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I am playing with “Your Members” again and deactivated it to get some clean screenshots of one of my plugins - I was bemused to discover that this error had not been fixed in wordpress (It is now milestoned for 3.1) Catchable fatal error: Object of class __PHP_Incomplete_Class could not be converted to string The [...]
Don’t blame 2.9! A site was hacked. This was only detected because he had a funny admin screen so decided to do auto upgrade to 2.9 (possibly without backup!). This appeared to cause his plugins to dissappear including the one that protected his content! This may help others, as initial googling did not find direct [...]
Message received: Catchable fatal error: Object of class __PHP_Incomplete_Class could not be converted to string
For a relatively intelligent person (qualified for Mensa, albeit before kids and other brain challenging occurences), I still have some of those duh! moments, where you realise something and wonder why you had not figured it out before? I always knew that there was a lot that one could do with text widgets and the [...]
How should plugins cope with a relocated wordpress in another folder?
A website website owner or administrator needs to understand their responsibilities to protect their site and/or to recreate it in the event of a disaster.
Step by Step Guide to Moving the wordpress admin code and optionally relocating your content directory. This facilitates sharing of wordpress code, database and hosting between wordpress instances or installations
Install Amember Download the trial to somewhere on your web server. If re-uploading to another server, do it in binary If you don’t have it Get and load the zend optimiser. (or ioncube) To install you will need to know where php and apache are on your server. If haven’t setup DB yet, do it [...]
A site that I help wanted to display property availability. The clearskys availablity plugin seemed the best but was not quite working on my local wp 2.7 installation with wordpress relocated and separate content directory. I got a bit carried away fixing it up a bit. If you found this tweak helpful, please say thanks. [...]
CMS stands for Content Management System. The good CMS’s now are so good, that in my view no-one should be doing a static html site any more. A CMS is a web based system where the content is stored in a database and the templates, styles or themes are maintained separately from the content. This [...]
I had remarked that I thought the Subscribe 2 admin subscriber could do with a few tweaks. I was asked what I had in mind. So here is is – a draft idea that has been coded, tested and validated – changes offered for potential inclusion in the next version! There are a few other [...]
The configuration features now available in wp-config.php now offer you a great deal of flexibility if you have multiple domains parked at the same host or multiple blogs where you wish to share one or more of the database or the code. Move the wp-code First of I’d suggest keeping the wp-code out of the [...]
The wordpress subscribe 2 plugin is great – however the form in the widget bothers me. I have raised this before. I’d prefer something with less “clicks” required and less real estate occupied on the sidebar. The original widget form: Variations on alternate form: (Note everything else works / is the original subscribe 2. Only [...]
I had a really odd one today. A client had added text to a submenu page that was either empty or just had an image. Once she had saved and wanted to view the page, wordpress just kept bringing up a set of images with the page slug in the title (‘jazz’). One could not [...]
Writing a plugin that requires a correct timezone object ? Not sure how to deal with wordpress installations that may not need daylight saving functionality and so have not installed the automatic timezone plugin? Convert the wordpresss offset into a timezone object I decided that I had to deal with this and so needed to [...]
Every now and then it happens…. even though I meticulously keep an encrypted password protected record of all the many passwords (over 140 and counting) required to operate in our electronic world today…. I get caught out and it is usually with the simple ones. This time it was admin on my localhost test installation, [...]
Web Designers sometimes neglect to factor in the training and hand holding required to get website owners comfortable with managing their own websites. These days with the various tools out there, one can leverage off other work, and.or deliver training materials in a variety of styles. Video’s are popular now as one can work [...]
The manager of11 Jocyn court wanted a simple holiday rental website for this self catering two bedroomed apartment in the beautiful suburb of Bantry Bay on the Atlantic Seaboard of the Western Cape. The site has photo’s – essential to these sorts of properties and has been tagged on google for viewers to see exactly [...]
What a lot of fun this can be (not!) Your Ical file may have a timezone specified, the event may be in a another timezone. Your host server in yet another timezone, (and your testing server in another), and your user or web viewer in yet another…… the event may be at a time that [...]
Please refer to updated instructions. The wordpress subscribe 2 plugin is great. Version 4.9 just released – a wonderful alternative to a feedburner subscription. Especially where one wants to keep the maintenance of a website as simple as possible, and avoid having yet another place where the web maintainer has to logon. Still a small [...]
