Posts tagged WordPress

Don’t minify WP-PostRatings

Aug 24th

Posted by materialsdave in Publishing technologies

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We implemented WP-PostRatings by Lester Chan on MaterialsViewsChina.com so that readers could vote for their favorite posts (one to five stars). Looking through Google Webmaster Tools, though, I found a bunch of 404 errors where two files weren’t being found on all the pages, “rating_over.” and “wp-content/plugins/wp-postratings”. This meant that broken images were appearing when the user hovered over the stars instead of lighting up.

It turned out to be a conflict with WP Minify, a plugin that condenses your JavaScript and CSS to reduce loading times. I excluded postratings-js.js and postratings-css.css from being minified, and it’s back to working great.

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WordPress core automatic upgrade not working?

Can’t get WordPress to upgrade automatically because it hangs on “downloading update” and the file size stays at 0 bytes on the server?

Here’s an easy fix from the WordPress support forum:

Add

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

to your wp-config.php file. Worked like a charm for me.

Postalicious

Thanks to David Bradley (@sciencebase on Twitter) for directing me to the WordPress plugin Postalicious. It sucks in links and comments from your Delicious bookmarks feed and queues them up as a draft post that you can edit and publish.

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Futzing != creating

The problem with a self-hosted WordPress install is that futzing feels like creating — but it isn’t. Tweaking your theme, trying out new plugins, setting up accounts at Meegen or Demiloo or Blueshots or Fliptune (thanks, Web 2.0 name generator!), is just time spent not creating stuff. Futzing = procrastination.

Somebody should write a plugin that won’t give you admin access until you’ve written n posts. Let me go look for one…

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