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Create Your Own Online Dating Site Using osDate – Part 7 – Tips
This is part of the osDate 7 part blog series. Scroll down to the bottom of this post for links to the other parts.
Here are some random tips that aren’t in any particular order. I will add more when I come up with new ones.
– You should protect your site as soon as possible by adding lines to your .htaccess file, which sits in your root directory. This is the htaccess thread on the forum that you need to read to make your changes. The explanations are also very helpful.
– If you need to know only one link, it’s the TuFat osDate Forum. osDate has a very supportive, helpful community. You can read about many problems and solutions in the forum. If you can’t find an answer to your problem, post a topic and you’ll get a response within a day or 2. I suggest you do a “search” for your problem first; it’s very likely someone has had the same one in the past and had it solved already.
– If you want to change the text on your osDate website, 95% of it should be in the language file: language/lang_english/lang_main.php
– You should also create a blank index.html file and place it in your templates_c folder. You should also delete the files in there regularly, otherwise you may not see certain changes you’ve made on your site. Same goes for the cache folder.
– You need to also process your city/county/state and load zipcode files in Admin. They’re all under the “localities” heading.
– In Admin, click on “optimize tables” (near the end of the navigation menu) to improve the performance of your database.
* This concludes the osDate 7 part blog series. If there are any spelling errors, and anything that should be revised, let me know. I wrote this all in one afternoon with a few fruit breaks in between. Now it’s done and I can relax! Good luck.
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Gyzz
June 18, 2009
tip: some of the tasks like ‘deleting the cache’ can be done in a cronjob.
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lovemagic
February 17, 2010
thanks.
I updated lang file but changes were not reflected. after searching forum found that I need to reload language file in admin ->language
Rob
May 1, 2010
How do I change the ‘powered by osdate’ link at the bottom of the page ??
son
May 13, 2010
I want to not have all the statistics information and the user profile information displayed on the home page when someone is not logged in, how do I get rid of it…