Getting IIS6 to play nice with WordPress Pretty Permalinks
Getting IIS6 to play nice with WordPress Pretty Permalinks I've got a WordPress powered blog that I'm trying to get setup on our IIS6 server and everything works besides the permalink structure which I'm having a big headache with. After googling around/wordpress codex I learned that it's because IIS6 doesn't have the equivalent of Apache's mod_rewrite which is required for this feature to work. So that's where I'm at now. I can't seem to find a functional solution to get the pretty permalinks to work without the "index.php/," anyone have any recommendations? What I can't do: Upgrade to IIS7 Switch to Apache Quit my job Those suggestions have been offered to me, which sadly, I can't do any of those. Just an, FYI. Much thanks for anyone who can lead me in the right direction. 5 Answers I just came across the following answer on another question: Pretty URLs for search pages. Hope that helps! IIRF does this, for IIS6. ...
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YouTube embeds not working in WordPress after importing from Blogger
YouTube embeds not working in WordPress after import from Blogger I imported a series of blogger posts (via xml) into WordPress, and the YouTube embed tags were removed. YouTube URLs in posts are not identified. Instead, just the text of the url is left. Possibly as opposed to full embed tags. I'm trying to restore the embed codes so it's seen. Another fact that is notable in the XML import is that [EMBLED CONTENT] appears instead of the url, that is, the video... 5 Answers …by default, WordPress filters imported XML by removing possible troublesome tags…unfortunateely, including things like <embed> and <iframe> and other instances where you’ve included content in your posts. WordPress does so via a file you can find in /wp-includes called kses.php . In kses.php , you’ll want to scroll down to line 1309 and comment out the three lines under //Post filtering so that they look like this: // Post filtering #add_filter('content_save_pre', 'wp_filte...
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