WordPress

Relenta is a great CRM-lite which beats any mailing software I know for ease of use and speed. Highly recommended.

As you may be aware, we run almost entirely WordPress sites, although many are almost custom apps with additional functionality for real estate, insurance or political discussion. We needed a way to wed our WordPress sites to Relenta. Relenta does not have contact forms of its own but instead an email API for adding new contacts.

Fortunately John Godley's Filled In for WordPress handles forms admirably and has a mailing function built-in. Filled In to handle the forms and Relenta to handle the lists is the best of both worlds.

But like anything technical, there are a few issues to look out for. Without further ado, here is our detailed guide to using Relenta with WordPress.

In order, these are the steps to create a form in WordPress with help of Filled In and send the information to Relenta CRM for parsing.

Keep reading WordPress Forms for Relenta CRM

Since there are no images for lost password procedure in the offical WordPress Codex we created an illustrated guide for it.

If you ever delete any users in your WordPress installation, read carefully. Look what it looks like when you are trying to delete some user who is an author of some pages (read more about WordPress pages):
 

As you can see WordPress shows the number zero under Posts. But this user clearly has some pages as you can see on next picture:

Keep reading WordPress user and page management glitch

Not having much luck with the PR profession lately.

Let's take the case of Stuart Bruce of Wolfstar Consultancy.

In July of this year, Stuart came to us with his weblog StuartBruce.biz which he wanted to move from Typepad to WordPress rather urgently. He dropped the future work promise very early:

Just need to move the A PR Guy's Musings blog. It is quite highly ranked so it is important that the permalinks move properly. As I run a global PR company specialising in social media I might potentially have other WordPress development work in the near future.

Fortunately I don't fall for that kind of talk anymore. "Future work" is kind of like the guy on the first date promising that it's not just a one-night stand.

Keep reading PR Arrogance: Case Study - Stuart Bruce of Wolfstar Consultancy

Trying to fork WordPress and create working links within it’s domain. It’s possible, but not usable.

Foliopress WYSIWYG 0.9.3 features a button to switch between plain text and rich text pasting.

Thanks to James T. Snell and WordPress community our own WYSIWYG editor now runs on SLL sites!

I had no idea how sexy ecommerce could be. Looking at Magento vs WordPress.

Facebook desperately need $100 million. Just the kind of company I’d like to give access all the contact information for my family and friends.

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:

1. Get (download) the plugin
2. Unzip the contents
3. Copy the whole directory into your WordPress plugin directory (usually located in /wp-content/plugins/)
4. Go into Plugins management in WordPress back-end and activate plugin
5. 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.

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 Definitive Guide