WordPress Notes

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Album vs Gallery
HTML Form Security
Change WordPress Account Paswords Using MySQL
Account Usernames and Email Addresses
Add/Delete Account
Change A Page's Author
Change the Author of Media files
Unique Sidebars Per Page

Album vs Gallery

An album is a collection of galleries. If you use the shortcode [album id=1] on a page, it will show a list of all the galleries in that album. If you then click on a gallery, it will show the pictures in that gallery.

If you use the [nggallery id=4] shortcode, it will go directly to the gallery showing the pictures in that gallery.

An album is just a way to group galleries into a page.

Note: Use the correct ID.

HTML Form Secruity

If your Website includes a contact or inquiry form make sure you have a CAPTCHA feature. CAPTCHA protects your website from spam by means of math logic. The user must enter a string of letters and numbers in order to successfully submit the form.

Change WordPress Account Paswords Using MySQL

I sometime lose or forget the WordPress admin account password. Go Here imagemissing for MySQL commands to set/reset passwords.

Account Usernames and Email Addresses

Account usernames and email address must be unique. This means two accounts can not have the same email address.

Add/Delete Accounts

Before deleting an account, assign the authorship (ownership) of any pages or media to another account.

Note: In theory, if you delete an account you will be asked if you want to reassign authorship (ownership) of pages. This needs to be throughly tested.

How To Create, Edit, and Delete User Accounts In Wordpress (YouTube)

Change a Page's Author

The author of a page is the name of the account that create the page.

  1. Dashboard j Pages j All Pages
  2. check "Author" in the "Screen Options" (upper right corner of screen)
    (You should now see the author of each page)
  3. Select the page or pages to change
  4. If one page - Quick Edit or Edit
    If more than one page - Bulk Edit
  5. Change the author

Here is the rub. Media file on the changed page do not change.

Change the Author of Media Files

The author of a media file is the name of the account that uploaded the file.

You can use the plugin Media Author to change the authorship of media files.

Note: The plugin does not support bulk editing. Each file must be changed individually.

Unique Sidebars Per Page

These instructions are for the "Per Page Sidebars" plugin.