http://andreineculau.com/blog ...trying not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. (Albert E.) Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:34:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been having lots of 500 Internal Server Error messages on my blog lately. Well, sometimes because of the way Wordpress eats up memory, sometimes because of something else.. the cache! When you see that your blog is running a bit slow (it happens in shared hosting, and especially with memory eaters) ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/11/no-wordpress-cache-on-dreamhost/ andreineculau.com is back.. Why down? Reason: Dreamhost Specific Reason: Dreamhost's Databases They never acknowledged this on their notification site. Why? Reason: Caught the flu.. after all, it's breathin' Scandinavian air Side Reason: Wordpress is a memory hog!!!!!! [caption id="attachment_286" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="What do we have here?!"][/caption] In short: a normal PHP-CGI process on Dreamhost's servers takes around 10 MB ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/11/black-november-20/ My series plugin, that proved great so far, started to fail on me a bit after installing Wordpress 2.6, but this evening I found some fixes. One of the bugs is that the administration menus don't link correctly any longer. Open orgSeries.php, and replace the function series_organize_options (line 156) with the following: // ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/07/organize-series-for-wordpress-26/ Wordpress 2.6 introduces revisions to each post. That actually caused my series plugin to break down, but that was fixed by me with two edits. But the main part is that.. weirdly.. the Wordpress team didn't put an option to disable these, as they can create useless data records. I, for one, ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/07/delete-wordpress-26-revisions/ When you switch from a wordpress.com blog to a self-hosted one, you sort of miss the statistical information that you had from Wordpress - number of visitors, most viewed posts, referrers, clicks, etc. One plugin does just that. It allows you to have the same interface, same Wordpress quality (the interface ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/06/wordpresscom-stats/ I wanted to start a category regarding Wordpress plugins' reviews, code changes/improvements along with my tiny plugins. Unfortunately I'm starting with the left foot, since this post will also be part of the Junk category. One useful plugin with 9 lines of coding allows you to make a page or a post ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/06/redirect/