"WordPress Tips" Posts
WP 2.8.5 Needs Mucho Memory
For those of you on shared hosting plans, you may notice that WordPress needs more memory than ever. Perhaps you’ve found that out while you’ve attempted to upgrade to WP 2.8.5. We’ve seen:
- WordPress and/or certain plugin updates hanging
- WordPress and/or some plugins not installing completely
- The the now-popular white screen (in both the dashboard and on the blog itself
- The “WordPress Upgrade Error Allowed Memory Size Exhausted” error
- A fatal error similar to: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of
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WordPress releases have been fast and furious in 2009
We love WordPress, but hasn’t it been a bit dizzying to keep up with all those releases made in 2009?
Beginning in February, we were treated to 2.7.1 (Coltrane), then we were lulled until June when 2.8 ( Baker) was launched. But since then, they have launched 3 more releases in quick succession:
- July 9, 2009 WordPress 2.8.1
- July 20, 2009 WordPress 2.8.2
- August 3, 2009 WordPress 2.8.3 Security Release
The evolution is quite fun and each launch it gets …
Display a warning message to IE6 users
Are you tired of visitors still using the obsolete and buggy IE6? We are. With yesterday’s launch of Internet Explorer 8, there is little excuse to not upgrading. But for those who insist on using this platform, you can warn them that your site is not (purposely) optimized for their viewing.
Here’s how to display a message only to IE6 users, asking them to upgrade their prehistoric browser.
The first thing to do is to create a style for our …
Create a handwritten signature with a WordPress shortcode
Did you ever want to add a handwritten signature to your posts just like you would when signing a letter? Here’s a nice code snippet to create a “signature” shortcode.
First, you have to get a signature image. To do so, scan your signature or create one using your favorite photo editor. Once you have it, name it signature.jpg and upload it into your wp-content/themes/yourtheme/images directory.
Then, open the functions.php file from within your theme. If your theme doesn’t have …
Burned Your Feed at Feedburner? Google is Taking it Over
Google purchased Feedburner (our favorite feed mirror and statistics company) in the summer of 2007, and they now are pushing FeedBurner users to move their accounts under the Google umbrella.
Google has set a deadline for transfering your feeds: February 28, 2009. Check out this tutorial from Pro Blog Design so you can do it before Google redirects your feed to a very unpleasant 404 error. You also can read more Google FAQs here.
While this is happening, we’ve noticed …
