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Old Post Promoter

Bring your old posts back to life.. sends them back to your front page and into the RSS feed. Randomly chooses an eligible post and updates the timestamp. The post then appears to be the latest post on your Wordpress blog.

Disable Revisions (Recently Updated)

Wow.. about time.. (Required 2.6 and above)
Disables revision functions in WordPress and delete all entries of revisions in database.

GD Star Rating (Recently Updated)

With added voters log where you can see who voted for what and where you can delete votes. And it’s short-code compatible so you can place reviews in your posts and pages.

Compatibility Notes

Compatibility Notes is a simple WordPress plugin that will attach a list of supported WordPress versions to every plugin’s description on the “Plugins” page. Really handy if you plan on upgrading to Version 2.7. Here’s how it looks :

WP PageFlip

Demo of this looks absolutely awesome. Unfortunately couldn’t get it working for me. Basically you can upload your catalogues or books and get people to "flip" through them, all via a great little wordpress plugin. Doesn’t look like anyone’s having much success with it and their forum brings up 404 errors. Will be watching them though, cos I love this kinda stuff :)
See Demo Video & Demo Site

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One thing about this blog, that is different to all my other blogs.. heh, is that Wordpress Shortcodes don’t work on it. This is my "test" blog pretty much and it does have a lot more plugins enabled than all my other sites, however I still cannot find the culprit (if it is another plugin to be blamed).

I had hoped that upgrading to the latest version would finally resolve my problem, cos there’s a couple of plugins that I *Really* want to use on this blog (TubePress for my Video page & PostTabs for my Posts for example).

Since I’ve wasted the whole day trying to fix my Wordpress 2.6.1 404 Error dramas, I might as well waste the rest of the day trying to finally resolve this problem.

Resolution Update:

1. Getting somewhere.. disabled all plugins except TubePress & PostTabs, and Both plugins work :) Hooray!

2. Re-enabled:
Deans FCK Editor
Akismet
AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget (drop-down)
Ajax Newsletter
FeedBurner FeedSmith
Homepage Excerpts
Invite friends
MyBlogLog
Profilactic
Register Plus
Skype Button - Widget
Text Link Ads
Twitterfountain
Twitter Tools
TwitThis
Viper’s Plugins Used
Viper’s Video Quicktags
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
WP-UserOnline
WP-UserOnline Widget
WP Ajax Edit Comments
WP Comment Remix
Google Analytics for WordPress
Lighter Menus
MaxBlogPress Favicon
MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate
MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
Maxref Widgets
SEO Smart Links
SEO Title Tag
Show Me Options
SimplePie Core
Simple Tags
Snazzy Archives
Tabbed Widgets
Twitterdoodle

3. Cuprit turned out to be the LiveSig plugin!

Wow! So no more pretty little graphic sig for me, I’ll find an alternative footer plugin. :)

Disabled.

Other people with the same problem:
(& their resolution if available)

• Shortcodes not working
  Resolution: De-activating Google Website Optimizer for WordPress plugin
• Shortcode not working at all
  Resolution: None, just a suggestion to check out these 2 sites (Shortcode_API & WordPress 2.5 Shortcodes)
• Shortcodes not working in post excerpt
  Resolution: Bug Report + Work-around code listed in post
• UserOnline Page only showing code
  Resolution: Use exec.php plugin instead of runPHP
• Some of my plugin shortcodes don’t work
  Resolution: None, but they have closed the topic
• Custom shortcode stopped working
  Resolution: None, Newish Post, No Replies.
• Plugin: NextGEN Gallery gallery shortcode broken in wordpress 2.5
  Resolution: None
• Fatal Error: Call to undefined function get_shortcode_regex()
  Resolution: Lots of answers to try
• Change the HTML-code base for
  Resolution: Disabled Contact Form 7 Plugin
• Shortcodes Help
  Resolution: Erm, I dont understand this one at all lol.
• WordPress Uniquefier Plugin - After install, Code showing up in post
  Resolution: Fixed with new version.
• WordPress Gallery and EXIF
  Resolution: (Code not working? Be sure to remove the additional space between the <? and php. It’s added by the code plugin unfortunately)
• Wordpress Plugin - Nextgen Smooth Gallery
  Resolution: The reason is that the plugin uses the shortform ‘<?’ instead of the ‘<?php’ in several places, which newer versions of PHP don’t support. The syntax ‘<?=’ is a shortcut for ‘<?php echo’ — some hosts have the PHP short code syntax disabled (as it should be), so you’ll need to replace all the shortcuts with their appropriate expansions.
• [Plugin: Viper's Video Quicktags] 5.4.4 dosent show in Explorer!
  Resolution: None, and No replies
• Tags not working
  Resolution: Disabled WP e-Commerce Plugin, also a couple of other suggestions there if you dont have that plugin.
• WP e-Commerce breaks ALL native wordpress shortcodes
  Resolution: Fixed in new version of WP e-Commerce

Useful Shortcode Posts that I found along the way:
(for sites that actually have shortcodes working)

• Adding a Shortcode to a Sidebar Widget
• How to Add a Shortcode
• Workaround to Override WordPress Shortcode and Display the [] Brackets Tags

Wordpress Shortcodes

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Well after trialling a couple of my new blogs in 2.6.1, I feel like Im ready for my older blogs to be updated..cos I really like the new "feel" of the backend of the other sites… but updating sites that have tonnes of plugins is *SCARY* lol.

This blog has the most plugins because its my test site for all the plugins that I install before putting them on my other blogs.. so it will be interesting to see what breaks in this process..

I’ll update this post with the results when it’s done if I can work out which plugins "die" after the upgrade..

I’ll be using the "wordpress-automatic-upgrade" plugin to do the upgrades cos, Im not technical enough to do it the old fashioned way, so it will be a good chance to see how well that plugin does too :)

Wish me luck ;)

==

Ok.. 6 minutes later.. the upgrade is done.. and um.. everything seems fine.. what the? lol

So much for my big review of all the broken plugins etc.. :)

Oh.. I knew it was too good to be true.. just started noticing what’s broken.. ok, here goes..

(1) Couldn’t re-enable one of my Paid plugins - WP VideoTube (Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.) automatically -or- manually.  Which is weird, cos I have that plugin installed already on all of my 2.6.1 blogs.. however, they are due for a new version any *second* now, cos they are fixing youtube’s silly change of API (that caused a lot of duplicate content to show up if the plugin was set to automatic which was pretty annoying).. so Im not so concerned, especially because I dont use it at all on this blog, it’s mainly for my affiliate-blogs.
I wonder if I delete the plugin and re-upload it whether it will work.. Hmm.. Nope! Interesting :\

(2) WP Shortcodes still don’t work for me.. on this blog.. gotta be one of my plugins doing it heh.
I especially want the PostTabs plugin to work.

(3) The tabbed widgets that I used to have in my sidebars have disappeared.
They are still enabled in the options and enabled in the "Widgets".
Good news however, after removing it and re-adding it in the widgets section, it looks like it works..
I don’t think I like the plugin anymore though heh, so Ill be removing it anyway now that Ive seen the site without it.

That seems to be it, everything else seems to be working (and the same things that were broken before, are still broken lol) so my wish that 2.6.1 would fix these other annoyances didnt seem to help… but it is definitely a better version..

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Just in case anyone else finds updating to Wordpress 2.6.1 and crying because Scribefire stops working hehe..

Login to your Wordpress Blog..

Go to Settings -> Writing
Tick the box that says "XML-RPC" (Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols).

Then go back to Scribefire and re-add your blog.

Sweet :)

*Crisis Over*

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When trying to view my posts in Wordpress on this site, I get an error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/public_html/ etc. in edit-post-rows.php

I also get the same error when I try to look at my Plugin Directory

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 88259 bytes) in home/public_html/ etc. in /wp-admin/includes/plugin.php

I only have 32 posts :\ and it’s only trying to show page 1 of 3.
When I filter it to just show a particular category.. it works.. its just using up too much memory trying to show the rest of them? Bit of a worry since this blog is so new.
Suspect one of my plugins causing it, since this is my "Test Blog" so to speak of all the aforementioned wordpress plugins and Im always activating and deactivating and testing and playing heheh.

Although I don’t have too much confidence in this old bluehost server that these sites are hosted on (Every one of my sites hosted on this server is slow, yet when I access my other blogs and sites hosted on 2 other bluehost servers, they are very fast).

Excepting the possibility that it could be one of my scripts on this server causing this whole mess :)

1. Changed PHP 5 (FastCGI) to PHP5 on Bluehost (phpconfig)
2. Changed php.ini script to be memory_limit = 64M
3. Uploaded it to /public_html/
   (Made no difference)
4. Tried uploading the modified php.ini to the various directores involved
   (Made no difference)

Found a post that says you can try changing the memory limit for one specific script by including this line at the top of the script:
ini_set("memory_limit","12M");

But couldn’t work out where to put that :)

Deleted all unused plugins in Wordpress Plugin directory.
No difference.

Only by de-activating the Lighter Menus plugin did I get my plugin directory back
(Weep, it’s my FAVE Plugin on the planet - always the way hey!)

But I was still getting the memory error so it isnt the only cause.

Deactivated:
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Lightbox 2
- Bookmarkify
- Lighter Menus
- Berri Technorati
- DropCap First Character
- alinks

Got my posts back.
Can access everything again, but I’m now getting a similar Fatal memory error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /home/public_html/wp-includes/kses.php(840) : runtime-created function on line 1

Deactivated:
Manageable
Invite Friends
Live BlogRoll
Post Tabs
TweetMyBlog

But when I try to re-enable any of them, I get the memory error back.
Suggesting to me that its Bluehost/Memory issue rather than a particular plugin….

I’ve gotta find this memory leak, I’m going nuts here! :)

Am I on the wrong track I wonder?

I give up for the day.. keeping all the above deactivated until I’m in the mood again to take another look :)

I’ve re-enabled my lighter menus plugin without any side-effects excepting that same continual error I get regardless of whether its enabled or not.

These are the left-over plugins that could be causing the error:

• AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget (drop-down)
• Ajax Newsletter
• Akismet
• Dean’s FCKEditor For Wordpress
• FeedBurner FeedSmith
• Google Analytics for Wordpress
• Homepage Excerpts
• Lighter Menus
• LiveSig
• MaxBlogPress Favicon
• Maxref Widgets
• MyBlogLog
• Profilactic
• Register Plus
• SEO Smart Links
• SEO Title Tag
• Show Me Options
• SimplePie Core
• Simple Tags
• Skype Button - Widget
• Snazzy Archives
• Subscribe Remind
• Tabbed Widgets
• Text Link Ads
• Twitterdoodgle
• Twitterfountain
• TwitThis
• Viper’s Plugins Used
• Viper’s Video Quicktags
• WP-UserOnline
• WP-UserOnline Widget
• WP Ajax Edit Comments
• WP Comment Remix
• WP VideoTube

Sigh, what do I expect on a test site lol..
Damnit, I expect every plugin to play well together and to not get errors that I can’t fix :)

*stamps feet*

—————————-
Update:

Ok, so no errors since modifying this file: wp-settings.php

if ( !defined(’WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’) )

    define(’WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘64M’);

(Was set to 32M)

But I haven’t reactivated all the plugins yet and it still doesn’t resolve what is actually causing all the memory to be used.. but a *Bandaid* fix until someone smarter than me points out the obvious :)

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