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add_filter(‘single_template’, create_function(‘$t’, ‘foreach( (array) get_the_category() as $cat ) { if ( file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH . “/single-{$cat->term_id}.php”) ) return TEMPLATEPATH . “/single-{$cat->term_id}.php”; } return $t;’ ));

well i hope this will help me later

or maybe look here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Archive_Index

Having just botched up  a wordpress folder move i think i had better write this down.

Move WordPress Folder

To move the install of WordPress go to:

Settings>General and change your wordpress address (URI) and blog address (URI) from http://www.youraddress.com/testfolder/ to http://www.youraddress.com (if thats where you  want it). Update.

Instantly the system is broken – DON’T PANIC.

Now move the contents  of testfolder to root (ie public_html or wherever you  want to site to be.

I would advise not downloading  and re-uploading  but moving it online in  FTP, dreamweaver etc..

It should all start working.

A video here: and the instructions that i used.

Changing Password

The above all went wrong for me when i moved the site  and then change the Settings>General stuff. i ended up  scrabbling  around PHPMy Admin changing  stuff.

Which turned out to be not so bad:

1. Login to phpmyadmin.
   Click ‘databases’
2. A list of your databases will appear. Click the one that is your WordPress database.
3. All the tables in your database will appear.
   Click on the small icon indicated. Hovering this icon should show the word ‘browse’.
4. The next screen will show who is registered on your blog.
   You need to look at the top line there. User ID #1 is you – the blog owner. You will see your login name, then a long string of letters and numbers. That’s your password.
5. Click the pen icon.
6. Now you see all the details associated with that user.
   Across from the ‘user_pass’ is your encoded password.
7. Delete that long string of characters.
8. Now type in the password you want to use. Just type it in normally, but remember, it is case-sensitive.
9. In this example, my new password will be ‘carrots’ (1)
10. Once you have done that, click the dropdown menu indicated, and select MD5 from the menu. (2)
11. Now check that your password is actually correct, and that MD5 is in the box.
12. All good ? Click the ‘Go’ button to the bottom right.
13. You have returned to a screen you were at earlier. Note that your password has changed.
14. Now go back to your blog’s login screen, and hopefully now all is well.

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i always forget this simple trick:

• Add /?tp=2 to the end of the URL and all these hints turn up  with the named positions:  http://www.yoursite.co.uk/?tp=2

I’ll try to remember this time

Which is very boring.

If i have a product that is shipped by weight i hope that by adding  attributes:  1kg of sweets= £5, 3kg of sweets = £10, then i would hope that the shipping  module would see the weights (and not just the prices) and add them to the postage. But it does not. It treats the additionsl options as the same weight as the original product (in  this case 200g).

So, how do you  get round that?

Child items seems to be the answer.Though its a bit rough.

1. You  have to add an attribute via the Attribute List – God knows why – all it adds is an ugly word – i called mine Discount which it display as Discount().
2. Having  done that i can add Child Items – my 1kg and 3kg bags.
3. Then i have to remember to delete the old attribut e list before the Clild items actually work – i do and then they do. Hurrah!
4. But, now i have to fiddle with the parent products Display Options
   - Use List box for child products – Tick
   - Add to Cart Button for each Child – Tick

Otherwise, without the Add to Cart Button for each Child, each child option has a quantity of 1 as the inital setting and the one Add to Cart button then adds all 3 items, which then disturbingly kills the shopping  cart!

But, as i say,  Add to Cart Button for each Child – Tick, get round this by adding  a cart button  by each item so only one can be added at a time. In  itslef not a perfect option but the only one that works without hacking  the system – it seems.

I don’t like Virtuemart, its so untidy. Expression Engine is so much more controllable, and i suspect Magento may be pretty good too.

Sometimes i need to add the same text to all the pages of a joomla site’s Title tag. For instance ‘UK’.

The problem being  that joomla title tag just uses the pages title for the tag. Like say Product Name. Which is a start i suppose. And yes that is having  turned on  the SEO friendly stuff  in  global and activated the .htaccess file.

Anyway, to make it ‘Product Name’ plus ‘some useful keywords’ in  the title tag i found this:

libraries/joomla/document/html/renderer/head.php

line 85:

$strHtml .= $tab.’<title>’.htmlspecialchars($document->getTitle()).’</title>’.$lnEnd;

and changed it to:

$strHtml .= $tab.’<title>’.htmlspecialchars($document->getTitle()).’ my additional keywords</title>’.$lnEnd;

and uploaded it – and hey presto it works.

This is for Joomla 1.5.17.

Note the space before my – ie ‘ my.

And yet again upgrading  the hosts ( heart) to php5 has saved my bacon. First with megento, and now with a particularly heavy Joomla ecommerce template from Rockettheme.

Luckily its quite easy with Heart. You  add this line to an .htaccess file:

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5
php_flag short_open_tag on

and upload it.

Another nice trick is to add more memory from the default and though measily its usually enough, 8mb to 32, 64 or 126 by adding  this:

memory_limit = 128M

to a file named php.ini and uploading  it to above the public_html folder. Again seems to rescue many a random  problem.