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Automatically Embedding Video Using Only the URL With the Help of oEmbed

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One of my favorite functions of the WordPress editor is now the automatic embedding of video and other rich media by simply putting the URL on it’s own line. Really, it’s amazing!

Here is my rip of the WordPress code (found in the WP_Embed and WP_oEmbed classes) and assembled into a class named AutoEmbed. [Read more…]

Setup WordPress to Respond to Multiple Site URLs

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Have you ever encountered a case where you want to access your WordPress site from multiple site URLs (for example a local URL and an external URL, or multiple external URLs)?

Solution

Change the Site URL and Home URL to a relative URL, making the domain name irrelevant to loading the site. Oh, but it can’t be as simple as updating that on the Settings->General admin page, no…WordPress requires a valid URL. Well don’t give up, you’ll just have to hack the option directly in the database.

  1. Connect to your WordPress database using a web-based utility like phpMyAdmin or another SQL client such as HeidiSQL.
  2. Open your wp_options table for editing (if applicable, use your table prefix instead of wp_).
  3. Find the rows with an option_name of siteurl or home and change the option_value of each to / if WordPress is installed in the root of your website or /path/to/wordpress if your WordPress site is installed in a sub-directory. Do NOT add a trailing slash.
  4. For those wanting to execute a simple SQL query, here is an example: 
    
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = '/' WHERE option_name IN('siteurl', 'home');
  5. Test your site out by going to your site URLs (for example http://192.168.0.1, http://mywebserver.local, http://www.example.com).

Important Note: This method is a hack and therefore isn’t a behavior WordPress developers intended. I wouldn’t recommend it for a production site. I have noticed that after making this change on a site that the admin login page lacks CSS, the toolbar on the Visual Editor is missing, and the front-end admin bar sometimes fails to be styled and shows at the bottom on pages. I haven’t seen any issues with the normal front-end site that visitors see. So be aware of some admin CSS problems.

Hope that tip can help some of you out, I know it was useful to me.