Tag: php

  • WordPress Troubleshooting: WordPress Admin Area (Dashboard) Redirect Loop

    Yesterday, I helped one of my clients with her WordPress-powered blogs. When I tried to find the solution — using search engines — I could not find any exact solution. Problem overview Okey, here’s the problem: When I tried to login to WordPress dashboard — not WordPress.com, but self-hosted — I always got these errors:…

  • WordPress 2.6 Upgrades

    Today, WordPress 2.6 is available with code name “Tyner”. You can read what features shipped in this version at WordPress Development blog. I have been following WordPress 2.6 since the beta release from Sub Version, and it looks good. So, I upgraded my WordPress install right away. The upgrade process — from WP 2.5.1 —…

  • How's your wp-config.php file?

    WordPress relies on wp-config.php file to connect to database. Here, there are some basic settings about our WordPress installation like database-related information and language interface. When we upgrade our WordPress installation to new release, we can have our WordPress blog running without problem, even without touching wp-config.php file. But, in some release, there are some…

  • WordPress 2.6 Features

    The coming WordPress 2.6 (scheduled to be released on August 7th, 2008, or July 7th, 2008) will have more features. Most of you probably heard that about the probably-most-well-known Post Revisions feature. But, there are some other features that should be highlighted. Here are some of them I find (using WordPress from SVN, revision 8094):…

  • 'cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode' error on WP-DownloadManager

    I am currently working on a WordPress-powered site. One of its features is a download section. After comparing some WordPress plugins, I decided to use Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan‘s WP-DownloadManager. When I use that plugin on WordPress 2.5.1, I got an error. It’s something like this: Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /home/…/wp-downloadmanager.php on…

  • Pimp your WordPress 2.5 Dashboard

    One of the gret improvements offered by WordPress 2.5 is on the dashboard interface. Collaborating with Happy Cog studio, WordPress offers some great improvements. One of them is about managable widgets for dashboard. It means, we can manage what kind of ‘widgets’ should be presented on the dashboard.

  • Modifying WordPress custom database error connection page

    Reading what Derek Punsalan mentioned about custom error database connection page, his updated tutorial is very interesting. I mean, we (actually) can modify that error page into something better. In short, to have a custom page for database connection error page, just create a file called db-error.php and put it under your /wp-content/ directory. That’s…

  • WordPress 2.3.3: Urgent security release

    There is a small but urgent security release for WordPress 2.3.2. If you use XML-RPC gateway for your WordPress, upgrade now. What’s the issue?

  • SimplePie Updates

    Last week, Geoffrey Sneddon of SimplePie planned to leave his role developing SimplePie. As a reminder, SimplePie is a code library (written in PHP) that can be use to do creative things using RSS and Atom feeds.

  • Sanitizing HTML tags in WordPress MU

    If you run a Wordpress MU installation, you probably notice that there are some HTML tags that are stripped (removed after an entry was posted). For example, when you upload a picture, you want to add style=”float: right; margin: 10px;” so that you get a better entry formatting.

  • WordPress 2.2.1

    WordPress released its latest package yesterday. It is recommended to upgrade your WordPress installation to the latest release. Since 2.2 was released a month ago, the WordPress community has been improving fit-and-finish by identifying and fixing those little bugs that can be so annoying and by fine-tuning some small details. The result is a nicely…

  • Handling error when WordPress plugin functions are not available

    If we share our theme (someone uses our theme), and his/her WordPress installation does not have Gravatar plugin installed, the theme might be broken. There will be an error. Single page (where the gravatar/comment should appear) will stop loading. Why? Because there is a Gravatar plugin tag/function, but the plugin is not available.

  • Modify WordPress MU suspended/archived page

    How to change the message for the archived, or deactivated page in WordPress MU?

  • Dashboard Editor Plugin for WordPress

    Before Dashboard Editor plugin released, we can remove the WordPress Development Blog and Planet WordPress entries by modifying the core file. Now, you can modify it easily.

  • List pages in WordPress

    Variations of displaying list of pages in Wordpress.