How to solve problem with displaying Cyrillic characters in WordPress

August 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Well, looks like topic is all researched through and through and closed forever. But, surprisingly, NO:) The easiest way is to install WP in your language is: just go to http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language, download the package, install it manually (having created database and user in phpMyAdmin before) and have fun. If you have automatic installation in your language inside your hosting CPanel - then it's just a matter of few clicks. But what to do if you have your … [Read more...]

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Facebook Fan Box – Preview Doesn’t Work, I can’t Get The Code

April 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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After struggling with Facebook manuals and having no result, I finally came across on this brilliant post of Robert Holland on How to add Facebook Fan Box to WordPress. I've tested this solution on both WordPress and regular HTML site just embedding the code inside the table. So what is the secret and why the code proposed by Facebook developer's guide didn't work. The answer is: you need to use iframes in order to get Fan Box working. You may read Robert's post on how to do it right, … [Read more...]

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How To Migrate From Joomla to WordPress

April 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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I've been using Joomla a lot on my sites and wouldn't join the army of folks claiming it's worse compared to WordPress.  There's  not so much features in WP you can't reproduce in Joomla, especially version 1.5, if you know how to do it right. However, we all are lazy people, and when it comes to convenience, we will do anything to ease our lives.  So I decided to move one of my sites built with Joomla to WP platform to have convenience and write posts faster. Searching the web I've found … [Read more...]

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