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WordPress 3.1 vs 3.0 vs. 3.1.1 and “archives” URL’s

Updated on Apr 07, 2011 @ 02:54:

If you made the change below for 3.1RC-3.1 and/or used manually created tag/category links in 3.1RC-3.1 and just upgraded to 3.1.1, you may find that the links are broken. The reason is that in 3.1.1 the tag and category links returned to the 3.0 style with the word “archives” in the URL.

To make it work you can change .htaccess to the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase / #or where your blog root is

#RewriteRule archives/category/(.*) category/$1 [L,R=301]
#RewriteRule archives/tag/(.*) tag/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^category/(.*) archives/category/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^tag/(.*) archives/tag/$1 [L,R=301]

Posted on Feb 25, 2011 @ 00:22:

In WordPress 3.1 the link structure have been changed

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How to serve attachments from a free CDN (Coral)

You can use Coral free CDN to off-load the WordPress attachments (usually images). In order to use Coral you need to add “.nyud.net” to the site DNS address. For example, http://www.alekz.net will become http://www.alekz.net.nyud.net. Coral is usually too slow to serve all static content, so the most effective solution would be to use it only for the biggest files.

Here’s a simple solution. Add the following to functions.php of your current theme:

add_filter ('wp_get_attachment_url', 'freecdn_url');

function freecdn_url ($url)
{
    if (! is_attachment () ) return $url; 
    $cdn_url = ".nyud.net";
    $decomposed_url = explode ("/", $url);
    $decomposed_url[2] =  $decomposed_url[2] . $cdn_url;
    $url = implode("/", $decomposed_url);
    return $url;
}

Your theme (e.g. the bundled “TwentyTen”) must use wp_get_attachment_url(), of course. If not – you got the idea, didn’t you? ;-)

Also, you can use freecdn_url () function to rewrite any URL you want to download from Coral.

How to replace the WP comment form with a WYSIWYG editor

You can replace the standard WordPress comment form with a built-in WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE.

Find the file where the comment form is defined. Usually it’s comment.php in your theme

For WP <3.0 it looks something like:

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Why does x^0 equal 1?

Since basic school we know, that [math]x^0=1[/math], but only recently when our kids began to study mathematics we asked ourselves “why?”.

I came up with this explanation:

[math]x^0=x^{n-n}=x^n \times x^{-n}=\frac {x^n} {x^n}=1[/math]

Also a good test for the Easy LaTeX WordPress plug-in.

And here’s jsxgraph plug-in test:
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