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22Apr
2012

Quick fix for the Social Counter Widget plugin

I’ve been doing some charity work recently and as they will have a social presence the blog was in need of some social media buttons. I thought the Social Counter Widget plugin looked quite nice (after the slightly prettier Social Impact Widget decided to just error when I did not enter a Google plus account – guess you have to go all or nothing for this plugin).

Unfortunately it wouldn’t even install, giving the following error:

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected $end in 
/(...)/wp-content/plugins/social-counter-widget/scw_stats.class.php on line 73

A quick check revealed that it was a mistyped php open tag on line 70 that caused the problems. If you need to fix it before the plugin author submits an updated version just change “<?” to “<?php” on line 70 of the wp-content/plugins/social-counter-widget/scw_stats.class.php file.

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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 11:58pm
5Jun
2011

WordPress update permission issues

WordPress can often be such a pain to deal with…

Recently I was trying to get an installation updated as well as some of the plugins. What should have been a straightforward task, turned out to be several hours of messing around with permissions and trying to figure out why even 777 isn’t enough for the updates to NOT fail and what user should own what.

Well it turns out that it’s only partly the fault of WordPress as it is an issue with the FTP server. Still some better messaging would be helpful…

There were mentions about a patch and fixes in potentially in the 3.2 WP version related to the error I was getting:

Could not copy file.: /public_html/wp-admin/css/theme-editor.dev.css

However only after stumbling across this page I found an easy and quick solution.

Turns out it was enough to just switch from Pure-FTPD to Pro-FTPD.

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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 10:24pm
12Nov
2008

WordPress NextGen gallery tweak

Recently I found myself in that very anoying situation where a very good piece of software seemed to lack just this one function… again. I have been doing a gallery website and used the NextGen gallery plugin to display the photos. Unfortunatelly it was a case of a gallery per post with about 1 or 2 photos per gallery.

The biggest issue with this setting was the process of creating galleries. By default in NextGen you create the gallery on one page, upload the images in another, and then create new post yet elsewhere. But there had to be a way to at least merge the gallery creation with photo upload, especially considering a new gallery form consisted of a single “gallery name” field. (more…)

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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 08:39pm