Solving the Authentication and Plugin Errors After an Upgrade to WordPress 2.5

March 31st • 12 Comments • Under: WordPress • Tags: plugins, WordPress

The upgrade process to WordPress 2.5 was as smooth as it can possibly be — simple, fast and without a single error message. However, there were a few problems that became apparent only after the upgrade. This article will explain those issues in detail and show how to solve them. Here is a short list of problems solved:

1. When trying to log-in after the upgrade, the following error message is displayed: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
2. Yet Another Related Posts plugin returns “Fatal error: Call to undefined function merge_filters() in … includes.php on line 73”.
3. Popularity Contest plugin returns “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error” when reactivated.

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Hello, WordPress 2.5

March 30th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes • Tags: WordPress

Upgraded to WordPress 2.5 RC-2 and then 5 hours later to WP 2.5 final. Had a few problems which I will explain and show how to solve in a follow up post.

WordPress Plugin of the Year: PHP Speedy

March 28th • 2 Comments • Under: WordPress • Tags: plugin, WordPress

Although we are not even close to the middle of 2008, I can honestly say that PHP Speedy (designed and developed by Leon Chevalier) is the plugin which the WordPress community has been waiting for since the very first day.

Download it, install it and watch your blog load faster than you have ever imagined (even with that huge chunk of other plugins you have installed). Fantastic job, Leon!

We’re back with a free font suggestion — Liberation Sans

March 27th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes • Tags: design

Why use Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica or Verdana if there is the fantastic Liberation Sans — created by Steve Matteson and liberated by Red Hat, Inc. under GNU GPL licence. Read more »

Posting suspended while on vacation

March 17th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes

There will be no new posts until the next week (March 24) as there haven’t been any for the past few weeks already due to the studies and the current vacation.

Topics for the upcoming articles include: how to automatically create thumbnail images for the blog post excerpts (from the images inside the article), and how to create one sentence post excerpts using regular expressions (REGEX) and PHP. Therefore — stay subscribed.