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Some of you may have noticed the above message appearing where my recent posts should have been for the last week or two.  It turns out the “Post-Plugin Library missing” message can be fixed by downloading the latest copy of the Post-Plugin Library (shocking, I know). I can’t remember if I upgraded Wordpress or the Recent Posts plugin or both, but I’m guessing it was an upgrade to the Recent Post plugin that caused the problem. The new version requires a “Post-Plugin library” (written by the same guy). I found the link on my Wordpress Admin Plugins page in the description of the Recent Posts plugin as part of a message telling me the plugin: Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed Oops. Apparently I didn’t have any...

Woo hoo! You found it. Welcome one and all to my first WordPress blog post here on Keithblog3. As you can see I’m still working on the design and all the rest that comes with customising a blog. For continuity sake I might be tempted to use the Keithblog2 template for a while. WordPress is working well, except it would seem my version is already out of date - never had that bother on......

I recently moved this site to a new host because of ongoing problems with my previous hosts. Thanks to some intermittent database errors I’d decided it would be prudent to do my first backup in some time at the start of last week. By the end of that week they’d deleted my account, so I suppose I should be grateful their database server was so f**ked. Nevertheless, the move caused a few issues when my new hosts told me the complete backup I uploaded to them was corrupt. I can only assume (because some backups were corrupt and others weren’t) that it was due either to encrypting the archives using AES in Winzip or decrypting them in 7zip. Anyway, that meant manually creating the accounts, setting up the mail accounts and subdomains in them, extracting the root folders...

I upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.5 today, and installed a new copy of Wordpress on a subdomain too. Both these actions were carried out using cPanel & Fantastico. When I logged into the backend of the new subdomain there were no images - including no buttons on the rich-text editor (TinyMCE) and no Wordpress logo on the login screen.  I later noticed there were also background images missing on the public part of the new blog.  When I right clicked “View background image” on the missing image, it took me to an HTTP 403 (Forbidden) meaning there was a permissions problem. The strange thing was the problem didn’t occur in the nerd. backend. And the solution…? In this instance it was because I’d enabled hotlink protection in my server to stop other...

I was getting the above error message when I recently tried to set up and try out Windows Live Writer to let me publish to a blog from my desktop without logging into the Admin section of the site. I was felled at the first hurdle when, after entering my b2evolution blog’s details, I was presented with a message informing me that: The server reported an error with the following URL: http://www.blog-domain.com/b2evo-path/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php 403 Forbidden Thinking it might be a problem with b2evolution, I tried with a Wordpress blog. A different message appeared, both on this blog and another:......

I’ve just upgraded a Wordpress blog to the latest version 2.3.2 and when I went to write a new post I realised all my categories had disappeared. They were still in the database but the list to the right of where you type your posts was empty. Adding new comments was giving a 404 error in the middle of the page. The issue was reminiscent of another one I had (and solved) upgrading to 2.2 - the errors were actually 403 errors, but redirecting to 404 error pages because there was no 403 error page defined (i.e. the 404 was happening when the server looked for the 403 page). I noticed a file called error_log (no extension) in the wp-admin directory and had a look. Apparently some database tables (’wp_term_taxonomy’ and ‘.wp_terms’) were missing. After reading...

I’ve been getting a lot of trackback spam lately. I suppose it could be worse, but it’s only started happening quite recently. I really wasn’t sure what it was at first. I know now that it’s spam. Though it just seems like people are making blogs and filling them with other peoples posts. No advertising penile enlargements, Viagra and general hardcore acts. Just snippets of posts with a link to the post to read the rest. I found a list of tools for helping to combat this evil. Would anyone recommend any? Copyright Phil O’Kane © 2006-2007This feed is indended for personal use only. If you are not reading it in your feed reader please let me know. 1 Comments At April 19, 2007, Ciarán wrote: I installed akismet last week having read around the various...

A few people were kind enough to offer some advice as to why I have display problems with Internet Explorer as mentioned yesterday. Jennifer Farley said, “It happens to me when I place an image that is wider than the main column in the post.“ Im not entirely sure if this happens for me, but I always make sure my images are less than the width of the main column (about 470px). nerd tells me “fixed width is bad” - I barely know what that is. I think is it something about how the width moves according to different resolutions? The most interesting is that the tags could be causing the problems, according to McAWilliams. In his comment he included a link to the results of my blog after hit had been put through the W3.org XHTML Validator. I’m not sure how valid...

I just noticed that my sidebar in Internet Explorer is way down the bottom of the page. As a Firefox user I haven’t noticed this before. The only time I use IE is in work; a more shit than usual IE where flash, quicktime, streaming anything and much javascript doesn’t work. But my sidebar is at the top where it should be. If anyone else sees the blog like this let me know. Then get Firefox! If you can help me fix this, that would be super great! Copyright Phil O’Kane © 2006-2007This feed is indended for personal use only. If you are not reading it in your feed reader please let me know. 4 Comments At March 26, 2007, Jennifer Farley wrote: Hi Phil, I've had the same problem with IE on my blog too. It happens to me when I place an image that is wider than the main...

I noticed a problem with the blog the other day; the ‘next’ and ‘previous’ links at the bottom of the page seem to have disappeared. I think it may have something to do with my wordpress upgrade. I got my host to do this for me as part of their services include installation of software such as Wordpress, so surely they can update my current version too.The problem is that I think whatever they did may have made my ‘next’ and ‘previous’ buttons at the bottom of the page disappear. Maybe its time for a revamp anyway. Update WTF - I don’t even have an ‘export’ tab in my ‘manage’ tab in my wordpress dashboard. Whats up with that!? I hate computers! Copyright Phil O'Kane © 2006-2007This feed is indended for personal...

Copyright Phil O’Kane © 2006-2007This feed is indended for personal use only. If you are not reading it in your feed reader please let me know....

Having finally got this blog to a state where I am actually happy with it, I have moved to putting all of my free time into my other blog, and of course am having various minor problems with it. This plan is to collaborate with a few friends on this one - friends who barely know what a blog is, but I know it will work once we get around the technical side of things; wordpress is pretty simple to use for anyone who is just concerned with writing and publishing online. I thought last night it would be a good idea to copy everything from my ‘plugins’ folder of this blog to the pc then to the new blog. Afterwards I realised that some plugins require small adjustments to the loop files and some put files in other folders, so over the weekend I will be installing them all manually,...

I’m really having a lot of trouble getting a WordPress theme I really like. The one I have at the minute ‘Andreas04 2.0‘ was beginning to grow on me, but I’ve just discovered that in each entry page the title (in the top title bar) says the words “Andreas04: Close to Attraction’. My unfortunate lack of coding knowledge means that I will have to find another one. I just can’t find the perfect theme. I do have some ideas of my ‘perfect theme’ - qualities if you will. I don’t want it to stretch the whole width of the page. Really just enough for 500px width pictures in posts. 2 columns A header picture (I don’t know how to alter the code myself to put one in). No crazy bright colours Ideally, the date at the top The...