Besides ping when post is published, I need my wordpress website to ping automatically when page or posts is viewed (i have imported lots of posts from old html).
I don't know what is the format in pinging. a guy told me that ping to some type of website is as simple as running URL like below (is this true?):
http://www.pingserver.com/[URL-TO-PING]
how about pinging to pingomatic?
why do you want to do this? to keep track of every time you get a view? you can set up google analytics (www.google.com/analytics/) and it'll do it much better than ping.
unless you're trying to trigger some sort of event per view, in which case you could set up a RESTful get request that triggers it?
finally, if you're really set on using ping, php comes with support for a ping library: http://www.codediesel.com/php/ping-a-server-using-php/
unlike drupal, wordpress is lack of workflow
the best solution is to integrate drupal with wordpress so you have both feature
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My web programmer is having a hard time accomplishing a request. My guess is I'm not framing the question correctly since I'm not a programmer.
What I know about our website configuration:
The site is running on windows server 2008 IIS 7.5 using ASP.
what I don't know: I don't know if URL rewrite extension is installed.
What I'm trying to do:
vanitysub.domain.com will point to actualsub.domain.com with query string variables for Google Analytics campaign tagging appended to actualsub.domain.com
The programmer was not able to do this. I received an email with the following. "I think it has to do with the aliases I’m trying to redirect. They are both bound to the same site."
Potentially useful information:
Currently if you type in the vanitysub.domain.com it renders the correct site but the URL stays vanitysub.domain.com.
Side note: This is a Google analytics issue as well because our site has over 15 different subdomains so I have configured GA to prepend the sub.domain.com to the URI. With the current scenario this generates two separate lines in my pageview report. One for vanitysub and one for actual sub.
Can someone help me provide instruction for how to achieve "what I'm trying to do" both without the rewrite extension and with it? The programmer does not have time to research it. I'm not a programmer but know enough to know I can be dangerous(i.e. it can be done) so I need your help.
Thank you!
We were able to follow the steps outlined in a similar post with some modifications since this was only one domain and the tagging was fixed. IIS7 URL Rewrite multiple domains to a single domain including google analytics referral code
We are grabbing our feed at feedburner by using the jquery jGFeed plugin.
this works great until the moment our users are on a httpS:// page.
When we try to load the feed on that page the user gets the message that there is mixed conteent, protected and unprotected on the page.
A solution would be to load the feed on https, but google doesn't allow that, the certificate isn't working.
$.jGFeed('httpS://feeds.feedburner.com/xxx')
Does anyone know a workaround for this. The way it functions now, we simply cannot server the feed in our pages when on httpS
At this time Feedburner does not offer feeds over SSL (https scheme). The message that you're getting regarding mixed content is by design; in fact, any and all content that is not being loaded from a secured connection will trigger that message, so making sure that all content is loaded over SSL is really your only alternative to avoid that popup.
As I mentioned, Feedburner doesn't offer feeds over SSL, so realistically you'll need to look into porting your feed to another service that DOES offer feeds over SSL. Keep in mind what I said above, however, with respect to your feed's content as well. If you have any embedded content that is not delivered via SSL then that content will also trigger the popup that you're trying to avoid.
This comes up from time to time with other services that don't have an SSL cert (Twitter's API is a bit of a mess that way too.) Brian's comment is correct about the nature of the message, so you've got a few options:
If this is on your server, and the core data is on your server too, then you've got end to end SSL capabilities; just point jGFeed to the local RSS feed that FeedBurner's already importing.
Code up a proxy on your server to marshall the call to Feedburner and return the response over SSL.
Find another feed service that supports SSL, and either pass it the original feed or the Feedburner one.
i have started using WordPress paid theme Schema for my several blogs. In general, it is a nice theme, fast and SEO friendly. However, since my blogs are all on HTTPS, then I noticed that if I had a widget of (Google Feedburner) in the sitebar. The chrome will show a security error for any secure page with an insecure form call on the page.
To fix this, it is really simple,
you would just need to change the file widget-subscribe.php located at /wp-content/themes/schema/functions/ and replace all “http://feedburner.google.com” to “https://feedburner.google.com”.
Save the file, and clear the cache, then your browser will show a green padlock.
and i fix this in my this blog www.androidloud.com
I am not a web developer but I do have a lot of programming experience in C# and Windows forms programming. On our company webpage my boss wants me to put in a textbox where visitors can submit a comment and press a submit button and that comment will be sent to an email address. Right now, our website uses just plain old html, no php or javascript or anything like that. I am wondering what is the simplest way to accomplish what I need? Can someone point me in the right direction? The website is hosted on an Apache server so I won't be able to use aspx.
The simplest method depends heavily on what is available. If PHP is supported, use it.
Here's a simple example (I wouldn't focus too much on their HTML -- which is a bit shoddy) but the PHP at the bottom to give you an idea on how to pull the <form> in and send the email.
If you don't have PHP and don't want to install it, you can do this without any server-side code and outsource the problem. Bravenet (a name that will be familiar with any old-school webdeveloper) have a free hosted form solution that lets you post your forms to their server and they email you the result.
Not amazingly professional, but takes about 10 seconds to implement.
The simplest solution would be have the form action as "mailto:email#address.com"
However, this has the downside of the email address being sent to being exposed to spam bots, along with the clients mail application having to load to send the email which can be confusing and slow.
Sending emails in PHP is common, and there are thousands of articles out there on how to do it, here's one
In this case the most simple way is to install PHP to your apache to use the mail()-function.
Of couse you could use tomcat additional to apache, but the configuaration is much more time-eating.
If you don't want to use any sort of scripting technology, then the form mailto might be your only option. You can just make the action of your HTML form mailto:youraddress and the form post will be mailed directly.
I would highly recommend looking into some sort of scripting technology though to do this in a more reliable way....PHP looks like a good fit in your environment.
Greetings,
I will certainly hope someone will be able to provide some enlightenment to my problem.
Currently, I have 2 joomla sites, layout and menus are a replicate of the other.
I noticed that on both Joomla, I will occasionally encounter "Unable to send mail" after a form submission.
Is this the fault of my server, or the fault of Joomla's PHP Mailer ? I will certainly love to approach my hosting company for a solution but I do not want to place a false accusation on them.
By default, Joomla will use PHP's mail() function, although you can set it to use other methods (sendmail, SMTP) in the Global Configuration on the Server tab.
The best way to test this would be to set up a small PHP script that sends a message through mail(). Next time you see the message, try running the small script and see if that one fails as well.
I personally preffer using an SMTP server for mailing purpose. I guess your hosting company has provided something like smtp.yourdomain.com
You may use it.
Else, you can use the gmail server smtp.gmail.com
It wont disappoint you for sure.
i am planing to start a full ajax site project, and i was wondering about SEO.
The site will have urls like www.mysite.gr/#/category1 etc
Can Google crawl the site.
Is something that i have to noticed about full ajax and SEO
Any reading suggestions are welcome
Thanks
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/768233/do-hashes-in-urls-affect-seo
You might want to read about so called progressive enhancement.
Google supports indexing of AJAX sites, but unfortunately it involves extra work for the developer. See http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started.html
I don't think Google is capable of doing so (yet)
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/proposal-for-making-ajax-crawlable.html
However you can of course make your site usable with or without JavaScript. That way, browsers will have the full candy stuff and Google (and text browsers) still can navigation your site.
In addition to SEO, you also need to think about usability standards here. A site that is that reliant on AJAX isn't going to work for things like screen-readers as well as spiders. You need a system for graceful degreadation. A website that can't function without JavaScript isn't really a functioning website.
The search engines will spider the initial page load - what happens to the page (with ajax) after that is irrelevant to listings.
Google itself doesn't crawl ajax content but advice a mechanism for it. For this you first need to change # to #!
Whole process to SEO AJAX content is explained here along with simple asp.net code to start working on it.
Imagine having to hit the “refresh” button in your browser to update your Twitter feed rather than just hitting the button on the page itself and having it instantly update? These are the types of problems that AJAX solves, although it does come with its pitfalls. Google might claim it’s able to crawl and parse AJAX websites, yet it’s risky to just take its word for it and leave your website’s organic traffic up to chance. Even though Google can usually index dynamic AJAX content, it’s not always that simple. This guide covers some of the things that can go wrong and how you can make sure your AJAX website is crawlable: https://prerender.io/ajax-seo/