Had some trouble upgrading to WordPress 2.6

I’ve been having major troubles upgrading to WordPress 2.6. First of all it knocked out some of the plugins i use, namely Google Analytics, Robots Meta and Sociable. When i upgraded to 2.6 the settings for the named plugins got reset and i had to set the settings again. Not too much of a problem but pretty annoying. I’ve only upgraded talk playstation to 2.6 and i’m leaving this blog...

Found a nice new plugin i might use

While browsing for some WordPress Plugins i ran into a rather cool one. It’s called Content Gallery and basically it’s a new featured article ticker where you give it some articles to headline. It will rotate through the headline makers and allows the user to click through to read the full article. Another thing i like about this plugin is that its not flash or anything, its pure...

NextGEN Gallery wordpress plugin is fantastic

I was looking for a plugin that would manage galleries/images better and in a more organised way and i found the perfect plugin that does this. NextGEN Gallery is the Gallery Plugin for WordPress you only need. Its simply brilliant, probably the best plugin i’ve used so far. I’m not using NextGEN Gallery on this blog i’m using it for talk playstation because a lot of screenshots get...

ShareThis and Sociable, a Gregarious replacement

When i started this blog i contacted my good friend Smemon regarding which digg plugin he used and he told me to try out Gregarious. It worked like a treat until i upgraded to WordPress 2.5, it pretty much destroyed the plugin altogether and the author doesn’t have time to update it. Over the weekend i started to look for an alternative, i found 2 decent ones, A modified version of ShareThis and...

Upgraded to WordPress version 2.5.1

I’ve just upgraded to WordPress version 2.5.1 with no problems what so ever which is expected because the 2.5.1 fixed bugs and a major security hole. There is one thing i noticed is the fact that the backend is a little quicker and more responsive and they have fixed the uploader problem that i posted a week or two ago. The best thing about the new WordPress version is that new automatic plugin...

WordPress comments disappeared

I woke up this morning to find that all my comments had disappeared from this blog and talkplaystation.com. This worried me straight away. I checked the database and they were all in there, so it couldnt be a sql problem. Then it clicked, i remembered that i had upgraded my plugins yesterday. Google Analytics for WordPress was the plugin that caused the problem and there was an update ready for me to...

WordPress automatic plugin upgrade ftp details fix

WordPress 2.5 has a great new feature called automatic plugin upgrade which basically upgrades your plugins automatically with a single click without needing to do it manually via ftp. For some reason i keep having to input my FTP details just before it’s about to upgrade. I’ve found a fix for this and i will tell you how to fix it below. All you need to do is add the following code to your...