wordpress free music widget

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:41:24 +0000

I commissioned this widget to allow wordpress and wpmu bloggers to have access to music from my music site, unsignedbandweb.com. After installing the widget, users can choose a specific artist, a specific genre, or choose songs preselected by the editors at UnsignedBandWeb.

Screenshots:

Download the widget below:
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easyphp and wpmu

admin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:46:39 +0000

I decided to play with the latest beta version of wpmu 2.7 locally to see how a local backup of my wpmu site would perform. I’ve used xampp previously, but decided to try easyphp. The results of the testing were pretty positive. The vast majority of plugins worked immediately, and the new backend admin panel is a huge improvement over the current wpmu backend. I had to disable wpsary gallery to get the new version to run. For anyone else attempting this excersize, here are some pointers.

EasyPHP setup:

Install EasyPHP
Modify the http.conf file to match your current server settings
If you use mod_rewrite on our web server, enable the module in the http.conf file
Move your site backup into the www folder inside EasyPHP
Modify the php.ini file to match your current server settings
Start phpmyadmin via the EasyPHP admin panel
Add a mysql user with the same name, password, and permissions as your web server mysql
Import your DB backup
Restart EasyPHP

Setting up your local WPMU

Change the configuration file to use 127.0.0.1 as your db host instead of localhost
Using phpmyadmin change the URL for blog 1 to 127.0.0.1

If you use multi-db (from wpmu premium website)

Change all of your localhosts in the db config file to 127.0.0.1
Find the db with blog 1 in it, and change the URL for blog 1 to 127.0.0.1

If you use sub-domains on your web server, you will not be able to test them locally, only blog 1 will work. The problem is ( test.127.0.0.1) isn’t a good url.

Hope this helps someone.

Ron Dillehay » wpmu

wordpress free music widget

easyphp and wpmu