I recreated my site recently and moved the custom PHP and WordPress code to a central WordPress code base. I had to recreate some files in the template to get the site to behave the way I wanted it. This is the list of changed files in a WordPress template.
404.php
comments.php
content-page.php
footer.php
header.php
index.php
page.php
sidebar.php
single.php
Of course you’ll have to add the style.css file and include custom Javascript and CSS files in your header.php file.
I thought it was time for a new design of this website. The old setup was a combination of my own code with a WordPress blog. I now moved everything to WordPress with a custom theme and some template coding.
The old site used to look like this :
This site uses Google Fonts so you might want to turn on Javascript for all visual effects.
Something I came across recently when installing WordPress gave me headaches. Everything seemed to work properly except when selecting posts by category no results were returned.
I debugged the problem by looking at the SQL-queries performed by WordPress. One query returned an error :
SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id) WHERE 1=1 AND ( wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id IN (1) ) AND wp_posts.post_type = 'post' AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish') GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 10
Because the MySQL server was configured to honor ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY it gave the error “‘test.wpposts.post_author’ isn’t in GROUP BY”.
I could not disable ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY serverwide so I had to insert it in the WordPress-code.
The best place to do this was in the wp-includes/wp-db.php. Look for the function db_connect() and add the code below as the last line of the function.
mysql_query( " SET sql_mode='ANSI,TRADITIONAL' ", $this->dbh);
Note that every time you perform an upgrade of WordPress you’ll have to add this line back to the source code.
After implementing this change I was unable to post new posts or pages through the WordPress interface. Doing Quick Posts (through the dashboard) and update via XML-RPC works without a problem.
If you are behind a router or gateway and you need to get your public IP then you can use dyndns.org with this wget line:
wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'
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