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Tag: Wordpress

  • Global Translator not Working after WordPress 2.7 Update

    I’ve just updated my WordPress install on 2 sites up to the new release version 2.7 which is now two days old or so. I quickly took a look at the sites and saw that the global translator plugin wasn’t working. (It was giving 404 errors, or…. “nothing found for es” for example.) After a quick look at the FAQ, I just navigated to the settings page for the plugin and scrolled to update options (without really making any other changes) and all is back to normal.

    I expect to ripple the new version of wordpress around to my other sites over the next week or two. Right now there is not a pressing need to upgrade (2.7 is a new feature release, not necessarily security update.)

  • Strange Outage

    We’re back up after a very strange outage. The 500 internal server error was because our .htaccess file was sideways.

    What I mean by sideways is that part of a line had been truncated which led to an incorrect htaccess rule and all sorts of error pages thrown up.

    Interestingly the only thing happening prior to the first errors was a page edit here in WordPress. I updated my dd-wrt page last night right before the errors started getting tossed up. Is it possible that wordpress 2.6.3 stomped on my htaccess??? Don’t know, but we’re back up now.

  • WordPress 2.6 Plus Google Gears….

    I vaguely remember hearing about Google Gears when it was announced and it wasn’t the kind of thing that grabbed a lot of peoples imagination or a lot of attention. Here’s the description from the Google Gears site (gears.google.com..

    Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser:
    Let web applications interact naturally with your desktop
    Store data locally in a fully-searchable database
    Run JavaScript in the background to improve performance

    But… the next version of WordPress (2.6) is supposed to support Google Gears and here’s what exciting things this can mean…

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  • BBPress 0.9x | WordPress compatible forum software

    As you know I’ve used wordpress as a platform for many of my sites. It makes updating and adding information so quick and easy (as well as great extensions available for it and good theme possibilities.) Anyway, I’ve wanted forum functionality on a few sites as well and so I installed bbpress v. 0.8 some time back. I was able to integrate the installs with their respective WordPress installs and share users. At one point though,l I upgraded WordPress to 2.5.1 and a few weeks later when I tried to log into the forum…. my password was rejected. At first, I suspected a security breach, but tested the login with wordpress… it worked there, but not bbpress….

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  • bbpress mod_rewrite Woes

    I don’t know if you’re familiar with bbpress, it’s the forum cousin of wordpress and can integrate nicely into the wordpress database to allow users to be shared across the two installs. So, on my North Carolina Genealogy site and my South Carolina Genealogy site I have bbpress forums installed. The catch is I wanted everything accessible through forums.domain.tld for each one. This worked with a simple config.php edit on the North Carolina site, but not the South Carolina Genealogy Forum. I kept getting 404 errors. So, I spent a couple hours chasing .htaccess Nothing I tried worked, I copied working files from one to the other, I looked at httpd.conf settings.

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  • Share This Plugin not Working in Some Themes

    I’ve started adding the Share This plugin to several of my sites and was frustrated on one site to see on the front page “SHARETHIS.addEntry(” and a lot more ugly text. Upon investigation the < script tag enclosing the SHARETHIS javascript. So, I went on an investigation. I looked in the share this forums and found some people reporting the same problem with no real solutions.

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  • WordPress Stats plugin not updating – fix

    There are a lot of good things to like about the newer versions of wordpress. It seems to keep getting better. One of the really cool plugins is the WordPress.com stats plugin. This lets you have a nice simple stats interface accessible from your Dashboard on your wordpress blog. (It uses wordpress.com to track stats, so you’ll need a wordpress.com account to be able to use it. I set up a wordpress.com account some time back to be able to use the akismet plugin and the same key that you have for akismet can be used for the stats plugin.) You essentially upload the stats.php file into your wp-content/plugins folder, enable it in the plugins list, then enter your API key in the configuration page for stats. That’s all that should be to it, but I’ve noticed sometimes that’s not all it takes to get things going.

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  • IE 7 INCOMPATIBLE with WORDPRESS blogs using the stattraq plugin

    I’ve FINALLY tracked down what was causing the issue with displaying my page in Internet Explorer 7 (RC1). It turns out that the stattraq plugin in wordpress (stattraq site) is part of the problem. Now, I don’t understand exactly WHY… because I do have stattraq on each of the sites, but one… onlineradiotv.com carried this error at the bottom of the page (ONLY in IE7 by the way…) “Fatal error: Call to undefined function: () in /var/www/html/radiotv/wp-content/plugins/stattraq.php on line 90”

    The other pages just failed to display as though there was a network problem…. until…

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  • WordPress Category RSS feed links

    In working on the post related to software updates and making sure it was easy to find the category feed JUST for that led me on a “round the world” kind of quest to find a way to put the category feeds in the footer of pages in WordPress. The first thing I tried was this this category livebookmarks plugin, which gives some options to browsers that recognize feeds in the header of the page. It’s interesting, but I may wind up uninstalling. What I HAVE found is this solution which was EXACTLY what I was looking for.

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