Tag: WordPress

Easy Custom WordPress Login Page

Without too much code hacking or any plugins.

(For 2.5 up to 2.6.5. Not for WordPress 2.7)
I really wanted to change one website’s login page but I didn’t want to install a plugin.

I’d done so for another site which was awesome but it really hooked it’s little self into that site and it was hard to get rid of even after I deleted it and deactivated it.

I just wanted to change a few little things and thought installing a plugin was overkill.

So I stopped Googling and just thought for a second.

What if I just make a simple alteration to the login.css?

You find it in wp-admin/css/.

I had a logo that was roughly the size of the wordpress header image and I just replaced the WordPress logo with my client’s.

Line 41 in login.css
background: url(path to the image you want to use) no-repeat;
Just put in the path to the logo: i. e. : /wp-content/themes/your theme/images/logo.jpg

Change the link embedded in the header: wp-login.php
[php]<div id="login"><h1><a href="<?php echo apply_filters(‘login_headerurl’, ‘http://yourwebaddress’); ?>" title="<?php echo apply_filters(‘login_headertitle’, __(‘your title text’)); ?>"><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a></h1>[/php]

Replace http://yourwebaddress with your url that you want to use.

Replace ‘your title text” with what you want the title text to read when you hover your mouse over it.

Optional
Line 270 is where you can change the are “you lost question” text.

Upgrading
You’ll have to repeat this each time you upgrade automatically. If you upgrade manually please check the revision log to see if the files mentioned here have been changed and so need to be overwritten and then re patched with your changes.

WordPress 2.6 and Custom Fonts

After waiting a bit of time to see if the world would end after WP 2.6 was released and seeing that it did not end I decided to upgrade my test site. Well, I meant to upgrade my test site, I instead upgraded my main site. Nothing bad happened and my main site could just suck it anyway if it had exploded.

It’s my client’s sites I give a fig about which is why I am such a cautious old so and so when it comes to upgrading. For myself, if a plugin turns out to be non compat I just say see yis to that plugin and move on.

But some of my clients have tastes that can only be satisfied with certain plugins,like Custom Fontswhich is a great plugin but doesn’t look like it’s compatible with WP 2.6. Having it activated seems to get rid of the media upload buttons in the editor page.
I’m being diplomatic when I say seems but I’m almost certain that it is the culprit.When I de-activate it the media buttons come back.When I activate it they go away. I’ve tested it with the visual editor on and off and with that option completely disabled in my user profile.I’m sure it’s an easily fixed problem,though.

I may just go ahead and try to convince my client that it might be more important to have the latest version of WordPress as her website’s engine than it is to have fancy page titles.In her case sifr-replaced page titles was a branding choice and one that I was not able to talk her out of but it was better than the other option which was using images to replace text.

If it’s a popular plugin, the author will get so bombarded with emails and forum posts and etc and will probably make it compatible out of sheer exasperation with the demands of the (usually) non paying/donating public. What a thankless task. I salute all you who do this for free and deal day in and day out with kibuttzers who think you owe them something.

The best news so far is WP Ecommerce seems to chug along just fine on WP 2.6.

That is Odd

My “older posts| newer posts” navigation seems to be kaput.Needless to say perhaps I was too creative with a customized Loop or 2. I started my Shopping in Brooklyn (Brooklyn♥) and used a custom query to have only that category show on that page and not in my main blog post page or anywhere else and it seems I broke my WordPress a little. I don’t have the time right now to properly obsess over it to fix it.
What I’m up to right now:
I’m unusually busy getting a staging level website design together for Lee Lee’s Valise and finishing up 2 other projects for other clients (thankfully, they are being laidback about it). I just yesterday made live a site I’d been working on for weeks and weeks. I haven’t worked that hard on one site since I overhauled my dad’s.

I just used the wordtube plugin to try to set up a site that Lisa from Lee Lee’s valise might be able to use to webscast with…right now all I’ve got loaded are image files and I’m not so sure wordtube makes for a good slideshow display. It uses Jeroen ‘s W. media player. I bought 3 licenses around 2 years ago from him and don’t even use 2 of them on any live sites anymore! Anyway, obviously wordtube is much more suitable for playlists of swfs and flvs so it’s still on my list of good plugins to have.Also it’s very easy to use and I like that. I didn’t have to think too hard to set it up at all and it didn’t interfere with everything else or my design. You probably wouldn’t be all that amazed to hear that this is kind of rare.

Who am I kidding?
There was no way I could not just go run off and figure out how to fix my Loop! I’d read about this somewhere(probably many places) that using query_posts isn’t the best way to go about what I was trying to do.
This works : < ?php query_posts($query_string . "&cat=-230"); ? >
This doesn’t : < ?php query_posts('cat=-230');? >