Remember the old days when your computer would crash because you were running too many applications simultaneously? Well, you might be surprised to know that WordPress can fall victim to the very same thing. You see, your server may be packed with 4 GB of RAM, but that doesn’t mean that all 4 GB have been allocated to PHP on your account. In fact, most decent hosting providers only allocate 32 MB to PHP under each account. Now, most WordPress installations with a good amount of plugins will run fine under 32 MB, but there’s always a chance that one more plugin or one seemingly innocent admin panel task (like exporting or importing posts) may put you over the edge, and you’ll see either a blank screen or the infamous error which starts off something like “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted.” If you see a blank […]
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New plugins Custom sidebars allows you to create your own widgetized areas and custom sidebars, and select what sidebars to use for each post or page. LBAK User Tracking is a fully featured, page by page tracking plugin for your blog. Simple SEO lets you optimize your web site or blog by changing the title and menu output for any page or post. Term Management Tools allows you to merge terms and change the category hierarchy more easily. UserAgent Theme Switcher lets you change the theme to be displayed according to the detected browser. Updated plugins The AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. BackWPup allows you to backup your WordPress blog database and files. eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for […]
[Continue Reading...]The SXSW staff wants to hear your feedback on the proposed panels for SXSW 2011. Your votes on the proposed panels will account for 30% of the final vote, so start voting today! Currently, there are ten WordPress-related panel proposals awaiting your feedback: Beyond Blogging: WordPress is a CMS Don’t Be Ashamed to Use WordPress Essential WordPress Search Metrics Knocking Out Application Layer and Open Source Threats Life After Blackbaud Making Money with WordPress (Without Working at Automattic) Web Development Simplified: Unifying Multiple Tools and Platforms WordPress: The Small Business Swiss Army Knife WordPress 3.0: The TV Series Publishing Platform Yahoo! and WordPress: A Marriage Made in Hell Are you planning to attend SXSW 2011? Which panel proposals captured your interest?
[Continue Reading...]Columbus comes with a very clean and elegant design and some really great premium-like features. Modern Wood features a beautiful dark layout with a wooden background and some amazing CSS3 features. Third Style is based on the theme Twenty Ten, comes with 11 new header backgrounds, and supports six widgetized areas (two in the sidebar, four in the footer). TL Tweets is a free WordPress theme, designed to be used as an archive for your tweets, while automatically creating new posts from your Twitter feed. Webmagazine is a WordPress magazine theme built on the Twenty Ten default WordPress theme.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress is a powerful blogging platform with a large community volunteering its time to provide support to users in the WordPress Support Forums. Last week, the WordPress Support Forums mailing list presented nominations for the top active support forum volunteers. These volunteers were nominated for being active on the support forums within the last month and for helping multiple users almost every day on their own free time. The nominees were then organized by the number of topics they have been involved in since joining the forums to find this year’s top fifteen. If you stopped by the WordPress Support Forums this year, you were probably helped by one of these fifteen volunteers, or you at least got the chance to see them in action. Without further delay, here are the top fifteen active WordPress Support Forum volunteers: Mel “esmi” Pedley: Professional web developer since 2001 with a special interest […]
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Back List adds Whitelist and Blacklist options for Trackbacks and Pingbacks as well as the option to auto-accept Trackbacks from your own blog. IP Ban returns ‘Page Not Found’ 404 error message for IP’s visiting your blog specified in the IP Ban option on the Discussion Options page. Press This Reloaded provides the Press This bookmarklet with all the functionality of the regular Add New Post screen. WP SimpleWeather allows you to quickly and easily display the current weather at any location you enter using the Yahoo! Weather API. Updated plugins Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. DukaPress can be used to build online shops quickly and easily. It is built to be both simple and elegant yet powerful and scalable. Job […]
[Continue Reading...]You’ve just spent countless hours on your latest and greatest WordPress plugin and theme, and you want the world to know about it. Well, we want to help! I’m sure that you’ve all noticed the plugin and theme digests published here every other day, and it’s not too difficult to be a part of them. Sure, we all recommend that you submit your work of art to the official plugin and theme directories, but it normally takes a few days for these directories to be updated. Why not announce it here as soon as you’re done? We’ve made it easy to do just that. If you want to share your latest and greatest WordPress plugin and theme with us, stop by the New WordPress Plugins and New WordPress Themes forums and simply post a new topic via the form at the bottom of the page, or email submissions (at) wltc […]
[Continue Reading...]BT Extended is a spruced newspaper style theme, with a clean sleek white look built on Thematic framework & grid system. DocOut Black will improve your search engine results by giving your web pages a search engine friendly document outline. Leather is a unique and texture rich design with featured images and a simple options page. Matala is the theme from ma.tt circa 2008. Mazeld is the theme from photomatt.net circa 2005. StoneHenge is a beautifully crafted two column WordPress 3 ready theme. The Twin is a free WordPress theme with a tattoo style illustration and customizable background.
[Continue Reading...]October 15th is less than two months away and Change.org wants you to vote on this year’s Blog Action Day topic. Currently, the selection includes the following topics, but they will continue to take suggestions until the poll closes. Water: The UN recently declared water to be a human right, but millions around the world still lack even the most basic access, causing widespread disease and the possibility of military conflict over access to clean water. Human Trafficking: From prostitution to forced labor, more than 27 million people are modern-day slaves, making human trafficking one of the most overlooked man-made tragedies in the world. Women: The most discriminated against group in the world isn’t a minority: it’s women. From inequality in schooling to reduced economic opportunities, women face a disproportionate degree of adversity all over the world. Sustainable Food: Industrial agriculture has overtaken the world’s food supply – creating obesity […]
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- James
James began using WordPress in 2004. Being new to WordPress (and blogging in general), he quickly found the WordPress Support Forums and basically never left. James currently resides in sunny Southern California, where he enjoys bringing happiness to millions of WordPress.com users.
Web: http://macmanx.com
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