I always recommend that clients upgrade WordPress and their plugis regularly. When working with open source software, that’s just a concession we’re going to have to make. There’s a reason the patches come out, so always upgrade.
However, every once in a while an upgrade can break your site. No worries, though, we’ll fix it.
This time it was with the Thesis Openhook plugin. We do a lot of design work using the Thesis theme, and Openhook is a fantastic plugin for expediting work within the Thesis Framework. But the last update requires a few extra steps to get your site up to date.
For this entry, I’m going to assume you have already updated the plugin, thus making your site go all wonky. If you haven’t updated, go ahead and do it and then to fix it, follow these steps:
Step One: After the initial update, the plugin will become deactivated. So first step is to go to the plugins list and activate the plugin again. It changed names too, now it’s called The OpenHook Customizations Manager. So active that one.
Step Two: Go to Settings->Openhook. Find the two top check boxes and check them. That’s the checkbox for Thesis and WordPress. Check those box and click “Save Changes.”
Step Three: That’s not enough though, there’s one final step. Look below the “Save Changes” button to the “Manage Options” area. The first button in that section reads “Upgrade from Openhook 2.” Click that button, hit okay, and that should complete the transition for your site, and everything you had before should be reinstated.
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Another in my series of screencasts about using WordPress. This one is a quick tutorial on how to upload images to your NextGen Gallery, and then how to embed that gallery into a post. Keep in mind that you have to have the NextGEN plugin installed and active before this tutorial will help you. Also, I only showed the short code for adding one kind of photo gallery, but there are multiple options for those galleries in your posts, and you can see all those options on the NextGEN Gallery demo site.
I get asked a lot of questions on how to do things, and from time to time I write tutorials, but I thought it might be fun to do a screencast. A screencast is a short video of my screen, running through a concept, with my exciting voice narrating what you need to do. This one is a short and easy video on how to add photos to your posts and pages in WordPress.
I get asked this question a lot, so I thought this would be a good place to answer it. How does one upload a PDF and link to it in WordPress?
First, make sure you open the page or post in WordPress where you want your PDF to be linked.
Step 1: Find the Upload/Insert area above your formatting buttons. You have four options: Add an Image, Add Video, Add Audio, or Add Media. Click on Add Media.
Step 2:Click “Select Files” and find the PDF from your desktop that you want to upload, click “Select.”
Step 3: Once uploaded, you will see a “preview” screen like the one below. Give your PDF a title. The title are the words someone will click on to get your PDF. Check the Link URL box to make sure the URL appears there. That’s the location of your file. If it does not show a URL, click the “File URL” button and it will show up. Once you have your Title and URL, click the “Insert into Post” button.
Once you hit “Insert into Post”, you will have a link in your post like this one.
Step Four: Once your PDF link is ready within your content box, just click the “Publish” or “Update” button to update your post or page. That’s all there is to it!
