ChrisSoutham

My dedicated server (that I run through a hosting company) reports 1000s of sites running off my server if I type in my domain. Typing in the IP address of the server itself reveals the true result (around 20). I would guess that the results you are seeing for your hosts, same as I was, are the result of load balancing and routing through some main switches.

Ha, well no - but the problems I had were for a client who host there too. And they made some changes to the PHP cURL library recently too, which is a bit suspect...

I've managed to track down my problems - no idea if it's the same for you. Looking through my IPN log I can see that the response from PayPal when you return data can be either: HTTP/1.1 100 Continue HTTP/1.1 200 OK or just: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Now if you are using the original (and still in place) basic code example from PayPal themselves then this line won't work: if (strcmp ($res, "VERIFIED") == 0) as the response with 100 Continue will result in a -1 rather than a 0. I've swapped the above line out for: if (preg_match("!(VERIFIED)\s*\Z!",$res) All seems to be well now, but boy did that take some tracking down - and even harder replicating!

I don't suppose you host with Heart?

If you want to drop me some access details, I can take a look for you.

As you are a web guru/web developer I think it shouldn't too hard. Frameworks are an odd one if you are experienced because a lot of learning takes you back to basics, and I often think 'hang about I already know how to do this' but in the case of Laravel I think it's worth it. There's umpteen reasons to use it and having checked out loads of them I think Lavarel is the right choice right now. Worth checking out https://leanpub.com/codebright for a walkthrough of all of v4.

You're thinking about it from the wrong angle. The template files are actually the last link in the chain - WordPress intercepts the request for a page from your browser, processes the various bits of data and then looks at the template file and puts it all together before finally outputting it to your screen.

WordPress itself isn't good at SEO but the various plugins are but it's important that the theme supports them too. If you are looking to maintain your SEO rankings it's really important to remember: 1) structure - the actual markup of your pages - if <h1> is currently your page title, make sure the dynamic site copies this and doesn't make the <h1> your website's title (a lot of themes do this). 2) links - make sure (at least twice) that either old links properly redirect to new links (301 header) or that you maintain the same links as you switch from static to dynamic.

I would definitely put in the easy category. Not saying it's stupidly simple but it does follow a lot of the same principles as other modern languages so once you've learnt the basics, things like javascript will make more sense. Try and learn PHP too rather than a framework, it'll help when you get stuck and can't figure out what it's doing, let alone how to fix it.

Nearly all of the above isn't true I'm afraid. That said LinkedIn definitely doesn't run on shared hosting!

Well Ghost very definitely isn't a CMS, and never will be. Can't work out whether Mr Ben is being ironic - you had to learn a new language to use it?!

If you are more interested in following someone so they follow back then I think you've missed the point and are only interested in growing your followers for a reason that's beyond me. I make a point of only following people I'm interested in, I can barely keep up with tweets now, let alone if I followed everyone back!

'large scale professional' and 'shared hosting' don't go hand in hand very well at all. Having said that, give Laravel a try.

Yes and no. Drupal have it documented here - https://drupal.org/node/43178 Are you still worried WordPress isn't up to the job?

No it's more for clients - they don't necessarily need to know it's WordPress that's hosting their website. With /wp-admin/ it becomes painfully obvious. @mantis, sadly all that plugin does is rewrite the initial call - nothing else, you still end up at /wp-admin

It won't be the software that lets you down, it'll be your servers. Given they are all PHP/MySQL I would go with the one that makes the most sense for the product you are building. Or let the web development decide for you, they'll know the products better.

You didn't say there was an error? Add something like print_r($_GET) or var_dump($_GET) and see if the variable is being passed though. In your original call you say ?oak-furniture= whereas your .htaccess file says ?id=

I think this is because you are uploading via the WordPress admin panel and have encountered a limit set by your host. Do you have FTP access to your website?

Injecting some dodgy stuff in the footer from what I can see from functions.php Not cool at all.

Take a look at WooCommerce. Think you'll be impressed.

That's definitely not running WordPress. Have a look here and see if any of these themes would be close with a little work: http://my.studiopress.com/themes/

Thanks, I should have said that I meant without hacking the original core of WordPress. I have done it the way you suggest as a test previously but it's not as easy as the plugins, wp-content, uploads folders which are all editable via the wp-config.php file.

Sounds like you've removed Wordpress and have hand built your website using Dreamweaver. You won't have any of the functionality of Wordpress (and wp-admin) if that's the case.

Having done a lot of research it's not really possible. Seems very hard-coded.

Hi, I've had a dabble in WordPress recently as a replacement for my custom built CMS's. Has anyone successfully renamed /wp-admin to something like /admin or /cms? /wp-content seems pretty easy to rename, but the /wp-includes and /wp-admin seem pretty rigid. There seem to plugins that redirect but you still end up at /wp-admin and there are tutorials but none for the latest release (3.6). Any help gratefully received Chris