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Waiting on Hosting Guy

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It appears to me I need the maximum script memory increased in php.ini. I found that file;I have read/write permissions to it, according to a ls -l. I found the memory_limit line therein, bumped it up, and now vi refuses to write the changed file. I can create files in the directory, I just can’t change the one file I need changed.

Shared hosting is a blessing because of low cost, and a curse because of situations like I’m in now.

So, I’m waiting, not exactly patiently, on action on my ticket…
-k-
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Upgrade woes Persist

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Well, we’re still back at WP 2.3.3 here in tbbs-land. Good backups have been my friend. Thus far, I’ve

  • Reinstalled WP 2.5
  • Switched to default theme.
  • Kicked up MaxRedirects to an obscenely high number
  • Disabled all plugins
  • Been greeted with the white screen of death on running the upgrade

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Error logs indicate a PHP memory allocation error, so there’s now an open ticket with my webhost.
-k-
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Support Fora

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For heaven’s sake, please title your support plea in a manner that suggests the nature of your problem. Hint : titles such as “URGENT upgrade issue”, “____ is broken”, “HELP”, don’t cut it.

While I’m at it, replies to fora posts that are something like “same thing happened to me” aren’t helpful either. I guess former AOL-ers surface everywhere now.

Yes, I’m steamed that my WordPress upgrade didn’t go as planned. But still.

For now, I have basketball, cold beer, and steamed shrimp. Neener, neener, neener.

-k-

Tanked Upgrade

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My attempt to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 didn’t fare so well. Everything was peachy until it was time to run upgrade.php, which simply exited. No messages. No errors. No signs of success. Bupkis. Subsequent attempts to get to the admin panel were redirected to upgrade.php, with the same disastrous results.

Thank heavens for backups. We’re now rolled back to 2.3.3 here, but stubborn enough to wrestle that steer yet again tomorrow.

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Flying the latest WordPress Banner

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Never one to shy away from an upgrade, I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.3 just a few minutes ago. Another flawless upgrade.

After spending a day in the entrails of some at-work tcl stuff, I come home and install 2GB of memory in my eeePC, and upgrade my blog software.

Talk about a change of pace; I feel like a bus driver moonlighting as a cab driver.

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Tag Mashing

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Yesterday afternoon, the tag test post was evidence of my further efforts in WordPress 2.3 site tagging.

I have been using the Simple Tags plugin for Technorati tag generation for a while now, and I’ve been pleased with its functioning. With the advent of WP 2.3, you can now have site tags in your posts, and the Embedded Tag Thing does a great job of adding site tags to the WP database. However, to get site tags to display on the blog, I had to edit the site’s theme. This displayed tags when visiting the site, but not in its Atom feed.

So yesterday afternoon, I managed to hack up both plugins to display both site and Technorati tags on the blog and also to include both in the Atom feed. I let the Simple Tags plugin take care of expanding and displaying the site tags, and then modified ETT so it only updates the tag database. I was then able to revert the theme to its original state.
The results are there now for all to see. WordPress has a motto “Code is Poetry.” With my modifications, perhaps the code no longer is quite as mellifluous, but I go for results first; beauty will come in due course. And I had fun doing it.

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