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.HTACCESS, ASIRRA, PERMALINKS, GODADDY, PERMALINKS MIGRATION, THEME SWITCHER, WORDPRESS, WP SUPER CACHE, AND WP-CACHE
WordPress Permalinks
Changing from default permalinks or standard permalinks to fancy permalinks or pretty permalinks with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and other things in mind:
Dean's Permalinks Migration Plugin
If you were using default permalinks, leave the "Old Permalink Structure" on Dean's plugin setting page blank and click the update button. It will return a single slash mark.
Then go to WordPress Settings and then Permalinks. Click on any of the other choices besides the default, and the "Custom Structure" box will automatically populate. You can then change that to whatever you want. See the WordPress Codex: Using Permalinks for ideas on tags. You can leave off the trailing slash mark too. I did. I took it a step further. I'm now using /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%.html
I like the extension (.html), because saved files are clearly associated with the default program that way. Most browsers will append .htm or .html automatically, but adding it just removes ever having to think about it again. I have had files save without extensions before, probably when I was in a hurry and taking too much for granted. I don't trust opening those, so I end up running scans on them when I go back to them perhaps months later. By adding the extension, it removes wondering later and the added hassle.
Dean's Permalinks Migration Plugin all worked for me the first time, but only because I thought about it for a while and read some of the early comments on the author's plugin page. If it doesn't work for you, there could be many reasons that have to do with your hosting service and whether or not you are on a Microsoft server rather than UNIX/Linux. You'll have to do some reading on it.
.htaccess and Giving WordPress its Own Directory While Leaving Your Blog in the Root Directory
By the way, the change was appended to my .htaccess file rather than overwriting it. I had to copy it to "/" from "/wordpress/", because I installed wordpress in a subdirectory named wordpress. "Giving WordPress its Own Directory While Leaving Your Blog in the Root Directory."
WP Super Cache and GoDaddy
So, why did I want to do this? For one, supposedly, the words in the title of the post also being in the URL (page address) helps as being another location of keywords. However, that wasn't enough to get me to change. The fact is that WP Super Cache WordPress plugin doesn't work with the default permalinks (?p=1030 for example). The reason I want to use WP Super Cache is because it goes over the top of the WP-Cache plugin I've been using successfully for many months now but takes WP-Cache to the next level. It serves up pages while reducing steps back and forth to and from the server php-engine. I need all the speed I can get and to reduce overhead since I'm on the most affordable web hosting out there I think (GoDaddy).
GoDaddy Hosting
By the way, I've seen GoDaddy rapped left and right in my travels around the Web. Frankly, I've had zero problems, and GoDaddy is my fourth hosting service if memory serves. If you will read their help files, you can usually find the answer you need. Of course, they aren't going to let you nose around root as a super user if you're just on the economy, virtual, shared server, which I am as of the date of this writing.
Freedom of Political and Religious Speech
Let me say something else on GoDaddy's behalf. They appear to be believers in freedom of political and religious speech, which is a good thing. It is up to the individual to exercise self-control and to have a working conscience. It is true that there are people out there who say things that are deliberately designed to lead others off into pain and suffering that awaits, but if all of those people were silenced by coercive and violent means, which human being would be capable of deciding exactly where to draw the line on when to stop silencing people? As Jesus says, only God is good (perfect enough to know), and God judges no man or woman. Did you know that? Most people think God judges and condemns. That's the other spirit.
Back to WP Super Cache
Anyway, back to technology (which is only as good as the unselfish pursuits for which it is employed), I want to use WP Super Cache. However, I had to map out the whole plan before starting down this path, because GoDaddy presents a special case concerning WP-Cache on which WP Super Cache is built. So, I turned to the same place where I turned the second time for WP-Cache and that's givveronline.com.
GoDaddy WP Super Cache. Ramblings of a Bored Geek. February 17, 2008.
As I mentioned As I mentioned in CLEANING UP AND SPEEDING UP WORDPRESS AND MORE, Tuesday, September 16, 2008, I had manually made all the changes to WP-Cache but had that work stepped on. I didn't have a backup back then, and when I went back out onto the Internet in search of the info I had used [Using WP-Cache on GoDaddy (500 Error), by Brad. Online Dating Guide & Blog. September 8th, 2007.], I cane across givveronline.com where everything was all done and served up as a special version of the WP-Cache plugin just for GoDaddy. Well, he ended up doing the same thing for WP Super Cache.
If you're on GoDaddy and tried WP-Cache only to get Internal Server Errors or blank pages every other time you tried to access a page, try GoDaddy WP Super Cache. Read WP Super Cache, by Donncha first though. [UPDATE!] You better finished reading this though to save yourself a lot of trouble.
I downloaded the GoDaddy WP Super Cache. I did everything I was supposed to. It loaded. The settings page came up fine. I set things up and saved. The settings held. I thought everything was fine. However, when I had looked around on the site to see if everything was truly fine, I remembered that being logged in, I wouldn't see the speed-up. So, I opened Safari to go to the site so I could stay logged in on Opera. I was also ready to look at the cache via FTP. Well, the cache stayed empty.
I looked at the code. Sure enough, the GoDaddy fixes were there. I thought that maybe since the version was old, I'd just down load the latest one and make the changes myself. So, I cleaned everything out. I even emptied the .htaccess file after backing it up. I downloaded the latest version of Super Cache. When I went to make the changes, I discovered the GoDaddy fixes were already there as part of the plugin. That's good, because now I don't have to worry about updates overwriting the patches. Now, let's see if it will work.
Supercache Subdirectory Wasn't Automatically Created
Well, after going through everything suggested step-by-step, I finally moved the .htaccess up one directory level because I run WordPress from a subdirectory but there is an old configuration issue that I've never backed into to figure out. It would be too longwinded to explain here now. Then I manually created wp-content/cache/supercache/. The supercache subdirectory wasn't automatically created by the plugin. It works now.
Theme Switcher
However, it isn't compatible with the Theme Switcher. The Theme Switcher though is the old version. The newer one might work. I'm planning to try it out.
I slept on that last idea. I was tired when I wrote it. In thinking about it a little, there isn't a way that the plugins as written will work together. A switched theme would require a cache directory-tree of its own.
Theme Switcher Reloaded
I tried the newer theme switcher just to see. It did work as advertised, but the cache wasn't overwritten by the different theme choice. So, no more public theme switching for a while anyway.
Asirra
Next, I worked on the Asirra plugin, which is an anti-comment spam plugin for WordPress by Microsoft. It's a good idea and worked for a while. Today though, it gave me a bunch of invalids, even though I had selected the proper images for sure. It broke my theme too (too wide at lower screen-resolution settings). I try to avoid horizontal scroll bars appearing for people who use lower resolution. About 10-15% of the site's visitors use low-res.
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Tom Usher
Standing Comment, all posts and pages:
To all homosexuals and their supporters, condoners, promoters, accepters, confirmers, and the like:
Unless you have something completely new that hasn't already been refuted, don't bother. It won't show up.
Rehashing what has already been refuted is a waste of everyone's time.
I'm not interested in casting pearls before swine, giving the children's bread to the dogs, or rebuking a forever scorner.
Learn or go away: There is zero wisdom in homosexuality. Homosexuality is wrong. Nothing any homosexual or anyone else can say or do will alter it. No one needs the Bible to know it either. It's prima facie. There's no such thing as an unrepentant-homosexual Christian. There never has been and never will be. That's the way of it. If you don't like it, change.
Do site searches on the various topics concerning homosexuality to determine if your "point" has already been handled. Currently, I provide three different search methods. The "WordPress" search is still the most thorough.
The same can be done regarding militarism, capitalism, coercion, and many other main issues and themes.
TREATMENT, RUDENESS, POLITENESS, OFFENSE, TRUTH
Many times over the course of this website's existence, I've had commentators complain about how I've treated them and/or others. Much less frequently has anyone taken exception to those commentator's comments. I assume that's because for one, I appear to be holding my own.
Often, I have raised the fact that Jesus called certain people "serpents." I've often also mentioned how he cleaned the temple with whip in hand, not that he used it on anyone. It certainly doesn't say that he did, and neither was he charged with it in the kangaroo court of the serpents who ended up murdering him by proxy just for, among other wonderful things, speaking out and speaking truth.
If I say that those who are engaged in serpentine behavior are the New Testament "serpents," then why take offense at my saying it rather than standing with Jesus and me about it?
If others don't like it that I treat others or them the way I have in this regard, why don't they take it up with the serpents and/or their own consciences and God?
If I wanted to catch flies, I'd use honey. I don't want flies on this level. Human beings aren't to be on the level of flies. If the truth is bitter as vinegar, then ask yourself why and learn to taste it as sweet but not sickeningly so. Why attack the message and messenger, as the serpents did, and become a serpent by so doing?
The issue is not "name calling" on some bratty, childish level. When Jesus said "serpents," he was not being as a brat. His level was completely adult to adults and children. He dared say that the children understood the clear and plain truth before the adults who, afterall, had been abused and socialized by the serpents. He still calls adults back. Those who hear him and know his voice (truth) turn around and do the other required things together as well.
What is it for a human being to be more serpentine or reptilian than what God initially gave? What was and remains Jesus's point? What is the reptilian brain versus the vastly higher human brain with its cerebral cortex and frontal and temporal lobes and specific areas of altruistic sentiments and abilities? What are those higher areas before they are damaged, before the communication pathways to them and between them are diminished by evil that is always some form of abuse? How are those pathways reestablished or created where they never were in this fleshly life?
The snake lays its eggs. The eggs hatch. The snake parent doesn't nurture or raise the offspring. It's every snake for itself. Human parents and family are not designed to be that way. Humans hand down the learning of nurturing. Many people get better training than do others, and many people have a greater aptitude for learning and predisposition for the higher and highest virtues. Many are less abused. People can change for the better and best though, no matter where the starting point. They only can't if they don't — if they reject it.
Snakes, of course, also come in venomous varieties and in strangling varieties, etc., such that they have been attackers and even devourers of humans for eons, guilty and innocent alike.
Now, Jesus knew that most people could relate to what were, and still are, largely considered "good" parenting skills and "good" "family" relations. He regularly used those concepts to get people to consider the wider implications for the whole of humanity. He did know that many would refuse. He let them go. He didn't demand secular or false-religion legislation to rein them in with threats of violence and imprisonment. He was not and is not coercive. Even his Church is a voluntary place to be.
What he still teaches (through the written words in the New Testament and as those connect with the Old and also teaches through the Holy Spirit he definitely sent as he said he would) is, among many other things, that "good" is vastly better than has been commonly accepted and that real "family" is everyone left after all the rest have rejected the higher and highest good. He raised the standards far above the Old Testament and far above the "modern" standard.
The American Empire and the American people in general aren't even touching the hem of his garment, let alone even attempting to stand upright and side-by-side with him.
I point out that Jesus was, and is, a Real Liberal Christian. He is the one who brought back this censored truth that is the light. After he had spoken it and lived it and was murdered for doing so, the censors set about to re-censor it and did. They couldn't put it out though — couldn't completely extinguish the truth. I wouldn't be saying it now again with all credit to God, just as Jesus, if they had been able to completely block it.
I point out that each of those terms ("real," "liberal," and "Christian," along with "Church") are actually redundant terms — synonyms that are so close that they become one. The term "liberal" here is not the common usage, which common usage is a deliberate corruption of the term. There is no harm in real liberalism. There is no vileness in it. There is only beneficence. "Real" may be understood as the opposite of false-hearted, dark side, and dead of the Holy Spirit. Christian is both real and liberal in those senses. To arrive at living, doing, being those full senses requires what Jesus lives, does, and is in the highest. Finally, the Church is the whole.
Who are they who want to drag it down, censor it, work against it, lessen it, ignore it, etc.? Well, who sides with Jesus and who sides against him? Did the serpents side with him then? Do they now?
We call war-mongers "hawks." We call "peacemakers" blessed and "doves." Why do the hawks not take offense at "hawks" but do take offense at "serpents"? "Hawks" is not yet as telling to the general public, but I must tell you that all hawks are serpents. Why do some say, "Greed is good" but take offense at "serpents"? I tell you there is no difference between the selfish and the serpents. Why do people take offense at serpents when they do not take offense at homosexuality? I tell you the homosexual spirit also comes out from the dark side. It is a choice. It is harmful. Many are abused with it. Many never overcome it. Their very brain matter is transformed by it. Then they claim it is good when it remains confusion and definitely wrong and harmful.
Many arguments were put forth in support of tolerance. I understood that Jesus "tolerated," as in he did not execute wrath but rather told the truth and let the blind follow the blind (blind to the truth) into the ditch of their own making. I have watched while the movement has been corrupted into condoning what was once only to be tolerated. I have watched further while it has moved from condoning to promoting even to the youngest children to get to them before the truth does. I have seen evil at work, and I sound the alarm. I face censorship and other negative reactions for it.
As the American Empire claims to be a light to the world, it murders innocent babies by Hellfire missiles fired from predator drones controlled by armchair, video-gaming serpents in uniform. It tortures those who are not even suspects. It spies on its own without even probable cause or reasonable suspicion. It lies its way into wars for spoils and control. It neglects its poor, whom it treads down for the sakes of the superrich — for the sake of the massive flow of mammon from the bottom up (no trickledown — trickledown is a farce and always has been). All is claimed to be okay in America though — that America is headed in the right direction — because soon, even "don't tell, don't ask" will be a thing of the quaint past and homosexuals may be able to sleep together and have sex in the barracks with the "blessing" of the Empire while they practice murdering the innocent for the sake of homosexual, greedy plutocrats who own them and who, in turn, are owned by the dark-side spirit named by God and Jesus as Satan.
Whose side are you on? I speak truth to warn. I don't tell the secular government what to do other than occasionally to say what at least would be less hypocritical within their fallen, unenlightened system. I do so for spiritual reasons. What I want is the Christian Commons.
Now, if you submit a comment:
What you write here against the Real Liberal Christian Church founded by Jesus Christ will mark you in the Biblical sense unless you show that you have turned and are repenting in time to escape the damnation of your own choosing. That's the way of it. Don't be tempted by the devil to stand opposed to the call of righteousness. Overcome such evil temptation. Help others to help yet others to come to righteous behavior through-and-through.
Check out how even after reading this, people will still take it out of context and twist it to an evil end.