Category: WordPress

  • WordPress 2.6 – problem with Geo plugin

    Just upgrading my WordPress websites to version 2.6. The Geo plugin does not appear on the “Write Post” page. I’ll investigate before I update my photography blog (which uses it).

  • Search for me

    Searching for me on GoogleEarth imagery for Cambridge. Not 2007-08-11 (http://www.youandyourwedding.co.uk/index.php/chatroom/topic/33831 searched for “sidney sussex college wedding 2007”) because 7060602 benches not in same places in Downing college Not 2007-04-14 because no tables on lawns 6606046

  • WordPress opening post-new.php popup problems

    I am having severe problems with one WordPress installation on my server. When I try to write a new entry or page, or edit an existing one, I get the following pop-up dialogue box: The WordPress forums suggest it is a problem with the memory limit in php.ini. I am not convinced. The memory_limit in…

  • Best to uninstall gengo – not deactivate it

    I was having problems with my test website after deactivating the gengo plug-in. Whenever I clicked on a link, I got a “Woops – the server tried all options but could not find the page you requested” (or similar) message. To solve it, I reactivated gengo (this meant that the admin panel disappeared – blank…

  • Gallery2 and Gengo problems

    When I activate the plug-in “gengo” after activating “geo”, “wp-amazon”, “wp-contact-form” and “wpg2” (which all seem to work prior to activating gengo), I get the following error (in the admin page): Call to undefined function get_currentuserinfo() in /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/gengo/gengo.php on line 1080 I then go the phpmyadmin and edit the “active_plugins” on the table “wp_wordpress_options”, putting…

  • WordPress plug-ins that don’t work with gengo

    The following plug-ins do not appear to work with gengo 0.9 (multi-language plug-in) and WordPress 2.1.3: geo 1.9.1 organizer 1.2.1 wp-amazon 1.3.2 wp-contact-form 1.4.3

  • Modifying the wp_options table to run on localhost

    There are two lines to edit in the wp_options table to edit when importing data from the live server to the local test computer. option_name = “siteurl” -> remove the (www.)domainname(.net) leaving just domainname option_name = “home” -> remove the (www.)domainname(.net) leaving just domainname

  • curl_init() in MyTube plug-in on Windows Apache/PHP

    The next error in the upgrade from WordPress 2.0.7 to 2.1 is: Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in E:\…..\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\mytube\ytube.php on line 216 I am using the MyTube plug-in to insert YouTube videos on my blogs. The PHP manual for CURL states: Note to Win32 Users: In order to enable this module on a…

  • Upgrading to WordPress 2.1 – WP_CACHE error

    I’m in the initial test stages of upgrading to WordPress 2.1 from 2.0.7. I don’t remove the old files from the directories, since there is some stuff in tinymce and other places which has been added by the plug-ins. So, I’ve just unzipped the downloaded 2.1 file over the top of all existing files. The…

  • Too many spams slipping through Akismet – added Bad Behaviour

    I’ve had a few spam comments slipping through the Akismet filters, so I’ve decided to add Bad Behaviour. I’ll need to tidy up the footer, though. To be honest, I don’t have many comments on my blogs, so I could probably disable them completely.