When I come to check users management of community builder components in back admin, I found all users were unconfirmed!

It seems there’s some status in the database table of community buildr.  After analysed database structure of Community Builder, I knew the users data stored in table jos_comprofiler. So for the new imported users, the data of this table must be inserted into database also.

I generated all data in excel according the all fields of jos_comprofiler and the data of new created user in back admin. Because there are so many fields in jos_comprofiler. So I only generated the required fields. I didn’t generated data for the fields which has defaul value and can be null.

You must be known, the field of  “approved” and “confirmed” must be set to “1″. It means the user has been confirmed and approved.

Import the excel sheet into MySql. Then export the data of new imported jos_comprofiler to .sql file. Imported the .sql file into the destined database. If you don’t know how to import excel into MySql, you may check Import users’ data into joomla—-data transfer

Afther the data been imported. In the users management of community builder components, all users’ status displayed “Confirmed”.

When I come to front, the new imported users can login OK.

Cheers, the users of old website have been transfered to new website OK.

Why the users can’t bu displayed?

I studied the source code of users manager for back admin. I found the users list is related with two others table, one is jos_core_acl_aro and the other is jos_core_acl_groups_aro_map. You may do a test, when you create a new user at back admin. One record will be inserted into the two tables also.  It seems the two tables is sotre the group of users. So we need to insert users group data into the two tables.

Step 1.  Generate the data of the table of jos_core_acl_aro

There are 6 fields in this table id， section_value，value，order_value，name and hidden.

id: it isn’t same with users id in jos_users, it is the number of this table.

section_value: According to the new created users, its group is Registered and the value of this field is “users”. So I set this field to  “users”.

value: This field is users id, it must same with users id in table jos_users.

order_value: For the new created user, this value is set to “0″, so I set this field to “0″ also.

name: Users’ name, same with jos_users.name .

hidden: Set this field to “0″ with the value of new created user also.

I generate all data in Excel.

Step 2.  Generate the data of the table of jos_core_acl_groups_aro_map

There are 3 fields in this table group_id:， section_value，aro_id.

group_id: The group which users belong.

section_value: Keep blank same with the value of new created users.

aro_id: Same with the value of the id in table jos_core_acl_aro. You may copy the column from the Excel sheet of jos_core_acl_aro.

Then excel sheet:

Step 3. Import the excel sheet data into the table of  jos_core_acl_aro and jos_core_acl_groups_aro_map in MySql.

When you import these data into MySql, must make sure the old value won’t be overwrite.

The data imported like this:

Step 4: When I come to back admin, all users been displayed!

After checked all users, I come to the front page to login. But I can’t login, and following windows pop-up.

It seemed there was some error on users data imported. I realized I used Community Builder. The login module is CB’s also. So it need to import the necessary data of Community Builder also.

To be continued……

I got users info table from the old database. The table was stored by excel,  so in my option I’ll import the users info into MySql database from the Excel sheet.There were 4 columns in the sheet, userID, userName, userEmail, Name.

Step 1: Study the structure of joomla users table: jos_users .

You’ll find others field like password, usertype…etc.

Step 2: Add columns corresponding to the fields in jos_users. The first line setted to fields name. Rename the sheets name to jos_users.

For the password field, you may create a new user in Joomla, set the password to ‘abcdefg’, then copy the pasword fields from MySql to all users password column.

Then import the excel to MySql. I use the tool of Excel 2 mySql Ver 1.0, I got it from http://www.excel2mysql.com/ . The tool need to unlock and it is easy to use.

Step 3: After imported excel, you need to find the new database which generate by the tool of Excel 2 mySql Ver 1.0.   Export all data into sql file.

After exported, please make sure there’s only data operation script and no any structure.  Just like this:

Step 4: Come to the destination database, and import the sql file which generated in Step 3.

Please backup the users data first, then do the step 4. Before import user data from excel to MySql, you may re-set the userID make sure them won’t same with any id of destation database jos_users.

Step 5: After step 4 completed.  You may found all users data have been imported in phpmyadmin. But if you com to the back-admin of Joomla, you’ll found the old users also. And the new imported users won’t be displayed.

But if you are careful, you’ll find the pages isn’t same with the count of old users.

Why the new imported users can’t be displayed?

To be continued……

First, I set the permalinks to custome setting with /html/y%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html.

I follow the author’s instructions in readme.txt.

1.Upload to your plugins folder, usually `wp-content/plugins/` and unzip the file, it will create a `wp-content/plugins/cos-html-cache/` directory.

2.Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.

I’m a beginner of wordpress. When I first activate one plugin, I cost more time to find out the plugin’s setting page.  Follows image will help beginner to find out it quickly.  : )

plugins in wordpress

After activate the plugin, please click “Settings”, when the drop list displayed you’ll find the plugin’s name. Then click it, it will bring you to plugin’s setting page.

plugin setting page

3.Make sure that you deactivated compression on the Miscellaneous options screen and that gzip encoding is turned off on the PHP level.

When I open the page of  “Settings–>reading”, I can’t find any gzip option.   What I saw was following image:

wordpress gzip option

I search the help for gzip option,  finally I  got it. The gzip option has been disabled in wordpress 2.8.2.

4.create a file named “index.bak” under the root of your web directory

I created the file, logout wordpress admin. Refreshed the home page of  www.j2trip.com again. Then I go to the root directory by FTP.  Unfortunately I didn’t find any index.html file,  and didn’t find html directory also.

I checked every step, there wasn’t any error. But why the html files not been generated?

Setp to fix the problem:

1. I read author’s FAQ list, crated a directory under the root of  www.j2trip.com with it’s name html . Also change it’s mode to 777(linux server).  Refreshed the front page, but without any html files still.

2. I went to the homepage of plugin’s author, read all posts, questions and answers. Fortunately, I find out a page with name: about the question of cos-html-cache on godaddy’s webhosting. I’m using godaddy’s webhost, so may be the page’s content will help me to fix the bug.

3. I follow author’s instruction,  open cos-html-cache.php, replace $path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].”/” to $path = ABSPATH,  logout admin refreshed www.j2trip.com’s homepage again, but I can’t find any html file with FTP. The futher step,  set the $path to $path = ABSPATH.”/yourblogdir/”, but the html file was not generated also.

4. For now, I didn’t how to deal with. I attempted all instructions, but couldn’t get html yet. My brain was frozen. So I decited to go to bed and fix the problem tomorrow.

5. The second day, when I login wordpress I suddenly realized that I have used my own theme,  did the problem caused by this? I change the theme to default and logout, refreshed, when I open the root with FTP I saw index.html file. Good news, the plugin worked.  But when I go into the html directory, I couldn’t find any html files for single posts.

6. I added some debug info into cos-html-cache.php,  echo $path, and I found the path is not right. Because I have replace the $path to ABSPATH.”/yourblogdir/”, so the $path is not valid and the html files for every posts couldn’t be generated. I set the $path = ABSPATH.”/” again, logout and refreshed the special posts. I got the real html file for the special posts.

I got success.

PS:

Forgive me if there’s any error.

First, come into the Dashboard of your wordpress. Direct to the Settings.

Second, come into Media option, the screenshot will as follows.

Set all width and height value.  When insert a new picture into wordpress, if the images width and height exceed the values which you setted. Then the corresponding size will be generated. As the max picture  size  on my site is 800*800, so I set them to 1024. In this option, the all thumbnails won’t be generated.

Save your changes.

When you insert picture again, the thumbnails can’t be used, and the files for that size won’t be generated also.

Enjoy yoursel.

It’s easy, first you should go to the homepage of  baidu.com ,  write down site:www.yourdomain.com in the search text input area. Please see following screenshot:

You should write down site:www.yourdomain.com at the position 1, and click the button at position 2.

If you saw the results as following screenshot, it means no urls indexed by baidu.com. If you havn’t submit your website to baidu, please see this article: how to submit your website to baidu

If you saw the results as following screenshot, it means baidy.com has indexed your urls. You can find how many urls been indexed at position 1.

For more information about baidu.com in English you can vist about baidu:  http://ir.baidu.com

Following instruction will tell you how to submit your website to it.

Step 1 : Open www.baidu.com in your web explorer.  When you got it, the following screenshot will be shown to you.

Step 2: Please go to the url submitting page directly.  http://www.baidu.com/search/url_submit.html . You’ll see the following:

Step 3: Write down your website’s domain  at position 1, fill the security code at position 2, the scurity code must match with what be shown at position 3.  At last, click the submit button at position 4.

Step4: If you saw the following screenshot, then you are successful.

For more information about baidu.com in English you can vist about baidu:  http://ir.baidu.com

Step 1. Open its webmaster url :　http://www.bing.com/webmaster ,  you may use your hotmail account signin or create a new account.

Step 2: When you signin, you’ll find a button of  “Add a site”, click it then bing will require to fill some info.

If you have a sitemap.xml already, then fill the address, others let it blank.

Step 3: bing need to verify if you are the owner of the site. There are two methods: one is xml file and the other is meta data. In my option, the xml is easier. Download it and upload it to the root of your site.

Step 4: After the authenticate method done, you can return to site list. You’ll find the site has been added!

Step 5: Click the web address that you just added, you’ll find the details about your site. You can view summary and indexed urls. You can add the sitemap again if you did’t submit it yet.

2. when you sing in, you’ll find follows screenshot:

3. Click the button of  “Add a site”,  then google will require your website URL.

4. Next step, google need to verify if you are the really owner of the site.  There are two methods:

• Meta tag.  This method need you put the code that google show to you into  the first <head></head> section of the site’s homepage.
• HTML file.  This method need you to upload a file to your site’s root and name what google show to you.

5. After  upload new fiel or modify you homepage, then click  “Verify”. Then you’ll be bring to the following screenshot, you succeed!

6.  May be for a newer, you don’t know to find “webmaster tool” quickly. You can sign in google account : http://www.google.com/accounts . The following screenshot show you where’s it.

All because my own wordpress theme, The theme was designed for English website at first. But now I need to make it support Japanese. So I install a new wordpress, and set the “Encoding for pages and feeds” to UTF-8.

I could view posts that its characters were Japanese, but all lables like “previous post”, “previous page”, “next post”… are english. So I wanted to change them into Japanese also.

First I attempt to change the default “Previous”   “Next” to “以前の”  and “次の” in Japanese. I added following codes:

<div>
<div><?php previous_post_link(’以前の%link’) ?></div>
<div><?php next_post_link(’%link 次の’) ?></div>
</div>

But I met unreadable codes(unreadable characters) . Just like following screenshot:

I try again and again, but it was still unreadable codes.  I checked the source file of the page, its charset was right, just UTF-8.

Suddenly I realized may be the error caused by encoding of the theme files. Because the files all are english first, may be its encoding is lartin and not UTF-8.

I checked the encoding of single.php. Good luck, I found out the reason, the encoding of the file was not UTF-8. So When I chaged the previous and next lable to Japanese, them couldn’t be displayed correctly. Although the charset of the page setted to UTF-8.

I got out this: the encoding of the file must be same with charset of the meta in the header.  It is to say, if your html files’ charset set to <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ />, then the encoding of the file must be set to UTF-8 also.

PS: I used Adobe Dreamwaver CS3 to check and re-set the page’s encoding. You may press CTRL + J on your keyboard, then you’ll find the title/encoding on the dialogue, change the encoding and all will be OK.

Enjoy yourself.