I've recently switched a forum I run from Wordpress and bbPress to MyBB. Overall I've very happy with it but there are a few bits to watch out for with MyBB.
If you are running Nginx instead of Apache as your webserver then one of those things to watch out for is the need to manually update the rewrite rules needed for SEO friendly URLs.
Below is the full set of Nginx rewrite rules for rewriting MyBB's SEO friendly URLs. To activate this option in MyBB you can do so from the Admin CP:
UPDATE - Headway developers are currently looking into this issue and are working on a patched version of Headway fixed this in Headway version 3.8.3.
Having trouble with page caching not working when using Headway Theme framework for Wordpress? Tried both W3TC and WP Super Cache and still getting weird problems? I've got good and bad news for you...
This won't be a particularly short post because the problem is a little convoluted, but it does contain some answers and a workaround which should allow you to take an informed decision on how you wish to proceed.
The good news is there are workarounds to the problem. The bad news is that these are only workarounds and by default there are big problems with Headway and page caching.
To understand the problem first it's essential to know a couple of things about how W3TC, WP Super Cache and Headway Theme for Wordpress handle page caching.
To begin, lets look at how Headway itself handles it CSS and JavaScript.
Following the HTML/CSS Basics course on The Odin Project, students are asked to undertake a project to rebuild the Google homepage.
The project is ostensibly about testing your newly learned skills with HTML and CSS but it also calls on you to use Git, GitHub and the Developer Tools in your browser. These are all fairly simple tasks but with anything you do for the first time, getting it done can be a little daunting.
Having completed the HTML and CSS 101 course (and starting as I mean to go on) here are some thoughts on the lesson.
Firstly, this is a basic course. It's not meant to be that in depth and it's not supposed to overwhelm with info. And it doesn't!
I enjoyed it to be honest. It wasn't world changing or anything, primarily because I'd done a lot of this before but it still filled in a few gaps.
There's a difference between learning and doing, and the 'doing' part of this course is the key to it's success.
The main thing I noticed throughout (but mostly during the CodeCademy section) was the emphasis on doing things. There's a difference between learning and doing and the 'doing' part of this course is the key to it's success.
Physically typing out the HTML and CSS over and over again really started to make it second nature and somehow cements it in your mind a simply another language that can be read and written like any other.
Here we go then, the start of something big...maybe. In an attempt to avoid being one of those that fizzles out half way through I've decided to blog my way through The Odin Project course.
If you don't know about The Odin Project, go and take a quick look. It's FREE, and it's a great resource that brings together all sorts of tutorials and information from around the web in a logical and consistent package that anyone can follow along and learn with.
It basically creates a structured 'course' to follow so you can learn how to be a Web Developer.
Be warned though, it's not something you can do in a weekend. It'll likely take months of hard work to complete the whole thing, but it's one of the best 'teach yourself' courses that I've come across and I highly recommend it.
Mac OS X doesn’t have an obvious way to view the exact text based path to a folder (otherwise known as a directory) in the finder window. You can have it show a graphical path, but getting just the text based path to a directory (for use in the Terminal for example) requires a couple of extra steps.
Apple removed the ability to easily copy the file path in OS X Yosemite. Yosemite users must now follow a complicated procedure of creating a Service to do this simple task or take the path directly from the command line.
If you are a El Capitan user you are in luck, Apple has now created a specific command to capture the file path. Instructions on how to use this can be found here.
Here are the instructions for finding the file path on Mavericks and below...