Sagamore PTA Wordpress notes

Wordpress notes from the Sagamore Online gang (email • archives • subscribe & more)!

Styling

Bother John Lenz to make it 'perty.

Migration

Importing content from another Wordpress installation can be done with the Tools → Export/Import options. Some notes:

• Media files (attachements) will only import from an "All content" export
  • Since "All content" includes elements you might not want to import, like comments or navigation menus, try pruning the XML export file of those elements before importing
• Posts will maintain their Wordpress post IDs if possible!

Addresses (URLs)

Address beautification

Be sure to:

1. Admin → Settings → Permalinks → Day and name
2. Then: Custom Structure
3. Remove the trailing slash

(to get rid of the ugly "?p=#" and default trailing slash)

Change starting post ID

From Sagamore online goals 2014#URL_redirects:

Make the new Wordpress installation use post IDs we haven't used before to avoid collisions (terms and users weren't utilized enough on the old site to bother with), then setup .htaccess redirects from the old to the new as desired.

1. On the new Wordpress database:

   ALTER wp_posts AUTO_INCREMENT = 2001 ;

Plugins

Site change notifications

So folks know when the website has been changed, the Wordpress plugin: Email Post Changes comes in handy.

Redirects

• WordPress › Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin « WordPress Plugins
  • (preliminarily chosen over the popular WordPress › Redirection « WordPress Plugins

Calendar

• WordPress › Google Calendar Events « WordPress Plugins

Facebook

See: Sagamore Facebook

Old ideas

Assigning post IDs

Don't use: Although the following is possible, it's probably better to just import old content and/or use redirects for old content (ala Sagamore .htaccess) and make new content use unique post IDs by doing #Change starting post ID.

• migration - How can I assign post a specific ID on creation? - WordPress Development Stack Exchange
• wordpress - insert post ID with wp_insert_post - Stack Overflow
• Function Reference/wp insert post « WordPress Codex

• Might want to know how to execute from the command line too

When importing content, it may be easier for sake of redirecting to assign posts/pages the same ID they had on the export site (especially if the export site exposed IDs in its URL (like the PTA site from 2012-2014)). This happens automatically with Wordpress's Tools → Import if the IDs aren't already taken.

Page Tagging & Categories

Of the two default content types in Wordpress, Pages (unlike the other, Posts), cannot have Tags or Categories associated with them by default. It is relatively simple to change that with some code or a simple plugin:

• Pages are Posts (I like that one for its simplicity)
• Post Tags and Categories for Pages

Only add Tags (not Categories) to Pages:

• Tag Pages
• Page Tagger

Further Reading

• https://managewp.com/wordpress-content-management-complete-guide