-idiot.org — reset your lost WordPress administrator password

I recently had a problem where one of my pages was failing to load with an error stating that could not locate an index file. Current changes I had made obviously pointed something I had done but it took a while to figure out!!

The answer

I had created a page called Play which simply shows list of sub-pages. These sub-pages primarily used iFrame to display a page sitting outside of WordPress. Unfortunately these pages were sitting in a directory called ‘play!’!!!! By changing this directory to ‘playstuff’ fixed the problem.

Moral of the story

Do not create sub-directories in the same directory of the WordPress installation with the same name as any pages.

Despite all the extra effort put in on security there is stilll a major hole, follow this link to see how it works and steps to fix it http://bit.ly/pLddU

Today I managed to lock myself out of local/development installation of my website. After digging around I found the answer . Need to run the following query against your WordPress database:

UPDATE `wp_users` SET `user_pass` = MD5( ‘new_password_here‘ ) WHERE `wp_users`.`user_login` = “admin_username“;

Obviously change the new_password_here and admin_username to correct values!

Interesting insight by leadign players into where they see WordPress themes developing:

http://themeshaper.com/future-wordpress-themes-2009/

Jquery allows for impressive animations and interactions that are easily created and utilized in your WordPress blog  – http://tinyurl.com/cmckh5

WordPress is seen as a fantastic blogging tool but in fact its a lot more. When I first started to look at the inner workings of WordPress it seemed a bit daunting. But basically its very simple and can be as complicated or as easy as you want as mentioned in a previous post.

I like the fact that you do not have to use it as blogging site, it could very simply a site with many static pages. It can be complicated with lots of different plugins or simple with none. I would never claim to be a WordPress expert at all, although I have a good understanding,  but with over 20 years of IT experience I appreciate the capabilities of WordPress.

Now back to the theme and more tweaks!!

My first thought as I started to write this was perhaps I should get the bugle out! Confused, you should be, for all though this is the first post for this new site I was actually thinking of the last post!!!

So finally got this up and running, I have had other blogs going in the past but always under different names, like the-ox.co.uk, but this is the first one under my true name.

This is of course, if you had not guessed, utilising the WordPress framework which is one of the best CMS’s around. If required it can be so simple,  i.e. use it out of the box, or if a bit more daring use one of the many thousands of free themes available then add a few plugins and it’s possible to create a very good site.

But of course that is too simple and easy and when have I ever wanted things easy!

So in my urge to learn the inner workings of WordPress I am developing my own theme and plugins, these will be made available to anyone who wanted them in due course. In the best traditions I have taken a theme which I liked the style of, wp_premium by R.Bhavesh (www.cssace.com), and modified it to make it my own.

Hopefully what I create will want people to visit and then come back for more, but only time will tell.