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Double index.php problem

Brent — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:00:48 +0000

We’ve recently upgraded our WordPress installation to WordPress 2.8 and realized just why I hate upgrading WordPress! On the 2.7.1 version the NEXT POSTS / PREVIOUS POSTS link at the bottom of the page worked perfectly, but after the upgrade it pointed erroneously to http://www.poiesis.co.za/index.php/Index.php/page/2/. I’m sure you can see the problem there: the double index.php in the URL! The solution to the problem is simple: open the formatting.php in wp-includes and add the following line in the function clean_url after the if ('' == $url) return $url; statement:

$url = str_replace('index.php/Index.php','index.php',$url);

The only problem is you need to remember to add the line again every time you upgrade WordPress.

Next-Previous link not showing?

Brent — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:24:13 +0000

We’ve received a few queries about the next/previous link in our WordPress themes from people wanting to know how to implement it in their themes. Well, the answer is simply insert the posts_nav_link() template tag into the php files of your theme that has the if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) loop. These files include index.php and archive.php. When you use the posts_nav_link() tag the next/previous links are generated automatically when required. However, the tag only works for pages of posts.

So where do you insert the `posts_nav_link()` tag?

You insert it after the loop. In other words, after the towards the bottom of the file.

If you want to find out more about the posts_nav_link() tag visit the following WordPress pages:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/posts_nav_link
http://codex.wordpress.org/Next_and_Previous_Links

Simply Smart

Brent — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:46:45 +0000

Our First WordPress Theme

Our first WordPress theme, which we’re calling the Simply Smart, is coming along nicely. It’s a dark red, two-column theme with a fixed width of 1024 pixels designed for an automotive weblogs and is sponsored by custom-car.us. It uses a solid background, with an automotive image in the header (of a Smart Car Roadster, hence the “Smart” bit in the name), and a simple (hence the “Simple” bit in the name) two-column layout with a widget-ready side column on the right. It also supports an Author’s Archive page, which is ideal for blogs with multiple authors, like this blog (I guess we’ll be implementing it here too then).

We’ve sorted out a subdomain for the themes and theme demos. The subdomain is here: WordPress Themes

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