Missing Dll files that somehow disappear can cause your computer to act in mysterious ways, such as not shutting down properly. A means to determine this is a system disk scan which comes with Norton anti-virus. For instance Norton has a good ‘Windoctor’ that makes repairs automatically. It is suggested that if one removes Norton anti virus for a free virus program, they retain Norton Utilities/ WinDoctor and Speed Disk for defragging.

Always run a virus check on anything one downloads before they open it. Remove programs that one doesn’t use or need. Too many programs clog up the machine. Do periodic defragging. Anytime one downloads or removes programs, music etc. plus the normal creation of files, it fragments the computer and slows and confuses its proper function. “When system files are overwritten, such as .sys, .dll, .ocx, .ttf, .fon, and .exe files, system performance becomes unpredictable, programs behave erratically, and the operating system fails”.

If it is determined that one has one or more missing Dll file(s) that can be identified, they can be replaced. Find on say Google, a site that offers free Dll file downloads. Look for missing Dll. Download and Unzip the file to desktop. For this you need Winzip or WinRAR to extract file.

Now one needs to put the Dll file in proper folder. A way to find the program from which the Dll file is missing is by entering it into Google. For instance

q_encutl.dll+program’. Take for example the message as may be posted by ‘Norton Windoctor’: “C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Professional\RunTime\0701\

Intel32\DotNetInstaller.exe” cannot access a necessary file, “mscoree.dll.” Download the Dll file mscoree.dll.

By using ‘Windows Explorer’, one would in this case go to Local Disk [C] Program files/Common Files/Install Shield/ and look through the sub-folders until one would find in this case Professional/Run Time/Intel32. In this case one could cut and past or copy Dll into that Folder. By copy instead of cut and paste, one can put the still desktop Dll download into something like ‘My Documents’ as an extra copy.

Or you can go to the “run” menu. Type “SFC” it will search for missing files or altered one. If this doesn’t work type the missing .dll manually overwrite it with your windows cd.

I have simply changed or fixed the function name, making this “WordPress Translator Plugin” work with WordPress version 2.5 and beyond. I am providing the fixed version for others in hopes that I might help those who are having trouble with the original WordPress Translate Widget plugin on newer WordPress versions.

WordPress Language Translator Screenshot:

How to install the WordPress Language Translator Widget:

1. Download the Language Translator Plugin.
2. Unzip the plugin and upload the (translate folder and it’s contents) to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Log in to your WordPress Admin Panel, navigate to the plugins section and activate the Language Translator Plugin.
4. From the Admin Panel, navigate to Presentation -> Widgets and drag and drop the ltranslate widget into the position where you would like it to appear in your sidebar.
5. Save the changes and go view your site

Note: If you would like to place the translator outside of the sidebar, for example in your header.php, footer.php etc, simply add the code <?php ltranslate(); ?> where ever you would like to call in the plugin.

The Reason for this plugin:

Errors a person might encounter with the old translate plugin when upgrading:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare translate() (previously declared in /wp-includes/l10n.php:20) in /wp-content/plugins/translate/translate.php on line 13
Warning: Missing argument 1 for translate() in /wp-includes/l10n.php on line 20
Warning: Missing argument 2 for translate() in /wp-includes/l10n.php on line 20

WordPress – How to display or show more than 15 recent posts:

1. Using your favorite FTP application, navigate to your wp-includes directory on your server and copy widgets.php to your PC
2. Using Notepad ++ open widgets.php and find the following:

$title = empty($options['title']) ? __(’Recent Posts’) : $options['title'];
if ( !$number = (int) $options['number'] )
$number = 10;
else if ( $number < 1 )
$number = 1;
else if ( $number > 15 )
$number = 15;

3. Change 15 to 20 to display up to 20 posts
4. Next find the first occurance of the following:

at most 15

5. Change to at most 20
6. Save your widgets.php file and upload overwriting the old file on the server
7. Now when you go to your Design-> Widgets section, you’ll have the ability to set your recent posts to the max value you set in step 3.

WordPress – How to display or show more than 15 recent posts:

1. Using your favorite FTP application, navigate to your wp-includes directory on your server and copy widgets.php to your PC
2. Using Notepad ++ open widgets.php and find the following:

$title = empty($options['title']) ? __(’Recent Posts’) : $options['title'];
if ( !$number = (int) $options['number'] )
$number = 10;
else if ( $number < 1 )
$number = 1;
else if ( $number > 15 )
$number = 15;

3. Change 15 to 20 to display up to 20 posts
4. Next find the first occurance of the following:

at most 15

5. Change to at most 20
6. Save your widgets.php file and upload overwriting the old file on the server
7. Now when you go to your Design-> Widgets section, you’ll have the ability to set your recent posts to the max value you set in step 3.

Adding a second widget compatible sidebar to WordPress:

This process assumes your using Kubrick or a theme based on Kubrick. Please backup any files before editing.

1. Navigate to Design ->Theme Editor from your WordPress admin panel
2. Open the functions.php file from the theme file list and find:
   

   if ( function_exists(’register_sidebar’) )
   register_sidebar(array(
   ‘before_widget’ => ‘<li id=”%1$s”>’,
   ‘after_widget’ => ‘</li>’,
   ‘before_title’ => ‘<h2>’,
   ‘after_title’ => ‘</h2>’,
   ));

3. Replace it with the following code, then update the file:
   

   if ( function_exists(’register_sidebar’) )
   register_sidebar(array(’name’=>’Sidebar 1′,));
   register_sidebar(array(’name’=>’Sidebar 2′,));

   You should now have two widget compatible sidebars that show up under Design-> Widgets.
   Next we will add a Sidebar template to use for Sidebar 2 and then call it into the page or post we wish to have display the new sidebar.

4. Download the sidebar2.zip file and upload the sidebar2.php within to your WordPress wp-content/themes/yourthemename/ directory
5. Now to use Sidebar 2, simply replace the following code found in any of your template files. For example (Single Post) single.php
   

   <?php get_sidebar();  ?>

6. With the following code:
   

   <?php include(”sidebar2.php”);  ?>

   Note: You can build a custom template that specifically calls in Sidebar 2 and elect to use it whenever you write a page that you wish to use this alternate Sidebar.

Please note that I did not create this plugin. I have simply fixed the issues that prevented it from working with WordPress 2.3 and beyond (up to Wordpress 2.7). I am providing this fixed version of what was originally JAW Duplicate Widgets for others in hopes that I might help those who could not get the original authors version to work with the latest release of WordPress.

Duplicate Widgets Screenshot:

Installing and using Duplicate Sidebar Widgets:

This fix is outdated. The original Author has since corrected the original JAW Duplicate Widgets Plugin, which is available HERE

1. Download Duplicate Sidebar Widgets and extract the php file to your wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Login to your WordPress administration panel, navigate to the plugins section and activate the Duplicate Sidebar Widgets Plugin
3. From the Admin Panel, navigate to Presentation -> Widgets and use the options to duplicate or copy your widgets
4. Drag the copied widgets to the sidebar you would like them to appear in and go view your site

The following tutorial has been tested with WordPress 2.2. Earlier versions may vary.

Customizing the WordPress Login Screen:

1. Download the zip containing the two image files needed for the new Login image
2. Add any custom text (I.E.Sitename) to the top of the login-bkg-tile.gif image using an image editor like paint or photoshop
3. FTP to your server and upload the two image files to your /wp-admin/images/ directory. Replacing the old images when prompted
4. Go to the login page of your WordPress site: http://yoursite/wp-admin/ and you should be presented with the new login screen created by our custom images.

If you would like to remove the WordPress.org linkback from the WordPress Login Screen, I have included a new wp-login.php file which replaces the WordPress.org linkback with your sites wp-admin link. Just replace the original wp-login.php located at the root folder of your site with the new one and your set.

My Custom WordPress Login Screenshot:

Note: You may have to refresh your browser F5 to see the new login screen.

The following tutorial outlines a few WordPress quick fixes for a blogger to try when encountering the almost inevitable incompatible WordPress plugin problem that is causing site errors or limited blog access.

How to Fix a broken WordPress due to recent plugin activation:

This tutorial assumes that you already have an idea of which plugin is breaking WordPress.

1. Using an FTP client, navigate to your WordPress plugin directory /wp-content/plugins
2. Locate and rename or delete the suspected problem plugin
3. If you have made any plugin code modifications to your template files, undo those changes. You can access your theme files from /wp-content/themes/yourtheme/
4. Once finished, try to log in to your WordPress admin panel.

How to Fix a broken WordPress when you don’t know which plugin is the culprit:

1. Create a new directory named Plugins on your computer
2. Using an FTP client, navigate to your WordPress plugin directory /wp-content/plugins
3. Move all plugin files from the Plugins directory on the server to the Plugins directory on your computer
4. Begin moving each plugin one by one back to the WordPress plugins directory until the WordPress problem reoccurs signaling which plugin is the culprit
5. Delete the culprit plugin

If you write a post that links to another blog article, and both blogs support trackbacks, your article link will appear as a comment on the post of the other blog that you are linking to.

Why use trackbacks?

Trackbacks are an automatic way to promote your articles and post comments on other blogs. They offer a connection of related content between blogs, and help promote participating blog authors content.

Enabling WordPress trackback support:

1. Login to your WordPress Admin Panel and navigate to the Options -> discussion section.
2. Check the option to Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)
3. Click Update Options

How to Trackback:

Using Trackbacks in WordPress is easy. When writing a post, simply copy the permalink of the post you want to trackback to into the trackback section.

Optionally, you can simply link to a permalink within the content of your posts and a trackback will be achieved.

How to manually upgrade Wordpress:

1. Perform a complete backup of both your database and directory structure (in case something goes wrong)
2. Login to your WordPress administration panel and deactivate all active plugins
3. Download and extract the latest STABLE WordPresss version to a folder on your computer
4. Upload the extracted files to your WordPress server directory with the exception of the following:
   • wp-content folder and it’s content
   • wp-includes/languages if you are using a custom language file
5. To perform the upgrade, navigate to http://yoursitename/wp-admin/upgrade.php and follow the on screen steps
6. Login to the administration panel and reactivate your plugins one by one to ensure that they still work with the new version of WordPress

Enjoy the new WordPress release!