Solving technology problems, one at a time
I sometimes use Google Maps on the iPhone as my GPS when traveling, so it was very inconvenient a few days ago when it stopped talking, right when I needed it. Once I got home,
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After using Windows Platform Installer to install WordPress you may get the error shown below: HTTP Error 500.0 – Internal Server Error File monitoring is enabled for a file which could not be found (note
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Movable Type has a built in container tag
<MTEntryIfExtended>
which is often used to show the “More” part of a long entry, or anything else that should be displayed only if the entry is extended:
<MTEntryIfExtended>
<$MTEntryMore$>
<div>Special text or page elements for Extended Entries go here</div>
</MTEntryIfExtended>
But what if you want something to show up only if the entry is NOT extended? There is no corresponding <MTEntryIfNotExtended> tag.
Fortunately that functionality is simple to replicate using Movable Type variables.
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Occasionally when re-publishing my whole site after modifying the templates, I get this error:
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Error in <mtArchiveList> tag: Error in <mtArchiveLink> tag: You used an <$MTArchiveLink$> tag for linking into 'Individual archives, but that archive type is not published.
When installing Plupload module to work with Media module on a Hostgator site, I got the error:
Your server is capable of displaying file upload progress, but does not have the required libraries. It is recommended to install the PECL uploadprogress library (preferred) or to install APC.
Looking at the suggested library (pecl.php.net) it was a shell script that pretty obviously required privileges that I would not have on a shared host. However, Hostgator has another library already installed that implements PECL: CodeGen_PECL. It just has to be enabled.
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The SimpleLDAP plugin by Cliff Griffin is exactly what I needed for a proof-of-concept WordPress site I’m working on, but it hasn’t been officially updated in a while and was not entirely compatible with WordPress v.3.5.
I’ve updated the plugin to eliminate the errors I was getting, and it now works fine on my site, but it could probably use some TLC from someone more experienced with working with WordPress.
The original version of the plugin I used as a basis is v1.4.0.5.1, available at http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-ldap-login/.
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When I re-installed CTools (Chaos Tools Suite) during a Drupal 7 upgrade, it resulted in this error: Failed: PDOException: SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry ’29’ According to this post, it may have something
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Working with Drupal 7, you may get an error like the one below. (The actual number may be different.)
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 52428800 bytes exhausted
If you don’t have one already, add a text file called “php.ini” to the root directory of the Drupal 7 site, and add a line like:
memory_limit = 96M
or
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memory_limit = 128M
While experimenting with LDAP connections in Safari, errors like this one started popping up:
“The website _____ requires a client certificate”
A dialog would open, listing some old MobileMe certificates. Apparently if any old, expired or corrupt MobileMe certificates are still lodged in the Keychain, you may get this error sometimes. MobileMe has been disabled and signed out on my Mac for years, but the fact that the certs were still there caused the problem.
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I’ve been experimenting with LDAP and Cosign login plugins for WordPress. Most of them are out of date and are more or less incompatible with WordPress v.3.5. Usually the first error that comes up is
Notice: has_cap was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 2.0!
All this means is that instead of using the numerical role identifier argument in a function that adds a menu or submenu, the required capability should be used instead.
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