Wordpress
Missed Schedule & Failed Cron – WordPress Annoying Bugs
WordPress sometimes has the most annoying little bugs. Ones that don’t get fixed in minor version updates, ones that developers don’t seem to care about much but they could drive you crazy. WordPress 2.9 failed cron jobs and missed schedules are one such bug. Continue Reading →
Top SEO & Speed WordPress Plugins To Boost Off 2010
Looking for some WordPress plugin recommendations to kick off 2010 with more SEO & Speed? I got some for you. Around the beginning of 2010 I saw an explosion of lists with various recommended WordPress plugins : Best 16 WordPress Plugins For 2010 The 15 Best Continue Reading →
Tweaking PHP memory limit for Drupal & WordPress errors
Coming across PHP memory related error messages? Getting that annoying "Fatal Error - Allowed memory size exhausted" message? Firstly, this could indicate that there is something wrong, like a problematic module or plugin that - due to a bug - is consuming Continue Reading →
Migrating WordPress sites to Multi User with Multiple Domains
Too many WordPress sites? Consider migrating them all into one WordPress Multi-User (WPMU) site with the Multi Site Manager functionality to host one installation for multiple domain. Why? One installation and upgrading for core WordPress. One installation Continue Reading →
Troubleshoot Server Load and Optimize Server Speed for Drupal-WordPress in VPS-DS
Following a query from a colleague, a few quick tips on troubleshooting and optimizing a slow overloaded VPS/DS hosting a Drupal site based on some of my experiences. Apache Note - I run my VPSs-DSs with Hostforweb and VPS.NET (aff). Both should be able Continue Reading →
Automatically post your new WordPress blog posts on your Facebook profile
Tired of posting the blogs updates to your Facebook account manually? Want to keep your Facebook contacts up to date with your latest blog posts? There are a few way to do that automatically. In Facebook, the one Facebook application that seems to do it right Continue Reading →
Intense-Debate – Uninstalling, changing back author URLs and WordPress alternatives
A while ago I was experimenting with a relatively new comments trend in some of the WordPress blogosphere to manage and display your blog comments through 3rd parties. After looking into the options, I decided to go for Intense Debate. The main benefits considered Continue Reading →
Migrating Multi-Author WordPress Blog : Import-Export Users
How do you move WordPress users between blogs? That's a tricky one. WordPress doesn't allow you to neatly import and export users so you need to result into some plugins and a bit of easy tweaking. Ingredients : Users to CSV is a useful plugin by Joost originally Continue Reading →
WordPress 2.7, 404 errors and Magic Quotes GPC
WordPress 2.7 doesn't work well with Magic Quotes, I've learned the hard way while trying to help a fellow worker get her blog back to work this week. The symptom was a change in the wp_options table reverting this : a:63:{s:11:"robots.txt$";....... to Continue Reading →
Custom Google Search Provider with an Open-Search Auto Discovery for a WordPress Site
Since I spent the last half an hour doing this for one of the student WordPress websites (NCKU IIMBA Student Council), might as well explain how it’s been done. Shouldn’t take anyone more than 20 minutes. First, you’ll need to make a Google Custom Search. Continue Reading →
