Monday, November 24th, 2008
SSL plugin that suites your needs. You can setup URIs that must be handled by WordPress only through https.
Features three Es:
- Easy to install
- Easy configuration
- Easy to use
Installation:
- Get (download) the plugin
- Unzip the contents
- Copy the whole directory into your WordPress plugin directory (usually located in /wp-content/plugins/)
- Go into Plugins management in WordPress back-end and activate plugin
- Go into Options -> SSL in your WordPress back-end and setup the plugin
Make sure that you have HTTPS available on your server with correct certificate, else you can disable your whole website. If this happens to you you'll need to disable this plugin directly through database.
Usage:
Check "Secure URLs with SSL" and type-in URIs you whish to be accessed only through HTTPS.
foliopress ssl options
You can use "*" as wildcard for some URI, if you type it after "/" it means that all URIs under this URI will be accessed only via https, if there is no / it takes all URIs under this URI, this URI including.
By Peter
WordPress |
Monday, November 17th, 2008
We recently rescued a complex and older weblog Uncoy.com from Typepad and moved it to WordPress with absolutely zero broken links or posts.
Why do we write rescue? First of all Typepad is a truly awful platform for anything but the most basic weblog.
- images look terrible
- CSS is difficult to alter
- stats are a joke
- tech support is a close tie for the worst on the web
Secondly, it wasn't easy. SixApart make it really difficult in fact. It's only easy if you are ready to accept:
- broken permalinks
- missing comments
- disappearing images
Making the move work involved:
- special plugins on export and import
- collecting all the images via a special script
- adding a special plugin to prevent WordPress from breaking comments in your post
- installing a plugin to allow you to keep categories at root level (not easy in WordPress, perhaps the only plus of the Typepad system is that categories default to the root directory)
- adding a special plugin to allow you to update your permalinks easily (the Typepad permalinks are terrible)
- creating archive templates which match the Typepad setup
- adapting a theme to suit the setup of your Typepad weblog (if you have a relatively complex layout)
The detailed steps are below - the list above is just the executive highlights.
Was it worth it:
The day my weblog was finally out of the hands of Typepad and safely into WordPress was one of the happiest days of my online life.
I wish you the same success. But buckle up - the going gets rough:
Keep reading Moving from Typepad to WordPress: 2009 Guide
By Alec
WordPress |
